Annotated Readings in the History of Modern Psychology

This new first edition reader is designed to make it easier for students to locate, read and comprehend historical material. “Annotated Readings in the History of Modern Psychology” includes thirty-six chapters of substantial excerpts and papers from psychology’s history and includes narrative from the author himself.  C. James Goodwin’s narrative is woven throughout the passages to give readers information about the original author, describe the importance of the work, put the selection into its historical context, and finally, to explain and elaborate upon some of the more difficult passages. This book could be used as a stand-alone text for a first-year graduate seminar in psychology, or as a supplement to a main text in the undergraduate history of psychology course.

Interested in this book of readings? Be sure to take a look at its companion, History of Modern Psychology, 3e at

Dr. C. James Goodwin  is Professor and Chair of the Psychol­ogy Department at Wheeling Jesuit University. He has published research on human memory processes, the history of psychology, and the teaching of psychology. Dr. Goodwin was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and was awarded the NASA Space Grant Consortium research grant for undergraduate research project.

There's no substitute for the original... If you want to really understand the underpinnings of psychology today, go to the source! Unfortunately, original source readings can seem a bit daunting--these works were written at a particular time and place in psychology's history. Understanding them requires knowledge of the historical context in which the work was written, as well as background on the writer. This book of annotated readings aims to solve this problem. Each of the 36 chapters in this reader includes substantial excerpts from important books and papers in psychology's history, accompanied by running annotations that address the meaning of the reading's content, how the content relates to contemporary historical context, and the significance of the material for psychology's history. Featuring 36 original readings ranging from Watson's Behaviorist Manifesto to Freud's Clark lectures on psychoanalysis to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, C. James Goodwin's Annotated Readings in the History of Modern Psychology provides insight into some of psychology's brightest minds, while making the material easy to comprehend for today's readers.

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