Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure this book provides essential
distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology. The book is
concisely designed to help readers navigate through the length and complexity found in history
of psychology textbooks. From Plato to beyond Post-Modernism the author examines the choices
and commitments made by theorists and practitioners of psychology and discusses the
philosophical thinking from which they stem. What kind of science is psychology? Is structure
function or methodology foremost in determining psychology's subject matter? Psychology as
the behaviorist views it is not the same as the psychoanalyst's view of it or the
existentialist's so how may contemporary psychology philosophically-sustain both pluralism and
incommensurability? This book will be of great value to students and scholars of the history of
psychology.
