Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectiveness of major forms of psychotherapy.
Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries—the search for the true causes of our behavior.
- ISBN10 0307278077
- ISBN13 9780307278074
- Publish Date 18 December 2007 (first published 1 May 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 August 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Random House Inc
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 896
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780307278074