Key Thinkers in Psychology

Rom Harre is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC

PART ONE: FROM BEHAVIOURISM TO COGNITIVISM The Behaviourists - Ivan Pavlov and Burrhus Frederick Skinner The Developmentalists - Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg The Cognitivists - Frederic Bartlett, Jerome Bruner, George Kelly, Noam Chomsky and George Miller The Computationalists - Alan Turing, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, Marvin Minsky and John Searle The Biopsychologists - Wilder Penfield, Alexander Luria, Karl Pribram, Konrad Lorenz and Edward. O Wilson The Psychologists of Perception - Wolfgang Koehler, James Gibson, Richard Gregory, David Marr, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, Lawrence Weiskrantz, Alan Hein and R. Held PART TWO: FROM INDIVIDUALS TO GROUPS The Personologists - Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, James Lamiell and Erving Goffman The Social Psychologists - William McDougall, Fritz Heider, Muzafer Sherif, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram, Michael Argyle, Serge Moscovici and Henri Tajfel PART THREE: FROM THEORY TO REALITY The Philosophers - John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Daniel Dennett The Psychopathologists - Emile Kraepelin and Sigmund Freud

`This is a highly enjoyable, erudite and beautifully written manuscript. It conveys a rare depth of understanding and ability to strike at the core debates. The lively style, concentration on the biopic, use of text features such as links between names, and formal division of each sub-section will all appeal.... I have taught History of Psychology for nearly 6 years. This text will prove for more palatable to students than any of the competitors' - Dr Steve Brown, Loughborough University `This book is well-written. It is clever, flowing and engaging. The balance between biography and contribution is excellent and makes it almost un-put-downable' - Professor Adrian Furnham, University College London "Without a doubt, this volume provides a wealth of information on selected key thinkers in psychology. The details of each of them are thoroughly covered and well presented in palatable length for a quick but informative reference. Reading this volume makes one marvel at the difficulties some of these key thinkers had to deal with in their research lives. Given the breadth of psychology covered in this volume, libraries of higher institution should consider to have it in their collection as there is always some relevant information for the readers irrespective of their areas of specialization." -- Jyh Wee Sew