Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. History Of Psychology    4. Philosophy Of Psychology    5. Psychology    6. Psychology and philosophy    7. Cognition & cognitive psychology    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

Subjects:  1. History    2. History Of Psychology    3. Inhibition    4. Neurophysiology    5. Neuropsychology    6. Neuroscience    7. Physiological Psychology    8. Psychology    9. Medical / General    10. Philosophy of science   

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Great purchase
This book was in great shape and is an excellent read for those who want to understand

Fascinating Look at Harlow's Research
This is one of the most interesting and well written books I've ever read on this or any similar topic.To anyone who studies or has studied attachment, Blum offers an amazing look at how this early research changed the face of psychology.To anyone who has read countless poorly written descriptions of boring research studies, this book is an oasis.
Great topic, lousy subject
This is an extremely interesting book in terms of underlining how damaging scientific fads can be.The early twentieth century fad of data and cleanliness may well have led to the deaths many children as cleanliness was preferred over attention.
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Subjects:  1. 1905-    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Developmental Psychology    4. Emotions    5. General    6. Harlow, Harry Frederick,    7. History    8. History Of Psychology    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Scientists - General    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Deconstruction    4. Folklore & Mythology - Folklore    5. General    6. Ghosts    7. Ghosts in literature    8. History    9. Parapsychology    10. Psychoanalysis    11. Psychology    12. Supernatural    13. Folklore    14. Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / History    16. Unexplained phenomena   

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Very Well Done!
Though it starts off slow, by Chapter 2 the enthralling story of John Monroe, one of several Monroes to be primary physician at Bethlem hospital in London, England, begins to unfold. This man spent four decades in his position at "Bedlam" which is likely why he is the one to be featured - as opposed to his father James, who held the position before him and his son Thomas, who came afterwards.
Mad-doctoring Monro
Monro's life and career have been satisfactorily documented, however this book attempts to bring forward more detail and evermore facts, and as such is a worthy treatise.In our day of analysts and a theory for everything, it is almost impossible to understand that in the eighteenth century one might be forever locked away for such diagnoses as truculance and intractability.Besides the awful Bedlam most associated with this era, there were also private, rather more poshy institutes that catered to the rich and the famous, to which Monro also applied his 'mad-doctoring' skills.By means of his profession, Monro was privvy to the social world, and made acquaintance with the aristocracy and assorted politicians, would-bes, also-rans, and dignitaries. The authors utilise a huge base of extant materials to draw this portrait of a fascinating time in medical history.Especially noteworthy are the exceptional mentioned drawings, which alone are worth the price of the book.

Wall Street Journal Review
See the review of this book in the Wall Street Journal, Thursday, January 30, 2003. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1715-1791    2. 18th century    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Case studies    8. England    9. Europe - Great Britain - General    10. History    11. History Of Medicine    12. Medical - General    13. Medical - Physicians    14. Mentally ill    15. Monro, John,    16. Psychiatrists    17. Psychiatry    18. Social Scientists & Psychologists    19. Sociology Of Medicine    20. Biography: historical    21. History / General    22. History of specific subjects    23. Mental health services    24. c 1700 to c 1800   

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Things you could never imagine to know.
Every now and then you here people talk about someone famous who got some kind of known syndrome, like maybe Schizophrenia or a phobia. In this unique book you can find some of the most entertaining, depressive, anomalous and unbelievable syndromes and states of mind ever known to man.Some syndromes may be just a dellusion or, some other are real and areready to sneak up on you just when you think you are safe from any type ofdisease or syndrome. This book is really entertaining and is good forall ages starting from 14 years of age. READ IT!

