History
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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
$31.00 Read moreA chronicle of Vienna’s Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS’s Vienna Blood series.
Some cities are- Author: Tallis, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1250288959
- Language: English
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
$19.99 Add to cartIn Mind Fixers, “the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder. She shows that psychiat
- Author: Harrington, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358062
- Language: English
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Jung: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis is the most lucid and timely introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung available to date. Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #40
- Author: Stevens, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854585
- Language: English
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Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
$16.95 Add to cartBeginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram’s obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experi
- Author: Slater, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326551
- Language: English
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Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: The Practical Spirituality That Awakens Consciousness
$16.95 Read moreThis book begins by asking the questions, “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we living for? Why are we living?”
The answers to these questions can be discovered if one kn… [more below]
- Author: Aun Weor, Samael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1934206768
- Language: English
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
$21.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph “One of America’s most courageous young journalists” and the auth- Author: Cahalan, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1538715279
- Language: English
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Freud: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-century since his death, can we assess his true legacy to… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #45
- Author: Storr, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854550
- Language: English
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Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror
$32.95 Read moreDoing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics du
- Author: Eidelson, Roy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0228018617
- Language: English
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The Uncanny
$18.00 Add to cartFreud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his most influential explorations of the mind. In these piec… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437476
- Language: English
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
$21.99 Add to cartAn updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through “cures” that only deepened their suffering and impaired their h… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1541618068
- Language: English
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Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
$29.95 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreason
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional- Author: Scull, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173443
- Language: English
