Wilhelm Wundt in History
Subtitle: The Making of a Scientific Psychology (Path in Psychology)
Contributors: Robert W. Rieber (Editor); David K. Robinson (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780306465994
Subjects: Occupational & industrial psychology; Physiological & neuro-psychology; Mental Health; History Of Psychology; Psychology; Wundt, Wilhelm Max,; Experimental Psychology; History; Medical-Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychology & Psychiatry / History; Psychology-Experimental Psychology; General; 20th century; Psychology, Experimental
First sentence: It is possible to sum up the first 40 years of Wundt's life, in the style of an introductory textbook of psychology, by saying that he was the son of a country parson, that he studied medicine at Heidelberg and subsequently served for several years as assistant to Helmholtz at that university, and that he was by profession a physiologist until, in his 40th or 41st year, he set about writing what Boring (1950) called "the most important book in the history of modern psychology" (p. 322).