Mental machinery: the origins and consequences of psychological ideas : part 1, 1600-1850

Introduction: some problems of psychology

Part one: the seventeenth century. Vast confusions and new paradoxes

Part two: Psychological ideas in the eighteenth century. The vehicle of conjecture: ideas of language from Locke to Tooke

Sensible reasoning: philosophical moves towards psychology

Practical pressures: nerves, madness, sex and education

Rethinking eighteenth-century psychology

Reading the body and ruling the mind: the first 'scientific' psychologies

Part three: 1800-50: three routes to psychology. The German route: between matter and metaphysics

The British route: the nervous empire

The French route: degenerating dreams

Conclusion: making the mind up 1600-1850.