SUBJECT INDEX:
PSYCHOLOGY
- PSYCHOLOGY: Applied Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Assessment, Testing & Measurement
- PSYCHOLOGY: Clinical Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Cognitive Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Creative Ability
- PSYCHOLOGY: Depression
- PSYCHOLOGY: Developmental
- PSYCHOLOGY: Education & Training
- PSYCHOLOGY: Emotions
- PSYCHOLOGY: Experimental Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: General
- PSYCHOLOGY: History
- PSYCHOLOGY: Human Sexuality
- PSYCHOLOGY: Hypnotism
- PSYCHOLOGY: Interpersonal Relations
- PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health
- PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Illness
- PSYCHOLOGY: Movements
- PSYCHOLOGY: Neuropsychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Personality
- PSYCHOLOGY: Physiological Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Psychopathology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Psychotherapy
- PSYCHOLOGY: Reference
- PSYCHOLOGY: Research & Methodology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY: Suicide
- Abducted
- How could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mélange of nightmares, culturally available texts, and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- The Accidental Mind
- A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Acts of Meaning
- Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor;" has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
- In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of the mind. Bruner examines the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful; he calls this side of mental activity the "narrative mode," and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1987
- Adaptation to Life
- Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. George Vaillant, director of this study, took the measure of the Grant Study men. The result was the compelling, provocative classic, Adaptation to Life, which poses fundamental questions about the individual differences in confronting life's stresses.
- Paperback 1998
- The Alex Studies
- Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether large-brained, highly social parrots were capable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. Her investigation and the bird at its center--a male Grey parrot named Alex--have since become almost as well known as their primate equivalents and no less a subject of fierce debate in the field of animal cognition. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Ambiguous Loss
- When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer's patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal with the uncertainty surrounding this kind of loss?
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Anatomy of Disgust
- William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it both horrifies us and brings order and meaning to our lives. Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- The Anatomy of Prejudices
- Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Animal Cognition
- Animal Cognition presents a lucid and comprehensive overview of cognitive processes in animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons, titmice, and chimpanzees--and offers a novel discussion of the ways in which Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition.
- Hardcover 1996
- Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind
- In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Appropriately Subversive
- How do mothers reconcile conflicting loyalties--to their religious traditions, and to the daughters whose freedoms are also constrained by those traditions? Searching for answers, Tova Hartman Halbertal interviewed mothers of teenage daughters in religious communities: Catholics in the United States, Orthodox Jews in Israel. Her book illuminates one of the moral questions of our time--how best to protect children and preserve community, without being imprisoned by tradition.
- Hardcover 2003
- Arab and Jew in Jerusalem
- With the capture of East Jerusalem by Israel in the Six-Day War, the historic spot became a magnifying lens for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Gerald Caplan, a community psychiatrist renowned for his work with normal people under stress, explores in this study points of friction between the two populations and offers insight into the sources of tension.
- Hardcover 1980
- At the Threshold
- This book seeks to allow professionals and nonprofessionals alike important access to the reality of normal adolescent experience. The authors recognize that only if we begin to understand and clearly articulate the parameters of successful adolescent development can we hope to intervene with those individuals whose lives seem aimed toward unsatisfactory futures.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- The Authoritarian Specter
- The book presents the latest results from a prize-winning research program on the authoritarian personality. Many of America's biggest problems, Bob Altemeyer shows, have authoritarian roots.
- Hardcover 1996
- Autism
- Francesca Happé provides a concise overview of current psychological theory and research that synthesizes the established work on the biological foundations, cognitive characteristics, and behavioral manifestations of autism. She focuses her discussion on the cognitive approaches that deal with both thought and feeling.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Barbarolexis
- Hardcover 1989
- The Beginnings of Social Understanding
- In this pathbreaking work Judy Dunn explores several aspects of the early process of social discovery: children's recognition of the feelings of others, their ability to interpret and anticipate the behavior and relationships of others, and their comprehension of the prohibitions and accepted practices of their world.
