"Ludy Benjamin has organized a superb collection of readings for the history of psychology, blending outstanding and accessible selections from great authors of the past with excellent historical essays by contemporary researchers. This volume will make an excellent book for any history of psychology course." Henry L. Roediger, III, Washington University in St. Louis
Table of Contents
Preface.New to the Third Edition.Acknowledgments.
1 Historiography - Asking and Answering Historical Questions.
2 Philosophical and Physiological Roots of Modern Psychology.On Simple and Complex Ideas: John Locke (1690).Tabula
Rasa - Its Origins and Implications: Nicholas Petryszak (1981).A System of Logic: John Stuart Mill (1843).On the
Speech Center: Paul Broca (1861).Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance: The Work of Paul Broca: Stanley
Finger (1994).
3 Wilhelm Wundt and the Founding of Scientific Psychology.Psychical Elements and Compounds: Wilhelm Wundt (1896).A
Reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt: Arthur L. Blumenthal (1975).Wundt as Chemist? A Fresh Look at his Practice and Theory
of Experimentation: Henning Schmidgen (2003).
4 Origins of Scientific Psychology in America.The Stream of Thought: William James (1890).William James and
the Art of Human Understanding: David E. Leary (1992).Tests of the Senses and Faculties: James McKeen Cattell (1893).James
McKeen Cattell and the Failure of Anthropometric Mental Testing, 1890-1901: Michael M. Sokal (1982).The Psychology
Laboratory at the Turn of the 20th Century: Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. (2000).Psychological Instruments at the Turn
of the Century: Rand B. Evans (2000).
5 Structuralism and Functionalism.The Method and Scope of Psychology: Edward Bradford Titchener (1910).The Mistaken
Mirror: On Wundt's and Titchener's Psychologies: Thomas H. Leahey (1981).The Province of Functional Psychology:
James Rowland Angell (1907).Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth: Stephanie
A. Shields (1975).
6 Birth of the New Applied Psychology.Clinical Psychology: Lightner Witmer (1907).The Clinical Psychology of
Lightner Witmer: A Case Study of Institutional Innovation and Intellectual Change: John M. O'Donnell (1979).Tentative
Suggestions for the Certification of Practicing Psychologists: Leta S. Hollingworth (1918).Practicing School Psychology:
A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective: Thomas K. Fagan (2000).The Influence of Caffein on Mental and Motor Efficiency:
Harry Hollingworth (1912).Coca-Cola, Caffeine, and Mental Deficiency: Harry S. Hollingworth and the Chattanooga
Trial of 1911: Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., Anne Rogers, and Angela Rosenbaum (1991).
7 Psychoanalysis.The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (1910).The Return of the Repressed:
Psychology's Problematic Relations with Psychoanalysis, 1909-1960: Gail A. Hornstein (1992).Snapshots of Freud
in America, 1899-1999: Raymond E. Fancher (2000).
8 Behaviorism and Neobehaviorism.Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It: John B. Watson (1913).Struggle for
Scientific Authority: The Reception of Watson's Behaviorism, 1913-1920: Franz Samelson (1981).A System of Behavior:
B. F. Skinner (1938).B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior in American Life: From Consumer Culture to Counterculture:
Alexandra Rutherford (2003).
9 The New Profession of Psychology.Professional Training in the Light of a Changing Science and Society (excerpt
from the Boulder Report): Victor Raimy (1950).The Affirmation of the Scientist-Practitioner: A Look Back at Boulder:
David Baker and Ludy Benjamin, Jr. (2000).The Boulder Model's Fatal Flaw: George W. Albee (2000).The Boulder Model:
A Dream Deferred - Or Lost?: Peter E. Nathan (2000).The Scientist-Practitioner Model: Gandhi Was Right Again: George
Stricker (2000).
10 A Psychology of Social Change: Race and Gender.The Effects of Segregation and the Consequences of Desegregation:
A Social Science Statement: Kenneth B. Clark, Isidor Chein, and Stuart W. Cook (1952).Kenneth B. Clark in the Patterns
of American Culture: Ben Keppel (2002).The Mental Traits of Sex: Helen Br
