The History of Psychology: A Thomistic Reading

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Author: Robert Edward Brennan O.P.

Publisher: Cluny Media

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ISBN 10: 1950970426
ISBN 13: 978-1950970421

The History of Psychology begins on an arresting note: “Tell the average person that you are a psychologist and the odds are ten to one that he will ask you to read his mind or psychoanalyze him.” Both these queries, tethered as they are to an inadequate, positivistic reading of history, utterly mistake the purpose of psychology. To remedy this, Brennan realigns of psychology with its proper purview and, as Maritain notes in the Preface, establishes “the real progress toward truth…in the field of philosophical and of experimental psychology, and even of the possibility of a converging between these two quite different ways of approaching the secrets of the human self.” A comprehensive survey of the many and varied efforts to understand the workings of the human mind, The History of Psychology is not only an engaging introduction to the central figures of psychology, but also a bold, fresh telling of the story of psychology from the perspective of the Aristotelian–Thomistic tradition.

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