Psychology: Books and eBooks

Benjamin and Baker trace the professionalization of psychology, and the birth and development of modern practice, in the US from the 19th century to the present.

This unique book closes the gap between psychology books and the research that made them possible.

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience.

Focuses on how longer life expectancies will change the fabric of society and individual lives. Examines the latest theories and research on how aging affects a wide variety of aspects -- memory, social relationships, emotion, and mental health.

Miller offers the most accessible and comprehensive presentation of the main theories of developmental psychology available today. The superb scholarship and thoughtful analyses includes an evaluation of each theory's strengths and weaknesses, as well as excerpts from the theorists' work.

From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.

This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century.

Self-awareness is an important aspect of successful management careers. The first chapter of this book investigates the link between self-awareness and personality.

Psychology and 'Human Nature' problematizes what psychology usually takes for granted - the meaning of the psyche or 'human nature'.

A detailed study of the various sources and biological and emotional uses of color in all phases of human existence by a leading researcher in the field.

A wide range of techniques are used to investigate children's development. This book, which is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in psychology and related areas, provides a guide to key theories and methods used by researchers.