| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Eugenics and other Victorian "secular religions" / Raymond E. Fancher -- Practical phrenology as psychological counseling in the 19th-century United States / Michael M. Sokal -- Sealing off the discipline : Wilhelm Wundt and the psychology of memory / Kurt Danziger -- Psychology and memory in the midst of change : the social concerns of late-19th-century North American psychologists / Marlene Shore -- The psychology of mathematical beauty in the 19th century : the golden section / John G. Benjafield -- Cause into function : Ernst Mach and the reconstruction of explanation in psychology / Andrew S. Winston -- Charles Babbage, the analytical engine, and the possibility of a 19th-century cognitive science / Christopher D. Green -- Instincts and instruments / Katharine Anderson -- Philosophic doubts about psychology as a natural science / Charles W. Tolman -- Karl Marx and Wilhelm Dilthey on the socio-historical conceptualization of the mind / Thomas Teo -- Early development and psychology : genetic and embryological influences, 1880-1920 / Fredric Weizmann |
| Summary |
This book reveals some of the intellectual, social, technological, and institutional currents and practices that were commonplace during the 19th century and fostered a reappraisal of the scientific possibilities for psychology. This volume explores a collection of diverse areas of study that attempted to render psychology scientific. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Issuing Body |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychology -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
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Psychology -- history
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Psychology
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Green, Christopher D.
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Shore, Marlene Gay, 1953-
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Teo, Thomas, 1963-
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American Psychological Association.
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