Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Franz Boass 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays t...

St. Augustines Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around 397, when Augustin...

Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which...

How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of w...

Frantz Fanons explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fan...

The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 ...

In Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau looks at old issues in new ways, asking: is there ever a time when individuals should actively oppose th...

Alexis de Tocquevilles 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward pol...

Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential politic...

The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant is as daunting as he is influential: widely considered to be not only one of the most challenging ...

The Rule of St Benedict, written around 1500 years ago by the Italian monk St Benedict of Nursia, is a slim handbook for monastic life a subject m...

Adam Smiths 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations is one of the most ...

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizar...

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, the two areas have since developed quite independently. This incisive book expl...

Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in t...

The American comedienne Lily Tomlin once observed with surprise that we call it ''''praying'''' when we talk to God and ''''schizophrenia'''' when ...

'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Ess...

For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic ...

Arjun Appadurais 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers...

One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...

Love him or hate him, we are all intrigued by Sigmund Freud. His brainchild, psychoanalysis, is expensive and time-consuming, but readers of this i...

The Studio is a unique and exciting work, referencing Freud and other psychoanalytic heavy-weights to examine a difficult past - loss, trauma and...

This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psy...

In The Search for a Relational Home, Chris Jaenicke gives the reader an inside view of what actually happens in psychotherapy and how change occurs...

Widely regarded as the state-of-the-science reference on attachment, this handbook interweaves theory and cutting-edge research with clinical appli...

Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C. G. Jung...

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it w...

Groping around a familiar room in the dark, or learning to read again after a traumatic brain injury; navigating a virtual landscape through an ava...