Chapter 1 - Psychological Inquiry as an Evolving Human Practice
Chapter 2 - Historical Conceptual Issues
Chapter 3 - Science and Psychology
Chapter 4 - Physiology and Phenomenology
Chapter 5 - Nature and Nurture
Chapter 6 - The Mind-Body Problem
Chapter 7 - Philosophy of Science
Chapter 8 - Mainstream and its Critics
Chapter 9 - Critical Psychology and Feminist Psychology
Chapter 10 - Psychological Methods and Practice
Chapter 11 - The Cognitive Revolution
Chapter 12 - Free Will Versus determinism
Brad received his PhD from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada in 1989. His doctorate was in Personality/Theory. He taught Introductory Psychology, History of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Personality, and Theoretical Psychology at Vancouver Island University from 1989 until his retirement in 2015.
Students will find this text a thoroughly engaging journey into
Psychology’s history and foundational assumptions.
*Fiona Hibberd*
Brad Piekkola grapples with cognitive and biological histories
rarely considered in the conceptual considerations of psychology in
such a way that allows students to be critical and mindful of
today′s practises within the discipline.
*Katherine Hubbard*
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology offers an
interesting overview of some key conceptual issues that psychology
has grappled with throughout its history. This book will be
particularly useful for students of psychology who wish to explore
the epistemological foundations of the discipline.
*Eleni Andreouli*
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology by Brad Piekkola
provides the student with the backdrop against which the discipline
of psychology has emerged, including its most challenging
conceptualisations: mind and body, nature and nurture, free will
and determinism. The narrative account from past to present
and the engagement with approaches from dominant to critical is
expertly balanced for those students keen to understand how
psychology has developed across diverse contexts. Whilst providing
a comprehensive overview, the themes, topics and tools covered are
fundamental to a nuanced understanding of the discipline. It
invites the reader to grapple with the theoretical underpinnings of
psychology and the challenges it faces including, importantly,
contemporary challenges such as postmodern and feminist
approaches. With this book, and its supporting material, the
student is provided with the opportunity to think through the role
of psychology within the context of history, philosophy, science
and the world in which we live.
*Rose Capdevila*
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