Book Outline
Date: April 20, 2013/March 20, 2015
Project Summary
Title: PATHFINDERS IN INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keynote: This book provides a global overview of innovators in international psychology with
contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world. Chapters offer
biographical profiles describing the personal histories and professional contributions of leading figures in
psychology from across the globe that represent the diversity of psychology. This volume can serve as a
core or supplemental text for a broad range of courses in Psychology, International Studies, and
Education, with particular interest to those teaching international psychology, cross-cultural psychology,
and history of psychology.
Co-editors: GRANT J. RICH, Ph.D. and UWE P. GIELEN, Ph.D., St. Francis College
Grant J. Rich received his Ph.D. in psychology: human development from the University of Chicago. His
work has centered on international positive psychology, on optimal cross-cultural human development,
and on integrating traditional and contemporary healing modalities in cross-cultural context. He has
served as editor of APA Division 52’s International Psychology Bulletin. He is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and of Divisions 52 (International Psychology) and 1 (General Psychology).
He has taught courses such as cultural psychology, comparative human development, and the history of
psychology at several institutions across the USA, most recently in Alaska. He has authored dozens of
articles, chapters, and reviews for AAA, APA, and other publications. He has presented his research at
conferences around the globe, from Africa and Australia, to Jamaica and Jordan, and from the Bahamas
and Greece to Haiti and Mexico. He is editor of an academic book of touch therapy research, Massage
Therapy: The Evidence for Practice (2002), which includes the work of university scholars from several
nations. A nationally certified massage therapist, he has served on medical missions internationally,
including volunteering in Guatemala, Peru, and Cambodia. Recently he has contributed several
biographical entries on cultural psychologists to encyclopedias devoted to the history of cross-cultural
psychology.
Uwe P. Gielen received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. His work has centered
on international psychology, cross-cultural family studies, and cross-cultural counseling. He is the
Founder and Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology as well as
Professor-Emeritus of Psychology at St. Francis College. Besides having served as a past chair of the
Psychology Steering Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences, he is a former president of the
Society for Cross-Cultural Research, the International Psychology Division of the American
Psychological Association, and the International Council of Psychologists. He has edited, co-edited, and
co-authored 21 volumes concerned with cross-cultural and international psychology that have appeared in
5 languages. Recent volumes include Childhood and Adolescence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and
Applications (2004, 2nd ed. to appear in 2015), Families in Global Perspective (2005), Toward a Global
Psychology (2007), Principles of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy (2008), Psychology in the Arab
Countries (2008, in Arabic), Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context (2013),
The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century (2014); and International Counseling:
Case Studies Handbook (2015, in press). Uwe Gielen has lectured and given more than 350 scientific
presentations in 34 countries.
Selling Points:
* At present there is no up-to-date volume available that offers biographical profiles of leading
psychologists from around the globe in the way this proposed book will do.
* The present volume is designed for a broad spectrum of readers and can be used in a wide range of
college and university courses in several fields such as history of psychology, international psychology,
cross-cultural psychology, and counseling/educational psychology. It can serve either as a core text or as a
supplemental text.
* The editors represent a broad range of international experiences both in the field of international
psychology as well as more generally.
* The chapter authors include many prominent psychologists from different corners of the world who will
incorporate the available scientific literature in their respective countries.
* The volume is likely to be endorsed by many distinguished scholars in the field.
* The volume is likely to find an international audience given that today, only about 21%-24% of all
psychologists reside in the United States.
Brief Description:
This book presents a new approach to the history of psychology by presenting the biographies of 17
psychologists, psychiatrists, and healers that have been active in 14 countries located around the world.
The book’s biographical section begins with the colorful figure of Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) who
was born in Germany, created and practiced Mesmerism in Austria and France, retired to Switzerland, and
died in Germany; it ends with the biography of the South African anti-apartheid activist and clinical
psychologist Saths Cooper (*1950), the current president of the International Union of Psychological
Science. Altogether, it covers a timespan of more than 250 years and depicts psychology as an
international discipline that has been shaped by a plethora of historical, cultural, political, and intellectual
forces.
The volume is not designed to replace existing histories of psychology with their standard cast of heroes
and heroines such as Wundt, James, Freud, Watson, Wertheimer, Horney, Skinner, Piaget, etc. Rather, the
intention behind the book is to contribute to a more comprehensive, balanced, and internationally
representative understanding of how psychology evolved across the globe both as an academic discipline
and as a field of practice.
The book begins with an introductory chapter by Grant J. Rich and Uwe P. Gielen that analyzes broad
trends related to the history of psychology and discusses its prevalent focus on the USA to the relative
neglect of the rest of the world. The implications of this trend for psychology are discussed, and the value
of contextualizing psychology internationally is examined.
