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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Abnormal Speech
1st Edition
By E. J. Boome, H. M. S. Baines, D. G. Harries
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1939, it was only recently that serious study and attention had been given to disorders of speech and there was a growing demand for books dealing with the subject. Abnormal Speech deals concisely with the aetiology of the varied abnormalities of speech and discusses the ...
Administrative Psychiatry
1st Edition
By William A. Bryan
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1937, Administrative Psychiatry was the first book to present theory and practice in a hospital for psychiatric patients. Every detail of the organization and direction of a psychiatric hospital is described in this volume. Everything advocated in this volume had passed the ...
An Introduction to Social Psychology
1st Edition
By L. L. Bernard
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1927, An Introduction to Social Psychology represents an attempt at a more synthetic type of treatment of the field than had previously been given. The author felt that the time had arrived when “schools” of social psychology may properly be regarded as obsolete and the ...
Consciousness and the Unconscious
1st Edition
By David Archard
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1984, Consciousness and the Unconscious deals with the concept of ‘the unconscious’ as originally defined by Sigmund Freud, and as subsequently developed, defended and criticized in continental writing at the time. It starts by describing the institutional context in which ...
Difficulties in Child Development
1st Edition
By Mary Chadwick
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1928, Difficulties in Child Development was written, according to the author, as ‘a response to many inquiries concerning a source of practical information relating to the development and upbringing of little children from a modern psychological standpoint. It also serves to...
Instinct: A Study in Social Psychology
1st Edition
By L. L. Bernard
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1925, according to the preface, Instinct: A Study in Social Psychology is the result of many years of interrupted labors that began in a graduate seminar in 1909–1910, when the author attempted to apply Professor McDougall’s classification of instincts to the classification ...
Letters to Margaret: A Simple Introduction to Psychology
1st Edition
By Theodore Faithfull
February 02, 2026
First published in 1941, the original blurb for Letters to Margaret reads: ‘In view of the almost universal ignorance of the most elementary biological and psychological facts of life amongst adults, and waste of time and energy amongst children in attempts to acquire surreptitiously the knowledge ...
Mental Abnormality: Facts and Theories
1st Edition
By Millais Culpin
February 02, 2026
First published in 1948, Mental Abnormality: Facts and Theories was written when great changes were taking place in the handling of mental disorders and in the teaching of the subject in medical schools. Knowledge of this progress reached the public in a scrappy and sometimes misleading form, and ...
Phantasy in Childhood
1st Edition
By Audrey Davidson, Judith Fay
February 02, 2026
First published in 1952, Phantasy in Childhood is for a psycho-analytically oriented public. The authors have set out to express in non-technical language some of the theories we owe to the work of Melanie Klein, and to show how they are repeatedly borne out in the day-to-day behaviour of children....
Play is a Feeling
1st Edition
By Brenda Crowe
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1983, Play is a Feeling is an exploration of the world of childhood, those first discoveries of sensation, movement, language and surroundings that are an essential part of the process through which children learn and develop. Brenda Crowe, with her amazing gift for ...
Psychology: Its Methods and Principles
1st Edition
By Fleming Allen Clay Perrin, David Ballin Klein
February 02, 2026
First published in 1927, the original blurb of Psychology: Its Methods and Principles reads: "In this book psychology is presented as the science of adaptive behavior. The writers are convinced that the study of such behaviour provides a more effective introduction to psychological science than the...
The Body Under Stress: Developing Skills for Keeping Healthy
1st Edition
By Ed Conduit
February 02, 2026
Originally published in 1995, The Body Under Stress, reissued here with a new preface, seeks to define positive health, the skills needed to acquire it, and how to pass them on to others as part of education and counselling on health issues. Most people now view health as “fitness” – a repertoire ...