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Max Wertheimer was born in Prague in 1880. This tightly written scholarly essay provides a copiously researched portrait of the founder of Gestalt psychology based on a rich and extensive collection of information from archival sources including family documents and diaries, materials collected from all the places where Max Wertheimer lived and worked in Europe and America, and from interviews with family members, colleagues, and friends of Max Wertheimer. ..." --Wayne Viney, Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Colorado State University "Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory... integrates earlier theoretical and historical scholarship with groundbreaking new material. This tightly written scholarly essay provides a copiously researched portrait of the founder of Gestalt psychology based on a rich and extensive collection of information from archival sources including family documents and diaries, materials collected from all the places where Max Wertheimer lived and worked in Europe and America, and from interviews with family members, colleagues, and friends of Max Wertheimer.
Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany "King and Wertheimer have given us the definitive account of the life and times of one of the twentieth-century's most important intellects. The book will be interesting for casual readers, immensely useful for teachers of psychology, and critical for historians of science." Initial support for this view came from experiments in perception, such as apparent movement, and from developments in social psychology, problem solving, cognitive neuroscience, and visual neuroscience.
He was one of the trio of psychologists who founded the Gestalt school of psychology (his collaborators were Wolfgang Kohler and Kurt Koffka).. World War I interrupted the Gestalt school's work, with both Koffka and Wertheimer assigned to war duties and research. Summing Up: Essential. Max Wertheimer's Weltanschauung is revealed to us with intriguing detail that could only be known through family, and placed in the broader context of the most harrowing period of German history and the roots of a movement in psychology that is now, at last, taking hold in neuroscience. Particularly it is relevant to perception and problem solving. Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany "King and Wertheimer have given us the definitive account of the life and times of one of the twentieth-century's most important intellects. --William Douglas Woody, University of Northern Colorado "Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory is a terrific, breathtaking book presenting astonishing facts on Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) and his genius work and life. The authors challenge former ill-conceived messages about the assumed dusty' European perspectives of Gestalt theory in psychology. Michael Wertheimer's memories of his father also, of course, find their way into the narrative. Max Wertheimer was the founder of this approach to psychology. Indispensable for understanding the history of Gestalt theory and its impact on the discipline of psychology, this book will undoubtedly become a classic. King and Wertheimer carefully integrate cultural and intellectual history into the major story line and thus provide the reader with a rich sense of context. Gestalt theory By Max Wertheimer. Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory is indispensable to understanding the history of the Gestalt movement, a movement that is destined to become more even influential in the future.- --John S. Werner, Jules and Doris Stein Professor, University of California, Davis Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior -The need for a biography of Wertheimer has now been filled by Max's son Michael (born in 1927), whose narrative is gratifyingly original thanks to his acccess to 'insider information. This intellectual 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. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such … ..." "--Wayne Viney, Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Colorado State University" ""Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory."..
He created the Phi phenomenon which forms the basis of Gestalt psychology. The authors provide detailed cultural and intellectual history, adding rich context for examining Wertheimer's views of democracy, freedom, ethics, and truth. King and Wertheimer carefully integrate cultural and intellectual history into the major story line and thus provide the reader with a rich sense of context.
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