Psychology Revivals
About the Book Series
Psychology Revivals is an initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Following the success of the Routledge Revivals programme, this time encompassing a vast range from across the Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with both Routledge and Psychology Press, restoring to print books by some of the most influential scholars of the last 120 years.
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Applications of Conditioning Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Davey
May 21, 2019
The area of applied psychology known as behaviour modification or behaviour therapy had progressed remarkably in the ten years, prior to publication. Illustrative of this progress is the variety of therapeutic and behaviour management techniques now available to the applied psychologist. This ...
Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Alan Garnham
May 21, 2019
First published in 1987, this book provides a stimulating introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) - the science of thinking machines. After a general introduction to AI, including its history, tools, research methods, and its relation to psychology, Garnham gives an account of AI research in ...
The Psychology of Thinking
1st Edition
By N. Bolton
May 21, 2019
In this concise and lucid survey, originally published in 1972, the author considers the major theoretical perspectives influential in the psychology of thinking at the time. They are looked at in relation to the problems which they are designed to answer and their success in accounting for the ...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contemporary Issues in Treatment
1st Edition
Edited
By Wayne K. Goodman, Matthew V. Rudorfer, Jack D. Maser
February 21, 2019
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is now recognized to be a serious and chronic illness affecting more than 2% of the population. While the last decade of the twentieth century witnessed many advances on both the pharmacological and the behavioral fronts, fewer than 50% of cases benefitted ...
Operant Conditioning: An Experimental Analysis of Behaviour
1st Edition
By Derek E. Blackman
February 21, 2019
The approach to psychology advocated by the radical behaviourists was often misunderstood and frequently gave rise to controversy. Originally published in 1974, this book introduced current research in operant conditioning and explains the attempt to understand behaviour inherent in such ...
The Psychology of Grandparenthood: An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter K. Smith
February 21, 2019
The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role, and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren. Originally published in 1991, this book redresses the ...
Innocence Destroyed: A Study of Child Sexual Abuse
1st Edition
By Jean Renvoize
July 02, 2018
How common is child sexual abuse? How can victims and abusers best be treated? In Innocence Destroyed, originally published in 1993, the author uses interviews with victims and with experienced professionals, as well as new data from Britain, North America and Australia, to give a clear picture of ...
An Introduction to Attribution Processes
1st Edition
By Kelly G. Shaver
March 26, 2018
Why do people act the way they do? How do their desires and fears become known to us? When are our opinions of others correct, and when are they likely to be mistaken? These are questions which attribution theory tries to answer. Originally published in 1975, this title provides an informal ...
Germany Possessed
1st Edition
By H.G. Baynes
March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1941, the blurb read: "The aim of this work is to state and understand the psychological dynamics of the present conflict. The author is a medical psychologist who has had unusual opportunities for studying German mentality. He characterizes the condition of Germany as one ...
Investigating Psychology: Sciences of the Mind After Wittgenstein
1st Edition
By John Hyman
March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein’s investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to current experimental psychology at the time. Rather than reflecting on the nature of psychological theory...
Social and Moral Values: Individual and Societal Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy Eisenberg, Janusz Reykowski, Ervin Staub
March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1989, this joint venture of American and Polish psychologists provides an international perspective on the psychological factors that make people attend to the well-being of others and of society. The individual sections focus on: theoretical perspectives in the nature of ...
A Psychology with a Soul: Psychosynthesis in Evolutionary Context
1st Edition
By Jean Hardy
February 12, 2018
A comprehensive approach to self-realization, psychosynthesis was developed between 1910 and the 1950s by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli. Assagioli like Jung, diverged from Freud in order to develop an understanding of human nature that took account of spiritual dimensions. This book, ...