- Hardcover 1988
- Behind the Mask
- Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds--police officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artists--Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. With sensitivity but without sentimentality, Jack gives readers a range of compelling stories of how women channel, either positively or destructively, their own powerful force and of how they resist and retaliate in the face of others' aggression in a society that expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Betrayal Trauma
- This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but also, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Between Voice and Silence
- When adolescent girls silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop a range of psychological problems. When they remain outspoken they are labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of this groundbreaking research took place, what of girls from poor and working-class families? In Between Voice and Silence, Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan grapple with these questions.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Black Child, White Child
- Paperback
- The Brain’s Sense of Movement
- In this erudite and witty book, neuroscientist Alain Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. In his view, the brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world, models that are corrected by steady, minute feedback from the world. This interpretation allows Berthoz to focus on psychological phenomena largely ignored in standard texts: proprioception and kinaesthesis, the mechanisms that maintain balance and coordinate actions, and basic perceptual and memory processes involved in navigation.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Caring Child
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- Caring for Depression
- Although depression is a major illness affecting millions of people, it is seriously undertreated in the United States. The ongoing shift of mental-health care away from specialists and toward primary medical-care providers is causing fewer depressed patients to be appropriately diagnosed and treated. The authors urge the integration of both medical and economic considerations in designing policies for the treatment of depression.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999
- Changing Youth in a Changing Society
- This book begins with a survey of the problems of youth, showing which disorders peak during the teenage years. With this background of fact firmly established, Rutter turns to the difficult historical questions about whether adolescent disorders are truly becoming more frequent.
- Hardcover 1980
- Chemotherapy in Psychiatry, Revised and Enlarged Edition
- In this extensively revised and expanded edition of a widely used book, Baldessarini concentrates on providing rational, scientific underpinnings for the treatment of patients. In doing so, he bridges the gap between biology, psychology, and clinical practice. He has enlarged the text to nearly twice its original length and has added sixty-three new tables.
- Hardcover 1985
- Child Abuse
- Recent statistics have shown that between two and six percent of all children in the United States are seriously injured by parental assault or neglect. In this book, a giant step is taken toward reducing these dreadful statistics.
- Paperback
- Child Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
- In addressing herself to the various questions that intrigued her, Dr. Rollins first considers the history of Soviet psychiatric thought, with the major influences shaping the direction of Soviet child psychiatry and the social perspective with personal impressions of Soviet culture and society. Ensuing chapters, based upon first-hand observations and case material, take a close look at such topics as the organization of psychiatric services, diagnosis, general treatment methods, special psychotherapy, research, and psychiatric training programs.
- Hardcover 1972
- Child Soldiers
- Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these ex-soldiers to speak for themselves. A passionate call for action, Child Soldiers pushes readers to go beyond the horror stories to develop local and global strategies to stop this theft of childhood.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Child's Discovery of the Mind
- "Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery' for intellectual and social development.
- Paperback 1994 / Hardcover 1994
- The Child's Path to Spoken Language
- Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do naturally. But why do they? John Locke's answer constitutes a fascinating journey along the path of language development, a tour that takes in all the stops--neurological and perceptual, social and linguistic--that mark the way to intelligible speech.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Child's Understanding of Number
- The authors report the results of some half dozen years of research into when and how children acquire numerical skills. They provide a new set of answers to these questions, and overturn much of the traditional wisdom on the subject.
- Hardcover 1978 / Paperback
- Children Solving Problems
- Stephanie Thornton surveys recent research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are--or, as the pioneering psychologist Jean Piaget claimed, how advanced is our skill in logical reasoning--and more on the factual knowledge we acquire as we learn and interpret cues from the world around us.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- Children of Different Worlds
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Children of Immigration
- In the midst of the largest immigration wave in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. This book, written by the codirectors of the largest ongoing longitudinal study of immigrant children and their families, offers a clear, broad, interdisciplinary view of who the immigrant children are and what their future might hold.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- Children of Social Worlds
- The authors look particularly at broad trends and patterns, addressing such issues as the effect of institutions on family life, the changing roles of parents, cross-generational effects on development, the status of children in the legal system, schooling and learning, gender differences, the acquisition of communication skills, and the psychological impact of the nuclear threat. Chapters on cultural and historical definitions of the family add depth to their argument.
- Hardcover 1986
- Children with Autism
- As they make sense of the many features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span, Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps weave together clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result is a compelling, comprehensive view of the disorder, as true to human experience as it is to scientific observation.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
- David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it--active stories in which the dreamer is an actor--appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- Children's Friendships
- Paperback
- Children’s Talk
- How do children learn the intangible rules of conversation, how do they make talk "work?" Adults usually regard talk as a simple means of conveying information. Garvey explains the importance of talk to children's socialization and development and shows why talk is an integral and revealing part of the child's life that reflects important changes in thinking and social interaction.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi
- In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sándor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczi's diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory--as well as criticisms of his own experiments with technique--and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, which therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Cocaine Addiction
- Drawing on the latest work in medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, pharmacology, epidemiology, social work, and sociology, this volume is a highly accessible reference on the history and use of cocaine, its physical and psychological effects, the etiology and epidemiology of this addiction, and the pharmaceutical agents and psychosocial interventions used to treat it.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- Coding and Redundancy
- This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.
