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020			_a9780521189309 (paperback)
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100	1		_aAlexander, Bruce K. _92547
245	1	2	_aA history of psychology in western civilization / _cBruce K. Alexander, Simon Fraser University, Curtis P. Shelton, British Columbia Institute of Technology.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_axix, 542 pages ; _c24 cm.
500			_aشراء معرض القاهرة للكتاب 2019
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: two histories of western psychology; 2. Rationalism: Plato and the 'just' person; 3. Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius and the sufficient self; 4. Christianity: St Augustine and the incomplete soul; 5. Materialism: Thomas Hobbes and the human machine; 6. Empiricism: John Locke, David Hume, and experience as reality; 7. Evolution: Charles Darwin and homo sapiens as a work in progress; 8. Medicine: Sigmund Freud and the world of neurotics; 9. Re-imagining psychology.
520			_a"This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius and St Augustine, who gave the field its foundational ideas long before better known 'founders', such as Galton, Fechner, Wundt and Watson appeared on the scene. Psychology can only achieve its full breadth and potential when we fully appreciate its scholarly legacy. Bruce Alexander and Curt Shelton also argue that the fundamental contradictions built into psychology's history have never been resolved, and that a truly pragmatic approach, as defined by William James, can produce a 'layered' psychology that will enable psychologists to face the fearsome challenges of the twenty-first century. A History of Psychology in Western Civilization claims that contemporary psychology has overemphasized the methods of physical science and that psychology will need a broader scientific orientation alongside a scholarly focus in order to fully engage the future"--
650		0	_aPsychology _zEurope _xHistory. _92548
650		0	_aPsychology _xHistory. _92549
650		7	_aPSYCHOLOGY / History. _92057
700	1		_aShelton, Curtis P. _92550
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/89309/cover/9780521189309.jpg
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