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 Burt Affair
1st Edition
By R. B. Joynson
May 01, 2026
Few reputations had undergone so dramatic a reversal as that of the late Sir Cyril Burt. When he died in 1971, he was widely acclaimed as a founding father of British psychology and a commanding figure in the world of education. His decline began when it was alleged, some five years later, that he ...
The Psychology of Nirvana
1st Edition
By Rune Johansson
May 01, 2026
The oldest Pali writings are of great interest to the psychologist, not only because their analysis of mind is in many ways comparable to his own, but because their teaching has been used for practical purposes with enviable success. One of the most important of the Buddhist concepts is that of ...
The Psychophysiology of Mental Illness
1st Edition
By Malcolm Lader
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1975, for the previous twenty years or so researchers had been working steadily, accumulating data relating to the physiological status of patients suffering from various psychiatric disorders. Their studies came under the broad heading of clinical psychophysiology – the ...
Cognitive Analysis of Dyslexia
1st Edition
By Philip H. K. Seymour
April 01, 2026
Developmental dyslexia is a disorder which affects the acquisition of basic reading and spelling skills in childhood. Originally published in 1986 and reissued here with a new preface, adopting a cognitive approach to the problem, the author bases his discussion on the assumption that the mental ...
Cognitive Neuropsychology and Cognitive Rehabilitation
1st Edition
Edited
By M. J. Riddoch, G. W. Humphreys
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1994, the previous 15 years had seen significant advances in cognitive analysis of many neuropsychological syndromes. In such analyses, investigators aimed to understand cognitive deficits in terms of impairments to particular processes within a model of normal cognitive ...
Group Performance
1st Edition
By Henk A. M. Wilke, Roel W. Meertens
April 01, 2026
Social interaction is of prime importance in daily life, especially so at work and for the interpersonal professions. Originally published in 1994, Group Performance is an invaluable account of the theory, research and practice of work in groups. The authors Henk Wilke and Roel Meertens examine how...
Knowledge in Minds: Individual and Collective Processes in Cognition
1st Edition
By A. L. Wilkes
April 01, 2026
In the 1990s, the majority of texts in cognitive psychology dealt with the details of cognitive processes as individually defined. Originally published in 1997, this book was different in providing an account of cognition that focuses upon the cumulative and shared nature of human enterprise. Each ...
Neural Repair, Transplantation and Rehabilitation
1st Edition
By Roger A. Barker, Stephen B. Dunnett
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1999, this book begins with a synopsis of experimental work underlying degeneration and recovery in the nervous system, which is then discussed in the context of strategies to repair the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The major part of the ...
Psychology and Religion: An Introduction to Contemporary Views
1st Edition
By G. Stephens Spinks
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1963, this book states that religion is a universal phenomenon and a dominant factor in human development. It must therefore be studied psychologically as a primordial aspect of human consciousness. This involves a balanced presentation of anthropology, comparative religion,...
Rationality: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By K. I. Manktelow, D. E. Over
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1993, reissued here with a new introduction, the study of rationality was one of the most exciting and important areas of contemporary cognitive science: recent research involved collaborations across disciplinary boundaries, and theoretical progress had been rapid and ...
Social Psychology
1st Edition
By W. J. H. Sprott
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1952, the study of social psychology as a separate subject was a comparatively recent one. There was the classic work of McDougall, and in a very different sort, Trotter; while twenty years previously Professor Ginsberg gave the subject a new orientation. But the study of ...
Apparitions: An Autobiographical Study in Parapsychology
1st Edition
By Kate Christie
March 02, 2026
All her life the novelist Kate Christie had been haunted by apparitions of the dead. She felt the coming of disaster and death. She was forced to share the sufferings of the psychically disturbed, and to be host to those who had died violent deaths. She neither wanted nor welcomed any of this; she ...