From soul to mind : the emergence of psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James /
Early in the nineteenth century, psychology was considered a science of the soul; by the end of the century, it had abandoned the soul to become a science of the mind, says Edward Reed. In this lively and original account of psychology's formative years, Reed relates the failures and successes...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1997]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=52955 |
Table of Contents:
- In search of psychology
- The impossible science
- Frankenstein's science
- The breakdown in the concert of European ideas
- The brief life of natural metaphysics
- 1848 and all that
- The three unconsciousnesses and how they grew
- The apotheosis of positivism
- The anomalous Mr. Darwin
- The generation of 1879, or how philosophy emerged from psychology
- William James: psychology as a science of experience.