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 Infancy
1st Edition
By Pierre R. Crosson
November 19, 2014
Originally published in 1933, this volume was the result of many years’ careful first-hand study of child psychology enriched by the author’s unusually wide experience in dealing with the subject with students. It was intended to follow the development of children from infancy to adolescence, but ...
Three Voices of Art Therapy: Image, Client, Therapist
1st Edition
By Tessa Dalley, Gabrielle Rifkind, Kim Terry
November 19, 2014
The image, the client and the therapist are three essential aspects of the art therapy relationship; each has a separate ‘voice’. In this book, originally published in 1993, the three voices come alive as the client, Kim, and the therapist, Gabrielle, tell the story of his path from suicidal ...
Bizarre Behaviours: Boundaries of Psychiatric Disorder
1st Edition
By Herschel Prins
October 12, 2014
The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets ...
Living with the Bomb: Can We Live Without Enemies?
1st Edition
By Pierre R. Crosson
October 12, 2014
Originally published in 1985, Living with the Bomb was written as a sequel to the best seller Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison. The human species is facing extinction, not merely from nuclear war but also, and perhaps more likely, from the destruction of the resources of the planet. Is it ...
Social Psychology at Work: Essays in Honour of Michael Argyle
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel J. Basta, Adrian Furnham
October 12, 2014
Social psychology has much to offer real world problems, especially in industrial and organizational settings. Originally published in 1995, in Social Psychology at Work leading researchers in their respective fields discuss recent findings and their implications for the commercial world of work. ...
Cooperation: The Basis of Sociability
1st Edition
By Michael Argyle
October 10, 2014
Is human nature cooperative? Man is often said to be a social animal – but what does that mean? Michael Argyle believed that one of the most important components – our capacity to cooperate – had been overlooked and indeed that the whole notion of cooperation had not been properly understood. ...
Human Destructiveness: The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty
1st Edition
By James Douglas McCallum
October 10, 2014
Originally published in 1972, this fully revised edition was published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil. The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human ...
Inquiries in Psychiatry: Clinical and Social Investigations
1st Edition
By Aubrey Lewis
October 10, 2014
To mark his retirement in 1966 from the Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and the directorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital, Professor Lewis’s students edited and prepared an edition of his collected papers, in two volumes. Originally published in ...
Psychology and Social Problems
1st Edition
By Michael Argyle
October 10, 2014
First published in 1964 Psychology and Social Problems looks at a changing society and research into problems of the time. Many of the themes in the book, such as delinquency, mental health and racial conflict and are still familiar and current topics of discussion today. Social scientists had ...
Social Skills and Health (Psychology Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Argyle
October 10, 2014
The efficiency of an organization and the well-being of those working within it are often dependent to a large extent on the social skills deployed by certain key personnel. The analysis of these skills and the training of people in their use had reached a stage of considerable sophistication. ...
The Chamber of Maiden Thought: Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind
1st Edition
By Meg Harris Williams, Margot Waddell
October 10, 2014
Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally ...
The Scientific Study of Social Behaviour
1st Edition
By Michael Argyle
October 10, 2014
Originally published in 1957 this title was an up-to-date account of psychological research into human social behaviour of the time. There are chapters on interaction between pairs of people, behaviour in small social groups, and human relations in industry. The author avoided the adoption of any ...