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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The A B C of Nerves
1st Edition
By D. F. Fraser-Harris
December 08, 2016
Originally published in 1928, the preface reads: "It is almost impossible to distinguish between what is ‘elementary’ and what is ‘advanced’ in regard to the nervous system. The constitution and functions of that system are so little matters of common knowledge that it would be safe to assume that ...
The Management of Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
1st Edition
Edited
By Ved P Varma
December 08, 2016
The management of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties has always been a source of worry and concern to those who have to deal with them. Many such children are unpredictable, sometimes embarrassing, and can often make us feel helpless. We need to know more about them, and why they ...
The Secret Life of Vulnerable Children
1st Edition
Edited
By Ved P Varma
December 08, 2016
How do disturbed children see the world? How can we understand their difficulties? Most children have secret worlds but for some these worlds contain secrets that are both permanent and damaging. Originally published in 1992, this moving account of the secret lives of such vulnerable and disturbed ...
Thinking About Thinking: Studies in the Background of some Psychological Approaches
1st Edition
By Joan Wynn Reeves
December 08, 2016
Originally published in 1965, this title is a series of exploratory essays on approaches to thinking. The central topic is the relation of processes of an associative kind (sometimes irrational, in so far as they are not enmeshed with a world of shared experience) to those involving some degree of ...
A Handbook of Test Construction: Introduction to Psychometric Design
1st Edition
By Paul Kline
September 21, 2016
Psychological tests provide reliable and objective standards by which individuals can be evaluated in education and employment. Therefore accurate judgements must depend on the reliability and quality of the tests themselves. Originally published in 1986, this handbook by an internationally ...
Cognition
1st Edition
By F. George
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1962, the problems of cognition dealt with in this book include learning, perception, thinking, memory and linguistic behaviour. It is not a textbook in the ordinary sense, since it presents a particular approach to the subject through experimental psychology, and also, to ...
Families Under Stress: A Psychological Interpretation
1st Edition
By Tony Manocchio, William Petitt
September 21, 2016
The family is perhaps the most important single institution in everyone’s life. What happens in such an intense group? How does it develop over time? What happens when stress is placed upon it, whether generated from inside or outside the family? Originally published in 1975, when the late Tony ...
Family Systems Application to Social Work: Training and Clinical Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Gail Lewis
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1991, this title is a valuable social work text which demonstrated how to apply family system concepts to clinical situations encountered in work with inner-city populations at the time. Unlike traditional theories in clinical social work which were oriented toward the ...
Handbook of Behavioural Family Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Falloon
September 21, 2016
First published in 1988, behavioural family therapists worked in an area that had greatly changed since its inception over 20 years before. Growing out of the pioneering work of Gerald Patterson, Robert Paul Liberman, and Richard Stuart, whose backgrounds vary from psychology to psychiatry to ...
Lifestreams: An Introduction to Biosynthesis
1st Edition
By David Boadella
September 21, 2016
Biosynthesis means "integration of life". It is a holistic form of body psychotherapy, which was founded over forty-five years ago. The concept of life-streams is one of its major foundations, which has since been supported by research in neurobiology. How can we integrate the three most ...
Models of Thinking
1st Edition
By F. H. George
September 21, 2016
In this volume, originally published in 1970, an attempt is made to examine the more logical aspects of thinking, such as the ability to abstract and the manner in which concepts develop. The author describes the features that had long been regarded as central to thinking by experimental and ...
Personality: Measurement and Theory
1st Edition
By Paul Kline
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory in the study of personality. The student is ...