List of figures. List of tables. Preface to fourth edition. Preface to third edition. Preface to second edition. Preface. Part I: Origins and theories.
1. Introduction: Psychology and history.
2. Psychology 1600-1850: Continuity and discontinuity.
3. Founding Psychology: Evolution, experimentation and being scientific.
4. William James and the origins of modern Psychology.
5. Behaviourism.
6. Gestalt Psychology.
7. Cognitive Psychology. Part II: Some topics.
8. Psychology and the brain.
9. Looking at perception.
10. Memory: some points to remember.
11. Emotion: the problem or the whole point.
12. Personality: Psychology and who you are.
13. Social Psychology.
14. Applied Psychology. Part III: Psychology’s subjects.
15. Psychology, madness and the meanings of psychological distress.
16. Psychological uses of animals.
17. Psychology and the child.
18. Psychology and gender. Part IV: Two general issues.
19. Psychometrics and the problem of measurement.
20. Psychology and language. Part V: Four cultural entanglements.
21. Funding and institutional factors.
22. Psychology meets religion.
23. Psychology and ‘race’.
24. Psychology and war. Part VI: Conclusion.
25. Closure - or not?. Appendix: The elephants outside the room. Index.