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

Table of Contents

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 Köhler
8. Laying the conceptual and research foundations
9. Reconstructing perception and behaviour
10. Insights and confirmations in animals: Köhler 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 Köhler'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List of unpublished sources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.

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