Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you're remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they lost forever? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in "Memory: Fragments of a Modern History...
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by Anne Harrington
Psychology, Development and Social Policy in India
This book examines how and where psychology can engage itself in the framing of social policies for national as well as human development in India. Although the role that psychological knowledge can play in informing social policy decisions has been discussed for a long time, psychologists by and large have had little role in framing policy decisions related to such important domains as education, health, social justice and social inclusion. Policy makers, not only in India, but more or less eve...
Ap(r) Psychology Crash Course, 2nd Ed., Book + Online (Advanced Placement (AP) Crash Course)
by Larry Krieger
Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine
by Martin Bock and Robert Hampson
Conrads life and fiction are often read through the lens of Freudian thought, though Conrad understood his own health from a pre-Freudian perspective. ""Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine"" recovers that perspective, revises our understanding of Conrads life, and rethinks the dominant themes of his work in light of pre-Freudian medical psychology. Beginning with a social history of late-nineteenth-century medical psychology and hysteria studies, Bocks study presents a clear and readable sy...
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets: Webster's Maori Thesaurus Edition
by Stephen Crane
Subjectivity in Motion: Life, Art, and Movement in the Work of Hermann Rorschach (Routledge Monographs in Mental Health)
by Naamah Akavia
The classical psychologists; selections illustrating psychology from Anaxagoras to Wundt
by Benjamin Rand
Early in his life, Carl Gustav Jung was an admirer and protege of Freud, but after their celebrated quarrel he became his enemy and rival. With his discovery of the collective unconscious (the part of the mind we may share with all other human beings, living and dead), with his profound interest in myth and symbol and his explorations into the true alchemy, astrology and even UFOs, Jung is now established as a source of "alternative" ideas that have fascinated generations. This biography portray...
A hands-on approach to exploring the human mind Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a lesson in psychology that keeps you engaged - and your synapses firing. From personality quizzes and the Rorschach Blot Test to B.F. Skinner and the stages of development, this primer for human behavior is packed wit...
A Social History of Psychology
"A Social History of Psychology" documents the rise of psychology in the twentieth century and its growing influence on Western society. This book focuses on practical, or "applied", psychology and examines the causes and social consequences of psychology's omnipresence in society. After a general overview of the history of psychology as a practical discipline, this book provides detailed accounts of the role of psychology in the fields of child rearing and education, work, mental health care, c...
Person-Centered Studies in Psychology of Science
This unique collection examines ‘the acting person’ as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson. Opening up key questions about what science is, and what comprises a scientist, the volume offers an accessible introductory approach to psychology of science, a growing area in Science...
This is a reconstruction of the story of the woman whose relationship to both Jung and Freud lies at the heart of the origins of psychoanalysis. Kerr has based his study on diaries, letters and journals and on close biographical rereading of the papers of Jung and Freud. Sabina Spielrein was first a patient, then a student and lover of Jung; she was later to become the colleague, confidante and friend of Freud. Spielrein's story offers insight into the unresolvable split between the founders of...
Leading the reader through the darkened seance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany, The Stepchildren of Science casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines.