Max Wertheimer & Gestalt theory /
Max Wertheimer and Gestalt theory
D. Brett King, Michael Wertheimer.
- viii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Ancestry, family, and childhood -- Formal education, 1898-1904 -- Years of incubation, 1905-1910 -- Emergence of Gestalt theory, 1910-1913 -- The World War One period, 1914-1921 -- The Gestalt movement matures, 1922-1921 -- Wertheimer at Frankfurt, 1929-1933 -- Wertheimer's everyday life in the United States, 1933-1943 -- Early reception of Gestalt psychology in the United States -- Wertheimer's correspondence with three psychologists : Boring, Hull, and Luria -- The social conscience of humble empiric -- Personal challenges : productive students -- The dynamics and logic of productive thinking : the crystallization of a life study -- The legacy of Max Wertheimer and Gestalt psychology.
"The ideas of Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a founder of Gestalt theory are discussed in almost all general books on the history of psychology, and in most introductory textbooks on psychology. This biography of Wertheimer is the first book-length treatment of a scholar whose ideas are recognized as of central importance to fields as varied as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, problem solving, art, and visual neuroscience." "King and Wertheimer trace the origins of Gestalt thought, demonstrating its continuing importance in fifteen chapters and several supplements to these chapters." "This biography will be of interest to psychologists and readers interested inscience, modern European history, and the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.