Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology

Part of a two-volume series, this book offers a multicentric perspective on the history of psychology, situating its development in relation to developments made in other social sciences and philosophical disciplines.

Csaba Pléh is a Hungarian psychologist and linguist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Academia Europeae, and a visiting researcher at the Central European University, Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest.

1. History of Psychology and Psychological Theory Part I. At The Dawn of Autonomy: A Topic in Search of a Discipline 2. Descartes and The Scientific Method 3. Cognition and Association: The Development of The Psychological Agenda in The Enlightenment Period 4. Early Neuroscience as a Precursor to Modern Psychology: Reflexes and Localization Part II. From Birth to Divisions 5. On the Threshold of Psychology: The Birth of the Idea of Measurement of the Mind 6. Wilhelm Wundt: The Program Setter and Codifier 7. The Evolutionist Alternative for a Modern Psychology: Development, Adaptation and Individual Differences 8. Functionalism and Structuralism in America: The First Open Debate 9. The Distribution and Division of New Psychology in Europe 10. Critics and Alternatives to Experimental Psychology at the Turn of the 20th Century: Platonist, Irrationalist and Human Science Alternatives Part III. The Age of Great Schools 11. The Behaviorist Revolution: Psychology Loses its Mind 12. Wholes and Meaning: Gestalt Psychology 13. The Underwater Part of the Iceberg: Sigmund Freud and the "Discovery" of the Unconscious