On learning about the great minds of psychology

[Tempered Tense]

Why are college textbooks biased? I have noticed that they cover the theories and major contributions of all or most of the famous psychologists and scholars, including of course Freud, Skinner, Pavlov, Erikson, Piaget, Adler etc.

However, there is not one mention of Jung. Is there a reason for this? I know his work was more philosophical than most, and it seems to me he had a more existential approach to psychology, rather than analytical. (some will probably disagree with me on this), but due to the substantial contributions he's made toward psychology, I'm just curious as to why he's not mentioned even briefly in any textbook I've come across in any of my classes?

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Jung was always a little off the wall and almost more interested in mysticism than the science of psychology. He certainly contributed some interesting and useful concepts to the science and practice of psychology but many of his ideas have really never been validated.

 

[Meggylou]

Jung was also a strong proponent of the psychoanalytic method. You will find him in more upper year texts, such as the history of psych.
He was very much what David had to say.
The text books aren't so much biased as they are covering the major movers and shakers. It's important to move forward by understand where we came from.