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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Working with Groups: The Social Psychology of Discussion and Decision
1st Edition
By Josephine Klein
October 23, 2015
Originally published in 1963, this book was one of the first to explore group process and working with groups. The introductory chapter tells us that working with groups requires three skills: and understanding of theory, a knowledge of its application, and trained experience in its use. It goes on...
Learning and the Development of Cognition
1st Edition
By Barbel Inhelder, Hermine Sinclair, Magali Bovet
September 15, 2015
How do children learn and how are new modes of thought developed? These questions have for years been of paramount interest to psychologists and others concerned with the cognitive development of the child. In this major work, originally published in 1974 and reporting on over ten years’ research ...
Pavlovian Second-order Conditioning: Studies in Associative Learning
1st Edition
By Robert Rescorla
September 15, 2015
Originally published in 1980, this volume explores some of the dramatic and exciting changes that had taken place in the field of conditioning in the 15 years prior to publication. The usefulness of a particular learning procedure, second-order conditioning, is explored in three aspects of the ...
Psychology: A Study of Mental Life
1st Edition
By Robert Woodworth, Donald Marquis
September 15, 2015
First published in 1922, this popular title by R. S Woodworth was revised several times. This twentieth edition from 1949 brought D.G. Marquis on board and was thoroughly revised again, originally published in its current form in 1963. One of the most famous and successful introductions to ...
The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children
1st Edition
By Pierre R. Crosson, Barbel Inhelder
September 15, 2015
Although originally published in France in 1951 this English translation was not published until 1975. The book supplements the authors’ previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts to ...
The Practice of Psychotherapy: 506 Questions and Answers
1st Edition
By Lewis R. Wolberg
September 15, 2015
Freud once humorously remarked that "Anyone who wants to make a living from the treatment of nervous patients must clearly be able to do something to help them". It is amazing how frequently this simple precept is ignored and, when a patient does not get well, how often the failure is attributed to...
Daydreaming and Fantasy
1st Edition
By Jerome L. Singer
June 10, 2015
Daydreaming, our ability to give ‘to airy nothing a local habitation and a name’, remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour. As children we explore beyond the boundaries of our experience by projecting ourselves into the mysterious worlds outside our reach. As adolescents and ...
Learning Conversations: The Self-Organised Learning Way to Personal and Organisational Growth
1st Edition
By Sheila Harri-Augstein, Laurie Thomas
June 10, 2015
How Can You Improve Your Learning Capabilites? How Can You Enhance Your Potential for Change and Personal Growth? Most of us accept that education does not meet the needs of learners today, or their employers. This mismatch is a key reason why a high level of demotivated youth, as well as workers ...
Psychological Stress in the Workplace
1st Edition
By Terry Beehr
June 10, 2015
Originally published in 1995, this book was the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of research on occupational stress at the time. It identifies the sources, consequences and treatments of stress in the workplace from the perspective of organizational psychology and makes clear ...
Psychology in Africa
1st Edition
By J. Mallory Wober
June 10, 2015
It is now well over a hundred and fifty years since the first celebrated geographical explorations of Africa took place. However, it was many years before there began quests of a different kind – the investigation of behaviour, personality, attitude and ability among Africa’s people. Originally ...
Self-Organised Learning: Foundations of a Conversational Science for Psychology
1st Edition
By Laurie Thomas, Sheila Harri-Augstein
June 10, 2015
From its foundation in the 1950s by George Kelly, Personal Construct Psychology continued to grow, both as a movement among psychologists and then in industry, education, government and commerce. Originally published in 1985 this title offers a compendium of elaborations and new conversational uses...
The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche
1st Edition
By Wilhelm Stekel
June 10, 2015
Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. A prolific writer, this book originally published in 1921, was considered by the translator ‘the best general introduction of its author to the English public’, containing as is does many of his central...