- Hardcover 2008
- Cognitive Development
- Paperback
- Coming to Life
- Hardcover
- Community Mental Health and Social Psychiatry
- Paperback 1962
- Community Programs for Mental Health
- Hardcover 1955
- Comparative Studies of How People Think
- The psychology of thinking has traditionally been in the business of making comparisons between different groups of people. On the whole, these comparisons have rendered a substantial body of knowledge; but all too often, they have suffered the pitfalls of faulty organizational logic and unfounded or invidious conclusions. In this extraordinarily clear and critical introduction, Cole and Jay out the problems involved in comparing how people think.
- Hardcover 1981 / Paperback
- The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939
- Here are nearly 700 hundred previously unpublished letters, postcards, and telegrams representing the three-decade correspondence between Freud and his admiring younger colleague, Ernest Jones, who also became his biographer and a principal player in the development of psychoanalysis in England and the United States.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
- The Computer and the Mind
- In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- Constancy and Change in Human Development
- How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in place by the genes and by the early experiences of childhood? These are questions which touch our deepest political and personal concerns; and they have long been a matter of fierce debate in the behavioral sciences.
- Hardcover 1980
- Constructing Panic
- Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors propose a new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Capps and Ochs open up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Constructing a Language
- In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 1, 1908-1914
- Volume 1 of the three-volume Freud-Ferenczi correspondence closes with Freud's letter from Vienna, dated June 28, 1914, to his younger colleague in Budapest: "I am writing under the impression of the surprising murder in Sarajevo, the consequences of which cannot be foreseen." "Now," he continues in a more familiar vein, "to our affairs!" The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for "our affairs" and the exchanges of the two correspondents in volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food and fuel--and cigar--shortages continue? Will Freud's three enlisted sons and son-in-law come through intact? And, will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive the war?
- Hardcover
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 2, 1914-1919
- The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for the exchanges of the two correspondents in Volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food and fuel-and cigar-shortages continue? Will Freud's three enlisted sons and son-in-law come through the war intact? And will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive?
- Hardcover 1996
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 3, 1920-1933
- This third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colorful disciples brings to a close Sándor Ferenczi's life and the story of one of the most important friendships in the history of psychoanalysis. The controversies between Freud and Ferenczi continue to this day, as psychoanalysts reassess Ferenczi's innovations, and increasingly challenge the allegations of mental illness leveled against him after his death by Freud and Ernest Jones.
- Hardcover 2000
- The Creation of Psychopharmacology
- Healy follows The Antidepressant Era with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Once pharmaceutical companies recognized their commercial potential, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Crossroads between Culture and Mind
- Hardcover
- The Crucible of Experience
- One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing's widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing's vision, which was religious and philosophical as well as psychological. The Crucible of Experience reveals Laing's philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy.
- Hardcover 2000
- The Cue for Passion
- Using traditional mourning rituals as an instructive touchstone, Gail Holst-Warhaft explores the ways sorrow is managed in our own times and how mourning can be manipulated for social and political ends. It might be argued that modern society has largely abdicated its role in managing sorrow. In The Cue for Passion, however, we see that some communities, moved by the intensity of their grief, have utilized it to gain ground for their own agendas.
- Hardcover 2000
- The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
- Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster of uniquely human cognitive capacities. These include capacities for understanding that others have intentions of their own, and for imitating, not just what someone else does, but what someone else has intended to do. Tomasello further describes with authority and ingenuity how these capacities work over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Cultural Psychology
- The distinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for his pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a multifaceted account of what cultural psychology is, what it has been, and what it can be. A rare synthesis of the theory and empirical work shaping the field, this book will become a major foundation for the emerging discipline.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Culture and Inference
- There has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might be usefully viewed as a system of tacit rules that constrain the meaningful interpretation of events and serve as a guide to action. However, no one has made a serious attempt to write a cultural grammar that would make such rules explicit. In Culture and Inference Edwin Hutchins makes just such an attempt for one enormously instructive case, the Trobriand Islanders' system of land tenure.
