A history of psychology in metascientific perspective
by
 
Madsen, K. B.

Title
A history of psychology in metascientific perspective

Author
Madsen, K. B.

ISBN
9780080867076
 
9781281756305

Personal Author
Madsen, K. B.

Uniform Title
Psykologiens historie i videnskabsteoretisk perspektiv. English

Publication Information
Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988.

Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 605 pages) : illustrations.

Series
Advances in psychology ; 53
 
Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 53.

Contents
Front Cover; A History of Psychology in Metascientiflc Perspective; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Which type of 'history'?; Chapter 2. An integrative metatheory; Chapter 3. The philosophical prehistory of psychology; Chapter 4. Classical experimental psychology; Chapter 5. Gestalt psychology; Chapter 6. Reflexology and classical behaviorism; Chapter 7. Psychoanalysis; Chapter 8. The psychology of the integration period; Chapter 9. Humanistic psychology; Chapter 10. Marxist psychology; Chapter 11. Contemporary behaviorism; Chapter 12. Mainstream psychology.

Abstract
Two fields of interest are combined in this volume: the history of science and the theory, or philosophy, of science (metascience). The result is a history of psychology with emphasis placed upon a metascientific analysis of the work of fourteen psychologists from various periods. Each analysis is set in historical context; a period or school is discussed in each chapter, together with a metascientific analysis of some major works from the respective period or school. The author employs a metascientific descriptive system or `systematology' developed during more than 30 years of work on comparative, metascientific studies of about 50 psychological theories. The results of those studies have been published in previous works. These analyses are also used here for verifying T.S. Kuhn's much-debated theory about the `revolutionary' development of sciences. The author revises Kuhn's theory and shows that it can be applied to the history of psychology. Thus, in a Kuhnian sense, psychology may be said to have had two `normal periods' and two `periods of crisis' leading to school formation.

Subject Term
Psychology -- History.
 
Psychology -- Philosophy -- History.
 
Philosophy -- history. (DNLM)D010684Q000266
 
Psychology -- history. (DNLM)D011584Q000266
 
Psychologie -- Histoire.
 
Psychologie -- Philosophie -- Histoire.
 
Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
 
Psychology -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01081495
 
Psychologie.
 
Theorieën.
 
Psychologie (DE-588)4047704-6
 
Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
 
Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6

Genre
Electronic books.
 
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Electronic Access
ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444704337


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BF95 .M3313 1988 EB1192149-1001Elsevier E-Book CollectionsElsevier E-Book Collections