The Academic Preparation of Secondary School Teachers

Hardcover

Acts of Meaning

Jerome Bruner

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

Jerome Bruner

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

George E. Vaillant

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

Ambiguous Loss

Pauline Boss

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 Ian Miller

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

Appropriately Subversive

Tova Hartman Halbertal

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

Gerald Caplan

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

S. Shirley Feldman

Glen R. Elliott

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

Autism

Francesca Happé

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

The Beginnings of Social Understanding

Judy Dunn

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

Black Child, White Child

Judith Porter

Paperback

The Caring Child

Nancy Eisenberg

Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992

Changing Youth in a Changing Society

Michael Rutter

This book begins with a survey of the problems of youth, showing which disorderspeak during the teenage years. With thisbackground of fact firmly established, Rutter turns to the difficult historical questionsabout whether adolescent disorders aretruly becoming more frequent.

Hardcover 1980

Chemotherapy in Psychiatry, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Ross J. Baldessarini

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

C. Henry Kempe

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

Nancy Rollins

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

The Child's Discovery of the Mind

Janet Astington

"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

John L. Locke

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

Rochel Gelman

C. R. Gallistel

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 of Different Worlds

Beatrice Whiting

Carolyn Edwards

Paperback / Hardcover

Children of Social Worlds

Martin Richards, Editor

Edited by Paul Light

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's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

David Foulkes

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

Zick Rubin

Paperback

Children’s Talk

Catherine Garvey

How do children learn the intangible rules of conversation, how do theymake 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

Cognitive Development

A. R. Luria

Paperback

Coming to Life

Leston Havens

Hardcover

Community Mental Health and Social Psychiatry

Harvard Med

Paperback 1962

Community Programs for Mental Health

Ruth Kotinsky, Editor

Helen L. Witmer, Editor

Hardcover 1955

Comparative Studies of How People Think

Michael Cole

Barbara Means

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 Computer and the Mind

Philip Johnson-Laird

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

Orville G. Brim, Editor

Jerome Kagan, Editor

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

Crossroads between Culture and Mind

Gustav Jahoda

Hardcover

Culture and Inference

Edwin Hutchins

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

Daycare, Revised Edition

Alison Clarke-Stewart

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Dialogues with Children

Gareth Matthews

Foreword by Robert Coles

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

The Discovery of Talent

Dael Wolfle, Editor

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

Dividing the Child

Eleanor E. Maccoby

Robert H. Mnookin

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

Karl Scheibe

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

Early Literacy

Joan Brooks McLane

Gillian Dowley McNamee

Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990

The Ecology of Human Development

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Hardcover 1979 / Paperback

The Emmanuel Movement

Sanford Gifford

"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

Aviad E. Raz

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

Essays in Psychology

William James

Introduction by William R. Woodward

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

William James

Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis

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

Avishai Margalit

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

Robert Kegan

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

David H. Finkelstein

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

Elizabeth F. Loftus

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

Salvador Minuchin

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

Salvador Minuchin

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Family Therapy Techniques

Salvador Minuchin

H. Charles Fishman

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

David Reiss

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

Fear and Hope

Dan Bar-On

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

A First Language

Roger Brown

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

Foundations of the Mind

Eugene Subbotsky

Hardcover

The Golden Cage

Hilde Bruch

Hardcover 1978

The Guided Mind

Jaan Valsiner

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

Francine M. Deutsch

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 House of Make-Believe

Dorothy G. Singer

Jerome L. Singer

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

John Snarey

George E. Vaillant

Hardcover

Identity's Architect

Lawrence J. Friedman

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

Stephen M. Kosslyn

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

In Over Our Heads

Robert Kegan

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

Michael Yogman, Editor

T. Berry Brazelton, Editor

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

Carol Gilligan

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

Infancy

Tiffany Field

Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990

Infancy

Jerome Kagan

Richard B. Kearsley

Philip R. Zelazo

Paperback

Infants

Robert B. McCall

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

Invented Worlds

Ellen Winner

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

Language Acquisition

Jill G. de Villiers

Peter A. de Villiers

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

Learning Psychotherapy

Hilde Bruch

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

Legacies of Childhood

John L. Saari

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

Daniel Burston

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

Life with Two Languages

François Grosjean

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

Love's Story Told

Forrest Robinson

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 Connections

Carol Gilligan, Editor

Nona Lyons, Editor

Trudy Hanmer, Editor

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1990

The Man with a Shattered World

A. R. Luria

Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Translated by Lynn Solotaroff

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

William James

Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupkelis

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

William James

Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis

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

Carol Gilligan, Editor

Janie Ward, Editor

Jill McLean Taylor, Editor

Betty Bardige, Editor

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

Meeting at the Crossroads

Lyn Mikel Brown

Carol Gilligan

Hardcover

Mental Models

Philip Johnson-Laird

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

Robert B. Edgerton

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 and Media

Patricia Marks Greenfield

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

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 Society

L. S. Vygotsky

Edited by Michael Cole

Edited by Vera John-Steiner

Edited by Sylvia Scribner

Edited by Ellen Souberman

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

A. R. Luria

Jerome Bruner

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

D. N. Perkins

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Narratives from the Crib

with a new foreword by Emily Oster, the child in the crib

Edited by Katherine Nelson

Foreword by Emily Oster

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

Narratives from the Crib

Katherine Nelson, Editor

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.

Hardcover 1989

No Five Fingers are Alike

Joseph C. Berland

Hardcover

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory

Jay Greenberg

Stephen Mitchell

Hardcover

Oedipus and Beyond

Jay Greenberg

Psychoanalysis, entering its second century, is a vital yet divided discipline. A confusing array of mutually contradictory theories compete for the loyalty of clinicians and for the attention of all those interested in understanding human experience. Greenberg's argument never loses touch with his clinical experience; ultimately, this is the deeply personal statement of a skilled practitioner.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

On Knowing

Second Edition

Jerome Bruner

Hardcover 1979 / Paperback

Origins and Evolution of Behavioral Disorders

Stella Chess

Alexander Thomas

Paperback

Paths to Success

Charles Harrington

Susan K. Boardman

Statisticians tell us that impoverished backgrounds are fairly accurate predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions. While the authors reveal consistencies between pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

People and Predicaments

Milton Mazer

This is the compelling story of an experiment begun in 1961 that eventually affected the lives of almost all of the residents of the island of Martha's Vineyard. The work clearly demonstrates that striking advances can be made by a mental health program that is informed by an understanding of the community served.

Hardcover 1976

Personal Being

Rom Harre

In this book, Rom Harré explores the radical thesis that most of our personal being may be of social origin. Consciousness, agency and autobiography are the three unities which make up our personal being. Their origin in childhood development and their differences in different cultures are explored.

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Philosophy and the Young Child

Gareth Matthews

This book presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. In a series of exquisite examples that could only have been gathered by a professional philosopher with an extraordinary respect for young minds, Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and mental play that leads them to tackle many of the classic problems of knowledge, value and existence that have traditionally formed the core of philosophical thought.

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

A Phylogenetic Fantasy

Sigmund Freud

Edited and with an essay by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis

Translated by Axel Hoffer

Translated by Peter Hoffer

Hardcover

Piaget Before Piaget

Fernando Vidal

Hardcover

Play

Catherine Garvey

Garvey explores some of the more promising new directions in the study of children's play and summarizes the findings of recent research.

Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990

The Principles of Psychology, Volume III, Notes, Appendixes, Apparatus, General Index

William James

Hardcover 1981

The Principles of Psychology, Volumes I and II,

William James

Foreword by Frederick Burkhardt

Introduction by Gerald E. Myers

Introduction by Rand B. Evans

William James's The Principles of Psychology marked a turning point in the development of psychology as a science in America. It has become a source of inspiration in philosophy, literature, and the arts. Its stature undiminished after ninety-one years, The Principles of Psychology appears now in a new, handsome edition with an authoritative text that corrects the hundreds of errors, some very serious, that have been perpetuated over the years.

Hardcover 1981

Profiles in Cognitive Aging

Douglas Powell

Dean Whitla, In collaboration with

Hardcover 1994

The Psyche and Schizophrenia

Luc Ciompi

Deborah Lucas Schneider, Translator

Hardcover 1988

Psychiatry for the Pediatrician

Hale F. Shirley

Using his observation of 1,000 children brought to the Stanford University Pediatric-Psychiatric Unit as a guide, Dr. Shirley illustrates his discussion of physical, mental, and emotional disturbances with case histories, thus presenting the relationships between physician and parent, and physician and child in dynamic form, and stressing the individual nature of each case.