The subsequent chapters offer detailed biographical profiles of eminent psychologists and some
psychiatrists from around the globe that are representative of the diverse range of scholarship and
activities conducted by psychologists. These chapter-length profiles present the personal biographies of
the psychologists and psychiatrists as well as the intellectual contributions to psychology they made.
Representative profiles include those from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
Many of the nations represented are the most populous and influential ones in their respective regions.
Together, the countries represent not only a major proportion of the world’s population, but also a broad,
diverse sampling of the range of the world’s sociocultural, economic, and political conditions. The
countries include some nations with impoverished populations, several developing countries, and some
completely industrialized nations. The final chapter of the volume offers a conclusion by the editors that
reviews and integrates some of the main findings and implications presented in the preceding chapters. In
addition, the authors make some predictions about international psychology and psychology as a whole
for the 21st century, noting the potential for growth and development as well as the possible challenges
and issues psychologists around the globe are likely to encounter.
We followed a number of criteria when selecting psychologists for inclusion in our volume. All of them
have been prominent in their fields even if their prominence and creative contributions are in some cases
unknown to many American psychologists. For instance, Franz Anton Mesmer was the most influential if
highly controversial ‘scientific’ healer of his time Moreover, the selected psychologists and psychiatrists
have been active in a broad range of psychological areas of research thus counteracting a tendency by
psychological historians to favor experimental and quantitatively oriented psychologists over
developmental, personality, abnormal, social, and political psychologists who approach the central
problems of psychology from a broader range of conceptual, methodological, and ethical points of view.
The contributors are prominent psychologists from around the world, contributing chapters about
prominent representative psychologists from diverse regions around the globe.
MS Length: 90,000 – 100,000 words
Due Date for Draft Chapters: June 1, 2014; (March 2015: Book is in print)
Book Details:
CONTENTS
Foreword
Florence L. Denmark
Preface
1. The Rise of Modern Psychology: From Western Intellectual Ancestry to Global Practice
Grant J. Rich and Uwe P. Gielen
PART I: PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING AND THE EMERGENCE OF PSYCHIATRY
2. The Curious Birth of Psychological Healing in the Western World (1775-1825): From Gaβner to
Mesmer to Puységur
Uwe P. Gielen and Jeannette Raymond
3. Pierre Janet: French Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Philosopher
Isabelle Saillot and Onno van der Hart
4. Emil Kraepelin: Experimental Psychology as an Auxiliary Science in Psychiatry and Clinical
Empirical Psychiatry as the Foundation of Modern Psychiatry
Holger Steinberg
PART II: PSYCHOLOGY AS A GROWING INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN SCIENCE
5. Maria Montessori: The Worldwide Impact of an Italian Educator and Child Psychologist
Grant Rich
6. Lev S. Vygotsky: A Hamletian Spirit with Marxist Dispositions
Uwe P. Gielen and Samvel Jeshmaridian
7. Alexander R. Luria: A Brief Biography
Tatiana V. Akhutina and Gary Shereshevsky
PART III: TWO AMERICAN AMBASSADORS OF INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
8. Otto Klineberg: International Social Psychologist
Edwin P. Hollander
9. Charles D. Spielberger: Ambassador for Scientific Psychology
Ann Marie O’Roark
PART IV: THE WORLDWIDE EXPANSION OF PSYCHOLOGY
10. Mustapha Soueif: An Intellectual Portrait of the Father of Arab Clinical Psychology
Ramadan A. Ahmed
11. Rogelio Díaz-Guerrero: Pioneer of Latin American Psychology
Rolando Díaz-Loving
12. Durganand Sinha: The Pioneering Work of an Indian Psychologist
Dinesh Sharma
13. Kuo-Shu Yang: Scholar, Leader, Activist
William K. Gabrenya, Jr. & Chien-Ru Sun
14. Geert Hofstede: Worldwide Psychological Comparisons of Societies
Peter B. Smith
PART V: OVERCOMING AFRICA’S COLONIAL HERITAGE AND RACISM
15. Frantz Fanon: Architect of a Psychology of Oppression and Liberation
Chalmer E. Thompson
16. Saths Cooper: Post-Apartheid Psychologist, Activist and Leader, in South Africa and Beyond
Grant Rich and Judy Kuriansky
Biographical Statements of Editors and Authors
Subject Index
Market Assessment
Audience:
A wide range of readers will be interested in this book, especially, of course, scholars, professionals,
graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in Psychology, Anthropology, International
Studies, and Education. Those with an interest in the history of psychology, international psychology,
cross-cultural psychology, and the history of science will be especially likely to find the proposed volume
valuable. Instructors and students searching for resources to internationalize their courses, and to offer
more diverse content will want this proposed book, as it aims to fill a gap in a field in which, as one
historian wrote of psychology, “even the rats were white” (Guthrie, 2003).
