psychology

Hardcover. London, Williams and Norgate, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound edition of the four journals for 1897. 584 pages. Half leather with marbled boards, spine with raised bands, fading. Short closed tear at top of spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 586 pages. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175). 10 b&w plates. Clean copy. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 552 pages. Hardcover. Bollingen Series C. Dust jacket with light wear, tears to edges, price clipped. Full color and black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust cover unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Cream cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Here is your doctor--through the eyes and imaginations of some of the most brilliant cartoonists of our time.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. In 1968, a conference was held to explore the ultimate question- Are the problems created by man's pursuit of his conscious purposes- problems that now threaten to destroy both the web of meaning in human life and the ecological web of this planet- actually within the competence of man to solve? 324 pages plus index. No markings, covers lightly splayed.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions--philosophy, psychology, art--and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it.In order to fully appreciate a work of art, Wollheim argued, critics must bring to the understanding of a work of art a much richer conception of human psychology than they have in the past: "Many [critics] . . . make do with a psychology that, if they tried to live their lives by it, would leave them at the end of an ordinary day without lovers, friends, or any insight into how this came about." Many reviewers have remarked on the insightfulness of the book's final chapter, in which Wollheim contended that certain paintings by Titian, Bellini, de Kooning, and others represent the painters' attempts to project fantasies about the human body onto the canvas. Light fading to dj spine. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. 125 erotic images used in research at the Kinsey Institute. Preface by Betsy Stirratt and Jeffrey Wolin. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. 125 erotic images used in research at the Kinsey Institute. Preface by Betsy Stirratt and Jeffrey Wolin. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Morrow, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. A remarkable pre-Freudian account of schizophrenia written by the son of a prime minister of England. Certifiably insane from 1830 to 1831, he wrote the autobiography of his illness and recovery with vigor and insight. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, dark green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. 350 pages. The distinctive aim of Philosopher-Kings is to show, by giving a rational reconstruction of its overall argument, that the Republic is not the flawed patchwork it is usually made out to be by interpreters, but a deeply consistent and systematic work, which raises fundamental problems for philosophy and develops powerful and probing solutions to them. The book's central innovative thesis is that Plato's psychology, more specifically his theory of desires, holds the key to this, his most ambitious work. "Although the Republic has come to seem frazzled from too much use in introductory courses, in Reeve's hands it is new and refreshing".--Paul Woodruff, Ancient Philosophy "Although the philosopher-kings of Reeve's title are central to the argument of this handsomely produced book, it is in reality nothing less than a complete reinterpretation of the Republic. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Hillsdale NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with light blue stamping, 422 pages. This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th- century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child. Published two hundred years after Condillac's death, this translation contains treatises which were, until now, virtually unavailable in English: A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise of the Sensations, Logic. Name on front fly leaf, light bumps to cover corners.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. In this book, Judy Weiser shows how mental health professionals can use clients' personal photos and family albums as catalysts for therapeutic communication. She reveals how initiating a dialogue based on such personally symbolic artistic expressions gives form to feelings which otherwise might be resistant to verbal investigations. She shows how to use this dialogue to stimulate recall of forgotten, blocked, or denied information and memories, and to apply these insights to an effective therapeutic framework. A comprehensive guide to PhotoTherapy, this book provides the theoretical principles, detailed techniques, anecdotal illustrations, and practical exercises that will help mental health professionals apply this approach in practice. Looking at all types of photographs - whether they are ones that clients respond to, collect, pose for, or create - Weiser describes various ways to engage clients with photographic imagery. Providing several examples from actual cases to illustrate how clients' responses to photographs can be integrated into the therapeutic process, she offers practitioners a powerful therapeutic tool, regardless of their particular theoretical orientation. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, Reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Softcover. Light pencil marking to a few pages. Overall clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, University Books, 1sr, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 400 pages. Discusses The Nature and State of Possession, Exorcism, and Shamanism. Looks at the history of possession, and its importance to religious psychology. With an appendix on Parapsychology. Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich [1880-1949] was a German psychologist and philosopher at the University Tubingen. He published numerous works on parapsychology and the occult. This is an ex-lib copy with stamping, residue to endpapers. No dust jacket, small sticker on spine, clean interior.