Hardcover 1963

The Psychology of Childbirth

Aidan Macfarlane

Paperback

Psychology of Reasoning

P. Wason

At the core of the Psychology of Reasoning is a vigorous discussion that incorporates various illustrations--some of them humorous, all of them fascinating--of the use of reason under a wide variety of different conditions. Particular emphasis is placed on the difficulties involved in dealing with negatively marked information that must be combined and used with other information for reaching conclusions. Thorough treatment is given as well to the search for plausible contexts that will render anomalous or ambiguous statements "sensible."

Hardcover 1972 / Paperback

Psychology: Briefer Course

William James

Introduction by Michael M. Sokal

Despite its title, Psychology: Briefer Course is more than a simple condensation of the great Principles of Psychology. It remains a useful and highly readable introduction to James's views on psychology and is an essential source for anyone interested in studying all of his psychological writings.

Hardcover 1985

Psychopathology

Charles F. Reed, Editor

Irving E. Alexander, Editor

Silvan S. Tomkins, Editor

This book--first published in 1958, and designed for courses on abnormal psychology and psychiatry--is intended to supplement the usual textbook material in abnormal psychology. Papers have been selected to introduce the student to the active and complex enterprise of investigation and hypothesis in this wide field. Conflicting evidence and allegiances, riddles and ingenuity, are displayed in order to stimulate an appreciation of the task of discovery in behavioral science.

Hardcover 1958

Psychosomatic Families

Salvador Minuchin

Bernice L. Rosman

Lester Baker

Hardcover

Psychotherapy and Multiple Personality

Morton Prince

Hardcover 1975

Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I,

Ned Block, Editor

Paperback

Realities and Relationships

Kenneth J. Gergen

Recent attempts to challenge the primacy of reason--and its realization in foundationalist accounts of knowledge and cognitive formulations of human action--have focused on processes of discourse. Drawing from social and literary accounts of discourse, Kenneth Gergen considers these challenges to empiricism under the banner of "social construction." His aim is to outline the major elements of a social constructionist perspective, to illustrate its potential, and to initiate debate on the future of constructionist pursuits in the human sciences generally and psychology in particular.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Remembering Trauma

Richard J. McNally

Are horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim's memory? Or does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most controversial issue in psychology today, spilling out of consulting rooms and laboratories to capture headlines, rupture families, provoke legislative change, and influence criminal trials and civil suits. This book, by a clinician who is also a laboratory researcher, is the first comprehensive, balanced analysis of the clinical and scientific evidence bearing on this issue--and the first to provide definitive answers to the urgent questions at the heart of the controversy.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Research Interviewing

Elliot G. Mishler

Elliot Mishler presents a powerful critique of current views on research interviewing, and proposes a new approach. Mishler sees traditional interviewing as suppressing discourse. He argues that an interview is actually a type of narrative and proposes that respondents should have a more extensive role as participants and collaborators in the research process.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1991

The Role of Psychiatry in Medical Education

Sidney L. Werkman

This book describes and contrasts various psychiatric teaching programs in medical schools. After an examination of the differing and frequently unsatisfactory states of these programs, it also proposes a comprehensive plan for the future.

Hardcover 1966

Schizophrenia

John C. Shershow, Editor

Hardcover 1978

Schooling

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

Recent decades have witnessed unprocedented advances in research on human development. In those same decades there have been profound charges in public policy toward children. Each book in the Developing Child series reflects the importance of such research in its own right and as it bear on the formulation of policy. It is the purpose series to make the finding of this research available to those who are responsible for raising a new generation and for shaping policy on its behalf. We hope that these books will provide rich and useful information for parents, educators, child-care professors, students of developmental psychology, and all others concerned with the challenge of human growth.

Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990

The Second Year

Jerome Kagan

The second year is that daunting time when the previously docile and adorable infant inevitably develops a mind of her own. In this book, Kagan takes a provocative look at the mental developments underlying the startling transitions in the child's second year.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Seeing Red

Nicholas Humphrey

Beginning with the seemingly simple act of seeing red, this brilliantly unsettling essay builds toward an explanation of why consciousness makes compelling evolutionary sense. From sensations that probably began in bodily expression to the evolutionary advantages of a conscious self, Seeing Red tracks the "hard problem" of consciousness to its source and its solution, a solution in which the very hardness of the problem may make all the difference.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Semantic and Conceptual Development

Frank C. Keil

In this book, Keil presents the first psychological investigation of the developing child's ontological knowledge. Building on previous philosophical work, Keil shows that ontological categories develop in a highly predictable progression. Moreover, Keil demonstrates that ontological development obeys a strong formal constraint on the relations among categories. Although there are many possible ontological systems, children appear to be inherently targeted to consider a system of only one sort.

