First published in 1985. At one end of historical time scale, speculations about psychological processes go back to classical Greek philosophy and beyond. For centuries thereafter, the treatment of psychological subject matter remained largely in the domain of other disciplines, especially philosophy, where it became inextricably interwoven with epistemology. The chapters of this book glance only briefly at these philosophical antecedents, to review the basic concepts and principles that early investigators were to take for granted. They tend then to move to the end of the last century when the systematic study of psychological processes began.

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Gregory A. Kimble Duke University, Kurt Schlesinger University of Colorado

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Contents of Volume l, Preface, 1. OVERVIEW: THE CHRONOLOGY, 2. BEHAVIORAL GENETICS AND THE NATURE-NURTURE QUESTION, 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING, 4. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 5. DRIVES AND MOTIVES, 6. SLEEP AND DREAMING, 7. PSYCHOTHERAPY, 8. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: I. FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 9. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: II. FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES, 10. APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY THEORY, 11. HISTORY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AUTHOR INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX