Histoire

Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas presented in an approachable style that demystifies an often daunting subject matter....

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Psychology provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. It covers the whole range of psychological research....

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life has proved to be one of Freud's most popular works, and one of his most influential during his lifetime....

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition....

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal....

Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining personality disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical conceptions of disorder....

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries....

The story of the unfulfilled quest to find the biological basis of mental illness, and its profound effects on patients, families, and American society....

A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement....