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  • Inferiority Feelings

    In the Individual and the Group

    by Oliver Brachfeld ...
    Including volumes originally published between 1910 and 1957, the Abnormal and Clinical Psychology set of the International Library of Psychology clearly shows the evolution of approaches to, and definitions of, conditions such as nervous anxiety, neuroses, hysteria, delinquency, insanity and mental illness, It provides a compelling insight into how attitudes to such states have changed during ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

    by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson ...
    Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates_empirically_that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Psychology Made Simple: Flash

    by Nicky Hayes ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Psychology is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to psychology. In just 96 pages, the reader will get an overview of all the main functions of the brain, from memory and perception to learning and development. Ideal for the ... Read more

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  • Critical Thinking

    Conceptual Perspectives and Practical Guidelines

    by Christopher P. Dwyer ...
    Dwyer's book is unique and distinctive as it presents and discusses a modern conceptualization of critical thinking – one that is commensurate with the exponential increase in the annual output of knowledge. The abilities of navigating new knowledge outputs, engaging in enquiry and constructively solving problems are not only important in academic contexts, but are also essential life skills. ... Read more

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  • The Bitterest Pills

    The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs

    by J. Moncrieff ...
    A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored. ... Read more

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  • Play, Dreams And Imitation In Childhood

    by Jean Piaget ...
    First published in 1999. This volume is the third of a series devoted to the first years of the child’s development, the two others being concerned with the beginnings of intelligence and the child’s construction of reality (La naissance de intelligence chez Venfant and La construction du réel chez Venfant). Although this book contains frequent references to the two other volumes, which deal with ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Inventing Intelligence

    How America Came to Worship IQ

    by Elaine E. Castles ...
    The use and misuse of IQ tests has long been a subject of contention in the scientific and social communities, particularly because these evaluations favor intelligence at the expense of other valuable human qualities. This is the first book of its kind to examine the historical development of our modern concept of intelligence and to explore America's fascination with the controversial exams that ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Psychology's Grand Theorists

    How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas

    by Amy P. Demorest ...
    Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and phenomenological--have resulted in large part from the personal experiences of their originators. Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers each believed that he had discovered the truth about human nature, yet their truths are entirely different. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Resolving Social Dilemmas

    Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects

    Edited by Margaret Foddy, Michael Smithson, Sherry Schneider, Michael A. Hogg ...
    This book presents an accessible and state-of-the-art survey of current research on social dilemmas. A social dilemma arises when actions that are justifiable in terms of individual rationality (e.g. over-harvesting resources, or using private instead of public transportation) threaten the common good and in the long run the individual's own self-interest as well. The study of social dilemmas has ... Read more

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  • A New Look at New Realism

    The Psychology and Philosophy of E. B. Holt

    by Eric Charles ...
    This volume brings to the attention of contemporary readers a tradition of psychological thought that has received little attention over the last century. Psychology's history has been unimaginatively presented as a fight between behaviorists and mentalists. A third alternative, the New Realism, which cuts through that dichotomy, has been lost. "The New Realism" was indeed once new. This volume ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior

    by Charles R. Gallistel, John Gibbon ...
    Series series Distinguished Lecture Series
    The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong empirical foundation for a rigorous brand of cognitive psychology that the study of animal learning ... Read more

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  • Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology

    Volume V

    Edited by Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer ...
    Series series Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology Series
    This book offers glimpses into the personal and scholarly lives of 20 giants in the history of psychology. As in the earlier volumes, prominent scholars were invited to prepare chapters on a pioneer who had made important contributions in their own area of expertise. Some of the psychologists described may be the teachers of the instructors who will be the users of this book, potentially providing ... Read more

    $51.99 USD