| Description |
xii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in the history of psychology |
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Cambridge studies in the history of psychology.
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| Contents |
1. The academic environment and the establishment of experimental psychology -- 2. Carl Stumpf and the training of scientists in Berlin -- 3. The philosophers' protest -- 4. Making a science of mind: Styles of reasoning in sensory physiology and experimental psychology -- 5. Challenging positivism: Revised philosophies of mind and science -- 6. The Gestalt debate: From Goethe to Ehrenfels and beyond -- 7. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler -- 8. Laying the conceptual and research foundations -- 9. Reconstructing perception and behavior -- 10. Insights and confirmations in animals: Kohler on Tenerife -- 11. The step to natural philosophy: Die Physischen Gestalten -- 12. Wertheimer in times of war and revolution: Science for the military and toward a new logic -- 13. Establishing the Berlin school -- 14. Research styles and results -- 15. Theory's growth and limits: Development, open systems, self and society |
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16. Variations theory and practice: Kurt Lewin, Adhemar Gelb, and Kurt Goldstein -- 17. The encounter with Weimar culture -- 18. The reception among German-speaking psychologists -- 19. Persecution, emigration, and Kohler's resistance in Berlin -- 20. Two students adapt: Wolfgang Metzger and Kurt Gottschaldt -- 21. Research, theory, and system: Continuity and change -- 22. The postwar years |
| Analysis |
Germany |
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Psychology History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-500) and index |
| Subject |
Gestalt psychology -- History.
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Psychology -- Germany -- History.
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| LC no. |
94036273 |
| ISBN |
0521475406 (hbk.) |
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