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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Subjective Meaning and Culture: An Assessment Through Word Associations
1st Edition
By Lorand B. Szalay, James Deese
November 28, 2025
Originally published in 1978, Subjective Meaning and Culture presents a framework and a method for the comparative study of the perceptions, attitudes, and cultural frames of reference shared by groups of people. The framework is the notion of subjective meaning, and the method is that of...
Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental Psychology
1st Edition
By John R. Morss
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1996, and now with a new preface, Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focusing on development. It takes a fresh look at infancy, childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that ‘development’ does not exist. John R. Morss guides the reader ...
Minimal Brain Dysfunction: A Prospective Study
1st Edition
By Paul L. Nichols, Ta-Chuan Chen
October 01, 2025
The concept of Minimal Brain Dysfunction (a previous term for ADHD) has had a tumultuous, and some would say, checkered history. Originally published in 1981, this title was one of a series of volumes dealing with specific developmental problems in children whose mothers registered for prenatal ...
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 ...
Creative Characters
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
September 01, 2025
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
September 01, 2025
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,...
Designing for Therapeutic Environments: A Review of Research
1st Edition
Edited
By David Canter, Sandra Canter
September 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, Therapeutic Environments brings together a set of previously unpublished accounts of studies by internationally recognized experts in North America and Britain, of the full range of places which are designed to facilitate the processes of healing, caring and helping. ...
Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary McCallum, William E. Piper
September 01, 2025
Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding was first published in 1997. At the time, psychodynamically-oriented clinicians had long emphasized the relevance of psychological mindedness to effective therapy. But what does the term mean? That had been a difficult question to answer. There...
Psychology and Visual Aesthetics
1st Edition
By R. W. Pickford
September 01, 2025
Originally published in 1972, the aim of Psychology and Visual Aesthetics was to present a study mainly concerned with experimental work on visual aesthetics. From the rather restricted approaches of Fechner, the pioneer of experimental aesthetics, whose book Vorschule der Aesthetik was published ...
The History of Psychology
1st Edition
By W. B. Pillsbury
September 01, 2025
First published in 1929, the original blurb reads: “This is the first popular history of psychology to be written, and gives the general reader an accurate account of all the more important events in the development of psychological thinking, from Plato and Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen, to ...