In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation. The first section presents...Lasīt vairāk
In this highly provocative book, originally published in 1974, Sir George Pickering, former Professor of Medicine, examines the role of illness in the minds and lives of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Freud, Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browni...Lasīt vairāk
In Creative Characters, originally published in 1991, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for an understanding of creativity and offers a novel approach. She notes that studies of creativity fall into types. She offers an ori...Lasīt vairāk
Frst published in 1997, what does the term psychological mindedness mean? That had been a difficult question to answer. There had been a variety of definitions and measures of the term, but also of related constructs such as alexithymia, private s...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1980, this title is an integration of past theories of schizophrenia and an information-processing explanation that applies current behavioral, developmental, and hemispheric research. Today it can be read in its historical co...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1957 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy summarizes and evaluates the trends in this field in the 1950s. Dr Alexander illuminates interesting points of theory, discusses controversial issues, and offers views....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1931, Nursing Psychological Patients was a book written by a nurse for the purpose of increasing the interest of members of the nursing profession in psychological diseases, by pointing out that they require the nur...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1951, unlike most books dealing with psychology and pastoral work at the time, this work is not concerned solely with the application of psycho-therapeutic principles to the work of the minister. It is dominated by the need...Lasīt vairāk
Psychopathology is the scientific study of abnormal behaviour and mental illness, and thus forms part of the theoretical foundation for a great range of professions from special education, medicine and nursing, psychology and psychiatry to law enf...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account which examines the psychological walls we build around us. In it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, d...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1981, the subject matter of Wholly Human is integrated Man, the man whose functions and faculties work together in harmony, the man who is wholly human aware and accepting of the disparities between who he thinks he is an...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1930, the object of Love in the Machine Age was to popularize a modern and scientific view of behavior, and thereby help people to live happy and successful lives. Taking its lead from psychological theories prevalent at th...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1947, an increasing mass of evidence compiled in past years had made the occurrence of telepathy and related phenomena an established fact. However, medical psychology refused to acknowledge their existence and to reconcile them...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1954, New Dimensions of Deep Analysis was a systematic attempt at integrating facts which were once misrepresented as occult into the framework of modern dynamic psychiatry. Defining the concepts and criteria of so-called...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1998, this title provided a comprehensive review of the background and literature concerning effects of the psychiatric disorders on cognitive functions at the time. It follows the classification of disease proposed by the...Lasīt vairāk
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 re...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1931, this title looks at the theories and causes of stammering as they were understood at the time. It looks at the various treatments available, exposing those quack remedies that are unlikely to work and may make things wor...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1964, The Dynamics of Forgiveness is the product of a parish and of theological study in the context of a parish. Written by a pastor, it attempts to give enough evidence to establish the place of forgiveness in theologic...Lasīt vairāk
