often works to obscure the way in which the gap between advantage and dis- advantage is envisioned. As a counter point, one of the lessons I learnt as a white immigrant research supervisor collaborating with M¯ aori postgraduates is that some of the privileges of my colonial history might be construed differently were I not to take my own cultural values as the axis of interpretation. I learnt that I cannot even imagine what it is like to be able to trace my whakapapa (roughly ‘ancestry’) back to the 1700s. This is sometimes interpreted by my colleagues as a deficit in my subjective wellbeing, despite the comfortable income and access to health care that are valued in my middle-class academic community. In another different collabora- tion, other advantages and disadvantages, privileges and costs, might be very differently distributed. However hesitant I might be around the failures of Doing Psychology Critically, Prilleltensky and Nelson’s successful collation of academic and experiential re- sources remains as a valuable contribution to ongoing dialogue as a form of critical practice. And their final call for psychology to ‘get more political’ (p. 176) brought me back to the shared values that invited me to the book in the first place. Mandy Morgan Massey University Revisiting Wundt Robert W. Rieber and David K. Robinson (Eds.), Wilhelm Wundt in History: The Making of a Scientific Psychology. New- York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2003. xvii + 302 pp. ISBN 0–306–46599–X (hbk). DOI: 10.1177/0959354306066213 This book was written, according to the editors, to represent Wundt scholarship that has been accumulated since 1980, when Robert Rieber edited and published a book entitled Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology. Indeed, the majority of chapters are new and original. For readers of this journal, the question arises whether the study of history, and especially the study of Wundt, has any significance for theoretical psychology. Our answer is ‘of course’. Evidence of the direct relationship between history and theory can be found particularly in the writings of Kurt Danziger, arguably the most important contemporary Wundt scholar. In Chapter 3, revised, with only a few changes, Danziger examines the concepts drive, apperception and volition as they were understood and debated by Wundt and his contemporaries: ‘It was Wundt’s theory of volitional activity that provided the set of specifically psychological issues that transformed some rather pedestrian physiological studies into a research program with extraordinary implications’ (p. 112). He also discusses reactions against Wundt’s understanding of volition. This historical debate about volition provides the reader with a perspective on a concept that has been lost or, better, transformed in current motivational theories. It raises immediately the question as to whether psychological concepts are of a natural or a social kind and points to the continuity/discontinuity debate, which is of high theoretical significance. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY 16(4) 582