Rich source of factual information!
The author tells his readers that a shallow grasp of knowledge is always a pleasant experience.I agree.This book gives all the amazing, and oustandingly deviant facts about many aspects of abnormal psychology.Thisbook not only gives information on different disorders (or extraordinarystates of mind, as the author calls them), but such intriguing issues asmathematical mind, Freudian psychology and demonic possession.Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. Mental Illness    3. Mental health    4. Psychology    5. Psychopathology - General    6. Other prose: from c 1900 -    7. Popular medicine    8. Personal Growth   

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A Theory of Terror but NOT a Theory of Terrorism
Pyszczynski et al have done a fine job of presenting a theory of the human emotion of terror. However, most people browsing in Amazon.com would be more interested in books explaining terrorism. Terrorism is an extreme form of violent, political activity; terror is a profoundly distressing human emotion. The two concepts are distinctly different, and readers interested in the former will be disappointed to purchase a book on the latter.
Plumbing the Depths of Terror
In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (Washington: American Psychological Association, 2002), Tom Pyszcynski, Sheldon Solomon and Jeff Greenberg. Powerful Insights into Individual and Collective Violence
This book explores our recent experience of terrorism through the lens of psychological research into the impact of "death anxiety" on human attitudes and behaviors.By the end, we readers have been carried far beyond The Obvious - that death anxiety is aroused by threats to our lives --- and smack into Surprise and Dismay:Surprise, to realize that "death anxiety" is a constant in human nature that is also aroused by perceived threats to anything with which we identify or through which we give meaning to our lives.And Dismay, to realize that death anxiety itself, is a root-cause of human violence.No, that doesn't mean that all of us are physically violent, nor does it mean that psychology alone explains human violence or terrorism. (The authors, true to their multidisciplinary commitments, push the analysis well beyond psychology.) It does mean, however, that we cannot understand or hope to diminish violence without insight into the human factors that contribute to it. The authors paint an accessible but realistically complex picture of the causes and the impact of the events of 9/11, and although they offer no easy answers... their research and analysis give rise to new insights into our human and historical predicament.This is powerful, provocative reading, and while it is often disturbing, it is also peculiarly satisfying because it has the ring of truth.Whether or not you agree with everything the authors say, you will finish this book with new and revealing ways to think about human nature, individual and collective violence, the struggle for meaning, and the demands of and obstacles to freedom and tolerance.Read more

Subjects:  1. Education & Training    2. History    3. Mental Health    4. Psychological aspects    5. Psychology    6. September 11 Terrorist Attacks    7. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001    8. Social Psychology    9. Terror    10. Terrorism    11. United States    12. Social impact of disasters    13. Social, group or collective psychology    14. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Psychology    3. Social Psychology    4. Social psychiatry    5. Sociology - General    6. Tavistock Institute of Human R    7. Tavistock Institute of Human Relations    8. Social, group or collective psychology    9. Sociology, Social Studies   

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A fascinating read
I've read this book from cover to cover and I guarantee you it is a fascinating (and at times almost unbelievable) read.I knew some of the studies covered but not in this detail.It's a great idea for a book.The more you find out about these stories the more you appreciate how amazing human behaviour is.I loved the story of railway worker Phineas Gage who had a 6ft metal pole blown through his head and lived to tell the tale travelling around carrying the pole for the rest of his life (he was even buried with it!) and the shocking story of David Reimer who due to botched surgery as a child had his penis cut off and was brought up as a girl before once again adopting a male role in his teens.Each chapter in the book deals with a different case study and they are all very interesting.The psychological importance and relevance of each case is also dealt with.I'd certainly recommend this book - you'll enjoy many of the stories and learn more about psychology and human behaviour in an entertaining way.
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Subjects:  1. Forensic Psychology    2. History    3. Mental Illness    4. Psychology    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Forensic Psychology    6. Psychology | Forensic Psychology   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Movements - Psychoanalysis    3. Psychoanalysis    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - General    6. History of ideas, intellectual history    7. Psychiatry    8. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    10. Psychotherapy   

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Exemplary Introduction to Freud's Thought
This smallish book is not for those who have already spent a considerable amount of time with Freud, and it doesn't attempt to be.The project undertaken here by Lear differs significantly from Ricoeur's Hermeneutic or LaPlanche's extensive dictionary.Those looking for a comprehensive history of psychoanalysis, a mitigation of Freud and Lacan, of Freud and Wittgenstein, or similarly advanced readings of Freud should look elsewhere.That said, for those attempting to gain access to the breadth of Freud's work, even and especially those with the intention of eventually arriving at an advanced appropriation of Freud's work, this introduction is better than anything else available.It is telling that we find Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek and Sebastian Gardner corroborating on the back cover that there really is no philosophical introduction to Freudian psychoanalysis more worthwhile.

