Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity Book

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	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The academic environment and the establishment of experimental psychology	17
2	Carl Stumpf and the training of scientists in Berlin	28
3	The philosophers' protest	42
4	Making a science of mind: Styles of reasoning in sensory physiology and experimental psychology	51
5	Challenging positivism: Revised philosophies of mind and science	68
6	The Gestalt debate: From Goethe to Ehrenfels and beyond	84
7	Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler	103
8	Laying the conceptual and research foundations	118
9	Reconstructing perception and behavior	135
10	Insights and confirmations in animals: Kohler on Tenerife	148
11	The step to natural philosophy: Die Physischen Gestalten	168
12	Wertheimer in times of war and revolution: Science for the military and toward a new logic	187
13	Establishing the Berlin school	203
14	Research styles and results	219
15	Theory's growth and limits: Development, open systems, self and society	247
16	Variations theory and practice: Kurt Lewin, Adhemar Gelb, and Kurt Goldstein	263
17	The encounter with Weimar culture	284
18	The reception among German-speaking psychologists	307
19	Persecution, emigration, and Kohler's resistance in Berlin	325
20	Two students adapt: Wolfgang Metzger and Kurt Gottschaldt	342
21	Research, theory, and system: Continuity and change	362
22	The postwar years	382
	Conclusion	405
	Appendix 1: Tables	413
	Appendix 2: Dissertations	419
	List of unpublished sources	427
	Notes	431
	Index	501