- Hardcover 1980
- The Culture of Education
- In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- The Dalai Lama at MIT
- Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers given at the conference, and the animated discussion and debate that followed, The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
- Bringing together evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy, Henry Plotkin presents a new science of knowledge that traces an unbreakable link between instinct and our ability to know. Since our ability to know our world depends primarily on what we call intelligence, intelligence must be understood as an extension of instinct. The capacity for knowledge is deeply rooted in our biology and, in a special sense, is shared by all living things.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997
- Daycare, Revised Edition
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback
- Dialogues with Children
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Dilemmas of Desire
- What teenage girls make of their awakening sexuality--distant from and yet susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. Thoughtful, vivid, and richly informed, this revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- The Discovery of Talent
- Finding the talented, encouraging their advancement, making known their potentialities"--to these aims many of the twentieth century's most distinguished psychologists have turned their attention. In this book, Terman, Paterson, Burt, Strong, Guilford, Wolfie, Stalnaker, MacKinnon, Ghiselli, Mackworth, and Vernon, each with his own particular emphasis, discuss these issues as lecturers in a series set up by their colleague, Walter Van Dyke Bingham.
- Hardcover 1969
- Dispatches from the Freud Wars
- The noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester raises a provocative point: no matter how you feel about Freud, you can't escape the influence of his theories. Through questions central to our century's ways of thinking, Forrester explores dreams, history, ethics, political theory, and psychoanalysis as a scientific movement. By taking nothing for granted and leaving no cliché of psychobabble--theoretical or popular--unturned, Forrester gives us a sense of the ethical surprises and epistemological riddles that a century of tumultuous psychoanalytical debate has often obscured.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Dividing the Child
- Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- The Drama of Everyday Life
- Drama, Karl Scheibe reminds us, is no more confined to the theater than religion is to the church or education to the schoolroom. Accordingly, he brings to his reflection on psychology the drama of literature, poetry, philosophy, history, music, and theater. Writing with elegance and passion, Scheibe asks us to take note of the self-representation, performance, and scripts of the drama that is our everyday life. In doing so, he challenges our dispirited senses and awakens psychology to a new realm of dramatic possibility.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Drug-Impaired Professionals
- Professionals trusted with our well-being are the last people we suspect of drug addiction. And yet they are at least as likely as anyone else to abuse alcohol and other drugs--a well-kept secret finally aired and fully examined in this powerful book. Drawing on more than 120 personal interviews with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them, Robert Coombs gives us a startling picture of drug abuse among "pedestal professionals."
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- Early Literacy
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- The Ecology of Human Development
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- Education for Thinking
- Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn argues that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"--a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- The Emergence of Sexuality
- Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Emmanuel Movement
- "The Emmanuel Movement" was a name given by the contemporary press to a combined method of group and individual psychotherapy introduced in 1906 by the Reverend Elwood Worcester, Rector of the Emmanuel Church in Boston. This treatment method was first welcomed with great popular acclaim but later ravaged by the widespread newspaper publicity it attracted. Sanford Gifford presents the definitive statement on this unique movement.
- Hardcover 1998
- Emotions at Work
- Rather than focusing on the psychology of personal emotions at work, this study concentrates on emotions as role requirements, on workplace emotions that combine the private with the public, the personal with the social, and the authentic with the masked. In this cross-cultural study of "emotion management," the author argues that even though the goals of normative control in factories, offices, and shops may be similar across cultures, organizational structure and the surrounding culture affect how that control is discussed and conceived.
- Hardcover 2002
- Endocrinology of Social Relationships
- Hardcover 2009
- Essays in Psychology
- The twenty-nine articles, essays, and reviews in this volume, collected here for the first time, were published by William James over a long span of years, from 1878 (twelve years prior to The Principles of Psychology) to 1906. Some are theoretical; others examine specific psychological phenomena or report the results of experiments James had conducted. Written for the most part for a scholarly rather than a popular audience, they exhibit James's characteristic lucidity and persuasiveness, and they reveal the roots and development of his view on a wide range of psychological issues.
- Hardcover 1984
- Essays, Comments, and Reviews
- This generous omnium-gatherum brings together all the writings William James published that have not appeared in previous volumes of this definitive edition of his works. Miscellaneous and diverse thought the pieces are, they are unified by James's style and personality, which shine through even the slightest of them. The volume includes 25 essays, 44 letters to the editor commenting on sundry topics, and 113 reviews of a wide range of works in English, French, German, and Italian. Twenty-three of the items are not recorded in any bibliography of James's writings.
