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Originally published in 1970 this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry. Based on the impetus of Freudian and related innovations after the First World War, the Tavistock...

This volume brings together 14 classic papers by interpersonal pioneers. Collectively, these papers not only demonstrate the coherence and explanatory richness of interpersonal psychoanalysis; they anticipate the emphasis on relational patterns and...

Originally published in 1935, William Archer's interest in dreams had persisted for over quarter of a century, for ten years of which he kept a careful record of his own dreams. These records alone form a valuable collection of material, of which Archer...

Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of...

Originally published in 1934, excerpts from the original preface read: "A Nervous breakdown is a terrifying experience. When it occurs, the patient, his family, and often his friends are panic-stricken. No one knows just what to do with the patient,...

Psychology has always defined itself as a science and yet it has lacked the theoretical and methodological unity regarded as characteristic of the natural sciences. Nicolo Gaj explores the topical question of unification in psychology, setting out a...

Lacan and the Matter of Origins traces the development of Lacan's thinking about the role of the mother in psychical formation. It examines the conceptual struggle throughout his work over issues of maternal agency in relation to the constitution of...

Volume 2 of the Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals series bears out the promise of the acclaimed premier volume, a volume whose essays "breathe new life into the study of Freud," embodying research that "appears to be impeccable in every...

How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his ground-breaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421446103Author Allan V. HorwitzFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882140933Author Roberts AvensFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 140g

A good story sets the stage for engaged learning. Nowhere is this more important than in foundational courses, such as Introductory or History of Psychology. By weaving foundational and modern characters across a historical landscape, John Hogan's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278074Author Morton HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679731887Author Bruno BettelheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788883368Author Porter Dr aFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

"Reads as much like a novel as it does a work of medical scholarship."-Patrick McGrath, New York Times Book Review Madhouse revealsa long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading...

Hailed as "a superb textbook aimed at introducing psychoanalytic self psychology to students of psychotherapy" (Robert D. Stolorow), Psychotherapy After Kohut is unique in its grasp of the theoretical, clinical, and historical grounds of the emergence of...

Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept-the mind-emerged as...

Psychology is the study of our behaviour, of the ways our minds make sense of the world around us. It is a serious endeavour because we value scientific knowledge, for what it tells us about the world but also for what it reveals about our place in the...

More people today report feeling anxious than ever before-even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437421Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

What is memory? It is at the same time ephemeral, unreliable and essential to everything we do. Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks. Yet it is also elusive and difficult to define,...

Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip.Challenging virtually every account of linguistic error in Freud's work as arbitrary and constrained, Sebastiano Timpanaro advances an...

When Cyril Burt died in 1971, he was widely regarded as Britain's most eminent educational psychologist. Within five years of his death, however, he was being publicly denounced as a fraud who had fabricated data purporting to show that human...

The new edition of Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life, thought, work and impact of some of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed modern psychology, considering a more diverse history of the discipline. The revised...

An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs-and the men and women who made themIn Our Minds, Our Selves, distinguished psychologist and writer Keith Oatley provides an engaging, original, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485756Author Jon RonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Hothersall and Lovett's History of Psychology is a lively survey of the evolution of the field from 1850 to the present. Built around the lives of fascinating thinkers who proposed bold new ways of studying human behavior and mental processes, and...

A Social History of Psychology documents the rise of psychology in the 20th century and its growing influence on Western society. The book focuses on practical, or 'applied', psychology and examines the causes and social consequences of psychology's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180921Author Gary GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm * 24mm

Jung's lectures on the history of psychology-in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these...

"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of...

Weaving cultural history and scientific exploration together, The Left Stuff takes you on an adventure to discover the truth about why humans choose one hand over the other. From high-tech neuroscience labs to the rain forests of Africa to the bullpens...

From Sterling's hugely popular Milestones series comes this stunningly illustrated book. What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913494360Author Vivian HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Confer BooksPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 16mm

This book provides a unique overview of and introduction to the work of the German psychologist and philosopher Ludwig Klages (1872-1956), an astonishing figure in the history of German ideas. Central to intellectual life in turn-of-the-century Munich,...

What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human? In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans `think', we hold up a...

Discover why you were always afraid of a monster under your childhood bed, why people truly believe in their "lucky" lotto numbers, and more with hundreds of quick facts, research-based explanations, and challenging quiz questions on everything from the...

Delivered to advanced candidates at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1974-75, The Chicago Institute Lectures reveal a Kohut in transition, a Kohut wrestling with the creative tension in psychoanalysis between tradition and innovation, between...