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A Natural History of Love

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: 1994

Seller ID: 2268725

ISBN: 0679403477

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, 358 pp. The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this audaciously brilliant romp through the world of romantic love (Washington Post Book World) is the next best thing to love itself.
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Physiology des Passions, ou Nouvelle Doctrine des Sentimens Moraux.

By: Alibert, J.-L. [Jean-Louis]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Bechet Jeune, Libraire: 1827

Seller ID: 2305440

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged (corrigee et augmentee). Spines repaired, boards lightly rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1827 Half-Leather. Complete in two volumes. xc, 384; [4], 552 pp. 8vo. Leather spines over marbled boards, marbled edges. 16 engraved plates. A work on the psychology of morals by a prominent physician best known for pioneering researches in dermatology (see several titles in Garrison-Morton).
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Elusive Equity, Empathy, and Empowerment: One Woman's Journey through the Challenges of Gender Bias in the Early Twenty-First Century [21st]

By: Angel, Pandora B.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Archway: 2018

Seller ID: 2298732

ISBN: 1480868264

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 129 pp. Dr. Pandora B. Angel was a practicing physician for thirty years. She spent twenty-three of those years as an emergency physician at a university medical center and an affiliated hospital. In Elusive Equity, Empathy, and Empowerment, she shares the challenges she faced as a female emergency physician in what is still perceived as a male profession. Addressing the gender bias and inequality she experienced while striving for and achieving a career in medicine, this memoir addresses workforce power and control, double standards, gender bias, disc...
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An Examination of the Human Mind

By: Ballantyne, John

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood: 1828

Seller ID: 2304794

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rebound with cloth spine over paper-covered boards, (original?) spine label laid down, new end sheets. 1828 Hard Cover. vi, 502 pp. 8vo. The first part, all published, of three that were envisioned, of a significant work of mental philosophy by perhaps the only Scot of his day who had a sufficient grasp of Hume’s arguments to realize that Paley's rebuttals had loopholes…. — Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment. A Secessionist preacher, Ballantyne had studied with John Finlayson and Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh. The Examination, his principal work … is in effect a critique o...
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The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain

By: Baron-Cohen, Simon

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Basic Books: 2003

Seller ID: 2287669

ISBN: 0738208442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. xiii, 271 pp. We all appreciate that there are differences in the typical psychology of men and women. Yet underlying these subtle differences, Simon Baron-Cohen believes, there is one essential difference, and it affects everything we do: Men have a tendency to analyze and construct systems while women are inclined to empathize. With fresh evidence for these claims, Baron-Cohen explores how these sex differences arise more from biological than cultural causes and shows us how each brain type contributes in various ways to what ...
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Cataclysms, Crises, and Catastrophes: Psychology in Action (The Master Lectures)

By: Baum, Andrew; Frederick, Calvin Jeff; Frieze, Irene Hanson; Shneidman, Edwin S.; Wortman, Camille B.; VandenBos, Gary R.; Bryant, Brenda K.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: American Psychological Association: 1987

Seller ID: 2261926

ISBN: 0912704772

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper faintly toned, ink name. 1987 Trade Paperback. 235 pp. Although by no means definitive, the information that clinical practitioners, community psychologists, applied social psychologists, health psychologists, and others will find in these chapters will provide a broad view of current understandings of how catastrophic events affect individuals and groups and of how human beings adapt and can be helped to adapt to the resulting stresses. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the effects of disasters resulting from technological accidents as well as natural disasters, c...
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A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia): Its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences, Treatment

By: Beard, George M. [Miller]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, William Wood & Company: 1880

Seller ID: 2305839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Garrison-Morton 4846). Ink gift note to female doctor on front endpaper (Dr. Ellen C. Partridge, from her pastor. Chicago, Sept. 6th 1880.'), front hinge just beginning to weaken. 198 pp. 8vo. George M. Beard was the leading authority on the topic of neurasthenia, having described it in his work Neurasthenia; or Nervous Exhaustion in 1869 (see Garrison-Morton 4843). He was also the co-author, with Alphonse David Rockwell (the inventory of the electric chair), of the most influential American treatise ever published on electrotherapy. (see Garrison-Morton 1996.4), a treatment tha...
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

