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  • Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement

    Insights and Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Eling, Stanley Finger ...
    During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Franz Joseph Gall

    Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain

    by Stanley Finger, Paul Eling ...
    Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

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    "A tour de force: an assessment of the 'culture' of mind–brain relations beginning with the ancients and ending in the present." —Edward Shorter, PhD, National Book Award finalist and author of A History of PsychiatryNeuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate ... Read more

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  • From Paralysis to Fatigue

    A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

    by Edward Shorter ...
    The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of ... Read more

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  • Soul Machine

    The Invention of the Modern Mind

    by George Makari ...
    A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept—the mind—emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, ... Read more

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  • The Taming of Chance

    by Ian Hacking ...
    Series Book 17 - Ideas in Context
    In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late-nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as ... Read more

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  • Hysteria: The Biography

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are ... Read more

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  • The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

    by Peter Gay ...
    With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture.Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race

    by Ashley Montagu ...
    DR. ASHLEY MONTAGU’S book possesses two great merits rarely found in current discussions of human problems. Where most writers over-simplify, he insists on the principle of multiple and interlocking causation. And where most assume that “facts will speak for themselves,” he makes it clear that facts are mere ventriloquists’ dummies, and can be made to justify any course of action that appeals to ... Read more

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  • The Naked Heart

    by Peter Gay ...
    In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward.At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport."Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as ... Read more

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  • Studies in the Psychology of Sex: The Evolution Of Modesty, The Phenomena Of Sexual Periodicity and Auto-Erotism - The Original Classic Edition

    by Ellis Havelock ...
    BY FAR THE BEST BOOK on this SUBJECT!!!!!! - This book is a pleasant read about the dynamics of people and relationships, particularly as they relate to romantic interests. The book does not make sweeping generalizations about the sexes nor does it offer a one-size-fits-all snake oil salesman band-aid, that seems to be so prevalent in this genre. The book was not written by a psychologist, a ... Read more

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  • The History of Childhood

    Edited by Lloyd deMause ...
    from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being ... Read more

    $97.99 USD