Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory

The ideas of Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a founder of Gestalt theory, are discussed in almost all general books on the history of psychology and in most introductory textbooks on psychology

Michael Wertheimer

1: Introduction; 2: Ancestry, Family, and Childhood; 3: Formal Education, 1898-1904; 4: Years of Incubation, 1905-1910; 5: Emergence of Gestalt Theory, 1910-1913; 6: The World War One Period, 1914-1921; 7: The Gestalt Movement Matures, 1922-1929; 8: Wertheimer at Frankfurt, 1929-1933; 9: Wertheimer's Everyday Life in the United States, 1933-1943; 10: Early Reception of Gestalt Psychology in the United States; 11: Wertheimer's Correspondence with Three Psychologists: Boring, Hull, and Luria; 12: The Social Conscience of a Humble Empiric; 13: Personal Challenges; Productive Students; 14: The Dynamics and Logic of Productive Thinking: The Crystallization of a Life Study; 15: The Legacy of Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Psychology