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Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found its Language. Kurt Danziger. vii + 214 pp. Sage Publications, 1997. $23.95.
The book starts promisingly. Kurt Danziger describes an attempt to find common ground with an Indonesian colleague for a collaborative seminar in psychology Difficulties arose in organizing the seminar's topics because concepts and phenomena in Danziger's Western psychology lacked counterparts in his Eastern colleague's, and vice versa. The seminar never came to pass. Danziger discusses how conceptual categories can vary over time and across cultures, then takes the reader on a tour of the history of psychology mainly concentrating on the evolution of psychological terminology and concepts during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. He treats the sources of various psychological terms-intelligence, motivation, learning, attitude-but by stopping at...