By: Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: 1967

Seller ID: 2286275

ISBN: 0385058985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Some ink underlining, faint stain along bottom edge of first few pages, pages lightly toned. 1967 Trade Paperback. x, 219 pp. Called the fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of social construction into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological sub-dicipline that, since Max Scheler, has been known as the sociology of knowledge.
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The Female World: A Brilliant Exploration of a Previously Uncharted Region--the Special World of Women

By: Bernard, Jessie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Free Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2202132

ISBN: 0029030005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Signed by author and inscribed: For Elizabeth O'Hera with best regards, Jessie Bernard 10/19/81. Edges very lightly rubbed. Crease to front and rear wrapper of jacket and jacket spine. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 614 pp. A sociological look at the sphere of women examines its patterns and trends, compares it with the world of men, and relates both concepts to politics and economics.
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Instinct: A Study in Social Psychology

By: Bernard, L.L.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Henry, Holt and Company: 1924

Seller ID: 2305195

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Whale stamp (similar to those used in whaling journals) on front free endpaper, pencil note on front endpaper states 'H.A. Murray's copy' but we located no ownership marks to corroborate this. If it is in fact the case, though, the association is interesting: Henry Alexander Murray was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically-damaging experiments on undergraduate students, one of whom was Ted Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber.. 1924 Hard Cover. ix, 550 pp. Blue cloth boards. CONTENTS: Introd...
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Rethinking the DSM: A Psychological Perspective

By: Beutler, Larry E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: American Psychological Association: 2002

Seller ID: 2261835

ISBN: 1557988412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 2002 Hard Cover. This work reflects the dissatisfaction of a growing number of mental-health professionals who question the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' (DSM) lack of strong empirical foundations and who are confounded by its patchwork of vaguely defined disorders, each defined by seemingly arbitrary time limits or poorly related symptoms. Expressing concern about whether the DSM truly provides a method for differentiating normal from pathological, clinicians and therapists alike wonder if the DSM should remain the diagnostic tool of...
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The Distinction between Mind and Its Objects. The Adamson Lecture for 1913 with an Appendix (Manchester University Lectures, No. XVI)

By: Bosanquet, Bernard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Manchester, Manchester at the University Press: 1913

Seller ID: 2305032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine and board edges lightly toned, some pages lightly foxed. 1913 Hard Cover. 73 pp. Green cloth boards. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bernard Bosanquet FBA (14 June[1] 1848 8 February 1923) was an English philosopher and political theorist, and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work influenced but was later subject to criticism by many thinkers, notably Bertrand Russell, John Dewey and William James. Bernard was the husband of Helen Bosanquet, the leader of the Charity Organisation Society.
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Anxiety Makes Me Anxious

By: Brazier, Shayna

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Happiness Center: 2017

Seller ID: 2288785

ISBN: 099872470X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Laminate on rear wrapper creased. 2017 Trade Paperback. 91 pp. Illustrated by Jake Bush. Brazier’s voice is nothing short of refreshing with her new hilarious and honest approach to dealing with anxiety. Her transparency in living with anxiety provides the clearest (and funniest) picture for anyone who can’t imagine what it’s like. Reading her stories is like watching a movie full of laughter, tears, and all the feels. Brazier has certainly breathed color into the world of anxiety with her thoughtful insights and vivid recollections. She provides tips for living with anxiety but shares p...
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The Effective Psychotherapist: Conclusions from Practice and Research

By: Brenner, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pergamon Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2301972

ISBN: 0080280552

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faintly rubbed. 1982 Trade Paperback. Offers students and practitioners a fresh new look at developing a more effective therapeutic relationship.
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Celebrate Mid-Life: Jungian Archetypes and Mid-Life Spirituality

By: Brewi, Janice; Brennan, Anne

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Crossroad: 1992

Seller ID: 2280091

ISBN: 0824509536

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine creased. 1992 Trade Paperback. xii, 296 pp. Offers a spiritual perspective on mid-life crisis, and discusses the archetypes of life cycle, child, and the wisdom of Christ.
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Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics (Monograph Series on Schizophrenia, No. 3)

