Books in the Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology series

Metaphors in the History of Psychology describes and analyses the ways in which psychological accounts of brain functioning, consciousness, cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, and behaviour have been shaped - and are still being shaped - by the central metaphors used by contemporary psychologists and their predecessors.

Constructing the Subject traces the history of psychological research from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

This book examines the work of social and personality psychologists who in the 1930s criticized the increasingly restrictive vision of scientific life being promoted by neo-behavioralist social scientists in the United States.

Inventing Our Selves analyses our current regime of the 'self' and the values that animate it; it discusses how psychology and other 'psy' disciplines have affected the ways in which people understand themselves, and aims to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.

Why are there so many psychologists in America today? This study seeks to answer this question through historical analysis of the middle years of this century. The book argues that the Second World War exerted a profound influence on the shape and structure of the field.

It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under national Socialism. Yet in The Professionalisation of Psychology in Nazi Germany Ulfried Geuter tells a radically different story of how German psychology, rather than disappearing, rapidly grew into a fully developed profession during the Third Reich.

This book explores the early history of one of the most controversial psychological innovations of this century: intelligence testing. It follows Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester, as he tried to introduce this French innovation into the basic institutions of American life.

A full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology in Germany, based on exhaustive research in primary sources, including archival material. Ash challenges accepted viewpoints in the history of German science and culture by showing that holistic thought, natural science, and democratic politics were compatible.

This 1999 book was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. The book explodes the myth of Lashley's neuropsychology as a fact-driven, 'pure' science by arguing that a belief in the power of heredity and a nativist and deeply conservative racial ideology informed every aspect of his theory and practice.

Jaap van Ginneken's study explores the social and intellectual history of the emergence of crowd psychology in the late nineteenth century. Both the popular work of the French physician LeBon and his predecessors are shown to be influenced and closely connected with both the dramatic events and academic debates of their day.

This book uses twentieth-century psychology in the Netherlands to study debates over the correct methodology of the social sciences.