- Hardcover 1987
- The Ethics of Memory
- Margalit's work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory can seem more crippling than liberating, a force more for revenge than for reconciliation. Morally powerful, deeply learned, and elegantly written, The Ethics of Memory draws on the resources of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us who care about the nature of our relations to others.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Evolving Self
- The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense of experience, to make meaning of life. According to Robert Kegan, meaning-making is a lifelong activity that begins in earliest infancy and continues to evolve through a series of stages encompassing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The Evolving Self describes this process of evolution in rich and human detail, concentrating especially on the internal experience of growth and transition, its
- Paperback
- Expression and the Inner
- At least since Descartes, philosophers have been interested in the special knowledge or authority that we exhibit when we speak about our own thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. This book contends that even the best work in contemporary philosophy of mind fails to account for this sort of knowledge or authority because it does not pay the right sort of attention to the notion of expression. What's at stake is not only how to understand self-knowledge and first-person authority, but also what it is that distinguishes conscious from unconscious psychological states, what the mental life of a nonlinguistic animal has in common with our sort of mental life, and how to think about Wittgenstein's legacy to the philosophy of mind.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2008
- Eyewitness Testimony
- By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ones changed in subtle ways.
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback 1996
- Families and Family Therapy
- No other book in the field today so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations.
- Hardcover
- Family Kaleidoscope
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Family Therapy Techniques
- A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book thus codifies the method of one of the country's most successful practitioners.
- Hardcover
- The Family’s Construction of Reality
- Reiss presents o new model of family interaction grounded in the subtle and complex way in which a family constructs its inner life and deals with the outside world. Based upon fifteen years of research, the book offers a new understanding of the covert processes that hold a family together and, with distressing frequency, pull it apart.
- Paperback
- Fat Talk
- The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, Fat Talk brings to light the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls' ideas about their shapes, their eating habits, and their physical ideals. Anthropologist Mimi Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls' sense of self. She finds that despite widespread dissatisfaction with one aspect or another of their bodies, the girls did not diet so much as talk about dieting. "Fat talk," Nichter wryly argues, is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of establishing solidarity.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Father-Daughter Incest
- Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.
- Paperback 2000
- Fatherhood
- In this new book, Parke considers the father-child relationship within the "family system" and the wider society. Using the "life course" view of fathers, he demonstrates that men enact their fatherhood in a variety of ways in response to their particular social and cultural circumstances.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996
- Fear and Hope
- From survivors to grandchildren, members of families who survived the Holocaust, emigrated to Israel, and started families there tell their own stories. The three generations reveal their different ways of confronting the original trauma of the Holocaust. A unique account of the interplay between individual biography and wider social and cultural processes, Fear and Hope offers a fresh perspective on the transgenerational effects of trauma.
- Hardcover 1998
- Feminism and Its Discontents
- With Sigmund Freud notoriously flummoxed about what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. But in this surprising history, Mari Jo Buhle reveals that the twentieth century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other. Feminism and Its Discontents brings together far-flung intellectual tendencies rarely seen in intimate relation to each other-and shows us a new way of seeing both.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- A First Language
- For many years, Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development.
- Hardcover 1973 / Paperback
- The First Relationship
- Stern's pathbreaking video-based research into the intimate complexities of mother-infant interaction has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and developmental psychology. Now a noted authority on early development, Stern first reviewed his unique methods and observations in The First Relationship. Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, it offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his subsequent books.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Foundations of the Mind
- Hardcover
- Freud, Biologist of the Mind
- In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology.
- Paperback
- From Freud's Consulting Room
- Hardcover 1998
- The Fundamentals of Brain Development
- In a remarkable synthesis of research from the last two decades, a leading developmental neuroscientist provides psychologists with a sophisticated introduction to the brain. In clear terms, with ample illustrations, Stiles explains the complexities of genetic variation and transcription, and the variable paths of neural development, from embryology through early childhood.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Golden Cage
- Hardcover 1978
- The Golden Cage
- First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in a jargon-free style, Bruch describes the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterize anorexia nervosa.
- Paperback 2001
- Good Natured
- Frans de Waal takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human. Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows that ethical behavior, in humans and animals alike, is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Growing Up With a Single Parent
- More than half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent elucidates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback
- The Guided Mind
- In this ambitious book, Jaan Valsiner argues for a theoretical integration of two long-standing approaches to personality theory: the individualistic tradition of personalistic psychology, typified by the work of William Stern and Gordon Allport, and the semiotic tradition of cultural-historical psychology, typified by the work of L. S. Vygotsky.