Hardcover 1979

The Sexual Metaphor

Helen Haste

Hardcover

Sexual Science and the Law

Richard Green

Hardcover

Short Term Psychotherapy and Emotional Crisis, 1972

Peter Sifneos

Hardcover 1972

Siblings

Judy Dunn

Carol Kendrick

Dunn and Kendrick demonstrate that the advent of a sibling can be a stimulus for real cognitive and emotional growth on the part of the older child. A sensitive and informative book, Siblings takes psychology into an area of family life and child development that has long received too little attention.

Hardcover 1982

Sisters and Brothers

Judy Dunn

The sibling relationship, as any parent with two or more children knows, is an extraordinarily intense one: young brothers and sisters love and hate, play and fight, tease and mock each other with a devastating lack of inhibition. In this timely and unusual glimpse into the world of the child, Dunn argues that in fighting, bullying, or comforting, very young sisters and brothers possess a far deeper understanding of others than psychologists have supposed.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Storylines

Elliot G. Mishler

What do we mean when we refer to our "identity," and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our lives? Is "identity" a sustained private core, or does it change as circumstances and relationships shift? Mishler explores these questions through analyses of in-depth interviews with five craftartists, who reflect on their lives and their efforts to sustain their form of work as committed artists in a world of mass production and standardization.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2004

Strangers to Ourselves

Timothy D. Wilson

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Success and Understanding

Jean Piaget

Hardcover 1978

Talks to Teachers on Psychology

William James

Introduction by Gerald E. Myers

Despite the modesty of its title, the publication of this book in 1899 was a significant event. It marked the first application of the relatively new discipline of psychology, and specifically of James's theses in The Principles of Psychology, to educational theory and classroom practice. Among its innovative features were James's maxims "No reception without reaction" and "No impression without expression"; a new emphasis on the biology of behavior and on the role of instincts; and discussions of the relevance to elementary school education of what is known about will, attention, memory, apperception, and the association of ideas.

Hardcover 1983

Thematic Apperception Test

Henry A. Murray

This test is sold on the understanding that the plates are not to be publicly displayed and may be purchased only by authorized persons.

Paperback 1943 / Mixed 1943

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood

Neil J. Smelser

Paperback

Thinking Through Cultures

Richard A. Shweder

What Shweder calls for is an exploration of the human mind, and of one's own mind, by thinking through the ideas and practices of other peoples and their cultures. He examines evidence of cross-cultural similarities and differences in mind, self, emotion, and morality with special reference to the cultural psychology of a traditional Hindu temple town in India, where he has done considerable work in comparative anthropology.

Paperback 1991 / Hardcover 1991

Ties That Stress

David Elkind

What has happened to the American family in the last few decades? Renowned child psychologist David Elkind has devoted his career to these urgent questions. This eloquent book puts together all the puzzling facts and conflicting accounts to show us as never before what the American family has become.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998

Time-Limited Psychotherapy

James Mann

Waiting lists in psychiatric clinics and increasing numbers of patients in long-term psychotherapy have highlighted the need for shorter methods of treatment. Existing forms of short-term psychotherapy tend to be vague and uncertain, lacking as they do a clearly formulated rationale and methodology.

Hardcover 1973 / Paperback

The Transfer of Cognitive Skill

Mark Singley

John R. Anderson

Hardcover

The Trouble with Blame

Sharon Lamb

This powerful book takes up the disturbing topic of victimization and blame as a pathology of our time and its consequences for personal responsibility. By probing the psychological dynamics of victims and perpetrators of rape, sexual abuse, and domestic violence, Sharon Lamb seeks to answer such crucial questions as how victims become victims and sometimes perpetrators and how can we break the psychological circle of perpetrators blaming others and victims blaming themselves.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999

