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Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knot, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new history tell us, the...

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 *...

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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 *...

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...

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

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,...

The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the...

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...

As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the drug, which have affected attempts to use it as a...

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...

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

"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...

As the world faces up to the challenges of climate change and the threat to security, Skinner's contributions on these issues continue to resonate today. In this stimulating introduction for students and general readers, Toates places Skinner's ideas...

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...

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...

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

"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...

History and Systems of Psychology provides an engaging introduction to the rich story of psychology's past. Retaining the clarity and accessibility praised by readers of earlier editions, this classic textbook provides a chronological history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593847060Author DKFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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...

Freud always regarded The Interpretation of Dreams, and in particular its thesis that dreams fulfill wishes, as his landmark contribution and the scaffolding of his subsequent work. Susan Sugarman, after carefully examining the text and scrutinizing a...

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

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...

This book aims to serve as a foundational text in the emerging field of African psychology, which centers the knowledge and experience of continental African realities and postcolonial concerns in psychology. Drawing from the author's key essays as a...

The workings of memory have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, Alison Winter shows that our understanding of them has changed dramatically in just the past century, with major consequences for...

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...

David Howes's sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people.In part 1, Howes...

The recent upsurge of fresh historical research concerning the early years of psychoanalysis has left many professional readers struggling to keep abreast of the latest findings and more than a little perplexed as to what it all adds up to. Freud and the...

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...

Sigmund Freud's relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics;...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780399185618Author Steve SilbermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher...

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...

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...

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 9781592404919Author Jonathan EngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apart from using our eyes to see and our ears to hear, we regularly and effortlessly perform a number of complex perceptual operations that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include, for example,...

In Freudian Repression, Michael Billig presents an original reformulation of Freud's concept of repression, showing that in his theory of the unconscious he fails to examine how people actually repress shameful thoughts. Drawing on recent insights from...