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Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological res... MORE

Prologue: Exploring the Universe Within	p. 1
A Psychological Experiment in the Seventh Century B.C.	p. 1
Messages from the Gods	p. 2
The Discovery of the Mind	p. 5
Prescientific Psychology	p. 9
The Conjecturers	p. 11
The Glory That Was Greece	p. 11
The Forerunners: Alcmaeon, Protagoras, Democritus, Hippocrates	p. 13
The "Midwife of T... MOREhought": Socrates	p. 20
The Idealist: Plato	p. 23
The Realist: Aristotle	p. 29
The Scholars	p. 36
The Long Sleep	p. 36
The Commentators: Theophrastus, the Hellenists, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, the Stoics	p. 37
Roman Borrowers: Lucretius, Seneca, Epictetus, Galen, Plotinus	p. 41
The Patrist Adapters: the Patrists, Tertullian, Saint Augustine	p. 46
The Patrist Reconcilers: the Schoolmen, Saint Thomas Aquinas	p. 56
The Darkness Before Dawn	p. 62
The Protopsychologists	p. 65
The Third Visitation	p. 65
The Rationalists: Descartes, the Cartesians, Spinoza	p. 67
The Empiricists: Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, the Empiricist-Associationist School	p. 77
German Nativism: Leibniz, Kant	p. 98
Founders of a New Science	p. 105
The Physicalists	p. 107
The Magician-Healer: Mesmer	p. 107
The Skull Reader: Gall	p. 112
The Mechanists	p. 118
Specific Nerve Energy: Muller	p. 121
Just Noticeable Differences: Weber	p. 124
Neural Physiology: von Helmholtz	p. 126
Psychophysics: Fechner	p. 134
First Among Equals: Wundt	p. 140
As Good a Birth Date as Any	p. 140
The Making of the First Psychologist	p. 144
The Curious Goings-on at Konvikt	p. 148
Wundtian Psychology	p. 151
Sic Transit	p. 154
The Psychologist Malgre Lui: William James	p. 159
"This Is No Science"	p. 159
Adorable Genius	p. 160
Founding Father	p. 165
Ideas of the Pre-eminent Psychologizer	p. 170
Jamesian Paradoxes	p. 181
Explorer of the Depths: Sigmund Freud	p. 183
The Truth About Freud	p. 183
The Would-Be Neuroscientist	p. 186
The Hypnotherapist	p. 189
The Invention of Psychoanalysis	p. 192
Dynamic Psychology: Early Formulations	p. 203
Success	p. 208
Dynamic Psychology: Extensions and Revisions	p. 216
But Is It Scientific?	p. 225
Decline and Fall-and Revival	p. 227
The Measurers	p. 233
"Whenever You Can, Count": Francis Galton	p. 233
Galtonian Paradoxes	p. 247
The Mental Age Approach: Alfred Binet	p. 251
The Testing Mania	p. 258
The IQ Controversy	p. 266
The Behaviorists	p. 274
A New Answer to Old Questions	p. 274
Two Discoverers of the Laws of Behaviorism: Thorndike and Pavlov	p. 277
Mr. Behaviorism: John B. Watson	p. 287
The Triumph of Behaviorism	p. 296
Two Great Neobehaviorists: Hull and Skinner	p. 301
The Impending Paradigm Shift	p. 311
The Gestaltists	p. 318
A Visual Illusion Gives Rise to a New Psychology	p. 318
The Rediscovery of the Mind	p. 321
The Laws of Gestalten	p. 325
Out-of-Reach Bananas and Other Problems	p. 331
Learning	p. 339
Failure and Success	p. 344
Specialization and Synthesis	p. 349
Introduction: The Fissioning of Psychology-and the Fusion of the Psychological Sciences	p. 351
The Personality Psychologists	p. 354
"The Secrets of the Hearts of Other Men"	p. 354
The Fundamental Units of Personality	p. 357
Measuring Personality	p. 362
Making Order out of Chaos	p. 373
Learned Personality	p. 378
Body, Genes, and Personality	p. 389
Late Word from the Personality Front	p. 395
The Developmentalists	p. 401
"Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow"	p. 401
Grand Theory and Nontheory	p. 404
A Giant, and a Giant Theory	p. 405
Cognitive Development	p. 415
Maturation	p. 427
Personality Development	p. 434
Social Development	p. 440
Development from A to Z	p. 453
The Social Psychologists	p. 459
No Man's Land	p. 459
A Case of Multiple Fatherhood	p. 465
Closed Cases: Cognitive Dissonance, the Psychology of Imprisonment, Obedience, the Bystander Effect	p. 470
Ongoing Inquiries: Conflict Resolution, Attribution, Others	p. 488
The Value of Social Psychology	p. 500
The Perception Psychologists	p. 505
Interesting Questions	p. 505
Styles of Looking at Looking	p. 513
Seeing Form	p. 523
Seeing Movement	p. 531
Seeing Depth	p. 536
Two Ways of Looking at Vision	p. 544
The Emotion and Motivation Psychologists	p. 553
Fundamental Question	p. 553
Somatic Theory	p. 559
ANS and CNS Theory	p. 567
Cognitive Theory	p. 570
Patchwork Quilt	p. 582
The Cognitivists	p. 590
Revolution	p. 590
Revolution No. 2	p. 598
Memory	p. 606
Language	p. 618
Reasoning	p. 624
Is the Mind a Computer? Is a Computer a Mind?	p. 637
New Model	p. 642
And the Winner Is-	p. 648
The Psychotherapists	p. 651
Growth Industry	p. 651
Freud's Offspring: The Dynamic Psychotherapists	p. 657
The Patient as Laboratory Animal: Behavior Therapy	p. 667
All in the Mind: Cognitive Therapy	p. 675
A Miscellany of Therapies	p. 689
But Does It Really Work?	p. 697
Users and Misusers of Psychology	p. 703
Knowledge Is Power	p. 703
Improving the Human Use of the Human Equipment	p. 707
Improving the Fit Between Humans and Their Jobs	p. 716
The Use and Misuse of Testing	p. 721
Covert Persuasion: Advertising and Propaganda	p. 728
Psychology in the Courtroom	p. 736
Beyond the Fringe	p. 741
Psychology Today	p. 750
Portrait of a Psychologist	p. 750
Portrait of a Science	p. 758
Schism	p. 763
Psychology and Politics	p. 765
Status Report	p. 771
Notes	p. 777
References	p. 813
Acknowledgments	p. 853
Index	p. 857
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Morton Hunt is an award winning science writer who has writen for The New Yorker,The New York Times Magazine and Harper's among many other publications He is the author of The Natural History of Love, and The Universe Within. He lives in Gladwyne, PA.

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