The History of Psychology

W. B. Pillsbury

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040408261
• Topic: Psychology
• Index: Psychology

First published in 1929, the original blurb reads: "This is the first popular history of psychology to be written, and gives the general reader an accurate account of all the more important events in the development of psychological thinking, from Plato and Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen, to Descartes and Spinoza, and the beginnings of modern psychology, right down to Freud, Adler, and Watson, Gestalt and Hormic psychology and all the various schools of today."

Today it can be read in its historical context.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1929. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• I Early and Classical Greek Psychology
• II Later Greek and Medieval Psychology
• III The Beginnings of Modern Psychology Descartes and Spinoza
• IV English Psychology and Leibniz's Reaction Against It: Hobbes, Locke, and Leibniz
• V English Empiricism of the Eighteenth Century: Berkeley, Hume, and Hartley
• VI German Psychology in the Eighteenth Century: Wolff, Kant, and Tetens
• VII The Scotch and Beginnings of the Modern English Schools
• VII German Psychology of the Early Nineteenth Century: Fries, Herbart, Beneke, and Lotze
• IX German Physiology and Experimental Psychology-Johannes Müller
• X The Founding of Experimental Psychology—Fechner and Wundt
• XI Later English Psychology: Spencer, Bain, Darwin, Galton
• XII Later German Psychology: Brentano, G. E. Müller, Ebbinghaus, Stumpf, Lipps, Külpe
• XIII French Psychology of the Nineteenth Century and After
• XIV Psychology in America
• XV The Development of Abnormal Psychology
• XVI Modern Schools of Psychology: Structuralism and Functionalism
• XVII Animal Psychology and Behaviorism
• XVIII Hormic Psychology, the Gestalt School, and Intuitionism
• Bibliography
• Index of Topics
• Index of Names