Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity.

List of illustrations Preface Introduction Part I. The Social and Intellectual Settings: 1. The academic environment and the establishment of experimental psychology 2. Carl Stumpf and the training of scientists in Berlin 3. The philosophers' protest 4. Making a science of mind: styles of reasoning in sensory physiology and experimental psychology 5. Challenging positivism: revised philosophies of mind and science 6. The Gestalt debate: from Goethe to Ehrenfels and beyond Part II. The Emergence of Gestalt Theory, 1910-1920: 7. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler 8. Laying the conceptual and research foundations 9. Reconstructing perception and behaviour 10. Insights and confirmations in animals: Kohler on Tenerife 11. The step to natural philosophy: Die Physischen Gestalten 12. Wertheimer in times of war and revolution: science for the military and toward a new logic Part III. The Berlin School in Weimar Germany: 13. Establishing the Berlin School 14. Research styles and results 15. Theory's growth and limits: development, open systems, self and society 16. Variations in theory and practice: Kurt Lewin, Adhemar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein 17. The encounter with Weimar culture 18. The reception among German-speaking psychologists Part IV. Under Nazism and After: Survival and Adaptation: 19. Persecution, emigration and Kohler's resistance in Berlin 20. Two students adapt: Wolfgang Metzger and Kurt Gottschaldt 21. Research, theory and system: continuity and change 22. The post-war years Appendices List of unpublished sources Notes Index.