This text traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early 21st century, giving students a thorough look into psychology's origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology.

William Douglas Woody, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado, where he teaches and conducts research in the history of psychology, psychology and law, and teaching of psychology. In addition to other awards, he has received national Early Career Achievement Awards from the Society for the History of Psychology and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Wayne Viney, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor and Emeritus University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he has conducted research and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of psychology. He received numerous teaching awards from Colorado State University, and he has been president of the Society for the History of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.

Part I Historiographic and Philosophical Issues

1 Critical Issues in Historical Studies

2 Philosophical Issues

Part II Early Psychological Thought

3 Ancient Psychological Thought

4 The Roman Period and the Middle Ages

5 The Renaissance

Part III Modern Intellectual Developments That Contributed to the Birth of Psychology

6 Empiricism, Associationism, and Utilitarianism

7 Rationalism

8 Mechanization and Quantification

9 Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform

Part IV Psychology From the Formal Founding in 1879

10 Psychophysics and the Formal Founding of Psychology

11 Developments After the Founding

12 Functionalism

13 Behaviorism

14 Gestalt Psychology

15 Psychoanalysis

16 Humanistic Psychologies

17 Beyond the Systems of Psychology

18 Prospects for the Twenty-First Century