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‘Why do I need to study psychology when I am concerned with dressing wounds, or ensuring that the elderly living alone have adequate food and heating, or with preventing baby battering, or with training an amputee to use an artificial limb?’
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Further Reading
Woodworth, R.S. (1951). Contemporary Schools of Psychology (London: Methuen)
Radford, J. and Govier, E. (1980). A Textbook of Psychology (London: Sheldon Press)
Hearnshaw, L. (1987). The Shaping of Modern Psychology (London: Routledge Kegan Paul)
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(1991). Psychology: Its Role and Scope. In: Essential Psychology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-30665-0_1
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