Softcover. New York, Perigee Books, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Softcover with only light shelf wear to covers. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Co., reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three separate hardcover volumes: Vol. 1 - 642 pages. Vol. 2 divided into two parts, 302 pages, 303-696 pages. All bound in half leather with matching marbled boards. Leather is chipped and cracked in places. Overall, a clean and tight set, small name label on front pastedowns. NOTE: THIS LARGE HEAVY SET UNAVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Softcover. San Francisco, Psychedelic Review, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with color pictorial wrappers, 85 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. The last issue of the controversial journal on psychedelic substances, originally founded by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Mild wear, light soil, overall very good, no markings.

Hardcover. New York, Philosophical Library, Inc, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 138 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Covers slightly bent with touch of foxing, but otherwise good. Dust jacket has some moisture damage on back and some chipping at spine. Clean inside.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, tattered dust jacket with a yellow sticker on front cover. 328 pages. The Austrian-born sociologist's reflections on race, physical differences, race mingling and decay of nations, race and psychology, backward races, etc. Spine cloth torn at top with a 1/2" square gone. Names on front endpapers. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, Uncorr. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in yellow wrappers with some fading. Beginning when a dead Ray Williams arrives in Heaven, the novel unfolds as the deceased proceeds to tell his life story backwards. As dodgy and shiftless in the afterlife as he was on Earth, Ray finds himself in Heaven's popular Last Words discussion group, where, for dramatic effect, he lies about his final utterances. A series of flashbacks reveals Ray's defining moments, including his real last words and what they meant, in a funny, poignant narrative that moves with the clarity of a fable and the complexity of modern psychology. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Clean copy.

Softcover. Hollywood CA, American Progress Enterprises, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. A rambling discourse about America, it's problems and future prospects by a former publicist for Warner Brothers. The author wrote this book to elucidate problems caused by governmental blunders and to ferret out solutions, emphasizing the science of psychology. This book contains copies of correspondence between the author and President Reagan as well as copies of other supporting documents. Lots of advice for the President, Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Appleton, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, 336 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth covers with black lettering. Minor wear, clean copy.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 475 pages, What is reduction? Must all discussions of the mind, value, color, biological organisms, and persons aim to reduce these to objects and properties that can be studied by more basic, physical science? Conversely, does failure to achieve a reduction undermine the legitimacy of higher levels of description or explanation? Though reduction has long been a favorite method of analysis in all areas of philosophy, in recent years philosophers have attempted to avoid these traditional alternatives by developing an account of higher-level phenomena which shows them to be grounded in, but not reducible to, basic physical objects and properties. The contributors to this volume examine the motivations for such anti-reductionist views, and assess their coherence and success, in a number of different fields, including moral and mental philosophy, psychology, organic biology, and the social sciences. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What motivates us to reread literary works? How is our pleasure, interpretation, involvement, and evaluation different when we read a literary work and when we reread it? This fascinating book by Matei Calinescu is the first to focus on the implications of rereading for critical understanding. Drawing on literary theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and previous theories of reading, Calinescu describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the sometimes complementary, sometimes sharply conflicting relationships between reading and rereading. Calinescu analyzes fictional works by Borges, Nabokov, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Henry James, among others, explaining how reading texts is related both to symbolic play or make-believe and to games with rules. He reviews the history of reading in modern times, discussing, for example, how the Reformation led to rereadings of Scripture and how the proliferation of books during the Enlightenment led to a shift from "intensive reading" to "extensive reading." Calinescu looks at the distinctions between reading and rereading from the perspectives of the age, situation, and gender of the individual reader. He discusses the problems raised by secret or oblique languages and codes - devised to evade censors, communicate with a select audience of "secret sharers," or play games of hide-and-seek with the reader - and shows that they naturally lead to rereading a text. Calinescu argues persuasively that an understanding of rereading is useful in formulating both analytic strategies of practical criticism and a poetics of reading. Clean, bright copy.