Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Conditioning, Behaviorism, and Purposivism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Great Beginnings

      • Johann Friedrich Herbart, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward Bradford Titchener, William James, John Dewey, Robert Sessions Woodworth et al.

      Pages 3-40

   3. Conditioned Reflexes

      • Vladimir M. Bekhterev, S. L. Rubinstein

      Pages 41-75

   4. Behaviorism and Reductionism

      • John B. Watson, Albert P. Weiss, Edward B. Holt, Walter S. Hunter, Karl S. Lashley, Donald O. Hebb

      Pages 76-96

   5. Neo-Behaviorism and Learning Theory

      • Edwin R. Guthrie, Clark L. Hull, B. F. Skinner, Edward C. Tolman, Gregory Razran, John Dollard et al.

      Pages 97-179

   6. Hormic and Holistic Theories

      • William McDougall, Kurt Goldstein, Jacob R. Kantor, E. C. Tolman

      Pages 180-196

3. Back Matter

   Pages 197-200

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4. Psychoanalysis and Related Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Psychoanalysis

      • Benjamin B. Wolman

      Pages 203-282

   3. Individual and Analytic Psychologies

      • Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung

      Pages 283-315

   4. New Theories in Psychoanalysis

      • Anna Freud, Otto Rank, Paul Federn, Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, W. Ronald Fairbairn et al.

      Pages 316-361

   5. Away from Freud: The Sociological School

      • Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Harry S. Sullivan

      Pages 362-402

5. Back Matter

   Pages 403-405

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6. Understanding, Gestalt, and Field Psychologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 407-407

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   2. Understanding Psychology

      • Wilhelm Dilthey

      Pages 409-422

   3. Personalistic Psychology

      • Edward Spranger, William Stern, Gordon W. Allport

      Pages 423-437

   4. Gestalt Psychology

      • J. Ward, G. F. Stout, Alfred Binet, Karl Bühler

      Pages 438-459

   5. Field Theory

      • Benjamin B. Wolman

      Pages 460-506

   6. Humanistic Psychology

      • Andras Angyal, Abraham Maslow, Henry A. Murray, J. F. T. Bugental, Gardner Murphy, Carl Rogers

      Pages 507-515

Twenty years is a long time in the life of a science. While the historical roots of psychology have not changed since the first edition of this book, some of the offshoots of the various theories and systems discussed have been crit­ ically reexamined and have undergone far-reaching modifications. New and bold research has led to a broadening of perspectives, and recent devel­ opments in several areas required a considerable amount of rewriting. I have been fortunate in the last fifteen years to have worked with about 2,000 psychologists and other behavioral scientists who contributed to several collected volumes I have edited. As the editor-in-chief of the In­ ternational Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurol­ ogy, I have had the privilege of reading, scrutinizing, and editing the work of 1,500 experts in psychology and related disciplines. In addition, I have written several books and monographs and over one hundred scientific papers. Armed with all that experience, I have carefully examined the pages of the first edition. Chapter 8 required substantial rewriting and several new sections have been added to other chapters: "Current Soviet Psychol­ ogy" (Chapter 2, Section 7); "New Ideas on Purposivism" (Chapter 5, Sec­ tion 4); "Recent Developments in the Sociological School of Psychoanalysis" (Chapter 9, Section 4); and "Present Status of Gestalt Psychology" (Chapter 12, Section 4). Chapter 15 was omitted, and two new chapters were added: Chapter 14 ("Humanistic Psychology") and Chapter 16 ("Selected Research Areas").

• Gestalt psychology
• Humanistic Psychology
• brain
• development
• experiment
• experimental psychology
• interaction
• pain
• perception
• personality
• philosophy
• psychiatry
• psychoanalysis
• psychology
• science

• Long Island University, Brooklyn, USA

  Benjamin B. Wolman

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