Sectors of the general public, and those from related helping professions (such as psychiatry, counseling,
and social work) could also be interested in the contents. The book is highly suitable for teaching
purposes, particularly for internationally and historically-oriented psychology courses, or as a text,
reference or reading list supplement in history of psychology as well as cross-cultural studies.
Competition and Comparisons:
There are several types of books related to this one proposed.
1) Textbooks on the history of psychology
2) Encyclopedias of the History of Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology
3) Individual Biographies
None of these books offers the up-to-date, thorough chapter-length profile approach of the proposed
volume.
(1) In the category of textbooks on the history of psychology, there are three recent books worthy of
note: Eric Shiraev’s (2011) A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective, Wade Pickren and
Alexandra Rutherford’s (2010) A History of Modern Psychology in Context, and Adrian Brock’s
(2009) Internationalizing the History of Psychology. While these books demonstrate the
increasing interest in internationalizing the history of psychology, neither offers chapter length
biographies of eminent individual psychologists.
(2) In the category of encyclopedias there are several recent, relevant publications. Examples of such
publications are David Baker’s (2012) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global
Perspectives, Robert Rieber’s (2012) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychology, and Kenneth D.
Keith’s (in press) The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology. While these publications do
offer some biographical material for some international psychologists, these entries are typically
quite brief, such as 500 words, rather than the full chapter-length profiles offered by the proposed
volume.
(3) Occasionally, eminent international psychologists outside the USA will have entire biographies
devoted to them. For instance, there are numerous biographies of Sigmund Freud, as well as
biographies devoted to Carl Jung (e.g., Bair, 2004) and Anton Mesmer (Forrest, 2001). However,
it is unrealistic to assign students multiple full length biographies in a classroom setting, and in
addition, many faculty desire information more substantial than found in brief encyclopedia
entries but more accessible than found in long, full-length biographies, which may exceed one
thousand pages apiece.
In summary, our edited book, with its chapter-length biographical profiles, will occupy a unique niche: It
will provide substantial, accessible information on the history of a number of representative, eminent
international psychologists’ psychiatrists, and healers in some 14 nations, including industrialized as well
as economically evolving, more traditional societies spread around the globe.
Suggested Template for Chapter Authors
In brief, your chapter should focus on the psychologist’s personal and intellectual background as seen in
historical context, on the psychologist’s contributions to and influence on psychology, and on the
psychologist’s international involvements. Chapters should be 4,000 words, and in APA style, 6th
Edition. More detail follows below:
Your chapter should set the stage by providing the broader sociocultural/historical context for the theories
and the lives of our selectees. This could be discussed, for instance, in the Introduction and then again in
the concluding section(s). Supplying this context might prove more important for some authors than for
some others.
Basic Biographical Information
Note the birthdate and place, and family background (e.g., father’s and mother’s occupations,
siblings, social standing).
Other aspects of family background may be uniquely important to a particular psychologist, such
as the influence of religion or political party affiliation, or the impact of sociocultural events such as war
or economic depression. Describe such aspects as relevant.
Detail the psychologist’s education: where and when did she or he attend school and what specific
degrees were earned. Perhaps note the title/topic of a dissertation or thesis.
Note the psychologist’s own family (any marriage or children- note their professions, etc.)
Detail other important events in the psychologist’s life. For example, perhaps a serious illness or
accident influenced career selection or chosen research topics, or perhaps the psychologist was known
also for political activism or a hobby or other interest
You may wish to note the linguistic background of the psychologist if interesting or not obvious.
Note the major appointments held by the psychologist (when and where) - for instance in addition
to holding a tenured appointment at one university, did the psychologist also spend a semester or year at
another university or think tank or win a travel grant/award?
Major Professional Accomplishments
Describe the major professional accomplishments of the psychologist- to what domains of
psychology or related fields did the psychologist contribute (e.g. developmental, social, psychoanalysis,
sociology, anthropology, psychiatry)
For instance, mention the major publications with publication dates, offering some description and
explanation of why these writings were valued. What key ideas/terms/concepts was the psychologist
known for? If the person was engaged with psychology in other ways, for instance, through activism or
other media or roles, describe these engagements. Note any major awards.
Write something about the psychologist's students and followers- did the person have a teacher or
famous mentor that was a strong influence? What did the psychologists’ students do (what institutions
were they at, what did they publish, how did the work extend from/relate to that of the mentor)?
In general, be sure to note the psychologist’s international involvements. Describe the
psychologist’s international impact and what she or he contributed to psychology both within and beyond
the country of origin. Of course, emphasize what is special about the psychologist, even if it is not listed
in this template. In the Conclusion attempt to answer the following question: How did the psychologist in
question and his/her work change the course of psychology in his/her country as well as internationally?