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This history recounts the first 150 years of psychology. It situates the dynamic school in its catalytic place in history, reevaluates misunderstood figures and events, revisits the rift between clinical and experimental study, and covers other major topics.

This book uses case history methodology to illustrate the relationship between theory and practice of the study of Dissociation Identity Disorder (DID). The book traces the clinical and social history of dissociation in a provocative examination of this phenomenon.

Closely paralleling the history of psychology is the history of its critics, their theories, and their contributions. This book traces this alternate history. It synthesizes major historical and theoretical narratives to describe two centuries of challenges to and the reactions of the mainstream.

For those making a serious study of the history of psychology, this book will inspire a wave of discussion and inquiry. With eloquence and passion, it analyzes the many functions religion and psychology play in our understanding of the human life and mind.

Our contact with the world is through perception, and therefore the study of the process is of obvious importance and signi?cance.