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 Psychology of Musical Ability: Second Edition
1st Edition
By Rosamund Shuter-Dyson, Clive Gabriel
September 01, 2026
Originally published in 1981, The Psychology of Musical Ability is a considerably revised and updated edition of a well-known work which deals broadly and comprehensively with all aspects of psychological studies of musical ability. This second edition pays particular attention to the new tests of ...
Toward a Psychology of Reading: The Proceedings of the CUNY Conferences
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur S. Reber, Don L. Scarborough
September 01, 2026
The gap between laboratory research and its application often seemed enormous and was particularly true in the area of reading. Originally published in 1977, Toward a Psychology of Reading was an attempt to span some of the differences between research and practice at the time. Although the book ...
Nursing Psychological Patients
1st Edition
By Mary Chadwick
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1931, Nursing Psychological Patients was ‘a book written by a nurse for the purpose of increasing the interest of members of the nursing profession in psychological diseases, by pointing out that they require the nurses’ serious attention and offer an important field for ...
Pavlov and his School: The Theory of Conditioned Reflexes
1st Edition
By Y. P. Frolov
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1937, Pavlov and his School provides fascinating biographical information about Pavlov himself and is a clear and concise account of the theory of conditioned reflexes demanding no extensive knowledge of nervous physiology. It shows by numerous examples from everyday life ...
The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism
1st Edition
By Rune Johansson
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1979, The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism was a psychologist’s attempt to understand what the Buddha meant by “dependent origination” (paticcasumappāda, sometimes translated as “causality”). Those who are familiar with Theravada Buddhism have met the famous series of ...
Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys
1st Edition
By Dan Olweus
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1978, Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys is widely considered to be the first scientific study of bullying. This was an investigation of a largely hidden and neglected problem in schools at the time – some children, whipping boys, were exposed over long ...
Australian Psychology: Review of Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman T. Feather
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1985, this volume commissioned by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia presents a survey of research in some of the major areas of psychology with which Australian psychologists had been identified at the time. The chapters cover basic processes; psychometrics and...
Coping with Disorder in the Family
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Orford
August 03, 2026
Many illnesses, disabilities or disorders can have profound effects upon family life. With a shift to community care in the 1980s the burden on family members was increasing. Relatives had often been ignored by helping agencies, and professional theories about family disorders had sometimes ...
Gay and Lesbian Youth: Expressions of Identity
1st Edition
By Ritch C. Savin-Williams
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1990, Gay and Lesbian Youth: Expressions of Identity, reissued here with a new preface, addresses self-esteem in gay and lesbian adolescents and challenges the idea that this is lower than in the ‘normal’ adolescent. First, theoretical positions on self-esteem and coming out...
Psychological Perspectives in Youth Sports
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank L. Smoll, Ronald E. Smith
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1978, Psychological Perspectives in Youth Sports came out of symposium designed to foster communication in the field of sport psychology, which was fragmented at the time. The presentations departed from previous youth sport symposia in that they were all data based and this...
Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems: New Directions in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane M. Ussher, Christine D. Baker
August 03, 2026
Sexuality has always been conceptualised as a potential problem. The regulation of sexuality and the distinction between normality (healthy sexuality) and abnormality (sexual problem) have a long history, in which psychologists have been deeply involved. Yet all attempts to develop a single ...
Pupillometry: The Psychology of the Pupillary Response
1st Edition
By Michel Pierre Janisse
August 03, 2026
The history of research on the pupillary light reflex goes back to 1765. Since 1960, particularly after 1965, the interest of psychologists and other behavioral and social scientists in the pupillometry response had increased enormously. Originally published in 1977, Pupillometry offered an ...