The enhanced 5th Edition of Goodwin's series, A History of Modern Psychology, explores the modern history of psychology including the fundamental bases of psychology and psychology's advancements in the 20th century. Goodwin's 5th Edition focuses on the reduction of biographical information with an emphasis on more substantial information including ideas and concepts and on ideas/research contributions.
Annotated Readings in the History of MODERN PSYCHOLOGGY There’s no substitute for the original… If you want to really understand the underpinnings of psychology today, go to the source! Unfortunately, original source readings can seem a bit daunting—these works were written at a particular time and place in psychology’s history. Understanding them requires knowledge of the historical context in which the work was written, as well as background on the writer. This book of annotated readings aims to solve this problem. Each of the 36 chapters in this reader includes substantial excerpts from important books and papers in psychology’s history, accompanied by running annotations that address the meaning of the reading’s content, how the content relates to contemporary historical context, and the significance of the material for psychology’s history. Featuring 36 original readings ranging from Watson’s Behaviorist Manifesto to Freud’s Clark lectures on psychoanalysis to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, C. James Goodwin’s Annotated Readings in the History of Modern Psychology provides insight into some of psychology’s brightest minds, while making the material easy to comprehend for today’s readers.
History of Modern Psychology: A Global Perspective explores the modern history of psychology, including the fundamental bases of psychology and psychology's advancements in the 20th century. This book discusses the many interconnections that exist among the different areas of psychology. It not only provides accounts of the lives and contributions of psychology's pioneers, set into historical context, but it also contains original writings by these psychologists, interwoven with informative comments from the author. It covers the historical developments in psychology of the past 150 years and psychology's best-known pioneers??Watson, James, Titchener, Freud, Skinner, and many others. This International Adaptation offers many new topics, including the Philosophical Perspective of Psychology in Other Parts of the World, Scientific Approaches Outside the US, and Relevance of Wundt's Contributions Outside the Western World. Other new topics covered are Global Acceptability of Darwin's Principles and their Impact on Psychological Thinking, Global Industrial Psychologists, Gestalt Psychology and its Global Impact, and Global Importance of Psychology as a Subject. It also focuses on strengthening the organization of the content with some new end-of-chapter study questions.
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