Pioneers of Psychology 2e

Modern psychology draws on more than three centuries of research and speculation-invariably original, often daring, at times misguided. In this new second edition. Professor Fancher again traces the evolution of this influential science through the personal triumphs and disappointments of a fascinating gallery of individuals from Descartes, Gall, and Kant to James, Piaget, and Skinner.Some pioneers, like Wundt and Helmholtz, were painstaking experimenters. Others found themselves at the start of major movements: Consider Ivan Pavlov whose monumental studies of the physiology of digestion led to the founding of modem behaviorism; or Sigmund Freud who set out to develop a neurological model of the mind and soon launched an entire intellectual revolution under the banner of psychoanalysis.Among the several additions to the second edition are two new chapters; one takes up the philosophers of the mind: John Locke and Gottfried Leibniz. Another on Darwin and the theory of evolution adds further excitement to a concise history that is essential to all students of the behavioral sciences.