ABSTRACT

Psychology has influence in almost every walk of life. Originally published in 1997, A Century of Psychology is a review of where the discipline came from, where it had reached and where the editors anticipated it may go.

Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh and Patrick McGinley assembled an internationally recognised team of mainly European experts from the major applications and research areas of psychology. They begin with a critical review of methodology and its limitations and plot the course of gender and developmental psychology. They go on to include discussion of learning, intellectual disability, clinical psychology and the emergence of psychotherapy, educational psychology, organizational psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and many other topics, in particular community psychology, perception and alternative medicine.

Enlightening, reflective and sometimes provocative, A Century of Psychology is required reading for anyone involved in psychology as a practitioner, researcher or teacher. It is also a lively introduction for those new to the discipline.

chapter 1|15 pages

Brown, Heisenberg and Lorenz

Predecessors of twenty-first-century psychology?

chapter 2|20 pages

The three-sided mirror

Feminists looking at psychologists looking at women

chapter 3|18 pages

Child development

Old themes and new directions

chapter 4|15 pages

The psychology of learning

Retrospect and prospect

chapter 5|16 pages

Intellectual disability

A psychological assessment

chapter 6|22 pages

One hundred years of clinical psychology

Roots, doubts and hopes

chapter 8|16 pages

Psychology and education

A century of challenge for educational psychology

chapter 9|17 pages

Community psychology

A new Gestalt psychology?

chapter 10|15 pages

Critical moments on the edge

Psychological prevention of psychic and somatic problems, disorders and illnesses

chapter 11|21 pages

Flight from science

Alternative medicine, postmodernism and relativism

chapter 12|15 pages

One hundred years of work and organizational psychology

Progress, deficiencies and promise

chapter 16|19 pages

On the edge of consciousness

Pre-attentive mechanisms in the generation of anxiety

chapter 17|25 pages

Cognitive neuropsychology

A century of challenge for educational psychology