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  • Psychology as a Moral Scienceby Svend Brinkmann

    Springer 2010; US$ 99.99

    What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything. Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline's ethical foundations, "Psychology as a Moral Science" argues... more...

  • PUSHBUTTON PSYCHIATRYby Timothy W Kneeland; Carol A.B. Warren

    Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 34.95

    This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980. Early American... more...

  • Unfitting Storiesby Valerie Raoul; Connie Canam; Angela D. Henderson; Carla Paterson

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007; US$ 48.95

    Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together the work of Canadian researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experiences of disease, disability, or trauma, it addresses... more...

  • The Pre-Psychoanalytic Writings of Sigmund Freudby Duncan Barford; Filip Geerardyn; Gertrudis Van de Vijver

    Karnac Books 2002; US$ 37.95

    This vital new reading of Freud's pre-analytic texts proposes both to introduce psychoanalysis to a research-driven, interdisciplinary means of solving problems, and to open up the possibility of a methodological shift in the sciences. more...

  • A History of Psychology in Lettersby Ludy T. Benjamin

    John Wiley & Sons 2009; US$ 99.95

    The private thoughts, emotions, hopes, and frustrations contained in this collection of letters written by key figures in psychology provide rich insight into the development of the field. From John Locke writing parenting advice in 17th century Holland to Kenneth B. Clark responding to the impact of his research on the 19th century Brown v. Board... more...

  • But Facts Existby Thomas Freeman

    Karnac Books 1998; US$ 31.95

    This book provides an account of the chequered course of international psychoanalysis over the last 100 years, with a lucid critical treatment of the major theoretical developments, illustrated by clinical examples drawn from the author's own vast experience. 200 pages. more...

  • Civilization and its Discontentsby Sigmund Freud

    Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not Available

    Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals... more...

  • Psychology without Foundationsby Steven Brown; Paul Stenner

    SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 40.00

    Social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis. This book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive. more...

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychologyby David B. Baker

    Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 150.00

    The science and practice of psychology has evolved around the world on different trajectories and timelines, yet with a convergence on the recognition of the need for a human science that can confront the challenges facing the world today. Few would argue that the standard narrative of the history of psychology has emphasized European and American... more...

  • Future Babbleby Dan Gardner

    Ebury Publishing 2012; US$ 12.00

    In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1908, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future... more...