History

This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought and its relations to the wider cultural framework of the era. Drawing together an unprecedented range of materials from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538715277Author Susannah CahalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

In a series of ingenious studies, social psychologist Stanley Milgram, examined the impact of modern society on the psychology of individuals.His most famous experiment saw participants commanded to administer painful electric shocks to supposed fellow...

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though their efforts to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, soon...

Women, Sainthood, and Power explores the life stories of an international gallery of female saints from the wide-angle lens of several intellectual disciplines and the close-up view afforded by keenly observed fine points of character. Oliva M. Espin...

In The Many-Minded Man, Joel Christensen explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!In Dreams That Turn Over a Page, the author discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the...

We cannot understand contemporary psychology without first researching its history. Unlike other books on the history of psychology, which are chronologically ordered, this Handbook is organized topically. It covers the history of ideas in multiple areas...

The Interpretation of Dreams is a seminal work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freud's impressive output. Published in 1899 but revised by Freud himself many times, it outlines his theories on the unconscious and...

Utilizing an informal, sometimes humorous style of writing, this book brings to life 16 developmental psychologists who made a significant contribution to their field. Written by noted scholars, each chapter provides a glimpse into the personal and...

Originally published in 1941, the blurb read: "The aim of this work is to state and understand the psychological dynamics of the present conflict. The author is a medical psychologist who has had unusual opportunities for studying German mentality. He...

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 *...

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...