In Search of Psyche

About the Book

In Search of Psyche tells of a psychology professor who doffed his academic robes for a year to sit in on university classes. It gives a view of the fare students get in one of the largest courses in Colleges of Arts and Science at a nationwide sample of distinguished universities. From it come answers to these questions: What is the psychology taught to beginning students? How is it taught? How well? In Search of Psyche is, thus, introductory psychology at Berkeley on a Wednesday in October, Stanford the next Tuesday, Michigan and Ohio State in the same week in February, Harvard and Yale in early spring.

About the Author

Douglas P. Crowne is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Waterloo and has taught at the University of Connecticut and at Ohio State University. He did his undergraduate studies at Antioch College and received the Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is the author of two other books and many articles in personality and behavioral neuroscience. Committed to teaching, he has taught introductory psychology for more than thirty years to the big classes that are a fact of life in universities and cares about presenting his discipline to newcomers in a way that will inform and excite them. He lives with his wife Sandra, a physician and noted breeder of Old English Sheepdogs, in St. Agatha, Ontario.