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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Effective Psychotherapy: The Silent Dialogue
1st Edition
By Robert J. Decker
October 01, 2026
Originally published in 1988, Effective Psychotherapy: The Silent Dialogue, reissued here with a new foreword by the author’s son, explores various debates within psychotherapy. The book offers a transtheoretical psychotherapy seeking to explain its covert processes – its “silent dialogue” – ...
Learning and Comprehension of Text
1st Edition
Edited
By Heinz Mandl, Nancy L. Stein, Tom Trabasso
October 01, 2026
Originally published in 1984, Learning and Comprehension of Text was the outcome of a conference held in West Germany in 1981. The main goal of the conference was to promote scientific exchange between educators, cognitive scientists, linguists, and psychologists who were investigating the ...
Psychology of Sports, Exercise, and Fitness: Social and Personal Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis Diamant
October 01, 2026
“The social psychology of sports and the problems of personal adjustment and mental health are herein encountered with regard for the innovative approach, respect for the theoretical framework, and value for and emphasis on research. The ensuing chapters will explore relationships between the most ...
Steps to Language: Toward a Theory of Native Language Acquisition
1st Edition
By I. M. Schlesinger
October 01, 2026
Originally published in 1982, Steps to Language was intended as a contribution toward a theory of language acquisition in children. The title may be taken to refer not only to the steps taken by the child toward mastery of the linguistic system but also to those taken by the theorist trying to ...
Teen Pregnancy and Parenting
1st Edition
By Annette U. Rickel
October 01, 2026
Originally published in 1989, the recent increase in teenage pregnancies, combined with media attention focused on the subject, made this comprehensive overview of teenage pregnancy and parenting in America an especially timely work. Dr Rickel presents current research findings in the area, ...
Categories and Processes in Language Acquisition
1st Edition
Edited
By Yonata Levy, Izchak M. Schlesinger, Martin D. S. Braine
September 01, 2026
Understanding how a child acquires his or her native tongue is one of the major unsolved mysteries of psychology. Categories and Processes in Language Acquisition, originally published in 1988, and as the title indicates is about the acquisition of linguistic categories, and about the child’s ...
Deduction
1st Edition
By P. N. Johnson-Laird, Ruth M. J. Byrne
September 01, 2026
How do people make deductions? The orthodox answer is that they follow formal rules of inference. Originally published in 1991, and reissued here with a new preface, the authors of Deduction repudiate this theory. They argue that people reason by building a model of the state of affairs, ...
Developing Narrative Structure
1st Edition
Edited
By Allyssa McCabe, Carole Peterson
September 01, 2026
Effective narration, the telling of stories or recounting of personal experiences, is an art requiring skills that appear crucial for children’s language development and literacy acquisition. Developing Narrative Structure, originally published in 1991, served an important purpose because it pulled...
Extraversion and Introversion: An Interactional Perspective
1st Edition
By Larry Wayne Morris
September 01, 2026
One of the best ways to learn about personality is to start with one central concept and explore its relationships with many other concepts and processes that are applicable to the study of personality. Originally published in 1979, Extraversion and Introversion: An Interactional Perspective does ...
Information Processing Research in Advertising
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Jackson Harris
September 01, 2026
Originally published in 1983, Information Processing Research in Advertising was dedicated to helping bridge the interdisciplinary gap among psychologists, marketing researchers, linguists, and communication scientists at the time. In considering the many and varied effects of advertising, a very ...
Memory for Actions
1st Edition
By Johannes Engelkamp
September 01, 2026
Psychological experiments demonstrate that we remember self-performed actions better and more easily than actions performed by others, which we only perceived, or actions which were only reported to us. In everyday life, we remember whether or not we have already performed certain actions. ...
Rorschach's Test: Scoring and Interpretation
1st Edition
By Alvin G. Burstein, Sandra Loucks
September 01, 2026
Rorschach's Test: Scoring and Interpretation was originally published in 1989, when current systems for Rorschach scoring had developed without a clear relationship to personality theory. This important volume provided a systematic treatment of the Rorschach test that took into account the ...