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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Psyche, Culture and the New Science: The Role of PN
1st Edition
By Frederick Tomlin
November 10, 2017
Originally published in 1985, this distinguished and constructive critique of modern culture introduced into our language a brand-new term, ‘PN’, standing for ‘psychic nutrition’, which at the time promised to become a household expression. Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of oriental ...
Significant Differences: Feminism in Psychology
1st Edition
By Corinne Squire
November 10, 2017
Current western feminism and psychology have a particularly close relationship, with feminism finding an increasingly important voice in psychology. In this clear introductory text, originally published in 1989, Corinne Squire examines what feminism and psychology mean to each other, concentrating ...
Conceptual Structure in Childhood and Adolescence: The Case of Everyday Physics
1st Edition
By Christine J. Howe
October 10, 2017
‘Heat breaks up charcoal and puts sulphur dioxide in’; ‘The air pulls faster on heavy masses.’ These and other similar statements by school-aged children untutored in physics carry two messages. First, children’s pre-instructional conceptions of the physical world are a far cry from the received ...
Elements of Applied Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Spurgeon, Roy Davies, Antony Chapman
October 10, 2017
Originally published in 1994, Elements of Applied Psychology provided an introductory survey of the major aspects of applied psychology at the time for students of psychology as a main or ancillary subject. It was the first text to investigate the pressures created by this increased interest in ...
Psychological Aspects of Physical Education and Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By J E Kane
October 10, 2017
Psychology has an important part to play in the teaching and practice of physical education and sport, and this volume, originally published in 1972, provided a systematic and authoritative introduction to the major areas in this field at the time. The contributors, leading experts in the UK and US...
Psychology and Morals: An Analysis of Character
1st Edition
By J. A. Hadfield
October 10, 2017
Originally published in 1923, this book had enjoyed constant and wide success, being reprinted fourteen times. In this new and thoroughly revised edition, published in 1964, the author has reconsidered his conclusions in the light of modern psychology of the time, and includes many case histories ...
Soviet Psychology: History, Theory, Content
1st Edition
By John McLeish
October 10, 2017
Originally published in 1975, this title sets out to show us the differences between Soviet and other ways of thinking about nature, man, and society. The basic factor distinguishing Soviet psychology is that it views phenomena from the perspective of a highly articulated body of theoretical ...
Stress and Strategy
1st Edition
By Shirley Fisher
October 10, 2017
Originally published in 1987, this title is concerned with the association between stress and control, and the implications for strategic response. It aims both to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of research in the area of stress for the advanced student and to develop a new synthesis ...
The Social Insects: Their Origin and Evolution
1st Edition
By William Morton Wheeler
October 10, 2017
Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call them ‘social’. Terebrantia, aculeata, wasps, bees, ants, and termites are discussed in a succession ...
Applied Cognitive Psychology: An Information-Processing Framework
1st Edition
By Paul J. Barber
September 06, 2017
Originally published in 1988 Applied Cognitive Psychology draws on the psychology of perception, attention, and cognition to give an understanding of some everyday activities and skills. Paul Barber focuses on processes involved in selecting simple actions, face perception, reading, and tasks ...
Information, Natural Law, and the Self-Assembly of Rhythmic Movement
1st Edition
By Peter N. Kugler, Michael T. Turvey
September 06, 2017
Originally published in 1987, the introduction states: "the authors have successfully accomplished their program – to explain, based on physical representations, the observed relations among various parameters of wrist-pendulum oscillations. Thereby a set of new ideas and concepts, including those ...
Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes
1st Edition
By Demaris S. Wehr
September 06, 2017
Jung, in contrast to Freud, has typically been considered more sympathetic to women largely because of his emphasis on the feminine as a way of being in the world and on the ‘anima’, the unconscious feminine aspect of male personality. Feminists, however, have viewed Jung’s whole notion of the ‘...