The transformation of psychology : influences of 19th century philosophy, technology, and natural science / edited by Christopher D. Green, Marlene Shore, and Thomas Teo.

Contributor Green, Christopher D.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2001.

Descriptionxvii, 245 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Note:Eugenics and other Victorian "secular religions" / Raymond E. Fancher. - Practical phrenology as psychological counseling in the 19th-century United States / Michael M. Sokal. - Sealing off the discipline : Wilhelm Wundt and the psychology of memory / Kurt Danziger. - Psychology and memory in the midst of change : the social concerns of late-19th-century North American psychologists / Marlene Shore. - The psychology of mathematical beauty in the 19th century : the golden section / John G. Benjafield. - Cause into function : Ernst Mach and the reconstruction of explanation in psychology / Andrew S. Winston. - Charles Babbage, the analytical engine, and the possibility of a 19th-century cognitive science / Christopher D. Green. - Instincts and instruments / Katharine Anderson. - Philosophic doubts about psychology as a natural science / Charles W. Tolman. - Karl Marx and Wilhelm Dilthey on the socio-historical conceptualization of the mind / Thomas Teo. - Early development and psychology : genetic and embryological influences, 1880-1920 / Fredric Weizmann.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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