The Mentality of Gestalt Psychologists

The title for  the post is, of course, a knock off of Kohler's The Mentality of Apes.  I'm two thirds of the way through the book.  The descriptions of how the chimps got their food in the experiments are fun to read as well as educational.  You develop a liking for the "subjects" of the research, and can tell that the Kohlers liked them, too.  There is also the edge of the ethics of animal research, of course.  The main point of the book is that the chimps acted with "insight."  The question of individual differences between the chimps is interesting as well.  Some of the phrases used to describe what the chimps did were: "unhesitatingly pilfered", "was never uncertain as to where he had to put it", and "the expression of discouraged desire."  Principles of Gestalt Psychology by Koffka is also an interesting read, even after all this time.  Finally, I've got Productive Thinking by Wertheimer. When I'm finished with those, and books about the four major people involved, I'll be ready to write.  When I learned psychology, this way of thinking was not emphasized, so it is interesting to supplement it now.