Taylor and Francis

Taylor and Francis

English

'This reissue of Cohen’s classic 1976 collection of interviews is welcome, timely and useful on several counts. It actually raises serious theoretical questions about how far Psychology has travelled – if at all – over the past four decades. Were the topics being so heatedly contested ever really resolved? Have we come any closer to the genuine profundity which it is surely the discipline’s deeper aspiration to provide – and which one indeed sometimes finds in the allegedly defunct grand theories of the 70s? Cohen’s new Introduction is an entertaining, insightful, and in parts quite critical, retrospective of developments since then. While demographically dated – no women, non-whites or gays among the interviewees – there is also a passion and ambition about the contributors which would nowadays be hard to find. I heartily recommend this highly readable and accessible collection to all psychology students especially, as well as the profession in general. In its overview of what psychology was it enables the reader to see more clearly what it has become. Whether the picture is a cause for lament or delight I leave to the reader!' - Graham Richards, Professor Emeritus of History of Psychology, Staffordshire University, UK