A history of psychology in letters / Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-239) and index.

Reading other people's mail : the joys of historical research -- John Locke as child psychologist -- On the origin of species : Darwin's crisis of 1858 -- John Stuart Mill and the subjection of women -- An American in Leipzig -- The struggle for psychology laboratories -- William James and psychical research -- Hugo Munsterberg and the psychology of law -- A woman's struggles for graduate education -- Titchener's experimentalists : no women allowed -- Coming to America : Freud and Jung -- The behaviorism of John B. Watson -- Nazi Germany and the migration of gestalt psychology -- A social agenda for American psychology -- B.F. Skinner's heir conditioner -- Kenneth B. Clark and the Brown v. board decision.