- Hardcover 1998
- Halving It All
- The best way to have it all--both a full family life and a career--is to halve it all. That's the message of this refreshing book, based on extensive interviews with a wide range of couples. Deutsch casts a skeptical eye on the grim story of inequality that has been told since women found themselves working a second shift at home. She brings good news: equality based on shared parenting is possible, and it is emerging all around us.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Harvard List of Books in Psychology
- (Compiled and annotated by the psychologists in Harvard University)
- Paperback 1971
- The Healthy Child
- Hardcover 1960
- Hearing Gesture
- This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers--adults and children alike--by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking. In general, we are unaware of gesture, which occurs as an undercurrent alongside an acknowledged verbal exchange. This book makes clear why we must not ignore the background conversation.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- The House of Make-Believe
- In the most thorough attempt to cover all aspects of children's make-believe, Dorothy and Jerome Singer examine how imaginative play begins and develops, from the infant's first smiles to the toddler's engagement in social pretend play.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- How Fathers Care for The Next Generation
- Hardcover
- How Infants Know Minds
- Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.
- Hardcover 2008
- How Sex Changed
- From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today's growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain
- Using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists, a prominent neuroscientist argues that human language--though more sophisticated than all other forms of animal communication--is not a qualitatively different ability from all forms of animal communication, it does not require a quantum evolutionary leap to be explained, and it is not unified in a single "language instinct." In a blow to human narcissism, Philip Lieberman makes the case that language is a by-product of our remote reptilian ancestors' abilities to dodge hazards, seize opportunities, and live to see another day.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Hunger Artists
- Hardcover
- Identity's Architect
- Identity's Architect is the first comprehensive biography of Erik Erikson, postwar America's most influential psychological thinker, who decisively reshaped our views of human development. Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews, Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erikson's personal life and his groundbreaking notion of the life cycle and the identity crisis.
- Paperback 2000
- Image and Mind
- Kosslyn makes an impressive case for the view that images are critically involved in the life of the mind. In a series of ingenious experiments, he provides hard evidence that people can construct elaborate mental images, search them for specific information, and perform such other internal operations as mental rotation.
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
- Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age
- Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- In Over Our Heads
- As parents and partners, employees and bosses, citizens and leaders, we constantly confront a bewildering array of expectations as well as a confusing assortment of expert opinions on what each of these roles entails. Robert Kegan presents a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows us to view adult development much as we view child development, as an open-ended process born of the dynamic interaction of cultural demands and emerging mental capabilities.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- In Support of Families
- This important book examines the effects of stress on both children and parents and explores various strategies for coping. The authors view the family as a dynamic system whose health is vitally related to its internal relationships and its interactions with other social networks. Stress in this context can be either a positive or a negative influence on the family's effectiveness in raising children, depending on the personal and public resources available.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1988
- In a Different Voice
- This is the little book that started a revolution. First published almost twenty years ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than three-quarters of a million copies sold around the world. In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate-and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1993
- Indivisible by Two
- A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Segal unravels these stories with an eye for the challenges that life as a twin can pose to parents, friends, spouses, and the twins themselves. These moving stories remind us of how incompletely any theory explains real life--twin or not.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Infancy
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Infancy
- Paperback
- The Infant's World
- In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants develop capabilities and conceptual understanding in relation to three interconnected domains: the self, objects, and other people.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004
- Infants
- The book describes and interprets the fascinating capabilities of infants in their first years of life. It covers the ability of the newborn to see and hear their parents, their natural disposition toward getting to know caregivers, and the growth of love and attachment between parent and baby. It explores the changing mental abilities and social skills in the first and second years, and tells readers how they can observe these stages in children.
- Hardcover 1979
- Inside Deaf Culture
- In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Invented Worlds
- Psychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing feature's of children's minds.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- Is It Me or My Meds?
- In this book, David Karp explores the relationship between pills and personhood by listening to a group of experts who rarely get the chance to speak on the matter--those who are taking the medications. Through their honest and vivid stories, this book provides unflinching portraits of people attempting to make sense of a process far more complex and mysterious than doctors or pharmaceutical companies generally admit.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- Islamicate Sexualities
- Paperback 2008
- Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
- Felman elucidates the power and originality of Lacan's work. She brilliantly analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's singular way of making Freud's thought new again--and of thus enabling us to participate in the very moment of intellectual struggle and insight--Felman shows how this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary thinking and has redefined insight as such.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis
- It is intriguing to discover how these men, long before formal training centers were established, educated each other by mail and learned by letters how to handle psychoanalytic problems never recognized or encountered before. Theory was debated as well, and the 89 letters between Putnam and Freud indicate how Freud's increasingly disillusioned stoicism clashed with Putnam's New England optimism and formed the basis for a significant dialogue on the nature of man, ethics, and the psychoanalytic mission.
