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Learning, Motivation, and Their Physiological Mechanisms by Neal E. Miller 9781138527096
RRP: £135.00£118.28Neal E. Miller's pioneering work in experimental psychology has earned him worldwide respect. This second in a two-volume collection of his work brings together forty-three of Miller's most important and representative essays on learning, motivation, and... -
Revival: Nerves and Personal Power (1922): Some Principles of Psychology as Applied to Conduct and Personal Power by D. MacDougall King 9781138567382
RRP: £58.99£51.08This treatise is to give the public a much needed understanding of those factors in everyday living which on the one hand tend toward nervous weakness, and on the other make for personal power. From the author's viewpoint, everybody at times suffers from... -
Imprinting and Early Learning by Wladyslaw Sluckin 9781138525832
RRP: £135.00£117.28What is imprinting and what role does it play in the early development of the individual? What is its theoretical importance for understanding the mechanisms of instinct and learning? What is its significance in the development of the young of our own... -
The Psychology of Politics by Barry Richards 9781138551671
RRP: £115.00£99.36How do some political leaders capture popular support? What is the appeal of belonging to a nation? Can democracy thrive? The Psychology of Politics explores how the emotions which underpin everyday life are also vital in what happens on the political... -
Data Analysis: A Statistical Primer for Psychology Students by Edward L. Wike 9781138521964
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is intended for psychology majors and graduate students who are conducting experiments for the first time and are faced with the task of making sense out of their data. This much needed "how-to-do-it" text illustrates the application... -
Damnation and Deviance: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure by Mordechai Rotenberg 9781138521933
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Calvinist view that man is predestined to be among the elect or the damned has profoundly influenced not only our views of criminals and deviants, but also the theoretical basis of correctional methods and psychotherapeutic techniques. In this... -
Culture and Social Psychiatry by Marvin Opler 9781138521841
RRP: £135.00£117.68This brilliant and engrossing work of social synthesis, replete with profound insights, opens up new vistas on the relationship between culture and mental health. The author uses his own extensive findings and his abundant knowledge of the cross-cultural... -
Culture, Behavior, and Personality: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation by Robert LeVine 9781138521865
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book presents an overview of the sense of theoretical problem in culture and personality research and a biological perspective on culture and the individual. It describes relations between psychological theory and method, and explores the psychology... -
Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition by David Fisher 9781138521735
RRP: £135.00£117.68The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and original investigations into three overlapping areas of psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis;... -
Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life by Paul Roazen 9781138524767
RRP: £115.00£99.36Student and protege of Sigmund Freud, Helene Deutsch was one of the most influential psychoanalysts of her time. An early woman analyst, Deutsch was an ardent feminist and a leading proponent of Freud's controversial theories about the psychology of... -
Control of Aggression: Implications from Basic Research by Stanton Wheeler 9781138521223
RRP: £135.00£117.68Although aggressive behavior and its consequences has been a topic of concern for centuries, it is only within the recent past that serious attempts to understand aggression have been made. Within the last decade concern has expanded at a very high rate,... -
Science and Psychology by Richard Wilton 9781138693791
RRP: £120.00£103.61Science and Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the structure and characteristics of scientific explanation, using examples from a variety of sciences to illuminate the scientific approach taken in psychology. In addition, the authors... -
Foundations of Behavioral Therapy by Donald Levis 9781138523661
RRP: £135.00£117.28The term "behavior therapy" is applied to many techniques and strategies, some theoretically based and some not, unified by a common goal: the application of learning principles to the treatment of psychopathology. Although treatment paradigms... -
Experimentation and Innovation in Psychotherapy by Harold Greenwald 9781138523272
RRP: £135.00£117.68After a long period of relatively slow change and development, the practice of psychotherapy entered a phase of vigorous experimentation in the 1960s. Greatly increased public recognition of the role of psychological approaches has brought about a... -
Conflict, Power, and Games: The Experimental Study of Interpersonal Relations by James T. Tedeschi 9781138521025
RRP: £135.00£117.28The technological revolution in the social sciences made available a set of research tools and data manipulation techniques that permit the study of complex social processes previously inaccessible or not amenable to our observational powers. One... -
Conflict, Displacement, Learned Drives and Theory by Neal E. Miller 9781138521018
RRP: £135.00£117.68Neal E. Miller's pioneering work in experimental psychology has earned him worldwide respect. This first of a two-volume collection of his work brings together twenty-one of Miller's most important and representative essays on conflict, displacement,... -
Concepts of Personality by Joseph M. Wepman 9781138520974
RRP: £135.00£118.28The psychologist who pursues an interest in personality is constantly faced by a dilemma. He seeks to investigate what is to him the most intriguing and interesting subject--the multifaceted operations of man in his natural environment. The predicament... -
Comparative Psychotherapy: An Experimental Analysis by Adolph O. Di Loreto 9781138520912
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book details the first comparative study under controlled conditions of the three major schools of psychotherapy-client-centered therapy, behavioral or systematic desensitization therapy, and rational-emotive therapy. The study was organized to... -
Children and Adolescents: A Biocultural Approach to Psychological Development by Theron Alexander 9781138520363
RRP: £135.00£117.68An individual's understanding of himself must begin with an appreciation of his origin. Thus, the concern of modern man to understand his behavior has led to an investigation of the forces that influence human development. Investigation encompasses many... -
Changing Frontiers in the Science of Psychotherapy by Irving Babbitt 9781138520226
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book is an exploration and mapping of the frontiers of research in psychotherapy. The authors make a systematic effort to discover where the science is going; analyzing conceptual problems, trends, and issues; record their interviews with the... -
Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk by Paul Roazen 9781138519831
RRP: £115.00£99.36A major figure among pre-World War I psychoanalysts, Victor Tausk was perhaps Sigmund Freud's most brilliant pupil "the most prominently out-standing" in the opinion of Lou Andreas-Salome. Tausk craved recognition for the originality of his... -
Bridges: Psychic Structures, Functions, and Processes by Rosemary Gordon 9781138519787
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book encompasses a wide range of author's diverse explorations and provides readers with rich food for thought-whether their interest is in clinical or cultural issues of the psyche. It re-examines the idea of the self, and explores the distinction... -
Brain and Behavior: Research in Clinical Neuropsychology by Michael Peter Smith 9781138519749
RRP: £135.00£117.28Research in the field of clinical neuropsychology has greatly advanced understanding of the complex relationships between brain functions and human behavior. This edited collection, originally published in the early days of this dynamic field, draws from... -
Behavior Therapy with Children: Volume 1 by Anthony M. Graziano 9781138519343
RRP: £135.00£117.68This consummately well-organized survey brings together the latest and most meaningful writings in behavior therapy with children. Dealing with a variety of childhood behavior problems, it includes theory, evaluation, and application of behavior therapy... -
Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work: Western Social Psychology and Eastern Zen Buddhism Confront Each Other by Christopher Bradley 9781138514461
RRP: £33.99£30.00This book is about how Western social psychology interfaces with an Eastern Zen Buddhist perspective. It is neither a purely Zen Buddhist critique of the former, nor is it merely a social psychological interpretation of Zen. Rather, it is an attempt to... -
Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions by Geoffrey Cocks 9781138517486
RRP: £28.99£25.09As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with... -
The Trauma of Freud by Paul Roazen 9781138517042
RRP: £53.99£46.87Over one hundred years have passed since Sigmund Freud first created psychoanalysis. The new profession flourished within the increasing secularization of Western culture, and it is almost impossible to overestimate its influence. Despite its traditional... -
Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses by Jaan Valsiner 9781138515093
RRP: £43.99£38.44This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology. Diriwochter and Valsiner focus... -
Sallies of the Mind by Francis Fergusson 9781138514355
RRP: £39.99£35.06Francis Fergusson was one of the foremost American literary critics and scholars of the twentieth century. A man of the theater as well as a man of letters, Fergusson's versatility and mastery traversed a wide range of intellectual disciplines. As George... -
Redemption and Recovery: Further Parallels of Religion and Science in Addiction Treatment by Daniel E. Hood 9781138513990
RRP: £28.99£25.09This ethnography continues the "thick description" of faith-based and science-based drug programs begun in Addiction Treatment. Using extensive interviews and his own participation in daily rounds of treatment, Hood provides a vivid comparison... -
On Loss and Losing: Beyond the Medical Model of Personal Distress by Melvyn L. Fein 9781138512726
RRP: £28.99£25.49All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress. All too often, their discomfort is treated as a medical issue requiring treatment usually through medication. Melvyn L. Fein argues for a broader understanding of loss and losing that... -
Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism by Raphael Israeli 9781138512443
RRP: £53.99£46.87The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression, challenge those who study human behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of... -
Individualism and Moral Character: Karen Horney's Depth Psychology by Jeff Mitchell 9781138510913
RRP: £21.99£19.34There are hundreds of different systems of psychotherapy today, ranging from the traditional "talking cure" to symbolic "re-birthing" and primal scream. The landscape is littered with serious social science, pop psychology, esoteric... -
Imitation in Human and Animal Behavior by Wanda Wyrwicka 9781138510807
RRP: £43.99£38.44Imitation is an often-observed form of behavior that is beginning to attract widespread attention on the part of a variety of researchers. Imitative acts of newborn babies and development of imitation skills in later life have been discussed in a variety... -
Heredity and Environment in 300 Adoptive Families: The Texas Adoption Project by Joseph Horn 9781138510609
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book presents the results of a thirty-five-year research project involving 300 families, each of whom adopted at least one child at birth from a Texas home for unwed mothers during the period of 1962-1970. The book weaves together information about... -
Emerging Methods in Psychology by Seth Surgan 9781138509504
RRP: £53.99£46.87The motivation for this volume in the History and Theory of Psychology series is to look across sub-disciplines within psychology and highlight instances where researchers transcended the tendency to think about methodology along traditional lines... -
Ego Development and Psychopathology by David Ausubel 9781138509436
RRP: £43.99£38.84Ego Development and Psychopathology presents an original theoretical underpinning for classification and interpretation of the major mental disorders, one based largely on the author's clinical experience. Ausubel's central thesis is that the most... -
Edoardo Weiss: The House That Freud Built by Paul Roazen 9781138509399
RRP: £43.99£38.44Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was a favored disciple of Freud and is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. Although he was the author of six books and over a hundred professional papers, he has remained a shadowy figure. In this volume,... -
Conditioning: Situation Versus Intermittent Stimulus by Wanda Wyrwicka 9781138508415
RRP: £28.99£25.09In laboratory research, the process of conditioning is traditionally initiated with a single intermittent stimulus (such as a tone or flash of light). This is true of both classical and instrumental research. Because of its role in evoking conditioned... -
Biomedicalization of Alcohol Studies: Ideological Shifts and Institutional Challenges by Lorraine Midanik 9781138507685
RRP: £28.99£25.09Biomedicalization is seen as the natural outgrowth of continued scientific progress--a movement towards improving the quality and quantity of life through scientific inquiries using biomedical perspectives and methods. This approach carries with it the...