History of Psychology

This book has reviewed the development of psychology from its roots in philosophy; through the great advances in physiology and other life sciences in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; and finally Wilhelm Wundt’s founding of psychology as an independent science late in the nineteenth century. Since then many psychologists have been part of the “short history” of the field. In considering some of them we have emphasized not only their theoretical, empirical, and practical contributions to psychology but also their lives and careers, successes and failures, triumphs and frustrations.