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020 _a9781107525467
082 _a150.9
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100 _aSaugstad, Per
245 _aHistory of Modern Psychology
260 _aCambridge
_bCambridge University Press
_c2018
300 _a551
520 _aA History of Modern Psychology provides students with an engaging, comprehensive, and global history of psychological science, from the birth of the field to the present. It examines the attempts to establish psychology as a science in several countries and epochs. The text expertly draws on a vast knowledge of the field in the United States, England, Germany, France, Russia, and Scandinavia, as well as on author Per Saugstad's keen study of neighboring sciences, including physiology, evolutionary biology, psychiatry, and neurology. Offering a unique global perspective on the development of psychology as an empirical science, this text is an ideal introduction to the field for students and other readers interested in the history of modern psychology.
650 _aPsychology- History- 20th century
650 _aPsychology- History- 19th century
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