The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology: Understanding the Impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid »

Today new forms of critical psychology are challenging the cognitive revolution that has dominated psychology for the past three decades. This book explores the historical roots of these new psychologies. It demonstrates that their ideas are not quite as new as is often supposed.

Foreword     ix
Introduction     1
History and Psychology     9
Locke: The Father of Cognitive Psychology     28
Locke's New Way of Ideas     51
Shaftesbury: The Rebellious Foster-Son     73
Shaftesbury: Moral and Social Sense     96
Shaftesbury: Almost a Pre-Post-Modern Figure     122
Thomas Reid: A Common Sense Psychology     150
Concluding Remarks: Psychology in the Age of Discoveries     184
Chronological Table     191
References     194
Name Index     211
Subject Index     216