1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001030650403321

Autore

Marshak, Robert E.

Titolo

Meson Physics / Robert E. Marshak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1952

Collana

International series in pure and applied physics

Disciplina

539.72539.73

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

33-002

33-02A

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792461903321

Autore

Pickren Wade E.

Titolo

A history of modern psychology in context / / Wade E. Pickren and Alexandra Rutherford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2010]

ISBN

0-470-58601-X

1-282-54940-5

9786612549403

0-470-58599-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 pages)

Disciplina

150

150.9

Soggetti

Psychology - History

Mental health services - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A History of Modern Psychology in Context; BRIEF CONTENTS; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: ORIGINS OF A SCIENCE OF MIND; INTRODUCTION; PHILOSOPHY: DESCARTES AND LOCKE AS EXEMPLARS; PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE: THE SEARCH FOR MATERIAL EXPLANATIONS OF HUMAN NATURE; DARWIN, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE LAWS OF NATURE; SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 2: EVERYDAY LIFE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICES; INTRODUCTION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF COMMERCIAL SOCIETY; CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE; READING THE SIGNS OF THE BODY IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM

SUMMARYBIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 3: SUBJECT MATTER, METHODS, AND THE MAKING OF A NEW SCIENCE; INTRODUCTION; CAN PSYCHOLOGY BE A SCIENCE?; KANT'S CHALLENGE; PSYCHOPHYSICS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW SCIENCE; THE GERMAN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION; WILHELM WUNDT AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE; THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA; THE DEMISE OF INTROSPECTION IN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY; BEHAVIORISM AND AMERICAN LIFE; SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 4: FROM PERIPHERY TO CENTER: CREATINGAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY; INTRODUCTION; AMERICAN MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY

FORGING A PSYCHOLOGICAL SENSIBILITY: FROM RELIGION TO PSYCHICAL RESEARCHBOUNDARY WORK AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY: ESTABLISHING THE CENTER AND MARKING THE PERIPHERY; AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS: ORGANIZATION AND APPLICATION; SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 5: THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOLOGY AT THE INTERFACE WITH MEDICINE; INTRODUCTION; ENLIGHTENMENT AND MADNESS; FROM MESMERISM TO HYPNOSIS; CHARCOT: THE NAPOLEON OF THE NEUROSES; SIGMUND FREUD (1856- 1939); FREUD'S IMPACT ON PSYCHOLOGY AS A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSION; BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND MEDICINE

PSYCHOANALYSIS OUTSIDE EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICASUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 6: PSYCHOLOGISTS AS TESTERS: APPLYING PSYCHOLOGY, ORDERING SOCIETY; INTRODUCTION; THE ROOTS OF MENTAL TESTING IN AMERICA; MENTAL TESTS GO TO THE FAIR; LIGHTNER WITMER AND THE PREHISTORY OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; SORTING THE SEXES; THE DEMISE OF MENTAL TESTS AND THE RISE OF THE IQ; LEWIS TERMAN AND THE AMERICANIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE TESTING; ARMY INTELLIGENCE: WORLD WAR I PUTS PSYCHOLOGY ON THE MAP; WORLD WAR I AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY; INTELLIGENCE TESTING AROUND THE WORLD: CENTER OR PERIPHERY?

WHAT DID THE TESTS TEST?SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 7: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS; INTRODUCTION; WHO OWNS PSYCHOLOGY?; ORGANIZATION AND COOPERATION; THE KINGDOM OF BEHAVIOR: MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLOGY, 1920-1940; DEVELOPING DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; RACE, ETHNICITY, INTELLIGENCE, AND RESISTANCE; SEXUALITY RESEARCH; PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY; THE DISCIPLINARY EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA; SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; CHAPTER 8: PSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS; INTRODUCTION

PSYCHOLOGY, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

Sommario/riassunto

A fresh look at the history of psychology placed in its social, political, and cultural contexts A History of Modern Psychology in Context



presents the history of modern psychology in the richness of its many contexts. The authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent people, or schools of thought that rise and fall in the wake of scientific progress. Instead, psychology is portrayed as a network of scientific and professional practices embedded in specific temporal, social, political, and cultural contexts. The narrative is informed by three key co

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787512203321

Autore

Rowe Mark

Titolo

August 1914 : England in peace and war / / by Mark Rowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gosport, [England] : , : Chaplin Books, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-909183-37-7

1-909183-38-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

942.083

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain

Great Britain Social conditions 20th century

Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; August 1914; Part One; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Part Two; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Part Three; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Photographs; Back Matter; Some of the Characters After 1914; Background Reading; Sources by Chapter; Some Military Terms and Totals; Also Available

Sommario/riassunto

August 1914 is the story of England in that watershed month when the country went from peace to war. It tells of what life was like in a



country that looked, and smelt, very different to today. Work could be long, hard and deadly; pleasures were rough and simple; religion was a comfort for many. Some of the people whose stories you will encounter are well-known, such as Winston Churchill, the rising First Lord of the Admiralty. Others were not famous figures - Winston's sister-in-law, the ...