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Forthcoming History of Psychology Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Darwin and the Naked Lady

    Discursive Essays on Biology and Art

    By Alex Comfort

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

    Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses criticism, the fantasy element in drama and popular literature, the history of the novel, the...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Cognitive Social Psychology

    The Princeton Symposium on the Legacy and Future of Social Cognition

    Edited by Gordon B. Moskowitz

    A comprehensive overview of the mechanisms involved in how cognitive processes determine thought and behavior toward the social world, Cognitive Social Psychology: *examines cognition as a motivated process wherein cognition and motivation are seen as intertwined; * reviews the latest research on...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  3. The Shape of Reason

    Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi

    Edited by Vittorio Girotto, Philip N. Johnson-Laird

    Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

    Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid development of research on human thinking and reasoning. This volume provides a comprehensive review of this topic by looking at the important contributions Paolo Legrenzi has made to the field, by bridging the gap from Gestalt ideas to modern...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  4. Psychological Concepts

    An International Historical Perspective

    Edited by Kurt Pawlik, Gery d'Ydewalle

    Among the scientific advances over the last one hundred years, those in psychological science rank among the most prolific and revealing. The analyses of human intelligence and cognition, of human consciousness and self-awareness, of human memory and learning, and of human personality structure...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  5. Milestones in the History of Aphasia

    Theories and Protagonists

    By Juergen Tesak, Chris Code

    Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

    Milestones in the History of Aphasia surveys the history of aphasia from its earliest mentions in ancient times, to the turn of the new millennium in 2000. The book takes a predominantly chronological approach starting with an examination of the earliest medical documents and medieval attempts to...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  6. Historical Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

    Edited by Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in...

    To Be Published June 24th 2013 by Psychology Press

  7. Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals)

    By John Haslam

    Edited by Roy Porter

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist. John Haslam, apothecary to London’s Bethlem Hospital, and a leading psychiatrist of the...

    To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  8. Lev Vygotsky (Classic Edition)

    Revolutionary Scientist

    By Fred Newman, Lois Holzman

    Series: Psychology Press Classic Editions

    When Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist published, it was unique in several ways. It presented Vygotsky as a Marxist methodologist, both locating him in his historical period and delineating how his life and writings have been a catalyst for a contemporary revolutionary, practical-critical,...

    To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Psychology Press

  9. The Developmental Science of Adolescence

    History through Autobiography

    Edited by Richard M. Lerner, Anne C. Peterson, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

    The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History through Autobiography is the most authoritative account of the leading developmental scientists from around the world. Written by the scholars who shaped the history they are recounting, each chapter is an engaging and personal account of...

    To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Psychology Press

  10. Re-examining Psychology

    Critical Perspectives and African Insights

    By Len T. Holdstock

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge