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  • Hungry for Ecstasyby Sharon Klayman Farber

    Jason Aronson, Inc. 2012; US$ 89.99

    Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon Klayman Farber explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction, in an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identify the phenomenon and ultimately intervene with patients,... more...

  • A Brief History of Psychologyby Michael Wertheimer

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95

    This brief, inexpensive text offers the utmost in flexibility in teaching the history of psychology. Used as a stand-alone text or with readers, this engaging book is noted for its analysis of the scientific and philosophical emergence of the field. Readers appreciate the book?s balanced coverage of experimental, applied, and clinical psychology,... more...

  • Cult Fictionsby Sonu Shamdasani

    Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 35.95

    Controversial claims that C.G. Jung, founder of analytical psychology, was a charlatan and a self-appointed demi-god have recently brought his legacy under renewed scrutiny. The basis of the attack on Jung is a previously unknown text, said to be Jung's inaugural address at the founding of his 'cult', otherwise known as the Psychological Club, in... more...

  • Jacques Lacanby Sean Homer

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95

    Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides... more...

  • The Life Cycle of Psychological Ideasby Thomas C. Dalton; Rand B. Evans

    Springer 2003; US$ 99.00

    This book focuses on what other volumes have only touched on, that is the factors that contribute to the rise of certain persons and ideas in the field of psychology. Bringing together noted experts in the field, it describes the process of intellectual reconstructions that determines how we view historical events, and why some ideas die only to be... more...

  • History of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)by Mark R. Rosenzweig; Wayne H. Holtzman; Michel Sabourin; David Belanger

    Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 90.00

    This book describes the present status and the history of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) -- the most representative international psychological body. The IUPsyS includes national psychological associations from 66 countries, with more joining every year, and it has formal relations with the United Nations, UNESCO, the World... more...

  • Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium, Volume 1by Lars Backman; Claes von Hofsten

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 155.00

    These two volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary theory and research in psychological science. Based on the keynote and state-of-the-art lectures from the 27th International Congress of Psychology, the volumes feature a collection of chapters written by international leaders in psychological scholarship. The chapters reflect the diversity... more...

  • Measuring Intelligenceby David J. Bartholomew

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00

    The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice which surround the measurement of intelligence and to provide a clear, non-mathematical treatment drawing on familiar everyday ideas. more...

  • Freudby Peter D. Kramer

    HarperCollins 2006; US$ 10.99

    Often referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud championed the "talking cure" and charted the human unconscious. But though Freud compared himself to Copernicus and Darwin, his history as a physician is problematic. Historians have determined that Freud often misrepresented the course and outcome of his treatments—so that the... more...

  • Portraits of Pioneers in Psychologyby Gregory A. Kimble; Michael Wertheimer

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95

    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... more...