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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437476Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

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This volume, first published as part of the American Psychological Association amp rsquo s centennial celebration in 992 and updated today for the APA amp rsquo s 25th anniversary, demonstrates how the Association has evolved over the years in response...

In this volume Diane Halpern and Alexander Voiskounsky take advantage of recent political events in the former Soviet Union which have created a unique opportunity to study the ways in which two major world powers have defined contemporary psychological...

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification...

A remarkable achievement. Ammaniti and Stern have brought together an outstanding group of thinkers who address the problem of representation and psychoanalysis with depth and originality. Individually, each chapter is a joy to read. Collectively, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525589744Author Jack MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

If we are going to promote creativity as an ideal to strive toward, shouldn't we make sure we also instil ethical anticipation so our creative contributions produce a better world rather than chaos and waste? Creativity drives cultural development. We...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039178922Author Edward C WebsterFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954925120Author Ralph MetznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Four Trees PressPublisher Four Trees PressWeight(grams) 136g

Mark Freeman’s inspiring account of the burgeoning field of the psychological humanities presents a clear and compelling vision of what the discipline of psychology might become.Valuable though the scientific perspective has been for advancing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885679376Author Robert F MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Morgan Foundation PublishersPublisher Morgan Foundation PublishersWeight(grams) 757g

In this study of psychology and Catholicism, Kugelmann aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion. From the beginnings of modern psychology to the mid-1960s, this complicated relationship between science and religion is...

Yorkshireman Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) studied and built his medical career in London. From 1860 he specialised in psychiatry, working at hospitals and in private practice, and from 1863 to 1878 he was joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science. As...

Originally published in 1927 as part of the Cambridge Psychological Library, this book emphasizes the importance of the biological foundations of psychology, with perception being the bridge between nerve processes and consciousness. Parsons, an...

This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the...

This book represents the first attempt to historicise and theorise appeals for 'relevance' in psychology. It argues that the persistence of questions about the 'relevance' of psychology derives from the discipline's terminal inability to define its...

This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting...

Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America's ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two-from sharing common...

The dream of control over human behaviour is an old dream, shared by many cultures. This fascinating account of the histories of human engineering describes how technologies of managing individuals and groups were developed from the nineteenth century to...

Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America's ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two-from sharing common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410213617Author Benjamin RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

The book provides an argument why realism is a viable metatheoretical framework for psychological science. By looking at some variations of realism such as scientific realism, critical realism, situational realism and Ferraris’ new realism, a realist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958876381Author Gregg JannFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Book Savvy InternationalPublisher Book Savvy InternationalWeight(grams) 145g

In the new edition of this original and penetrating book, John D. Greenwood provides an in-depth analysis of the subtle conceptual continuities and discontinuities that inform the history of psychology from the speculations of the Ancient Greeks to...

This book discusses the development of Edward Tolman's purposive behaviourism from the 1920s to the 1950s, highlighting the tension between his references to cognitive processes and the dominant behaviourist trends. It shows how Tolman incorporated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950330584Author Charles MacKayFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Classic Wisdom ReprintPublisher Classic Wisdom ReprintWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605205465Author Charles MacKayFormat HardbackPage Count 732Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1220g

This book brings together the central tenets of William Stern's critical personalism. Presented for the first time for an English-speaking audience, this selection of original translations and essays encapsulates the critical framework of Stern's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398827608Author Dr Alan PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

This book brings together the central tenets of William Stern's critical personalism. Presented for the first time for an English-speaking audience, this selection of original translations and essays encapsulates the critical framework of Stern's...

This volume traces the life journeys of a cohort of influential and transformative women in psychology, now in or nearing retirement, who have changed the discipline and the broader world of academia in significant ways. The 26 reflective essays record...

This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice...

This book presents an intellectual history of the reception of Soviet psychology in Argentina as part of the communist scientific culture promoted by the Argentine Communist Party. This research reconstructs the material conditions, the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357487931Author George MüllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 104g

James N. Pinkerton published Sleep and its Phenomena in 1839. The essay is a revision of a lecture first given to the medical faculty of the University of Edinburgh. In this work Pinkerton introduces his theory of types of sleep, analysing sleep in terms...

Edgar Rubin was one of the outstanding pioneers of perceptual psychology in the early twentieth century. His approach involved a turning away from an earlier elementaristic psychology towards an approach based on "perceptual wholes." Rubin's...

This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W. Said and Sigmund Freud as well the relationship between psychoanalysis, postcolonialism and decoloniality more broadly. The author begins by offering a comprehensive review of the literature on...

This book introduces readers to the concept of the Axial Age and its relevance for a world in crisis. Scholars have become increasingly interested in philosopher Karl Jaspers’ thesis that a spiritual revolution in consciousness during the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402570Author Allan CombsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 156mm...