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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Caring About Morality: Philosophical Perspectives in Moral Psychology
1st Edition
By Thomas E. Wren
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1991, Caring About Morality is an interdisciplinary study of moral motivation. It teases out and criticizes the philosophical assumptions at play in the major psychological conceptions of morality’s motivational dimension, beginning with behaviorism and social learning ...
Common Mental Disorders: A Bio-Social Model
1st Edition
By David Goldberg, Peter Huxley
April 01, 2027
Unique in combining insights from social psychiatry with recent findings in biological psychiatry at the time, this book, originally published in 1992, provided a new and invaluable model for common mental disorders. The authors, one a physician, the other trained in the social sciences, surveyed a...
Mental Acts: Their Content and Their Objects
1st Edition
By Peter Geach
April 01, 2027
Reports of people’s thoughts and feelings relate to occurrences of a special category – mental acts. This book discusses the concepts used in such reports. Originally published in 1957 and with a new preface in 1971, this book is now a classic in the philosophy of psychology. It begins with a ...
Mind and Belief: Psychological Ascription and the Concept of Belief
1st Edition
By Mitchell Ginsberg
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1972, Mind and Belief is not in the philosophy of religion. Basically, it concerns questions in philosophical psychology, and in particular, questions both about what it is to hold something to be the case (to believe something), and also about attributing various ...
A Structural Analysis of Small Groups
1st Edition
By Susan Long
March 01, 2027
Originally published in 1992, A Structural Analysis of Small Groups is concerned with the emergent properties of groups as systems, where those properties arise from, but where such properties are equivalent neither to those of individuals nor their interactions. First an examination of group ...
Deep Dyslexia: Second Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Coltheart, Karalyn Patterson, John C. Marshall
March 01, 2027
Deep dyslexia – a variety of reading disorder that can result from brain injury in a previously literate adult – was the subject of more intensive individual case studies than any other syndrome in neurolinguistics and neuropsychology. Originally published in 1987, this book, now in its second ...
Self Processes and Development: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: Volume 23
1st Edition
Edited
By Megan R. Gunnar, L. Alan Sroufe
March 01, 2027
Originally published in 1991, this volume contains chapters presented at the 23rd Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology held in 1988. The theme of this volume is self processes and development. The psychological study of the self has a long history in the field of psychology. It is a study, ...
The Birth of the Ego: A Nuclear Hypothesis
1st Edition
By Edward Glover
March 01, 2027
Originally published in 1968, The Birth of the Ego is a restatement and amplification of the author’s views on the theoretical concept of the ego, and in particular on the ‘nuclear theory’ of its development. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1968. The language used and views ...
The Dangers of Being Human
1st Edition
By Edward Glover
March 01, 2027
Originally published in 1936, the author of War, Sadism and Pacifism applies to the problems of civilization the same methods of investigation which he adopted in the case of war. His first discovery is that behind man’s façade of rational behaviour there exists in an active condition a more ...
Repression and Fear: A New Approach to Resolve the Crisis in Psychopathology
1st Edition
By Yacov Rofé
January 15, 2027
Originally published in 1989 and reissued here with a substantial new introduction Repression and Fear was a provocative new explanation of neurosis and psychosis. In this work, the author provides evidence that psychopathological theories at the time – most notably psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and...
Creative Characters
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
November 24, 2026
The study of creativity is as old as western thought. In recent times any crisis of confidence is likely to involve anxiety about the loss of creativity – scientific, artistic, technological – and to set off a new search for creativity’s definition. In Creative Characters, originally published in ...
Creative Malady: Illness in the Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1st Edition
By George Pickering
November 24, 2026
In this highly provocative book, originally published in 1974, Sir George Pickering, former Professor of Medicine in the University of London and Regius Professor in the University of Oxford, examines the role of illness in the minds and lives of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Freud, Proust,...