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 Grasp of Consciousness: Action and Concept in the Young Child
1st Edition
By Jean Piaget
September 21, 2016
Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he had ...
The Mind and its Mechanism
1st Edition
By Paul Bousfield, W.R. Bousfield
September 21, 2016
First published in 1927, the original blurb reads: "Scientists are beginning to believe there is some immaterial thing which performs certain functions that the material mechanism of the brain is powerless to perform. It is the purpose of this book to explain what that immaterial thing is and how ...
Individual Development from an Interactional Perspective: A Longitudinal Study
1st Edition
By David Magnusson
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1988, this title presents a longitudinal research project ‘Individual Development and Adjustment’ (IDA), planned and implemented at the Department of Psychology, University of Stockholm. This title concerns the theoretical background of the project, the planning and ...
Methods and Uses of Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis: A Treatise on the Powers of the Subconscious Mind
1st Edition
By Bernard Hollander
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1928, the main object of this book was to draw attention to the importance of hypnotism and its phenomena, in order to stimulate inquiry into what was at the time a ‘mysterious and unexplored subject’. The author had studied hypnotism nearly all his life and practised it for...
Mythology of the Soul: A Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings
1st Edition
By H.G. Baynes
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1940, this classic study of two schizophrenic case-histories further opened up the seemingly intractable problem of this condition; a task preceded by Jung’s own Psychology of Dementia Praecox. It was Baynes’s grasp of the meaning of the symbol coupled with his wide ...
Social Behavior and Personality
1st Edition
By Arnold H. Buss
September 01, 2016
The fields of social behaviour and personality had for the most part been studied separately, originally published in 1986, this title was one of the first to consider them together. Social behaviours and contexts are analysed and distinctions are suggested. Social behaviours not previously seen as...
Training Behaviour Therapists: Methods, Evaluation and Implementation with Parents, Nurses and Teachers
1st Edition
By Derek Milne
September 01, 2016
Originally published in 1986, one of the major developments in behavioural psychotherapy and mental health in the previous decade had been the growing involvement of non-psychologists in behaviour therapy. This was a result of the fact that there were too few psychologists to cope with problem ...
Dyspraxia and its Management
1st Edition
By Nick Miller
July 21, 2016
Dyspraxia is a disorder of voluntary, purposeful, learned movement and is one of the most common sequelae of stroke, head-injury, neoplasm and abnormal ageing. It is also a major complicating factor in the assessment and treatment of acquired language, visual-spatial and other movement disorders. ...
Hypnosis and Experience: The Exploration of Phenomena and Process
1st Edition
By Peter Sheehan, Kevin McConkey
July 21, 2016
The subject of hypnosis has not lost any of its ability to fascinate and intrigue – and this holds equally true for both the layperson and the student of hypnotic behavior. Phenomena of hypnosis range from simple tasks involving ideomotor response to more complex tasks involving substantial ...
Memory and Intelligence
1st Edition
By Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder
July 21, 2016
In the course of their researches for Mental Imagery in the Child (1971), the authors came to appreciate that action may be more conducive to the formation and conservation of images than is mere perception. This raised the problem of memory and its relation to intelligence, which they examine in ...
Mental Health Among Elderly Native Americans
1st Edition
By James Narduzzi
July 21, 2016
In the 1990s providing mental health services to the elderly and particularly to elderly Native Americans had been an issue of some concern for the last several decades. Despite this, many public decisions made at the time were based on inadequate data. Due to this lack of data, there had been ...
Methodologies of Hypnosis: A Critical Appraisal of Contemporary Paradigms of Hypnosis
1st Edition
By Peter Sheehan, Campbell Perry
July 21, 2016
Originally published in 1976, this title looks closely at the current nature of controls in hypnosis research at the time and tries to assess what they contributed to our knowledge of hypnosis. Specifically, the book analyses the contributions to our understanding of hypnotic phenomena offered by ...