A History of Psychology

8th Edition - From Antiquity to Modernity

By: Thomas Hardy Leahey

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Hardcover | 2 October 2017 | Edition Number 8

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566 Pages

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23.5 x 19.1 x 3.18

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Published: 27th May 2025

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A History of Psychology places social, economic, and political forces of change alongside psychology’s internal theoretical and empirical arguments, illuminating how the external world has shaped psychology’s development, and, in turn, how the late twentieth century’s psychology has shaped society. Featuring extended treatment of important movements such as the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, the textbook approaches the material from an integrative rather than wholly linear perspective. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the field of psychology’s technical concerns as a science and profession.

This new edition features expanded attention on psychoanalysis after its founding as well as new developments in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics. Throughout, the book strengthens its exploration of psychological ideas and the cultures in which they developed and reinforces the connections between psychology, modernism, and postmodernism. The textbook covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology, and is appropriate for higher-level undergraduate and graduate students.

About the Author

Thomas Hardy Leahey is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He has been President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the Society for the History of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Founding Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Industry Reviews

'This edition provides an astute, critical, thematic history emphasizing epistemological and integrative perspectives in psychoanalysis, scientific, applied and professional psychology, modernism, postmodernism, behavioral economics, and embodied cognition. For anyone interested in the history of psychology, this is a must read.' -Susan Gordon, Assistant Professor of Psychology, National University, USA

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