Short description:

This fully updated 9th edition places social, economic and political forces of change alongside psychology?s internal theoretical and empirical arguments. It utilises a critical lens to illuminate the way in which the external world has shaped the development of psychology and, in turn, how psychology has shaped society.

Long description:

This fully updated and refreshed 9th edition places social, economic and political forces of change alongside psychology?s internal theoretical and empirical arguments. It utilizes a critical lens to illuminate the way in which the external world has shaped the development of psychology and, in turn, how psychology from antiquity to modernity has shaped society.

The text approaches the material from an integrative, rather than wholly linear, perspective, carefully examining how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the field of psychology?s technical concerns as a science and profession.

Key features of this edition include:

• A newly reconsidered structure, including five additional interludes exploring historical background narratives and the rise of modernity, to allow for flexible and adaptable textbook use.


• Expanded exploration of the two psychologies: the Way of Ideas, driven by epistemology and unique to Europe, and The Way of Human Nature, a universal concern to find a science of human behavior and its management.

Including scientific, applied, and professional psychology, as well as coverage of the social sciences and social policy implications, this book is appropriate for high-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Table of Contents:

Part One. Situating Psychology

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part Two. Psychology Before Psychology: Discovery of the Mind

Prelude: The World We Have Lost: EEA to 1688 CE

Chapter 2. Antiquity: Locating the Mind Within

Chapter 3. Hellenism, Feudalism, and Renaissance: Tending the Soul

Part Three. A Science of the Mind

Interlude I: Modernity in Mind and the Rise of Science: 1543 to 1915

Chapter 4. The Way of Ideas: Furnishing the Mind

Chapter 5. Psychology of Consciousness: Looking Inward

Chapter 6. Psychology of Adaptation: Looking Outward

Part Four. A Science of Human Nature

Interlude II: Modernity, its Disenchantments, and Social Policy: 1-1871

Chapter 7. Social Science before Science: Approaching the Social Problem

Chapter 8. Psychology of the Unconscious: Confronting Irrationality

Chapter 9. Psychology and Social Science: Managing Modern Life

Part Five. Two Psychologies in the Modern World

Interlude III: Late Modernity: War, Peace, War, Peace, War 1914 ?

Chapter 10. Behaviorism: Ostracizing Mind

Chapter 11. Cognitive Science: Return of the Prodigal

Chapter 12. Applied and Professional Psychology: Treating the Individual

Chapter 13. The Psychological Society: Coping with (Post)Modernity

Postlude: Reflections on Psychology Today