Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

A comprehensive review for those interested in the range of theoretical concerns in speech and language processing.

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical ...

Originally published in 1985, this distinguished and constructive critique of modern culture introduced into our language a brand-new term, ‘PN’, s...

Although current views of cognitive development owe a great deal to Jean Piaget, this field has undergone profound change in the years since Piaget...

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to ...

Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology. Where theories come from, as opposed to how they become establ...

The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now...

Aggression usually involves a sequence of behaviors, reflecting escalations and de-escalations in the form or intensity of the actions taken, which...

This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great d...

What is the economic justification of advertising? Is it a vital energizing force in industry, or does it represent a serious waste of money and ef...

These two volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary theory and research in psychological science. Based on the keynote and state-of-the-ar...

The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agen...

This book challenges the assumptions of the event-dominated DSM model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Bowmam examines a series of questions direc...

Ralph R. Greenson, MD, was perhaps psychoanalysis's most gifted and eloquent spokesperson. In this volume Dr Greenson is presented in one of the ro...

Social Marketing: marketing in the service of societal problems. Does this approach represent dangerous social engineering, or is it the best hope ...

This book draws connections between recent advances in analytic philosophy of mind and insights from the rich phenomenological tradition concerning...

The financial crisis that started in 2007 is a concern for the world. Some countries are in depression and governments are desperately trying to fi...

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents empirical and theoretical investigations of the role of meaning in psychological processes. A th...

This volume evolved from the second life span development conference held at Southern Illinois University entitled "Assessment and Intervention Acr...

First published in 2002. This is Volume XIV of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. Written in 1896, Volume II on Analytic Ps...

First published in 1994. This volume contains the proceedings of a historic meeting, attended by over 2,000 mental health professionals and lay peo...

This is a very unusual book. It brings to the English speaking reader a masterpiece written some 50 years ago by one of the greatest minds of the 2...

This book, based on the Flowerree Mardi Gras Symposium at Tulane University, juxtaposes contemporary research and theory from several areas of anim...

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