The Evolution of Psychological Theory: A Critical History of Concepts and Presuppositions

First published in 1982. Is there any point to studying the historical development of psychological theory, apart from the antiquarian interest of finding out who said what, when? This book is offered in the belief that there is. It is that such a study can provide valuable background for a critical, analytical, and—in the healthy, liberating sense of the term—skeptical understanding of the psychological conceptions and presuppositions of the present. This has been the author’s aim througho...