Book review: The birth of psychology

Danziger, Kurt (1990) Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Danziger, Kurt (1997) Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language . London and Beverly Hills: Sage.

Gundlach, Horst (2004) `Reine Psychologie, Angewandte Psychologie und die Institutionalisierung der Psychologie', Zeitschrift für Psychologie 212(4): 183-99.

Hatfield, Gary (1995) `Remaking the Science of Mind: Psychology as Natural Science', in C. Fox , R. Porter and R. Wokler (eds) Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains. Berkeley: University of California Press , pp. 184-231.

Hatfield, Gary (1997) `Wundt and Psychology as Science: Disciplinary Transformation', Perspectives on Science 5: 349-82.

Kusch, Martin (1999) Psychological Knowledge: A Social History and Philosophy . London: Routledge.

Mengal, P. (1988) `Pour une histoire de la psychologie', in B. Matalon and B.-P. Lécuyer (eds) `Une histoire des sciences de l'homme' , Revue de synthèse 109, 4th series (3-4): 485-97.

Mengal, P. (1994) `Naissances de la psychologie: la nature et l'esprit' , in F. Parot (ed.) `Les territoires de la psychologie', Revue de synthèse 115, 4th series (3-4): 355-73.

Mengal, P. (2000) `La constitution de la psychologie comme domaine du savoir (XVIème-XVIIIème siècles)', Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines 2: 5-27.

Smith, Roger (1997) The Fontana History of the Human Sciences. London: Fontana. (This is the same as The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton.)

Smith, Roger (2005) `The History of Psychological Categories', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 55-94.

Smith, Roger (2007) Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Vidal, F. (1993) `Psychology in the 18th Century: a View from the Encyclopaedias', History of the Human Sciences 6(1): 89-119.

Vidal, F. (1994) `La Place de la psychologie dans l'ordre des sciences' , in F. Parot (ed.) `Les territoires de la psychologie', Revue de synthèse 115, 4th series (3-4): 327-53.

Vidal, F. (2000) `La psychologie empirique et son historicisation pendant l'Aufklärung', Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines 2: 29-56.