Psychology Revivals
About the Book Series
Psychology Revivals is an initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Following the success of the Routledge Revivals programme, this time encompassing a vast range from across the Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with both Routledge and Psychology Press, restoring to print books by some of the most influential scholars of the last 120 years.
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Fires and Human Behaviour: Second Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By David Canter
January 01, 2026
This second edition of Fires and Human Behaviour was originally published in 1990 and since the first edition in 1980 there continued to be considerable loss of life in small and large fires throughout the world. The most significant of these from a behavioural point of view was the Kings Cross ...
Football in its Place: An Environmental Psychology of Football Grounds
1st Edition
By David Canter, Miriam Comber, David L. Uzzell
January 01, 2026
In the late 1980s football was in a state of crisis. Falling attendances and a genuine unease among potential spectators about going to live football matches suggested that, without radical changes, the game would soon become a minority spectator sport. Originally published in 1989, reissued now ...
Freedom and Reactance
1st Edition
By Robert A. Wicklund
January 01, 2026
Brehm’s theory of psychological reactance in 1966 marked the beginning of a psychological investigation into the consequences of losing freedom. The concept “freedom” had been touched upon intermittently by disciplines such as political science and philosophy, and even on occasion by psychology, ...
Newborns and Parents: Parent-Infant Contact and Newborn Sensory Stimulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Vincent L. Smeriglio
January 01, 2026
In hospitals in the 1970s there was considerable variation in the nature of hospital environments experienced by newborns and their parents. The effects of such experiences are of great interest to researchers concerned with infant development and parent-child relationships, to clinicians involved ...
Research in Counseling
1st Edition
Edited
By C. Edward Watkins, Jr., Lawrence J. Schneider
January 01, 2026
Research coursework has long been a recognized component of counselor preparation programs. Originally published in 1991, this groundbreaking book was designed to provide graduate students with an introduction to different types of counseling research (e.g., outcomes, processes, interventions), the...
Toward a Holistic Developmental Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Seymour Wapner, Bernard Kaplan
January 01, 2026
Originally published in 1983, the main aim of this volume was to suggest new ways of conceptualizing human development and new domains of theorizing and engaging in practice for those who were vitally concerned with the nature and value of human beings. Toward this goal, colleagues and students of ...
More About Psychiatry
1st Edition
By Carl Binger
December 08, 2025
Originally published in 1951, More About Psychiatry invites readers deeper into the evolving world of psychiatry. Writing with clarity, compassion, and a deep respect for the human mind, Binger demystifies the psychiatric profession for the general reader, offering insights into the emotional and ...
Obsessional States
1st Edition
Edited
By H. R. Beech
December 08, 2025
First published in 1974, Obsessional States is a collection of original papers by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists that gave a comprehensive survey of thought on significant aspects of obsessional neuroses at the time. The symptoms of patients suffering from this kind of disorder are ...
The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality
1st Edition
By Valerie Walkerdine
December 08, 2025
Originally published in 1988, The Mastery of Reason is, on one level, a study of children’s cognitive development. It engages with debates about the ‘individual’ and the ‘social context’ in accounts of children’s mathematical development at the time. However, Valerie Walkerdine seeks to go beyond ...
Cognition and Categorization
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleanor Rosch, Barbara B. Lloyd
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1978, the papers in this book derive from a 1976 meeting sponsored by the Social Science Research Council to discuss the nature and principles of category formation. It is organized in three sections: real-world categories, the cognitive processes underlying categorization, ...
Competent Reader, Disabled Reader: Research and Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin H. Singer
December 01, 2025
In the past frustration with experimental reports had caused educators to dismiss the entire reading research enterprise. Originally published in 1982, this book attempts to abstract those experimental results relevant to developing effective reading programs. The book concentrates on the more ...
Information Processing and Cognition: The Loyola Symposium
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert L. Solso
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1975, this title presented current theories in information processing and cognition at the time. The topics fall into three major groups. The first section is concerned with the issues of perception and initial processing of visual material; the second section is addressed ...






