Metaphors in the History of Psychology [Paperback]

The volume provides a remarkably useful guide to the history, current orientations, and future prospects of modern psychology.Arguing that psychologists and their predecessors have invariably relied on metaphors in articulation, the contributors to this volume offer a new key to understanding a critically important area of human knowledge by specifying the major metaphors.Arguing that psychologists and their predecessors have invariably relied on metaphors in articulation, the contributors to this volume offer a new key to understanding a critically important area of human knowledge by specifying the major metaphors.Metaphors in the History of Psychology describes and analyzes the ways in which psychological accounts of brain functioning, consciousness, cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, and behavior have been shaped--and are still being shaped--by the central metaphors used by contemporary psychologists and their predecessors. 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 theme 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, l“"