Disappointed by Jonathan Lear
This book about Freud by Lear is totally disappointing. I bought it because I found Lear's other book both sensitive and thoughtful. But in this book Lear reduces Freud to a very ordinary psychologist, who is mainstream and mostly commonsense. In this way he completely misrepresnts Ferud's originality, his daring hypotheses and the fact that much of what Freud said is highly questionable, partly on purely methodolgocal grounds. According to Lear, to mention one example, Freud's chief significance consists in he fact that he "discovered" (?) that sexual libido can be directed towards a fetish, rather than towards a person of the oposite sex (sic!).Lear takes no notice of the highly critical literature about Freud, nor does he refer to attempts to reinterprete Freud in terms of, say, Wiitgenstein's philosophy of our understanding of language. Readers might like to look at chapters 5 and 6 of my book of 1999, entitled "Critique of Impure Reason. An Essay on Neurons, Somatic Markers and Consciousness", published by Praeger.These chapters will make them realise how supeficial and misleading Jonathan Lear's book about Freud is.

A WONDERFUL AND IMPORTANT BOOK
As soon as I heard that Jonathan Lear was writing "Freud" for the Routledge Philosophers series, I pre-ordered a copy. I am sorry it's taken me so long to post a review, but I have been savoring the book since it arrived, re-reading portions and making notes . . . as I've done with most of Lear's previous offerings, which have proved invaluable in my own philosophy-psychology study project going back at least 15 years. Read more

Subjects:  1. 1856-1939    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Freud, Sigmund,    4. History    5. History & Surveys - Modern    6. Movements - Psychoanalysis    7. Philosophy    8. Psychoanalysis and philosophy    9. Social Scientists & Psychologists    10. Philosophy / Modern    11. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

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I beg to differ...
Well, i used this book for my History and Systems of Psyc class and i found it to be extremely boring and drawn-out.It just seemed like everything in it, i had heard about before, but the book managed to make it even more boring than the first time i heard about the research!I fully understand that, yes, it is a history book, but i guess i thought that there would be more to it, seeing as how it's a psyc book.Then again, it was my last semester and nothing i read that semester truly satisfied me, so it could just be me!It wasn't completely terrible, but it could've stood for improvement!Then again, if you are reading this review, you are most likely buying this for a class, and don't have much of a choice over what you'll be reading anyway!Enjoy!

Couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more with the other reviews.This was my textbook for a graduate course in the history of psychology.I hate history, typically.I can't remember anything because names and dates go in one ear and out the other.But Hothersall's ability to humanize all of the people described in the book made the book very readable, and even easy for me to remember.I recommend this to professors looking to teach a history course as well as people who are interested in the history of psychology but want something they can almost read like a novel.

Awesome
This was the course text for my History of Psychology course.I came into the field knowing relatively nothing, having only had the intro.I found this book very informative and easy to understand.I especially enjoyed the background stories Hothersall gave on the people, finding that this made the people more human.I cannot recommend this book enough. It is really good. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. History Of Psychology    3. Psychology    4. Psychology & Psychiatry / History   

Subjects:  1. 1806-1873    2. 19th century    3. General    4. History    5. Mill, John Stuart,    6. Philosophy Of Psychology    7. Psychology    8. Social Work    9. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich    10. James, William    11. Mill, John Stuart    12. Philosophy & theory of psychology    13. Social Science / Social Work    14. Wundt, Wilhelm Max   

