By Lauren Slater. 276 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 2004. $24.95. ISBN 0-393-05095-5.
Toward the end of the 18th century, Immanuel Kant argued thatpsychology could never be a science, because the mind, beingimmaterial, could not be measured. But less than 100 years later,Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychological laboratoryto study aspects of sensation and perception, and by the early1930s, the scope of psychology as a quantitative, experimentalscience had progressively extended to include "higher" mentalprocesses (feeling and desire as well as cognition), personality,social interaction, development, and psychopathology. Then theboom was lowered. Around the time of World War I, John B. Watsonhad argued that psychology . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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