Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Grant J. Rich, Consulting Psychologist, Juneau, Alaska, USA.Uwe P. Gielen, St. Francis College, USA.
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world. Chapters offer biographical profiles describing the personal histories and professional contributions of leading figures in psychology from across the globe that represent the diversity of psychology. This volume can serve as a core or supplemental text for a broad range of courses in Psychology, International Studies, and Education, with particular interest to those teaching international psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and history of psychology.
This book offers a global overview of pioneers in international psychology, featuring biographical profiles of leading figures. It serves as a core or supplemental text for courses in Psychology, International Studies, and Education, with a focus on international, cross-cultural, and historical aspects of psychology.
Foreword, Florence L. Denmark.
Preface.
Chapter 1. The Rise of Modern Psychology: From Western Intellectual Ancestry to Global Practice, Grant Rich and Uwe P. Gielen.
Part I: Psychological Healing and the Emergence of Psychiatry.
Chapter 2. The Curious Birth of Psychological Healing in the Western World (1775–1825): From Gassner to Mesmer to Puységur, Uwe P. Gielen and Jeannette Raymond.
Chapter 3. Pierre Janet: French Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Philosopher, Isabelle Saillot and Onno van der Hart.
Chapter 4. Emil Kraepelin: Experimental Psychology as an Auxiliary Science in Psychiatry and Clinical Empirical Psychiatry as the Foundation of Modern Psychiatry, Holger Steinberg.
Part II: Psychology as a Growing International European Science.
Chapter 5. Maria Montessori: The Worldwide Impact of an Italian Educator and Child Psychologist, Grant J. Rich.
Chapter 6. Lev S. Vygotsky: A Hamletian Spirit With Marxist Dispositions, Uwe P. Gielen and Samvel Jeshmaridian.
Chapter 7. Alexander R. Luria: A Brief Biography, Tatiana V. Akhutina and Gary Shereshevsky.
Part III: Two American Ambassadors of International Psychology.
Chapter 8. Otto Klineberg: International Social Psychologist, Edwin P. Hollander.
Chapter 9. Charles D. Spielberger: Ambassador for Scientific Psychology, Ann M. O'Roark.
Part IV: The Worldwide Expansion of Psychology.
Chapter 10. Mustapha Soueif: An Intellectual Portrait of the Father of Arab Clinical Psychology, Ramadan A. Ahmed.
Chapter 11. Rogelio Díaz-Guerrero: Pioneer of Latin American Psychology, Rolando Díaz-Loving.
Chapter 12. Durganand Sinha: The Pioneering Work of an Indian Psychologist, Dinesh Sharma.
Chapter 13. Kuo-Shu Yang: Scholar, Leader, Activist, William K. Gabrenya, Jr. and Chien-Ru Sun.
Chapter 14. Geert Hofstede: Worldwide Psychological Comparisons of Societies, Peter B. Smith.
Part V: Overcoming Africa's Colonial Heritage and Racism.
Chapter 15. Frantz Fanon: Architect of a Psychology of Oppression and Liberation, Chalmer E. Thompson.
Chapter 16. Saths Cooper: Post-Apartheid Psychologist, Activist, and Leader in South Africa and Beyond, Grant J. Rich and Judy Kuriansky.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Grant J. Rich, Consulting Psychologist, Juneau, Alaska, USA.Uwe P. Gielen, St. Francis College, USA.