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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Psychology and the Poetics of Growth: Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education
1st Edition
By Howard R. Pollio, Jack M. Barlow, Harold J. Fine, Marilyn R. Pollio
October 01, 2025
In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation. The first section presents the idea of figurative language in terms of ...
Psychophysiological Measurement of Covert Behavior: A Guide for the Laboratory
1st Edition
By F. J. McGuigan
October 01, 2025
By the 1970s psychology had made sizable advances with its primary emphasis on the study of overt behavior, but its progress on covert behavior had been delayed because of the lack of suitable psychophysiological technology. Originally published in 1979, this title was written to help laboratory ...
Cognition in Schizophrenia and Paranoia: The Integration of Cognitive Processes
1st Edition
By Peter A. Magaro
September 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980, Cognition in Schizophrenia and Paranoia presents a theoretical framework that relates three fields of psychology: the experimental research in psychopathology, the developmental literature on intellectual growth, and the literature on hemispheric specialization. The ...
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 ...
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...
The Manipulators: Personality and Politics in Multiple Perspectives
1st Edition
By Allan W. Lerner
February 20, 2025
Originally published in 1990, this volume had two purposes. One was to shed some light on the impact that manipulativeness has on modern institutional processes. The other was to illustrate the importance of attempting militantly interdisciplinary work on themes that run through a variety of social...