The Bedside Book of Psychology
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The Bedside Book of Psychology

125 Historic Events and Big Ideas to Push the Limits of Your Knowledge

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The Bedside Book of Psychology

125 Historic Events and Big Ideas to Push the Limits of Your Knowledge

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A fascinating exploration into the 125 most important milestones in psychology, all in one handy book perfect for keeping on your bedside table or carrying wherever you go. Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a topic you've always been interested in. With 125 concise, informative, and entertaining entries, The Bedside Book of Psychology explores the key theories, discoveries, and experiments, influential personalities, and seminal publications in the field over the millennia. Wade Pickren covers a wide range of topics and cultures—from ancient philosophies of psychotherapeutic well-being such as shamanism, to mesmerism, multiple personality disorder, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Pavlov's conditioning experiments, mirror neurons, positive psychology, sexual fluidity, and climate-crisis psychology—all in an accessible, conversational voice. Includes 75 black-and-white illustrations throughout.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2021
ISBN
9781454942825
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. c. 10,000 BCE Shamanism
  7. 528 BCE Buddha’s Four Noble Truths
  8. c. 500 BCE Confucian Psychology
  9. c. 350 BCE Asclepius and the Art of Healing
  10. c. 200 BCE Bhagavad Gita
  11. c. 160 CE Humoral Theory
  12. 1025 Avicenna and the First Islamic Psychology
  13. 1517 Protestantism and the Psychological Self
  14. 1580 Montaigne’s Essays
  15. 1637 Descartes on Mind and Body
  16. 1664 Cerebri Anatome: On the Brain and Behavior
  17. 1690 Tabula Rasa: The Psychology of Experience
  18. 1762 Rousseau’s Natural Child
  19. 1766 Mesmerism
  20. 1832 Phrenology
  21. 1834 Fechner and the Just-Noticeable Difference (JND)
  22. 1843 The First Thinking Machine
  23. 1848 The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
  24. 1851 Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
  25. 1859 Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
  26. 1859 Mind-Cure
  27. 1861 Where Brain Functions Are Localized
  28. 1867 Prosopagnosia: The Inability to Recognize Faces
  29. 1871 Synesthesia: Numbers as Colors or Tuesday Is Red
  30. 1874 Nature vs. Nurture
  31. 1874 Psychology Becomes a Science
  32. 1880 Anna O.: Converting Psychological Distress into Physical Illness
  33. 1885 Multiple Personality Disorder
  34. 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis
  35. 1890 James’s The Principles of Psychology
  36. 1898 Western Cultural Bias: The Torres Strait Expedition
  37. 1899 Psychoanalysis: The Talking Cure
  38. 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams Inaugurates the Century of Psychology
  39. 1902 Forensic Psychology
  40. 1903 Classical Conditioning: Pavlov’s Bell
  41. 1904 Culture Determines What Counts as Mental Illness
  42. 1905 Binet and Simon: The First Intelligence Test
  43. 1908 Bleuler Initiates the Modern Study of the Schizophrenias
  44. 1909 Can Apes Learn Human Language?
  45. 1912 Gestalt Psychology: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
  46. 1912 Experimental Neurosis: How Animals Can Be Made Crazy
  47. 1913 Jungian Psychology: Collective Unconscious and Psychological Growth
  48. 1913 The Lie Detector and the Golden Lasso of Truth
  49. 1914 Variability Hypothesis: Gender and Genius
  50. 1915 Transforming Western Psychology in India
  51. 1921 Army Intelligence Tests and Scientific Racism
  52. 1921 Projective Tests: The Rorschach Inkblots
  53. 1922 Feminine Psychology
  54. 1923 Capgras Syndrome
  55. 1924 Seeing the Brain at Work
  56. 1925 Somatotypes: Does Body Shape Reflect Our Personality?
  57. 1928 Cultural Relativism: Culture, Sex, and Coming of Age
  58. 1930 The Skinner Chamber
  59. 1932 Remembering and Forgetting
  60. 1934 Archetypes: Trickster, Sage, Hero, and Primordial Mother
  61. 1934 Zone of Proximal Development
  62. 1935 Thematic Apperception Test: Our Stories and Our Personality
  63. 1935 Psychosurgery
  64. 1936 Defense Mechanisms
  65. 1937 Turing Machine
  66. 1941 Direct Brain Stimulation and Experiential Hallucinations
  67. 1943 Cybernetics, Computers, and the Beginning of Cognitive Science
  68. 1943 The Doll Studies: Racism and Child Self-Image
  69. 1943 Maslow Creates the Hierarchy of Needs
  70. 1943 Autism
  71. 1944 Sex Roles
  72. 1946 Logotherapy and the Search for Meaning
  73. 1947 Rogers’s Client-Centered Therapy
  74. 1948 Neuroplasticity
  75. 1950 The Discovery of Stress
  76. 1950 Identity Crisis
  77. 1951 Conformity and Independence
  78. 1952 Bees Dancing, Egg-Rolling Birds, and the New Science of Ethology
  79. 1952 Lives in Progress: Psychology and the Stories of Our Lives
  80. 1953 The Case of H. M.
  81. 1953 REM and the Cycles of Sleep
  82. 1954 Pleasure and Pain
  83. 1954 Contact Hypothesis or How to Reduce Racism and Bias
  84. 1955 Cognitive Therapy
  85. 1955 Placebo Effect
  86. 1957 Antidepressant Medications
  87. 1957 Cognitive Dissonance: How Humans Maintain Psychological Consistency
  88. 1957 Hooker’s Research: Homosexuality Is Not an Illness
  89. 1958 Mother Love
  90. 1959 Type A Personality
  91. 1960 The Visual Cliff
  92. 1961 Humanistic Psychology
  93. 1962 Right Brain, Left Brain
  94. 1963 Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
  95. 1963 Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
  96. 1965 Head Start
  97. 1966 Masters and Johnson’s Human Sexual Response
  98. 1967 Martin Luther King Jr., Psychology, and Social Justice
  99. 1969 Attachment Theory
  100. 1969 Five Stages of Grief
  101. 1970 Black Psychology
  102. 1970 The BITCH Test
  103. 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment
  104. 1973 Resilience
  105. 1974 Judgment Under Uncertainty: Human Rationality
  106. 1975 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
  107. 1975 Psychoneuroimmunology
  108. 1978 Theory of Mind
  109. 1979 Ecological Systems Theory
  110. 1979 Social Identity Theory
  111. 1980 Nurturant-Task Model of Leadership
  112. 1980 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  113. 1982 In a Different Voice: Women and Moral Development
  114. 1983 Multiple Intelligences
  115. 1989 Liberation Psychology
  116. 1990 Flow: The Experience of Optimal Living
  117. 1992 Mirror Neurons
  118. 1992 Social Ontogenesis: Culture and Development in Africa
  119. 1993 Mindfulness and Mind-Body Medicine
  120. 1995 Looping Effects of Human Kinds
  121. 1995 Stereotype Threat
  122. 1996 Autonomous-Relational Self
  123. 2000 Positive Psychology
  124. 2004 Emerging Adulthood
  125. 2008 Diamond’s Sexual Fluidity
  126. 2013 The BRAIN Initiative
  127. 2014 Black Lives Matter
  128. 2017 Beyond the Gender Binary
  129. 2019 Traditional Knowledge—Indigenous Psychologies
  130. 2020 Climate Crisis Psychology
  131. Further Reading and Sources
  132. Acknowledgments
  133. Picture Credits
  134. About the Author