Psychology / History

A History of Modern Psychology in Context

by Wade Pickren & Alexandra Rutherford

A fresh look at the history of psychology placed in its social, political, and cultural contexts

A History of Modern Psychology in Context presents the history of modern psychology in the richness of its many...

Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity

by Daniel B. Smith

An inquiry into hearing voices-one of humanity's most profound phenomena

Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill- understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable....

Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk

by Von Unwerth, Matthew

Freud's 1915 essay On Transience recorded a summertime conversation with two unnamed companions-who were thought to be poet Rainer Maria Rilke and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas- Salomé. In Freud's Requiem, their...

American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

by Jonathan Engel

From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American psychotherapy

Although fifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, patients rarely know the origins...

The Story of Psychology

by Morton Hunt

The engrossing, definitive saga of the great thinkers and scientists who for twenty-five hundred years have been investigating the mysteries of the human mind and human behavior.

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Revolution in Mind: Freud, The Freudians, and the Making of

by George Makari

A masterful history of one of the most important movements of our time, Revolution in Mind is a brilliant, engaging, and radically new work—the first ever to fully account for the making of psychoanalysis....

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

by Gary Greenberg

For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-the DSM-the...

In Freud's Shadow: Adler in Context

by Paul E. Stepansky

In its detailed, interpretive reconsideration of Adler's involvement with Freud and psychoanalysis, In Freud's Shadow constitutes a seminal contribution to our historical understanding of the early psychoanalytic...

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

by Noel Sheehy & Alexandra Forsythe

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life, thought and work of some of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed modern psychology. It features accessibly written and fully cross-referenced...

Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

by Ian Hacking

Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in...

The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity

by Elliott Oring

The Jokes of Sigmund Freud unravels the intimate connections between Sigmund Freud and his Jewish identity. Author Elliott Oring observes that Freud frequently identified with the characters in the jokes he...

The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet

by Lawrence J. Friedman & Anke Schreiber

Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight,...

The Wolfman and Other Cases

by Sigmund Freud & Louise Adey Huish

When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses—most notably a dream about wolves outside his bedroom window—eventually revealed a deep-seated trauma....

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud & Anthea Bell

The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with...

The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916

by C. G. Jung, John Beebe & Ernst Falzeder

In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to understand and codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness....

The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and Its Social Origins

by Dan G. Blazer

Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease,...

Subjectivity in Motion: Life, Art, and Movement in the Work of Hermann Rorschach

by Naamah Akavia

The motif of human movement has long been understood as central to Hermann Rorschach's strikingly innovative inkblot experiment. But owing to Rorschach's untimely death a year after publishing his famous work,...

The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology

by William H. Tucker

Raymond Cattell, the father of personality trait measurement, was one of the most influential psychologists in the twentieth century, the author of fifty-six books, more than five hundred journal articles and...

Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium, Volume 1: Cognitive, Biological and Health Perspectives

by Lars Backman & Claes von Hofsten

These two volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary theory and research in psychological science. Based on the keynote and state-of-the-art lectures from the 27th International Congress of Psychology,...

Handbook of the History of Social Psychology

by Arie W. Kruglanski & Wolfgang Stroebe

For the first time in the history of social psychology, we have a handbook on the history of social psychology. In it, leading luminaries in the field present their take on how research in their own domains...