Psychologists in Word and Image

This collection of perceptual portraits of more than 100 thinkers who have fashioned our understanding of mind and behaviour provides an alternative view of the history of psychology. Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Pierre Broca, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Ruth Benedict, Allen Newell, David Marr and scores of others whose ideas have made psychology an empirical discipline emerge from motifs specifically drawn by the author or derived from a figure or text in one of the portrayed person's books, or an apparatus he or she invented. The treatment of portrait/motifs often challenges the viewer to discern the faces embedded in them and always tells us more than how these students of mind looked: these portraits reflect their thoughts and lead us to forage further into their lives and legacies. The portraits and motifs have been manipulated in a variety of ways, using graphic and photo graphic procedures. They are arranged in order of birth date in a format of one page of descriptive text facing a full-page portrait. The text presents a brief synopsis of the persons portrayed, that person's ideas and the source of both the portrait and the motif. Interrelations between people are stressed, bringing to light common threads that run through the work of particular groups and adding yet another level to this unique gallery of psychology's pioneers.

ISBN 0262731126   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780262731126 (What's this?)   Pages 256 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Volumes 001 Imprint MIT Press   Weight (grammes) 658 Format Paperback   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Publication date 03 May 1995   Height (mm) 254 Non-book description xvii, 240 p. :   Width (mm) 178 Library of Congress BF81.W33 1   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 150.922   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

Preface; Introduction. Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Inductive Scientist; Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Leviathan; Rene Descartes (1596-1650): Cartesian Dualism; John Locke (1632-1704): Tabula Rasa; Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Visionary; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716): Monadologist; George Berkeley (1685-1753): The Perception of Distance; Thomas Reid (1710-1796): Common Senses; David Hume (1711-1776): Humean Understanding; Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): Noble Savage; Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Apperception; Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815): Animal Magnetism; Philippe Pinel (1745-1826): Emancipator; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): Romantic Eye; Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828): Phrenological Head of Gall; Thomas Young (1773-1829): Optometer; Charles Bell (1774-1842): The Nerves of Bell's Head; David Brewster (1781-1868): Philosophical Toys; Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869): Sehen in subjektiver Hinsicht; Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860): Irrational Man; Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794-1867): Extirpator; Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878): Weber Fractions; Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874): L'Homme moyen; Isadore Augusts Marie Francois Xavier Comte (1798-1857): Positivist; Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887): Psychometric Function; Johannes Peter Muller (1801-1858): Vieth-Muller Circle; Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801-1883): Plateau Spiral; Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875): Stereoscopist; Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882): The Expression of Darwin's Emotions; Claude Bernard (1813-1878): Milieu Interieur; Frans Cornelis Donders (1818-1889): Donders' See; Alexander Bain (1818-1903): Mind Reader; Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894): Young Helmholtz; Francis Galton (1822-1911): Face Recognition; Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880): Broca's Area; Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893): L'Arc de Cercle; Hermann Rudolf Aubert (1826-1892): Physiologist of the Retina; Joseph Remi Leopold Delboeuf (1831-1896): Delboeuf Illusion; James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879): Colour Mixer. (PART CONTENTS).

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