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Theodore Zeldin
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A provocative work that explores the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through diverse cultures and time. "An intellectually dazzling view of our past and future."--Time magazine Historian Theodore Zeldin writes about the history of feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions. He views the past from a new and fresh perspective,... more
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Jonathan Lear
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
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Description: Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of psychology. He also... more
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Sean Homer
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Description: This volume provides an excellent introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, covering all of Lacan's major concepts such as the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real. Sean Homer draws on a number of examples from the fields of literary, film, gender and cultural studies to help explain these... more
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Robert Bocock
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2002]
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Description: To those who see Freud solely as a psychologist and a psychotherapist it may be surprising to find him discussed as a major contributor to sociology. Bocock demonstrates Freud's central relevance to sociological discussions about gender, sexuality, the family, religion, ideology and symbolism, political authority, and language. This is... more
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Joseph Bristow
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying not allowed. Printing not allowed. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. An acclaimed account of the history of sexuality in critical discourse. Description: Sexuality is generally seen as perhaps the most basic of human forces, a wholly natural feature of life. In... more
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Timothy Leary
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2000]
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Description: THE POLITICS OF SELF-DETERMINATION spotlights Timothy Leary's bedrock work that preceded LSD and "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." Even as a graduate student Leary pushed the envelop to develop a ground-breaking theory of personality that became a significant catalyst which sparked and shaped the human growth movement-"The New... more
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Jerome Kagan
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2006]
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In this elegantly written book, Jerome Kagan melds the history of the field of psychology during the past 50 years with the story of his own research efforts of the same period and an analysis of what he terms "the currently rocky romance between psychology and biology." As Kagan unwinds... more
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Eleanor Gibson
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2001]
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Description: **Susan Barker has an electronic version of marketing statement. There is also a hard copy in the book file.... more
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Daniel N Robinson
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 1995]
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Description: An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature,... more
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Isidor Sadger
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
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Description: Available here for the first time in English, this eyewitness account by one of Freud's earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first century readers. Isidor Sadger's recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movementthe internecine and ideological conflicts of Freud's disciples. They also illuminate... more
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Gregory A Kimble
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2003]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copy not allowed. Print allowed for 20 selections within interval of 7 days Read aloud not allowed. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copy not allowed. Print allowed for 20 selections within interval of 7 days Read aloud not allowed.... more
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Lois Holzman
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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Description: Vygotsky at Work and Play surveys and examines the influence of Lev Vygotsky on contemporary psychology and highlights the many ways Vygotsky's cultural theory of human development has led to a rethinking of psychology's fundamental conceptions. Vygotsky at Work and Play surveys and examines the influence of Lev Vygotsky... more
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Jonathan Engel
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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Description: From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American psychotherapy Although fifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, patients rarely know the origins of the field. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense... more
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Daniel B Smith
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
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Description: An inquiry into hearing voices-one of humanity's most profound phenomena Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. In the age of modern medical science, we have relegated this experience to nothing more than a biological glitch. Yet... more
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Alfred I Tauber
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Description: Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original... more
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Alexander Welsh
[Ebook, Microsoft reader desktop 2001]
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Description: Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, Alexander Welsh argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when The Interpretation of Dreams was published in the last weeks of the nineteenth century. Only by going public with his theory--that dreams manifest hidden wishes--did Freud establish... more
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Ian Hacking
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 1998]
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Description: Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find... more
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Eugene Taylor
[Ebook, Microsoft reader desktop 2001]
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Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, William James was America's most widely read philosopher. In addition to being one of the founders of pragmatism, however, he was also a leading psychologist and author of the seminal work, The Principles of Psychology (1890). While scholars argue that James withdrew... more
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Eleanor J Gibson
[Ebook, Open epub 2001]
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"Perceiving the Affordances" is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual theorist and the founder of... more
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Graham Richards
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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Description: The third edition of Putting Psychology In Its Place builds on the previous two editions, introducing the history of Psychology and placing the discipline within a historical context. It aims both to answer and raise questions about the role of Psychology in modern society, by critically examining issues such... more
