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Introducing Psychology (Introducing (Totem Books)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Introducing PsychologyWhat is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? This book aims to answer these questions and more, explaining the subject. It describes the "schools" of thought and the sections within psychology.
Full description- Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
- Published: 01 September 2008
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Psychology | Psychological Theory & Schools Of Thought | Personal Development | Popular Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9781840468526 ISBN 10: 1840468521
- Sales rank: 11,857
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Full description for Introducing Psychology
What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? "Introducing Psychology" answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what it is now. The main "schools" of thought and the sections within psychology are described, including Introspection, Biopsychology, Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Comparative (Animal) Psychology, Cognitive Approaches (including the Gestalt movement), Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Humanism. The key figures covered include: Freud, Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, Piaget, Bowlby, Maslow and Rogers, as well as many lesser-known but important psychologists.
