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    182 BOOK REVIEWS

    Journal OJ fhe History of the Behavioral Sciences


    Volume 29, April 1993

    Luciano Mecacci. Storia della psicologia del Novecento [History of twentieth-century


    Psychology]. Rome-Bari: Editori Laterza, 1992. xi + 553 pp. Lire 48,000 (Reviewed
    by Josef BrEizek)
    Italian university students, psychologists, members of allied professions as well as
    intelligent laymen will welcome this informative handbook. There is not only an unusually
    well organized Table of Contents, a detailed name index and an index of schools and
    theories of psychology, but also an extensive bibliography, in two parts: Part one deals
    with publications cited in the text while Part two registers additional literature bearing
    on the subjects covered in individual chapters. Not surprisingly, attention is given to
    Italian translations and to the works of Italian authors.
    The introductory chapter deals with W. Wundt, the experimentalist, and F. Bren-
    tano, the descriptive psychologist. The subsequent six chapters are devoted to the perspec-
    tives of the “Wurzburg school” of volition and thought, combined with Gestalt psy-
    chology; dynamic psychologies and psychoanalysis; behaviorism; historico-cultural
    psychology; and biological psychology, including cognitive neuroscience.
    Differentiated by the type and set apart from the rest of the text are numerous
    “inserts,” devoted to the life and work of selected individuals and a variety of special
    topics, such as Psychology and the two world wars, Impact of heredity and environ-
    ment on intelligence, or Gestalt and art. A thorough coverage of the Russian and Soviet
    psychology is a distinctive feature of the book.

    Journal OJ the History of the Behavioral Sciences


    Volume 29, April 1993

    Lothar Sprung and Wolfgang Schonpflug,Eds. Zur Geschichteder Psychologie in Berlin.


    Beitrage zur Geschichte der Psychologie, Vol. 4. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
    1992. 238 pp. (Reviewed by Katherine Arens)
    On the History of Psychology in Berlin originated in 1988, at the 36th Congress
    of the German Society for Psychology, which was planned as a meeting of historians
    of psychology from East and West Germany and the United States. By the time Helmut
    E. Luck collected these proceedings as Volume 4 in his series, Contributions to the History
    of Psychology, the German political landscape allowed thorough revisions, yielding a
    remarkably consistent and interesting publication, including enlarged versions of the
    original papers, two new essays, and two editors’ introductions.
    The collection’s consistent attention to historiography is its distinguishing feature.
    The first introduction, by Lothar Sprung, Helga Sprung, and Wolfgang Schonpflug,
    addresses “regional history” as an organizing principle. This volume’s “region” is Berlin:
    the psychology in Berlin, the psychology that was disseminated out of Berlin, and the
    fate of other psychologies entering the Berlin sphere of influence. Their regional history
    differs from the traditional six paradigms represented in the history of psychology:

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