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The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children, the method she developed was...
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. ALPHEUS
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. ALPHEUS
- Author: A. ALPHEUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the...
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2 - Charles MACKAY
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2 - Charles MACKAY
- Author: Charles MACKAY
- Genre: Psychology / Modern (19th C) / Christianity - Other
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." "In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their...
Confessions, volumes 3 and 4 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions, volumes 3 and 4 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Psychology / Memoirs
βThe smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.β Here again is the youthful, hero-worshiping Jean-Jacques β displaying an emotional immaturity that leads him into...
The Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Gustav Jung
The Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Gustav Jung
- Author: Carl Gustav Jung
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Psychology
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysis with the existing theory, or rather, with the approaches to such a theory." He goes on to say, "Here is my...
Psychology of the Unconscious - Carl Gustav Jung
Psychology of the Unconscious - Carl Gustav Jung
- Author: Carl Gustav Jung
- Genre: Psychology / Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of the evolution of thought....
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) - Oskar Pfungst
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) - Oskar Pfungst
- Author: Oskar Pfungst
- Genre: Animals / Psychology
Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. Pfungst details the results of many experiments, by the...
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France - Mary Wollstonecraft
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Political Science / Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defence of constitutional...
The Destination Of Man - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Destination Of Man - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Genre: Psychology / Modern / Christianity - Other
Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnett and then again in 1848 by William Smith. Fichte says his book is designed to "raise [the reader] from the...
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies - Cesare Lombroso
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies - Cesare Lombroso
- Author: Cesare Lombroso
- Genre: Law / Political Science / Psychology
Published as the third volume in the Modern Criminal Science Series, Cesare Lombroso, renowned Italian criminologist, collected a wealth of information regarding the incidence, classification, and causes of crime. Crime calendars, the geography of...
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria - Pierre Janet
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria - Pierre Janet
- Author: Pierre Janet
- Genre: Psychology
In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspective on the various forms of hysteria. The syndromes include generalised amnesic states and conversion...
Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation - Carl Gustav Jung
Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation - Carl Gustav Jung
- Author: Carl Gustav Jung
- Genre: Psychology
Ever wondered if there is any "theoretical basis" for the well-known MyersβBriggs Type Indicator Personality Test? In this groundbreaking work of typology, Jung proposes three key dichotomies - extraversion/introversion, sensation/intuition, as well...
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
- Author: Francis Tiffany
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea Dix met with people who were interested in reforming how the mentally ill were treated. Returning to America,...
Psychological Warfare - Cordwainer Smith
Psychological Warfare - Cordwainer Smith
- Author: Cordwainer Smith
- Genre: War & Military / Psychology
Psychological warfare and propaganda have been used extensively in warfare since the earliest times. This book explores the functions, limitations, types, and history of psychological warfare through 1953. It was written by Paul Myron Anthony...
The Omnipotent Self - Paul Bousfield
The Omnipotent Self - Paul Bousfield
- Author: Paul Bousfield
- Genre: Psychology / Self-Help
βNature has granted to all to be happy if we but knew how to use her gifts.ββClaudius. Often we feel "down" or "low", without being clinically depressed or seeking the aid of a doctor. This is a study, in layman's terms, of the causes and effects of...
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology - Carl Gustav Jung
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology - Carl Gustav Jung
- Author: Carl Gustav Jung
- Genre: Psychology
A collection of classical writings of Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Written at intervals over a span of fourteen years, these selected articles and pamphlets contain many...
A Magician Among the Spirits - Harry Houdini
A Magician Among the Spirits - Harry Houdini
- Author: Harry Houdini
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
Houdini, an escape artist and illusionist, became interested later in his life in debunking spiritualists, disbelieving anyone who claimed to have supernatural powers. This was during an era where paranormal phenomena, especially seances, were...
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime - Hugo MΓNSTERBERG
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime - Hugo MΓNSTERBERG
- Author: Hugo MΓNSTERBERG
- Genre: Psychology / True Crime
Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can be an unreliable eyewitness. The last essay, on the prevention of crime, takes another direction. - Summary by...
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind - William Hanna Thomson
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind - William Hanna Thomson
- Author: William Hanna Thomson
- Genre: Psychology / Life Sciences
One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was then known or conjectured about the connection between the physical brain and the individual personality, including the ability of speech and language. As this is an early work (1910),...
The Man of Genius - Cesare Lombroso
The Man of Genius - Cesare Lombroso
- Author: Cesare Lombroso
- Genre: Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated with degenerative symptoms, or may even be a version of insanity, and presented his findings as a fascinating...
A Study of British Genius - Havelock ELLIS
A Study of British Genius - Havelock ELLIS
- Author: Havelock ELLIS
- Genre: Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive source of information from the Dictionary of National Biography, many pieces of informational are discussed,...
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters - Henry Addington Bruce
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters - Henry Addington Bruce
- Author: Henry Addington Bruce
- Genre: Psychology
The author describes popular ghost occurrences from a skeptical point of view, providing explanations based on recent scientific research (early 20th century), primarily in the field of psychology, like suggestion and hallucinations, using also his...
