Review of Introduction to Modern Psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, Introduction to Modern Psychology by Gardner Murphy (1929). This book articulates well the profound changes which psychology underwent as it was unwinding itself from the discipline of philosophy during the nineteenth century. Further, the changes which are still being wrought in this nineteenth century are brought to light in an intelligible and readable manner. Beginning with the intellectual background of the seventeenth century the author shows how modern psychologies had their beginning and how schools sprang up and how each one adhered to its own leader and the theory or theories which he enunciated. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)