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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Psychology Exposed: Or the Emperor's New Clothes
1st Edition
By Paul Kline
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be ...
Psychotherapy with Families: An Analytic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Sally Box, Beta Copley, Jeanne Magagna, Errica Moustaki
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1981, this study is the outcome of a clinical workshop based in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic; its members at the time shared a tradition and interest in applying psychoanalytic principles to the understanding of groups and institutions and believed in ...
The Child as a Cartesian Thinker: Children's Reasonings about Metaphysical Aspects of Reality
1st Edition
By Eugene Subbotsky
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children’s reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems. The first part describes dialogues with children that were constructed on the basis of Descartes’ Mediations on First Philosophy and which look at children’s ideas about the ...
The Education of Children
1st Edition
By Alfred Adler
September 21, 2016
Originally published in 1930, this title looks at the education of children. Adler believes the problems from a psychological point of view are the same as for adults, that of self-knowledge and rational self-direction. However, the difference being that due to the ‘immaturity of children, the ...
The Energies of Men: A Study of the Fundamentals of Dynamic Psychology
1st Edition
By William McDougall
September 21, 2016
First published in 1932, the original blurb states: "This is a simplified condensation of the author’s two volumes, An Outline of Psychology and An Outline of Abnormal Psychology, which together give a comprehensive survey of the principles and findings of modern psychology. This is designed as an ...
The Grasp of Consciousness: Action and Concept in the Young Child
1st Edition
By Jean Piaget
September 21, 2016
Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he had ...
The Mind and its Mechanism
1st Edition
By Paul Bousfield, W.R. Bousfield
September 21, 2016
First published in 1927, the original blurb reads: "Scientists are beginning to believe there is some immaterial thing which performs certain functions that the material mechanism of the brain is powerless to perform. It is the purpose of this book to explain what that immaterial thing is and how ...
Individual Development from an Interactional Perspective: A Longitudinal Study
1st Edition
By David Magnusson
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1988, this title presents a longitudinal research project ‘Individual Development and Adjustment’ (IDA), planned and implemented at the Department of Psychology, University of Stockholm. This title concerns the theoretical background of the project, the planning and ...
Methods and Uses of Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis: A Treatise on the Powers of the Subconscious Mind
1st Edition
By Bernard Hollander
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1928, the main object of this book was to draw attention to the importance of hypnotism and its phenomena, in order to stimulate inquiry into what was at the time a ‘mysterious and unexplored subject’. The author had studied hypnotism nearly all his life and practised it for...
Mythology of the Soul: A Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings
1st Edition
By H.G. Baynes
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1940, this classic study of two schizophrenic case-histories further opened up the seemingly intractable problem of this condition; a task preceded by Jung’s own Psychology of Dementia Praecox. It was Baynes’s grasp of the meaning of the symbol coupled with his wide ...
Social Behavior and Personality
1st Edition
By Arnold H. Buss
September 01, 2016
The fields of social behaviour and personality had for the most part been studied separately, originally published in 1986, this title was one of the first to consider them together. Social behaviours and contexts are analysed and distinctions are suggested. Social behaviours not previously seen as...
Training Behaviour Therapists: Methods, Evaluation and Implementation with Parents, Nurses and Teachers
1st Edition
By Derek Milne
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1986, one of the major developments in behavioural psychotherapy and mental health in the previous decade had been the growing involvement of non-psychologists in behaviour therapy. This was a result of the fact that there were too few psychologists to cope with problem ...