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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The Psychology of Grandparenthood: An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter K. Smith
February 21, 2019
The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role, and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren. Originally published in 1991, this book redresses the ...
Innocence Destroyed: A Study of Child Sexual Abuse
1st Edition
By Jean Renvoize
July 02, 2018
How common is child sexual abuse? How can victims and abusers best be treated? In Innocence Destroyed, originally published in 1993, the author uses interviews with victims and with experienced professionals, as well as new data from Britain, North America and Australia, to give a clear picture of ...
An Introduction to Attribution Processes
1st Edition
By Kelly G. Shaver
March 26, 2018
Why do people act the way they do? How do their desires and fears become known to us? When are our opinions of others correct, and when are they likely to be mistaken? These are questions which attribution theory tries to answer. Originally published in 1975, this title provides an informal ...
Germany Possessed
1st Edition
By H.G. Baynes
March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1941, the blurb read: "The aim of this work is to state and understand the psychological dynamics of the present conflict. The author is a medical psychologist who has had unusual opportunities for studying German mentality. He characterizes the condition of Germany as one ...
Investigating Psychology: Sciences of the Mind After Wittgenstein
1st Edition
By John Hyman
March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein’s investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to current experimental psychology at the time. Rather than reflecting on the nature of psychological theory...
Social and Moral Values: Individual and Societal Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy Eisenberg, Janusz Reykowski, Ervin Staub
March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1989, this joint venture of American and Polish psychologists provides an international perspective on the psychological factors that make people attend to the well-being of others and of society. The individual sections focus on: theoretical perspectives in the nature of ...
A Psychology with a Soul: Psychosynthesis in Evolutionary Context
1st Edition
By Jean Hardy
February 08, 2018
A comprehensive approach to self-realization, psychosynthesis was developed between 1910 and the 1950s by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli. Assagioli like Jung, diverged from Freud in order to develop an understanding of human nature that took account of spiritual dimensions. This book, ...
Damaged Life: The Crisis of the Modern Psyche
1st Edition
By Tod Sloan
February 08, 2018
What are the psychological problems caused by modernization? How can we minimize its negative effects? Modernization has brought many material benefits to us, yet we are constantly told how unhappy we are: crime, divorce, suicide, depression and anxiety are rampant. How can this contradiction be ...
Guilt: Its Meaning and Significance
1st Edition
By John G. McKenzie
February 08, 2018
It is acknowledged by most students of human behaviour that the idea of guilt is closely connected with that of man’s freedom and responsibility. It is a theme of law-court and pulpit, a concern of psychoanalysis and probation officers, a growing pre-occupation of the novelist. Our era has even ...
Mastery Motivation in Early Childhood: Development, Measurement and Social Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By David J. Messer
February 08, 2018
All children possess a motive to ‘master’ the various tasks and problems that they face. Without mastery motivation, it is doubtful whether children would make progress in cognitive, social communicative and other domains. Although all children possess this motivation, it will vary according to ...
Nervous Disorders and Religion: A Study of Souls in the Making
1st Edition
By John G. McKenzie
February 08, 2018
Originally published in 1951, this title is a study in developmental psychology with special reference to the effect of various types of religion on mental health and religious experience. With instinct as a ‘disappearing category’ in the psychology of human nature, a new approach to the ...
Personal Problems of Conduct and Religion
1st Edition
By J.G. McKenzie
February 08, 2018
Originally published in 1932, Professor McKenzie, author of ‘Souls in the Making’, had been deeply interested for years in helping those afflicted with nervous troubles, moral conflicts, or religious doubts. Each chapter of this book deals with some concrete problem which he had actually faced with...