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Subjects:  1. Evolutionary psychology    2. History    3. Psychology    4. GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY    5. PSYCHOLOGY_HISTORY    6. Science / Genetics   

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Tell me more
Two drunken fellows, one Irish & the other Jewish, were in a barroom bellowing their dispute as to whose history was a bigger deal, the Irish or the Jewish. The Irishman said, "in Ireland expert archaeologists have been excavating. And they found, among other evidence of high civilization, fine gold wire. Proving that in Ireland they had the telegraph!". The Jewish fellow jumped up and said, "and in Israel, expert archaeologists have been excavating. And they found no wires! Proving that in Israel, we had the wireless!" Great book
This book was very inspiring, filled with important facts and most immportantly spoke the truth! something which we lack these days. The cover was wonderful too. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor    2. General    3. History    4. Psychology    5. Sociology   

Subjects:  1. Freud, Sigmund,    2. History    3. History Of Psychology    4. Movements - Psychoanalysis    5. Psychoanalysis    6. Psychoanalysis and culture    7. Psychological aspects    8. Psychology    9. Social change    10. Counselling    11. Freud, Sigmund    12. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis   

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Where did Oprah come from
Eva Moskowitz appears to be forming an argument in this book, a critique of American faith in therapy with a historical perspective.Her concern is that the focus on personal fulfillment and happiness lures us into thinking that various problems can be solved through psychology, and the more immediate causes of these problems (eg. economics and politics) get placed in the background.Though this thesis hovers around most of the time, the book reads more like a history of therapy, divided by time period, and the problems that were focused on in those time periods (Illness, 1850-1900; Poverty, 1890-1930; Marriage, 1920-1940; etc...).Read more

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. 20th century    3. History    4. Popular Culture - General    5. Popular works    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy    8. Social History    9. Social Science    10. Social Situations And Conditions    11. Social problems    12. Sociology    13. Sociology - General    14. United States    15. United States - 20th Century    16. American history: from c 1900 -    17. Cultural studies    18. USA   

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Numbers as archetypes
Drawing on the initial concept advanced by Pythagoras that reality is number and Plato's later theory that there exist a world of perfect ideas which transcends the world we live in, the author sketches the scientific advances made from the Renaissance through the 20th century. He skillfullyexplains Descartes' geometry, the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, Cantor's theory of infinite sets, Freud's theory of personality, Jung's model of the psyche, and Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. Utilizing the above mentioned background material, Robertson then explains how Jung and Godel both posited that a Platonic world of ideas (archetypes) exist beyond physical reality and the inner world of the psyche.And his well reasoned conclusion is that these archetypes are Pythagoras' simple counting numbers. This is a marvelous and thought provoking book which is also readable. A must buy for anyone interested in mathematics, psychology, philosophy, or archetypes.

It's a great book
This book is short, but it integrates two diferents area as mathematics and phycology. The author makes a comparation between mathematical vision and phycological vision about the world,the integrating medium of thesevisions are the archetypes which exists as platonic ideals in mathematicsand as collective unconcious in the people. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Archetype (Psychology)    2. Consciousness    3. Godel's theorem    4. History    5. Jungian Psychology    6. Movements - Behaviorism    7. Personality    8. Psychology    9. Subconsciousness    10. Jung, C. G    11. Philosophy    12. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. France    3. History    4. Psychiatrists    5. Psychiatry    6. Psychiatry - General    7. Psychology    8. Europe    9. European history: c 1750 to c 1900    10. History of specific subjects    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / History   

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An Outstanding Book!
This is a rare "must read" book for anyone with even a passing interest in choice and free will. So many writers know the extent of their knowledge and expertise, and remain within their comfort zone.
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Subjects:  1. Consciousness    2. History    3. Mechanism (Philosophy)    4. Mind and body    5. Neuropsychology    6. Philosophy & Social Aspects    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Cognition & cognitive psychology    10. History of ideas, intellectual history    11. Philosophy of mind    12. Philosophy of science    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / History