INTRODUCING PSYCHOLOGY

What is psychology?When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific?. . . Introducing Psychology answers all these questions and more explaining what the subject has been in the past and what it is now. The main schools of thought and the sections within psychology are described including Introspection Biopsychology Psychoanalysis Behaviourism Comparative (Animal) Psychology Cognitive Approaches (including the Gestalt movement) Social Psychology Developmental Psychology and Humanism. The key figures covered include: Freud Pavlov Skinner Bandura Piaget Bowlby Maslow and Rogers as well as many lesser-known but important psychologists.