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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Intelligence in Ape and Man
1st Edition
By David Premack
January 09, 2015
What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and ...
Personality Assessment: A Critical Survey
1st Edition
By Philip E. Vernon
January 09, 2015
Originally published in 1964, the aim of this book was to analyse the psychological processes involved in understanding personality, and to consider how the psychologist could help in making more accurate assessments. Professor Vernon discusses in detail the scientific status of psychoanalytic and ...
Personality Tests and Assessments
1st Edition
By Philip E. Vernon
January 09, 2015
Originally published in 1953 this book provided the first comprehensive account of methods of personality assessment by a British author. It starts with a short survey of personality theory, pointing out the difficulties in any method of testing or assessment. Next it describes the weaknesses of ...
Reflections on Self Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Samuel Kaplan
January 09, 2015
Originally published in 1983 Reflections on Self Psychology records the development of a powerful initiative to alter psychoanalytic theory and practice, and an evaluative questioning of this initiative. It presents a dialogue that developed at the Boston Symposium of 1980 between vigorous ...
The Social Psychology of Social Movements
1st Edition
By Hans Toch
January 09, 2015
The social movements that Professor Toch examines in this book, originally published in 1966, range from the Black Muslims to food faddists, and the founders of these movements range from Hitler to Joan of Arc. Why do people join social movements? How do such movements serve the needs of their ...
The Structure of Human Abilities
1st Edition
By Philip E. Vernon
January 09, 2015
First published in 1950, this revised edition of The Structure of Human Abilities was published in 1961, but remained largely unchanged from the original save for an additional supplement on the developments in factorial work on human abilities from 1950-1959. Much research had been carried out ...
Between Psychology and Psychotherapy: A Poetics of Experience
1st Edition
By Miller Mair
December 22, 2014
In this highly original and thought-provoking work the late Miller Mair puts forward his ideas for a new psychology. First published in 1989, he deals with issues of fundamental importance to the future of a psychology guided by genuine enquiry and concern rather than mere professional ...
Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology
1st Edition
By Ian Parker
December 22, 2014
What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language? Originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was one of the few texts to ...
George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733)
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Porter
December 22, 2014
‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for eighteenth-century fashionable ailments. The English Malady was one of the best known and most influential books of the Georgian age, ...
Historical Social Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen
December 22, 2014
The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in ...
Images of Art Therapy: New Developments in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Tessa Dalley, Caroline Case, Joy Schaverien, Felicity Weir, Diana Halliday, Patsy Nowell Hall, Diane Waller
December 22, 2014
Working through the process of image-making in a therapeutic relationship, the art therapist is able to explore feelings, fantasies, and myths in different setting with diverse client groups. Originally published in 1987 Images of Art Therapy is a collection of essays by experienced art therapists ...
Pathology of Eating: Psychology and Treatment
1st Edition
By Sara Gilbert
December 22, 2014
Originally published in 1986, Sara Gilbert provided the first systematic and comprehensive coverage of the psychological aspects of eating disorders and their treatment. The book begins with an account of normal eating behaviour and the problems of explaining its control in the individual in the ...