Encounters with Great Psychologists: Twelve Dramatic Portraits

This book presents in a dramatically different form the major issues of psychology. Fictionalized conversations between twelve of the most important psychologist and their colleagues, friends, and students convey the thinking behind their ideas in a fresh and lively manner. Accompanying the fascinating interchanges are overviews of the life and times of the psychologists and an outline of their main theories. The psychologists included are: Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Binswanger, John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget.