Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Comparative Psychology
    Originally published in 1976, the object of this volume was to present a relatively up-to-date overview of what was known, what was suspected, and what remained to be discovered concerning the general question of the evolution of the vertebrate brain and behaviour, and to present a list of references for those who wanted to delve deeper into one or another aspect of the problem. Accordingly, it ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    by Jon Ronson ...
    Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.*'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'*For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Annie's Ghosts

    A Journey Into a Family Secret

    This author's true story of his "hidden aunt is both a gripping detective story and a haunting memoir" ( New York Times –bestselling author Walter Isaacson).Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth's death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie."Steve Luxenberg sleuths his family's hidden history with the skills of an investigative reporter, the instincts ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Man Who Shocked The World

    The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram

    by Thomas Blass ...
    The creator of the famous "Obedience Experiments," carried out at Yale in the 1960s, and originator of the "six degrees of separation" concept, Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. In this sparkling biography-the first in-depth portrait of Milgram-Thomas Blass captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a social psychologist who profoundly altered the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Interpretation of Dreams

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by Joyce Crick ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception which included, under the influence of his associate Wilhelm Stekel, the theory of dream symbolism. Reading the first edition reveals Freud's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hyper

    A Personal History of ADHD

    The first book of its kind about what it’s like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a “haunting narrative that explores the world’s most scrutinized childhood condition from the inside out” (Nature) that also illuminates the history of how we came to medicate more than four million children today.Among the first generation of boys prescribed medication for ADHD in the 1980s, Timothy Denevi took ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Our Own Master Race

    Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945

    by Angus McLaren ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate." The ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Dream of Undying Fame

    How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis

    by Louis Breger ...
    In 1877, a young Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work, Studies on Hysteria. But by the time it released, Freud was moving to establish himself as a major figure in the treatment of mentally ill patients, and would let no one stand in his way. He consequently minimized Breuer's contributions, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sites of the Unconscious

    Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

    by Andreas Mayer ...
    Translated by Christopher Barber ...
    In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, his Viennese translator and disciple Sigmund Freud took up the challenge and invented psychoanalysis. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Protest Psychosis

    How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

    A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illnessThe civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Illustrations of Madness

    by John Haslam ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist. John Haslam, apothecary to London’s Bethlem Hospital, and a leading psychiatrist of the early-nineteenth century, details the case of James Tilly Matthews, who had been a patient in the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Fuckology

    Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts

    One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists—or "fuckologists," to use his own memorable term—John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s, yet fought its uptake by feminists. He backed surgical treatments for transsexuality, but argued that gender ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus