Psychology in Britain Historical Essays and

Drawing on more than 25 contributions, this new book presents both a historical and personal account of British psychology over the last century. The book is divided into two sections: Part 1 contains a collection of historical essays concentrating on institutional beginnings, practical concerns, individual projects and post-war developments. Part 2 looks at the professional reminiscences of 12 senior psychologists.

Contributors:
G. Richards, F. Neary, G. Lyubov, A. Lovie, M. Thompson, J. Bourke, A. Collins,
M. Roiser, A. Costall, J. Sayers, R. Smith, D. Wilson, M. Derksen, R. Hayward, K. Baistow, M. Argyle, A. Baddeley, M. Boden, D. Duncan, F. Fransella, R. Gregory, R. Harre, G. Jahoda, J. Newson, E. Newson, M. Rutter, P. Wason.

Historical Essays
Edward Cox, the Psychological Society of Great Britain and the meanings of and institutional failure
A question of 'peculiar important': George Croom Robertson, Mind and the changing relationship between British psychology and philosophy
James Scully and scientific psychology
Three steps to heaven: how the British Psychological Society attained its place in the sun
The popular, the practical and the professional: psychological identities in Britain
Psychology at war, 1914-1945
The psychology of memory
Social psychology and social concern in 1930s Britain
Pear and his peers
British psychology and psychoanalysis: the case of Susan Isaacs
Physiology and psychology, or brain and mind, in the age of
A 'precipitous degringolade?' The uncertain progress of British comparative psychology in the 20th Century
Science in the clinic: clinical psychology at the Maudsley
'Our friends electric' mechanical models of mind in post-war Britain
Behavioural approaches and the cultivation of competence
Personal Reflections
The development of social psychology in Oxford
Memories of memory research
Purpose, personality, creativity: a computational adventure
The joys of psychology
The making of a psychologist: a late developer
Adventures of a maverick
The advent of the methodological critique
Crossing Cultures
Taking people seriously: psychology as a listening ear
The emergence of developmental psychopathology
Creativity in research
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