Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories

Psychology as an academic discipline has a very short history compared with most other sciences. Like other parvenus it has overcompensated by inventing an enormously long prehistory involving practically any philosopher who ever expressed a view on human nature, and has developed an obsessive interest in its own past. A chemist or biologist who shows an interest in the history of science tends to be assumed by his colleagues to be past doing original research – the history of most sciences is the province of the retired scientist not of the current practitioner. I am always surprised that sociology lacks...