- 150 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the experts practice what they preached?
Using an eclectic variety of sources, from letters, diaries, autobiographies, biographies, as well as material from interviews, each chapter focuses on a key figure in historical context. There are many surprises. Was Piaget, the greatest child psychologist of the 20th century, the only man to try to psychoanalyse his mother? How many sons of great gurus have had to rescue their father from a police station as R.D Laing's son did? And why did Melanie Klein's daughter wear red shoes they day her mother died?
The book covers early scientists such as Darwin, psychoanalysists such as Freud and Jung, to founders of developmental psychology including Piaget and Bowlby as well as Dr Spock. It gives a vivid, dramatic and often entertaining insight into the family lives of these great psychologists. It highlights their ideas and theories alongside their behaviour as parents, and reveals the impact of their parenting on their children. Close bonds, fraught relationships and family drama are described against a backdrop of scientific development as the discipline of psychology evolves.
Great Psychologists as Parents will be absorbing reading for students in childhood studies, education and psychology and practitioners in psychology and psychoanalysis. It will also interest general readers looking for a parenting book with a difference.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Charles Darwin: the first child psychologist
- 3 John B. Watson: a behaviourist’s tragedies
- 4 Sigmund Freud: the man who analysed his daughter in secret
- 5 Carl Jung: the archetypal prick, a provocative title
- 6 Melanie Klein and her daughter
- 7 Jean Piaget: his mother and psychoanalysis
- 8 Benjamin Spock: the conservative radical
- 9 John Bowlby: the man with the bowler hat
- 10 Burrhus Skinner: the man who caged his daughters?
- 11 R.D. Laing: violence in the family
- 12 Carl Rogers and unconditional personal regard
- 13 The good enough psychologist?
- Index