Encounters with Great Psychologists: Twelve Dramatic Portraits - Hardcover

John Kunkel ...has chosen a unique method to provide this acquaintance with twelve significant psychologists by offering "encounters" with each of them. While such a small number cannot cover everything, he has included a broad enough spectrum to produce a feel in the reader for what psychology has become over its first century of claim to be a science.... The "encounters" come off very well indeed. "Encounters with Great Psychologists" is to be recommended to those who are overwhelmed by the detailed substance of introductory psychology texts which emphasize the nitty-gritty of psychological research, its varied topics, its apparatus, procedures, and statistical methods of assuring the reliability and validity of its data. Such features are not to be despised as part of becoming acquainted with psychology as a science, but it is a pleasure to have this supplementary approach, which keeps the larger issues of human nature in the forefront.

Many teachers of psychology may wish to assign this book in addition to a standard test. "Encounters with Great Psychologists" will also be attractive to a general audience of those who are not students of psychology, or are no longer in college, but who share a curiosity about what has been happening in psychology. -- From the Foreword by Ernest R. Hilgard, Stanford University