One of the most eminent historians in the field, Benjamin (Texas A&M Univ.) offers here a beautiful interweaving of the history of both the profession and the academic discipline of psychology. He begins with the psychologies that existed in the US in the 1880s, when the first laboratories were established in North America, and only briefly touches on older contributions from philosophy and physiology. Though this is a reasonable choice for a history of "modern" psychology, this reviewer was surprised that Benjamin includes the work of John Locke and the British empiricists but does not mention the work of Rene Descartes, particularly given the fact that the mind-body problem has so occupied psychologists. This book is meant primarily as a textbook--the bare-bones history presented here is designed to be supplemented with primary sources and readers. It has little to offer those already familiar with the history of psychology, including Benjamin's From Seance to Science: A History of the Profession of Psychology in America, which he cowrote with David Baker (2004). But what the book does, it does nicely. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates; general readers. K. S. Milar Earlham College