內容簡介
內容簡介 從過去到現在,各式各樣的心理測驗始終未曾退燒,這代表人類除了積極地拓展外在世界的未知疆域,對於自我的內在世界也抱有同等的好奇心。畢竟,還有什麼比人類心靈的運作來的更加迷人呢?在這本含有豐富插圖的心理學專書中,收錄了心理學發展史上的250個重大事件、理論、著作、實驗和發現。本書從古代對於健全心靈的哲學定義開始,接續談論許多充滿爭議性的心理學議題,例如顱相學、性禁忌、電擊治療、多重人格障礙和性惡論等。若您對心理學發展的歷史沿革充滿興趣,千萬別錯過本書。本書的作者是Wade E. Pickren,他在美國的佛羅里達大學完成心理學的博士學位,目前他是Ithaca College裡頭Center for Faculty Excellence的總監和History of Psychology的編輯。本書的另一位作者是Philip Zimbardo,他是當代最頂尖的心理學家之一,也是American Psychological Association的主席,至今出版超過50本專書,發表超過400篇文章。
作者介紹
作者介紹 Wade E. Pickren received his PhD in Psychology and the History of Science from the University of Florida. Currently, he is Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at Ithaca College and the Editor ofHistory of Psychology. Pickren served as the Historian of the American Psychological Association from 1998 to 2012 and recently completed a term as President of the Society for General Psychology. Additionally, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of theWiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of the History of Psychology and President of the Society for the History of Psychology. He works with an extensive international network of psychologists, and his professional affiliations include the New York Academy of Science, Cheiron: International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Eastern Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.Philip Zimbardo is one of the most distinguished living psychologists, having served as President of the American Psychological Association, designed and narrated the award winning 26-part PBS series,Discovering Psychology, and published more than 50 books and 400 articles and chapters, includingShyness (Addison Wesley), The Lucifer Effect (Random House), The Time Cure(Simon & Schuster), and The Time Paradox (Jossey-Bass). A professor emeritus at Stanford University, he received his PhD in psychology from Yale University and is best known for his controversial Stanford Prison Experiment that highlighted the ease with which college students cross the line between good and evil when caught up in the matrix of situational and systemic forces. Dr. Zimbardo is currently teaching in the PsyD consortium program at Palo Alto University and lecturing worldwide.