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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538724484Author Audrey Clare FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

The twentieth century was defined by far-reaching social changes, and this fresh insight into the life and works of Erich Fromm offers a compelling overview of his observations. Fromm's views on personal relationships, therapy, and his critique of...

Drawing on more than 25 contributions, this new book presents both a historical and personal account of British psychology over the last century. The book is divided into two sections: Part 1 contains a collection of historical essays concentrating on...

Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Applied Book 2021Carl Jung angrily rejected the charge that he was an anti-Semite, yet controversies concerning his attitudes towards Jews, Zionism and the Nazi...

Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental 'discoveries' of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393003833Author Gregory ZilboorgFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 587gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, mental health professionals have sought to use their knowledge of human psychology to understand - and intervene in - political developments. From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, psychiatrists have commented,...

Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history which can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was...

American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a "miracle cure" that would empty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451612110Author Eric JaffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045384Author Harry Yi-Jui WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Psychology is a comparatively young science. From its origins in the psychophysics laboratories of late 19th century Germany, it made great strides throughout the 20th century, and can now be considered one of the most rapidly growing of the sciences, as...

This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius and St Augustine, who gave the field its foundational ideas long before better known 'founders', such as Galton, Fechner, Wundt...

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 *...

In 1900, hardly anyone in America had heard of Sigmund Freud, but by 1920 nearly everyone had. This is the story of the translators, editors, journalists, publishers, promoters and booksellers who first brought Freud to American readers. They included...

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

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...

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...

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...