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Unfolding Social Constructionism
Springer 2006; US$ 99.99This book examines social constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not consider constructionist accounts of psycho-social phenomena, but it does assess certain assumptions which are said to underpin those accounts, assumptions which are primarily semantic and epistemological. The first part of the book explains why the charges of relativism... more...
Works of Elbert Hubbard
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Author?s biography and free stories in the trial version. of Contents. List of Works in Alphabetical Order. Elbert Hubbard Biography. Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured... more...
Revolution in Mind
HarperCollins 2008; US$ 14.99A masterful history of one of the most important movements of our time, Revolution in Mind is a brilliant, engaging, and radically new work—the first ever to fully account for the making of psychoanalysis. In a sweeping narrative, George Makari demonstrates how a new way of thinking about inner life coalesced and won followers who spread this... more...
Constructions and the analytic field
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 42.95Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction? In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's writing, beginning with 'Constructions in Analysis'... more...
Perceiving the Affordances
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 49.95Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented... more...
American Therapy
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.00From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American psychotherapy Although fifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, patients rarely know the origins of the field. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense... more...
Freud's Requiem
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 15.00Freud's 1915 essay On Transience recorded a summertime conversation with two unnamed companions-who were thought to be poet Rainer Maria Rilke and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas- Salomé. In Freud's Requiem , their philosophical musing becomes a prism through which to consider Freud's ideas about creativity, his crises of spirit, and his experiences of... more...
Psychology And Philosophy
Springer 2008; US$ 179.99Psychology and Philosophy provides a history of the relations between philosophy and the science of psychology from late scholasticism to contemporary discussions. The book covers the development from 16th-century interpretations of Aristotle's De Anima, through Kantianism and the 19th-century revival of Aristotelianism, up to 20th-century phenomenological... more...
A History of Psychology in Metascientific Perspective
Elsevier Science 1988; US$ 250.00Two fields of interest are combined in this volume: the history of science and the theory, or philosophy, of science (metascience). The result is a history of psychology with emphasis placed upon a metascientific analysis of the work of fourteen psychologists from various periods. Each analysis is set in historical context; a period or school is discussed... more...
The Loss of Sadness
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 20.99Foreword by Robert Spitzer, M.D. Preface. 1. The Concept of Depression. 2. The Anatomy of Normal Sadness. 3. Sadness With and Without Case: Depression from Ancient Times through the Nineteenth Century. 4. Depression in the Twentieth Century. 5. 6. Importing Pathology into the Community. 7. The Surveillance of Sadness. 8. The DSM and Biological Research... more...









