Metaphors in the History of Psychology

The volume provides a remarkably useful guide to the history, current orientations, and future prospects of modern psychology.

David E. Leary (Edited by)

9780521371667, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 July 1990

400 pages, 4 b/w illus. 3 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.76 kg

'The substantial empirical work presented in Metaphors in the History of Psychology will make it an indispensable source of stimulation not only for historians of science but also for theorists of metaphors who seek to explain patterns of human understanding.' Philosophical Psychology

The contributors to this volume argue that psychologists and their predecessors have invariably turned to metaphor in order to articulate their descriptions, theories, and practical interventions with regard to psychological functioning. By specifying the major metaphors in the history of psychology, these contributors have offered a new key' to understanding this critically important area of human knowledge. This book describes and analyses the ways in which psychological accounts of brain functioning, consciousness, cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, and behaviour have been shaped - and are still being shaped - by the central metaphors used by contemporary psychologists and their predecessors. The volume is a stylistically and substantively coherent work of essays on a theme which has become an issue of central concern in a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics and literary studies to cognitive science, psychology, and philosophy. Through the identification of these metaphors, the contributors to this volume have provided a remarkably useful guide to the history, current orientations, and future prospects of modern psychology.

Preface
1. Psyche's music: the role of metaphor in the history of psychology David E. Leary
2. From metaphors to models: the use of analogy in neuropsychology Karl H. Pribram
3. Inner feelings, works of the flesh, the beast within, diseases of the mind, driving force, and putting on a show: six metaphors of emotion and their theoretical extensions James R. Averill
4. Motives metaphors: a study in scientific creativity Paul McReynolds
5. Cognitive metaphors in experimental psychology Robert R. Hoffman, Edward L. Cochran and James M. Nead
6. Metaphors of consciousness and cognition in the history of psychology Jerome Bruner and Carol Fleisher Feldman
7. Metaphors of knowledge and behaviour in the behaviorist tradition Laurence D. Smith
8. Metaphor, metatheory, and the social world Kenneth J. Gergen
9. Metaphors of unwanted conduct: a historical sketch Theodore R. Sarbin
10. Generative metaphor and the history of psychological discourse Kurt Danziger
11. Metaphor, theory, and practice in the history of psychology David E. Levy
Name index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]