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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Obsessional States
1st Edition
Edited
By H. R. Beech
December 08, 2025
First published in 1974, Obsessional States is a collection of original papers by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists that gave a comprehensive survey of thought on significant aspects of obsessional neuroses at the time. The symptoms of patients suffering from this kind of disorder are ...
The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality
1st Edition
By Valerie Walkerdine
December 08, 2025
Originally published in 1988, The Mastery of Reason is, on one level, a study of children’s cognitive development. It engages with debates about the ‘individual’ and the ‘social context’ in accounts of children’s mathematical development at the time. However, Valerie Walkerdine seeks to go beyond ...
Cognition and Categorization
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleanor Rosch, Barbara B. Lloyd
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1978, the papers in this book derive from a 1976 meeting sponsored by the Social Science Research Council to discuss the nature and principles of category formation. It is organized in three sections: real-world categories, the cognitive processes underlying categorization, ...
Competent Reader, Disabled Reader: Research and Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin H. Singer
December 01, 2025
In the past frustration with experimental reports had caused educators to dismiss the entire reading research enterprise. Originally published in 1982, this book attempts to abstract those experimental results relevant to developing effective reading programs. The book concentrates on the more ...
Information Processing and Cognition: The Loyola Symposium
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert L. Solso
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1975, this title presented current theories in information processing and cognition at the time. The topics fall into three major groups. The first section is concerned with the issues of perception and initial processing of visual material; the second section is addressed ...
Perspectives in Psychological Experimentation: Toward the Year 2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Viktor Sarris, Allen Parducci
December 01, 2025
One response to questions about the future of psychology is to attempt an answer to another question: What have we learned from psychology’s past? Originally published in 1984, reissued here with a new preface, this book presents a collection of original papers by authorities with international ...
Problem Solving and Intelligence
1st Edition
By Helga A. H. Rowe
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, Problem Solving and Intelligence was the result of the author’s efforts to understand the nature of human intelligence and the differences in the cognitive functioning of individuals which we observe again and again. The book contains two types of material. First it ...
Psychology in Practice: Perspectives on Professional Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Canter, David Canter
December 01, 2025
What do psychologists do outside the walls of universities? By bringing together the personal accounts of a wide range of psychologists actively involved in the practice of their profession, the editors go a long way towards providing an answer to this question. Originally published in 1982, ...
The Moulding of Modern Man: A Psychologist's View of Information, Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today
1st Edition
By T. H. Pear
December 01, 2025
First published in 1961, The Moulding of Modern Man discusses views of the nature and boundaries of the Self, its relation to the physical world and to human beings, real and imagined, with reference to procedures training ‘space men’ to travel alone or in company, deprived of the assurances of ...
The Nature of Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Lauren B. Resnick
December 01, 2025
In the 1960s and early 1970s, converging scientific and social movements had generated increasing concern over the meaning of the term intelligence. Traditional definitions, rooted in the history of intelligence testing and school selection practices, had come under challenge as experimental ...
Theories in Cognitive Psychology: The Loyola Symposium
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert L. Solso
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1974, this volume presents up-to-date original research and theory in the field of cognition. The contributors survey the most intriguing problems of the area, including the construction of memory, retrieval from memory, concept formation, and problem solving. Also ...
The Psychology of Jung: A Critical Interpretation
1st Edition
By Avis M. Dry
November 30, 2025
First published in 1961 The Psychology of Jung presents a critical and historical interpretation of Carl Jung’s psychology. In this book the author describes himself as an ‘independent student’ and as an ‘interested, though uncommitted observer’ and attempts to explain and reconcile drawbacks, ...