The Laws of Human Nature: A General View of Gestalt Psychology by Raymond Wheeler

Raymond Wheeler's The Laws of Human Nature: A General View of Gestalt Psychology, originally published in 1932 by D. Appleton and Company, is a systematic and historically significant work that traces the psychological principles underpinning Gestalt theory — from perception and learning to emotion, will, and personality — and mounts a sustained argument for configurational fields against the mechanistic element theory that dominated behavioral science. Now available in a Kindle edition edited by David Deley and with a foreword by the late David Keirsey, the book finds a new audience among readers interested in the intellectual roots of modern psychology.

Reviewed Jun 28, 2026