The history of psychology and the behavioral sciences : a bibliographic guide / [print]
Robert I. Watson, Sr.
- New York : Springer Pub. Company, (c)1978.
- ix, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
General resources -- Guides to the literature -- Encyclopedias -- Bibliographies of books, articles, and retrieval systems -- Biographical collections -- Dictionaries -- Archives and manuscript collections, including oral histories -- Journal bibliographies -- Historical accounts -- General psychology -- Psychology: branches and research problems -- National -- Schools and systems -- Science -- Philosophy -- Psychiatry and psychoanalysis -- Physiology, neurology, and anatomy -- Biology -- Medicine -- Anthropology -- Sociology -- Education -- Readings -- Methods of historical research -- Critical analysis: narrative methods -- Biography as narrative -- The narrative and verstehen -- Methodological objectivity, and the presentist and historicist attitudes in writing the narrative -- Quantitative methods in general -- Content analysis -- Citation indexes -- Illustrations of applications of other quantitative techniques -- Historiographic fields -- General history -- Psychology -- Behavioral science -- Science and the philosophy of science -- Philosophy -- Psychiatry -- Psychoanalysis and psychohistory -- Biology, physiology, and medicine -- Sociology and the social sciences -- Education -- Intellectual history -- Historiographic theories -- General theoretical statements -- Speculative theories of history and the nineteenth-and twentieth-century reactions from historians -- Contemporary pluralistic emphases on the dynamics of historical change -- Methodological individualism-holism and psychologism as problems in dynamics -- Explanation and related problems.
Approximately 800 titles cited as general references and historical accounts, as well as literature dealing with methods of historical research, historiographic fields, and historiographic theories. Covers psychology, philosophy, science, biology, medicine (with various specialized fields), psychiatry and psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, and education. Each entry gives bibliographic information and annotation. No index.