BOOK REVIEWS 387

Antonio Gomes Penna. Introduqiio a historia da psicologia contemporhnea [Introduc-

tion to the history of contemporary psychology]. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1978. 324
PP.
Mario Rezk and Ruben Ardila. Cien aiios de psicologia [A hundred years of psy-
chology]. Mexico, D. F.: Trillas, 1979. 186 pp. (Reviewed by RAMONLEON)

In recent years, several books on the history of psychology have been published in
Spain and Latin America: Helio Carpintero, professor at the University of Valencia and
editor-in-chief of the Revista de Historia de la Psicologia, wrote the didactic History of
Psychology ( 1 978); while Antonio Caparros, in Barcelona, authored an Historical In-
troduction to Contemporary Psychology (1979); and in Venezuela Albert0 L. Merani
wrote the controversial Critical History ofPsychology (1976). The works of Gomes Pen-
na and Rezk and Ardila are two of the most recent historiographical publications in
South America.
Gomes Penna’s book is the first extensive treatise on the subject written originally in
Portuguese; for this reason alone the volume is assured of wide use as a textbook in
Brazil and Portugal. The aim of this work is to provide information about the evolution
of psychology since the beginnings of the twentieth century. The volume opens with
general considerations about contemporary psychology, followed by accounts of the
Wiirzburg school of thinking, reflexology, psychoanalysis, phenomenology (a trend with
not many followers among the Latin American psychologists!), behaviorism, Gestalt
theory, and Piagetian developmental psychology. The influence of the Genevan psy-
chologist is evident: Gomes Penna begins the first chapter with a reference to the Piaget-
ian criteria on the study of the development of psychology and devotes the largest
chapter (fifty-nine pages) to the analysis of the ideas of Jean Piaget.
The absence of a subject and name index is the major limitation of this otherwise
useful and clear book.
Students seeking biographical data owe a debt of thanks to the authors of A Hun-
dred Years of Psychology, a book that was conceived as a Latin American contribution
to the centenary of scientific psychology.
The volume contains a hundred brief (between one and three pages) biographies of
eminent contributors to psychology (some of them still living, for example, Bandura,
Beach, Cattell, Eysenck, Guilford, Festinger, Fraisse, Hebb, and Wolpe), presented
alphabetically. Each biography includes a portrait of the biographee.
The North American psychologists predominate (about 50 percent). They are
followed by psychologists from Germany (25 percent), France (4 percent), Russia
(Bechterev, Luria, Pavlov, Vygotski), and one or two from Switzerland (including
Piaget), Belgium (Michotte), Norway (Schjelderup), Italy (Montessori), and Spain
(Ramon y Cajal). For a good measure, Aristotle and Descartes were added. A useful
analytic index is included.
Unfortunately, there are several typographical and spelling errors (Wiirzburg-not
Wuzburgo, p. 97, or Wuzrburgo, p. 27; Lev S. Vygotski, not “Leon,” p. 165).
As far as this reviewer is aware, there is no comprehensive biographical dictionary
of psychology in Spanish. This makes Rezk and Ardila’s volume particularly valuable.
With the required corrections, A Hundred Years of Psychology will serve Spanish-
speaking students as a good, temporary ersatz. They would have welcomed the inclusion
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of some of the major figures of Spanish and Latin American psychology beyond Ramon
y Cajal, a Spanish neurologist, such as Emilio Mira y Lopez (1896-1964) and Waclaw
Radecki (1887-1953).
The two volumes are important South American contributions to the history of psy-
chology.

BOOK REVIEWERS
DELLHYMES (Review of Koerner’s Western Histories of Linguistic Thought, JHBS
18 [1982]: 379-380) teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is the co-author, with John Fought, of American Structuralism (The
Hague: Mouton, 1981) and author of the forthcoming Essays in the History of Linguistic
Anthropology (Amsterdam: John Benjamins).
ARNEL. KALLEBERG (Review of Scimecca, The Sociological Theory of C . Wright
Mills, JHBS 18 [1982]: 380-381) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana Univer-
sity, Bloomington. His main research interests are in the areas of work, organizations,
and labor markets. He is currently engaged in historical and time-series analyses of
selected industries and is directing the 1982 Indianapolis Area Project, which examines
the determinants of worker attitudes and behaviors in a sample of business firms in In-
dianapolis. His recent articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology and
the American Sociological Review.
RAMONLEON(Review of Gomes Penna, Introduqiio a histbria da psicologia con-
temporrinea, and Rezk and Ardila, Cien aiios depsicologia, JHBS 18 [1982]: 387-388), a
Peruvian psychologist, is a doctoral student at the University of Wurzburg (Federal
Republic of Germany). Address communications to Riemenschneider Str. 6, 87 Wurz-
burg, Federal Republic of Germany.
BRIANMACKENZIE (Review of Hanen, Osler, and Weyant, eds., Science, Pseudo-
science and Society, JHBS 18 [1982]: 383-386) is a senior lecturer in psychology at the
University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of Behaviourism and h e Limits of
Scientific Method and of several articles on the intellectual history of psychology and
parapsychology.
DANIELN. ROBINSON (Review of Rieber, ed., Body and Mind; Rieber and
Salzinger, eds., Psychology; and Gregory, Mind in Science, JHBS 18 [1982]: 370-376) is
a member of the Editorial Board of JHBS and is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown
University, Washington, DC 20057, USA. His most recent book is Towarda Science of
Human Nature: Essays on the Psychologies of Mill, Helgel. Wendt & James (Columbia
University Press, 1982).
GEORGEW. STOCKING, JR. (Review of Diamond, Anthropology: Ancestors and
Heirs, JHBS 18 [1982]: 376-379) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Chicago and a member of the Editorial Board of JHBS.
CALVIN A. WOODWARD (Review of Gutting, Paradigms and Revolutions, JHBS 18
[1982]: 381-383) is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3.