Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This is the first book that looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Benvenuto draws on her twelve years of clinical practice...

Minds, Brains, Computers serves as both an historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science.

Many philosophers and psychologists argue that normal adult human beings possess a primitive or 'folk' psychological theory. Recently, however, thi...

Minds, Brains, Computers serves as both an historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science.

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory provides a masterful overview of the central issue concerning psychoanalysts today: finding a way to deal...

If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In th...

This Monograph presents a theory of cognitive development. The theory argues that the mind develops across three fronts. The first refers to a gene...

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publica...

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessib...

This book brings together current theory and research about atypical attachments in infants and young children at developmental risk in order to il...

In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgenstein's writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty...

A significant body of work from a 20th Century philosopherRemarks on the Philosophy of Psychology is an English translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein'...

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessib...

Many philosophers and psychologists argue that out everyday ability to predict and explain the actions and mental states of others is grounded in o...

Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the ...

In this Monograph, knowledge acquisition is examined as a process involving the coordination of existing theories with new evidence. Central to the...

"If we wish to help humans to become more fully human, we must realize not only that they try to realize themselves, but that they are also relucta...

The attachment bond that develops between infant and mother is the first of many intimate relationships we form throughout life, and as such it has...

Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this boo...

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figu...

In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, of...

First Published in 1999. This is Volume VI of twenty-one of the Individual Differences Psychology series. Written in 1953, this study looks at the...

Discover the Ideal Investment Strategy for Yourself and YourClients "To enhance investment results and boost creativity, Jim Warereplaces the maxi...

Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Storie...

Creating a snapshot of current thinking about psychoanalysis, this lively collection examines the legacy of Freud and Lacan. Through provocative an...

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic pr...

An exhaustive reference for mental and behavioral health The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science provides psychologists, rese...

This pioneering reader is a collection of fundamental writings on the influence of culture and ethnicity on human social behavior. An overview of ...

Wolfgang Köhler demonstrated that chimpanzees could solve problems by applying insight. His research showed that the intellectual gap between human...

First Published in 1999. This is Volume of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Written in 1937, the object of this volume of essays ...

This is Volume VI of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. First published in 1930, this study presents a summary of the psychological...

This pioneering reader is a collection of fundamental writings on the influence of culture and ethnicity on human social behavior. An overview of ...

This book provides a unique overview of the development of justice-related beliefs in different socialization contexts, and also of the role this p...

This is Volume XX of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1954, in Piaget’s words the study of sensorimotor or...

First published in 1993. When do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us stop? What does ‘humour’ consist of? Listen to any everyday conversation:...

First Published in 1999. This is Volume II of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Written in 1929, this book is a translation into E...

First published in 1999. This volume is the third of a series devoted to the first years of the child’s development, the two others being concerned...

A complete reference to the fields of psychology and behavioral science Volume 4 is the final volume in The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and ...

First Published in 1999. This ancient Chinese manual of spiritual alchemy was brought to the West in translation by missionary and theologian Richa...

First Published in 1999. This is Volume XV of twenty-one of the Individual Differences Psychology series. Written in 1929, this study gathers toge...

This is Volume V of six in the Psychology and Religion series. First published in 1954, this is a religious-psychological study of the father-son r...

This is Volume III of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. First published in 1922 this study looks at the ‘caveman’ aspects of human cha...

Remembering Anna O. offers a devastating examination of the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory and practice, which was born with the publica...

In First Things Mary Jacobus combines close readings with theoretical concerns in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic or phantasmi...

Many of the themes which were elaborated in Hanna Segal's earlier work return in this volume of her most recent papers. Two act as connecting stran...

The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards th...

First published in 1999. This title originated from a series of lectures under the auspices of the New Education Fellowship and later in the Froebe...

This is Volume XXIX of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. First published in 1925, in this study the author recognises that Time has th...