In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation. The first section presents...Daugiau...
By the 1970s psychology had made sizable advances with its primary emphasis on the study of overt behavior, but its progress on covert behavior had been delayed because of the lack of suitable psychophysiological technology. Originally published i...Daugiau...
The concept of Minimal Brain Dysfunction (a previous term for ADHD) has had a tumultuous, and some would say, checkered history. Originally published in 1981, this title was one of a series of volumes dealing with specific developmental problems i...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1996, Growing Critical takes a fresh look at infancy, childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that development does not exist. John R. Morss surveys the range of contemporary alternatives in critical psychology...Daugiau...
First published in 1929, the original blurb reads: This is the first popular history of psychology to be written, and gives the general reader an accurate account of all the more important events in the development of psychological thinking, from...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1931, The Intelligence of Animals sets out detailed studies of various birds and beasts, some in the wild, some under domestication, and some under semi-domestication, with a view to illustrating the supreme importan...Daugiau...
In this highly provocative book, originally published in 1974, Sir George Pickering, former Professor of Medicine, examines the role of illness in the minds and lives of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Freud, Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browni...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1979, Therapeutic Environments brings together a set of previously unpublished accounts of studies by internationally recognized experts in North America and Britain, of the full range of places which are designed to...Daugiau...
In Creative Characters, originally published in 1991, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for an understanding of creativity and offers a novel approach. She notes that studies of creativity fall into types. She offers an ori...Daugiau...
Frst published in 1997, what does the term psychological mindedness mean? That had been a difficult question to answer. There had been a variety of definitions and measures of the term, but also of related constructs such as alexithymia, private s...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1980, this title is an integration of past theories of schizophrenia and an information-processing explanation that applies current behavioral, developmental, and hemispheric research. Today it can be read in its historical co...Daugiau...
How do social scientists create facts? What strategies do they use to construct knowledge? How does social science make sense of the individual? Critical studies of both medical and scientific knowledge have been conducted but social science knowl...Daugiau...
Throughout its evolution, Piagets theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing.For Piaget, all knowing whether sensorimotor, representational, or reasoned, and whether direct...Daugiau...
Many researchers in psychology have attempted to capture the meaning of quantities by relating them to scales of quantity. First published in 1993, the book explores this idea in detail and shows how these expressions also serve to control attenti...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1989, this volume carefully catalogues and classifies the effect of bias on quantitative judgments. Each bias is described by model and examples of this bias are given. The examples include both theoretical investigations c...Daugiau...
First published in 1957 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy summarizes and evaluates the trends in this field in the 1950s. Dr Alexander illuminates interesting points of theory, discusses controversial issues, and offers views....Daugiau...
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 nur...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1979, The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism was a psychologists attempt to understand what the Buddha meant by dependent origination (paticcasumappada, sometimes translated as causality). ...Daugiau...
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 phys...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1951, unlike most books dealing with psychology and pastoral work at the time, this work is not concerned solely with the application of psycho-therapeutic principles to the work of the minister. It is dominated by the need...Daugiau...