- Hardcover 1971
- The Juridical Unconscious
This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, as well as the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Shoshana Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the twentieth century transformed both culture and law. This transformation took place through legal cases that put history itself on trial, and that provided a stage for the expression of the persecuted--the historically "expressionless."
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Kiss and Tell
- Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Lacan
- Lacan is a uniquely complex writer and the originator of an especially unsettling view of the human subject. Bowie traces the development of Lacan's ideas over the fifty-year span of his writing and teaching career. The primary focus is on the fascinating mutations in Lacan's interpretation of Freud.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Language Acquisition
- The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind. The result is a windfall of new information about language, about learning, and about children themselves.
- Hardcover 1978
- The Languages of the Brain
- A stellar lineup of international cognitive scientists, philosophers, and artists make the book's case that the brain is multilingual. Among topics discussed in the section on verbal languages are the learning of second languages, recovering language after brain damage, and sign language, and in the section on nonverbal languages, mental imagery, representations of motor activity, and the perception and representation of space.
- Hardcover 2002
- Learning Psychotherapy
- Hilde Bruch sets out to accomplish what has, until now, been virtually impossible-the teaching of psychotherapy by use of the written word. Perhaps Dr. Bruch's unique success at a task that has been tried and tried again, only to result in stereotyped do's and don'ts, stems from her own learning experiences with two great teachers: Harry Stack Sullivan and Frieda Fromm- Reichmann.
- Paperback
- The Learning-Disabled Child
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- Legacies of Childhood
- Saari defines the generation of educated Chinese born around the turn of the century as "the last to have the world of Confucian learning etched into their memories as schoolboys, yet the first as a group to confront the intrusive Western world." To reconstruct what those who lived through and shaped this extraordinary period felt, needed, thought, and became as children and adults, Saari draws on autobiographical writings and his own interviews among the elderly on Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- Hardcover 1990
- The Legacy of Erich Fromm
- This is the first full-scale intellectual biography in English of Erich Fromm, perhaps the most widely read psychoanalyst after Freud, whose contributions to clinical and social psychology and the history of the psychoanalytic movement have long been underrated.
- Hardcover 1991
- Lessons from an Optical Illusion
- This book is a bold, modern recasting of the age-old nature-nurture debate, informed by revolutionary insights from brain science, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, linguistics, evolutionary biology, child development, ethics, and even cosmology.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Life with Two Languages
- Many people consider bilinguals to be exceptional, yet almost half the world's population speaks more than one language. Bilingualism is found in every country of the world, in every class of society, in all age groups. This is the first book to provide a complete and authoritative look at the nature of the bilingual experience. Grosjean, himself a bilingual, covers the topic from each of its many angles in order to provide a balanced introduction to this fascinating phenomenon.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- The Living Eye
- Hardcover 1989
- Living Narrative
- This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- Loneliness as a Way of Life
- Hardcover 2008
- The Long Shadow of Temperament
- We have seen these children--the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring--and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development.
- Hardcover 2004
- Love's Story Told
- Searching out the private man as well as the public figure, this elegantly written biography follows Henry Murray through his life as a pioneer in the field of clinical psychology, as a co-founder of Harvard's Psychological Clinic, as the co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test, and as a biographer of Herman Melville.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Making Dead Birds
- This detailed and candid account of the process of making Gardner’s classic Dead Birds is more than the chronicle of a single work. Gardner’s classic Dead Birds is one of the most highly acclaimed and controversial documentary films ever made. It is also a thoughtful examination of what it meant to record the moving and violent rituals of warrior-farmers in the New Guinea highlands and to present to the world a graphic story of their behavior as a window onto our own. This book not only addresses the art and practice of filmmaking, but also explores issues of representation and the discovery of meaning in human lives.
- Paperback 2008
- Making Connections
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1990
- Making Contact
- Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies ofclinical method and the psychiatric schools, Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it. This book is the distillation of long years of thought and practice, a bold yet modest attempt to delineate an "integrated psychotherapy."
