Foreign Psychology in the 1800s

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Please forgive my email address! I'm currently writing a fiction piece and are looking for information on Psychology in Russia in the 1800s. I have scoured the net but been unable to find anything substantial, and the library is currenly unavialble to me. If anyone knows anything and would share it it would be a great help. Mat Williams

-- Mathew K Williams (reanimatedcheese@mindless.com), July 21, 2003

Answers

Hi Matthew:

I don't know if the following is helpful. Rubinstein (see reference below) provided 14 pages on the history of Russian psychology (1744-1917; I do not know whether an English translation exists). He named authors such as Lomonossow, Koselski, Raditschew, Odojewski, etc. (these are German transcriptions). It seems that many vivid discussions on psychology in 19th century Russian thought existed (influenced a lot by German thought).

Rubinstein, S. L. (1984). Grundlagen der allgemeinen Psychologie (10 Aufl.) [Foundations of general psychology (10th ed.)]. Berlin: Volk und Wissen.

-- Thomas Teo (tteo@yorku.ca), July 22, 2003.


There are several pages of good stuff in Viney & King's history of psychology textbook, but primarily on Pavlov, Sechenov, and their peers doing physiological psychology. If you can make it to a library or use interlibrary loan, you might look at the following histories:

1989 Joravsky, David Russian Psychology: A Critical History. New York: Basil Blackwells

1972 Brozek, Josef & Slobin, Dan Isaac (Comps.) Psychology in the USSR: an Historical Perspective White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press

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