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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The Intelligence of Animals: Studies in Comparative Psychology
1st Edition
By Frances Pitt
September 01, 2025
Originally published in 1931, The Intelligence of Animals sets out detailed studies of various birds and beasts, some in the wild, some under domestication, and some under semi-domestication, with a view to illustrating the supreme importance of the “mental factor” in biology. These studies in ...
Bias in Quantifying Judgments
1st Edition
By E. C. Poulton
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1989, this volume carefully catalogues and classifies the effect of bias on quantitative judgments. Each bias is described by model and examples of this bias are given. The examples include both theoretical investigations carried out in the laboratory to study bias and ...
Communicating Quantities: A Psychological Perspective
1st Edition
By Linda M. Moxey, Anthony J. Sanford
August 01, 2025
Every day, in many situations, we use expressions which seem to provide us with only vague information. The weather forecaster tells us that "some showers are likely in Northern regions during the night", a statement which is vague with respect to number of showers, location, and time. Yet such ...
Health and the Construction of the Individual
1st Edition
By Jane Ogden
August 01, 2025
How do social scientists create facts? What strategies do they use to construct knowledge? How does social science make sense of the individual? Critical studies of both medical and scientific knowledge have been conducted but social science knowledge remains relatively unquestioned. Addressing ...
The Nature and Ontogenesis of Meaning
1st Edition
Edited
By Willis F. Overton, David S. Palermo
August 01, 2025
Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing. For Piaget, all knowing – whether sensorimotor, representational, or reasoned, and whether directed toward successful problem solutions or toward general ...
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Developments in Theory, Technique, and Training
1st Edition
By Franz Alexander
June 30, 2025
First published in 1957 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy summarizes and evaluates the trends in this field in the 1950s. By 1950s important changes have taken place as a result of growing acceptance of psychoanalysis by the medical community. More and more we realize the great possibilities of ...
Nursing Psychological Patients
1st Edition
By Mary Chadwick
June 02, 2025
Originally published in 1931, Nursing Psychological Patients was ‘a book written by a nurse for the purpose of increasing the interest of members of the nursing profession in psychological diseases, by pointing out that they require the nurses’ serious attention and offer an important field for ...
Pavlov and his School: The Theory of Conditioned Reflexes
1st Edition
By Y. P. Frolov
June 02, 2025
Originally published in 1937, Pavlov and his School provides fascinating biographical information about Pavlov himself and is a clear and concise account of the theory of conditioned reflexes demanding no extensive knowledge of nervous physiology. It shows by numerous examples from everyday life ...
The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism
1st Edition
By Rune E. A. Johansson
June 02, 2025
Originally published in 1979, The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism was a psychologist’s attempt to understand what the Buddha meant by “dependent origination” (paticcasumappāda, sometimes translated as “causality”). Those who are familiar with Theravada Buddhism have met the famous series of ...
Figural Synthesis
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter C. Dodwell, Terry Caelli
February 20, 2025
The aim of this book, originally published in 1984, was to bring together a number of approaches to this important topic. Significant advances had been made in the two decades before publication in our understanding of many aspects of the coding that occurs along the visual pathways. The major ...
Goal Directed Behavior: The Concept of Action in Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Frese, John Sabini
February 20, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this book was an attempt at a comprehensive review of the psychology of action in various areas of psychology. It is also an attempt to bridge two languages and traditions in psychology: German and Anglo-American. Although Anglo-American psychology had had an enormous ...
Instinct and Personality
1st Edition
By A. Campbell Garnett
February 20, 2025
Originally published in 1928, the principle aim of this book was to present and apply an original viewpoint in psychology. The work is substantially that of a thesis on "The Problem of Personality in the Light of Recent Psychology" for which the author was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters in...