- Paperback 1988
- Making Good
- Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions--journalism, science, and acting--and looks at how the novices navigate moral dilemmas posed by a demanding, frequently lonely, professional life. It offers extensive insights into how young workers view their respective domains, the nature of their ambitions, the sacrifices they are willing to make, and the lines they are prepared to cross.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Making Sex
- Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice; and Making Sex tells the astonishing story of sex in the vest from the ancients to the moderns. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story--the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm--but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every stripe.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- Making Stories
- Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines this pervasive human habit and suggests new and deeper ways to think about how we use stories to make sense of lives and the great moral and psychological problems that animate them. Looking at legal cases and autobiography as well as literature, Bruner warns us not to be seduced by overly tidy stories and shows how doubt and double meaning can lie beneath the most seemingly simple case.
- Paperback 2003
- The Man with a Shattered World
- Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past; half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty speaking, reading, and writing. Woven throughout his first-person account are interpolations by Luria himself, which serve as excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and function.
- Paperback
- Manuscript Essays and Notes
- When William James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. The most important of these manuscripts are those of the years 1903 and 1904 called "The Many and the One." The manuscripts in the rest of the volume contain James's reflections over a period of forty years in the form of drafts, memoranda, and notebook entries. The diverse subjects are arranged under the headings of Philosophy, Psychology, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Religion. Of special interest are the early notes in which James began to work out his own philosophical point of view.
- Hardcover 1988
- Manuscript Lectures
- This final volume of The Works of William James provides a full record of James's teaching career at Harvard from 1872 to 1907. It includes extensive working notes for lectures in more than twenty courses. Because his teaching was so closely involved with the development of his thought, this material adds a new dimension to our understanding of his philosophy.
- Hardcover 1988
- Mapping the Moral Domain
- In the fourteen articles collected in this volume, Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of In A Different Voice and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to connection, dependence, autonomy, responsibility loyalty, peer pressure, and violence.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990
- The Matching Law
- This collection consists of Richard Herrnstein's most important and original contributions to the social and behavioral sciences--his papers on choice behavior in animals and humans and on his discovery and elucidation of a general principle of choice called the matching law.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- Meeting at the Crossroads
- Hardcover
- Melancholy and Society
- In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class. His larger topic is, in fact, modernity in general.
- Hardcover 1992
- Melanie Klein
- Paperback
- Memory Distortion
- Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Memory, Brain, and Belief
- The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues as "false memories," in which people can develop vivid recollections of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which memories of past experiences are influenced by one's current beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which nonconscious influences of past experience shape current beliefs.
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2002
- Mental Models
- This book offers nothing less than a unified theory of the major properties of mind: comprehension, inference, and consciousness. In spirited and graceful prose, Johnson-Laird argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental replicas of the relations among objects and events that concern us.
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback
- Mental Retardation
- This book makes it clear that many of the problems of retardation are caused by the misunderstanding and intolerance of a society like our own, which places extraordinary emphasis on mental ability and its measurable manifestations: school achievement and IQ. It is just this sort of intolerance and misunderstanding that this book does so much to dispel.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- Mind Time
- Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings--and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance to our understanding of consciousness.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Mind and Media
- Video games, television, and computers are facts of life for today's children. Anxious parents and teachers, concerned with maintaining the intellectual and social richness of childhood, need to understand their effects. Greenfield urges that we explore how the various media can be used to promote social growth and thinking skills.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- The Mind behind the Musical Ear
- Jeanne Bamberger focuses on the earliest stages in the development of musical cognition. Beginning with children's invention of original rhythm notations, she follows eight-year-old Jeff as he reconstructs and invents descriptions of simple melodies.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1995
- Mind in Life
- How is life related to the mind? Thompson explores this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness, drawing on sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy. Ultimately he shows that mind and life are more continuous than previously accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind.
- Hardcover 2007
- Mind in Society
- The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society, corrects much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky 's important essays.
- Paperback
- The Mind of a Mnemonist
- The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon - a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best fictional literature, fashions a portrait of an unforgettable human being.
- Paperback
- The Mind's Best Work
- Hardcover 1981 / Paperback
- Momentous Events, Vivid Memories
- David Pillemer's research extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and, how unique events linger in memory and influence lives.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- The Mystery of Courage
- Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Narratives from the Crib
- with a new foreword by Emily Oster, the child in the crib
- This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative child's emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving problems. In wide-ranging essays, scholars offer multifaceted linguistic and psychological analyses of two-year-old Emily's bedtime conversations with her parents and pre-sleep monologues, taped over a fifteen-month period. In a foreword written for this new edition, Emily, now an adult, reflects on the experience of having been a research subject without knowing it.
- Paperback 2006
- The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
- In this updated version of his landmark study on alcoholism, George Vaillant returns to the same subjects, but with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further follow-up.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- Negotiation Analysis
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2007