From Séance to Science: A History of the Profession of Psychology in America (Center for the History of Psychology) - Softcover

David B. Baker is the director of Archives of the History of American Psychology and associate professor of psychology at The University of Akron. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1988. Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. is professor of psychology and presidential professor of teaching excellence at Texas A&M University, and is the holder of the Glasscock Professorship in Teaching Excellence. His numerous publications include From Séance to Science: A History of the Profession of Psychology in America (with David Baker, 2004), A History of Psychology in Letters (second edition 2006, Blackwell), and A Brief History of Modern Psychology (2007, Blackwell). In 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology for his research on the history of psychology.

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