Truth Games

John Forrester

Foreword by Adam Phillips

Continuing the work begun in Dispatches from the Freud Wars, Truth Games offers a rich philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and rippling implications of psychoanalysis. Original, witty, incisive, these essays provide a new understanding of the uses and abuses and the ultimate significance of truth telling and lying, trust and confidence as they operate in psychoanalysis--and in the intimate world of the self and society that it seeks to know.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Unified Theories of Cognition

Allen Newell

Paperback / Hardcover

Uniquely Human

Philip Lieberman

In a stimulating synthesis of cognitive science, anthropology, and linguistics, Lieberman tackles the fundamental questions of human nature: How and why are human beings so different from other species? Can the Darwinian theory of evolution explain human linguistic and cognitive ability? How do our processes of language and thought differ from those of Homo erectus 500,000 years ago, or of the Neanderthals 35,000 years ago? What accounts for human moral sense?

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Unstable Ideas

Jerome Kagan

Paperback / Hardcover

Violence against Children

David Gil

For this volume Gil examines and interprets a series of nationwide studies of child abuse that were initiated in 1965 in an attempt to unravel the context of social and cultural forces with which violent behavior against children is associated. With an approach that is epidemiologic, social, and cultural, rather than clinical and psychological, he compiles findings from press and public-opinion surveys, from analyses of nearly 13,000 incidents of child abuse reported through legal channels across the country during 1967 and 1968, and from a comprehensive study of more than 1300 incidents reported in a representative sample of cities and counties.

Hardcover 1970 / Paperback

Voices of the Mind

James V. Wertsch

In this book, Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses its inherent cultural, historical, and institutional context. A critical aspect of this approach is the cultural tools or "mediational means" that shape both social and individual processes. In considering how these mediational means--in particular, language--emerge in social history and the role they play in organizing the settings in which human beings are socialized, Wertsch achieves fresh insights into essential areas of human mental functioning that are typically unexplored or misunderstood.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind

James V. Wertsch

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988

Vygotsky's Psychology

Alex Kozulin

Alex Kozulin, translator of Vygotsky's work and distinguished Russian-American psychologist, has written the first major intellectual biography about Vygotsky's theories and their relationship to twentieth-century Russian and Western intellectual culture. In the last two decades, Vygotsky's theories have become highly influential while those of other theoretical giants have faded. Kozulin's biography of Vygotsky reflects many of the conflicts of twentieth-century psychology--from the early battles between introspectionists and reflexologists to the current argument concerning the cultural and social, rather than natural, construction of the human mind.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1999

A War of Nerves

Ben Shephard

This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

What Men Want

John Ross

Hardcover

Why Do Men Barbecue?

Richard A. Shweder

Drawing on ethnographic studies of the distinctive modes of psychological functioning in communities around the world, Richard Shweder explores ethnic and cultural differences in ideals of gender, in the life of the emotions, in conceptions of mature adulthood and the stages of life, and in moral judgments about right and wrong. Shweder, a cultural pluralist, dares readers to broaden their own conceptions of what is good, true, beautiful, and efficient and to take a closer look at specific cultural practices--parent/child cosleeping, arranged marriage, male and female genital modifications--that we may initially find alien or disturbing.

Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

Harlan Lane

Paperback

The Wisdom of the Ego

George E. Vaillant

One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

The Women's Concise Guide to Emotional Well-Being

Karen J. Carlson

Stephanie A. Eisenstat

Terra Ziporyn

Here, in one volume, is what the experts know about preventing, recognizing, and treating the psychological disturbances and disorders that women experience uniquely. From the complexities of schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder to the delicate practicalities of sexual response, this guide offers all that a woman might want to know about protecting her psychological health.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Writings for a Liberation Psychology

Ignacio Martín-Baró

Adrianne Aron, Editor

Shawn Corne, Editor

Foreword by Elliot G. Mishler

A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago and tragically killed by a Salvadoran death squad in 1989, Ignacio Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual. This collection of his writings, the first in English translation, clarifies Martín-Baró's importance in Latin American psychology and reveals a major force in the field of social theory.

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996

Young Children Learning

Barbara Tizard

Martin Hughes

The book describes a research study in which four-year-old girls were tape-recorded talking to their mothers at home and to their teachers at nursery school. The book challenges the widely held belief that parents need to learn from professionals how to educate and bring up their children; above all, it persuades us to value parenting more highly and to have respect for the intellectual capabilities of young minds.

Hardcover 1985