By: Brody, Eugene B.; Redlich, Fredrick C.; Knight, Robert P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: International Universities Press, Inc.: 1952

Seller ID: 2208422

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. No jacket, lettering on spine lightly rubbed, pages faintly toned. 1952 Hard Cover. 246 pp. CONTENTS: Preface by the Editors; Robert P. Knight - Introduction; Fredrick C. Redlich - The Concept of Schizophrenia and Its Implications for Therapy; Eugene B. Brody - The Treatment of Schizophrenia: A Review; Frieda Fromm-Reichmann - Some Aspects of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics; Jacob A. Arlow - Discussion of Dr. Fromm-Reichmann's Paper; David Wright - Discussion of Dr. Fromm-Reichmann's Paper; K.R. Eissler - Remarks on the Psychoanalysis of Schizophrenia; Ruth Wilma...
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In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)

By: Bruner, Jerome

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1983

Seller ID: 2288033

ISBN: 0063370352

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket spine head and spine base rubbed, jacket flaps lightly toned. Address labels on front endpapers, owner's stamp on front and rear endpapers, minor highlighting. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 306 pp. The eminent psychologist reflects on the course of his work, examines the development of the study of psychology and his substantial contributions to its growth, and provides a glimpse of himself as thinker, teacher, and student of the mind.
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In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)

By: Bruner, Jerome

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1983

Seller ID: 2288034

ISBN: 0060151919

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Half-inch by half-inch chip to jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 306 pp. The eminent psychologist reflects on the course of his work, examines the development of the study of psychology and his substantial contributions to its growth, and provides a glimpse of himself as thinker, teacher, and student of the mind.
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The Relations of Mind and Brain

By: Calderwood, Henry

Price: $127.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1884

Seller ID: 2304775

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Page ridges faintly foxed, minimal ink marginalia. 1884 Hard Cover. xx, 527 pp. With new chapter on Animal Intelligence and extensive revisions. Calderwood was an anti-Hegelian who believed faith gives us the ability to have knowledge of the infinite. This work focuses on the relationship of physiology and psychology.
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Psychiatry and the Community in Nineteenth-Century America: The Recurring Concern with Environment in the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorder

By: Caplan, Ruth B.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1969

Seller ID: 2304744

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket rubbed with a few small chips and small tears. 1969 Hard Cover. xx, 360 pp. ...the first full-scale history of psychiatric ideas and practices in nineteenth-century America. ...Relying for the most part on primary sources, Miss Caplan reconstructs the intellectual climate of the era, the conflicts and controversies, and the developmet of ideas, especially in social and community psychiatry, that were in many ways precursors of twentieth-century concepts.
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Love's Coming of Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes

By: Carpenter, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Vanguard Press: 1926

Seller ID: 2266237

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, pencil name on front endpaper, minor pencil underlining. 1926 Hard Cover. 178 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals.[1] A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman.[2] He corresponded with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E. D. Morel, William Morris, Edward R. P...
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The Natural Method of Curing the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body. in Three Parts. Part I. General Reflections on the Oeconomy of Nature in Animal Life. Part II. The Means and Methods for Preserving Life and Faculties; and Also Concerning the Nature and Cure of Acute, Contagious, and Cephalic Disorders. Part III. Reflections on the Nature and Cure of Particular Chronical Distempers.

By: Cheyne, George

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Dan. Browne, without Temple Bar; R. Manby, on Ludgate-hill; J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-street; and A. Strahan, in Cornhill.: 1753

Seller ID: 2305049

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Fifth edition. ESTC T53889. Joints beginning to split, spine toned and drying, boards faintly stained, ink name on front endpaper. 1753 Full-Leather. [xx], 316 pp. 8vo. A collection of writings on medical cures for various ailments and commentary on physiology and psychology. Includes chapters on sleep and dreaming, medicines, food and nourishment, the negative effects of alcohol, blood, mercury, milk, hypochondria, hysteria, rheumatism, leprosy, fevers, scrophula, asthma, dropsy, diabetes, gout, sciatica, menstruation, consumption (tuberculosis), jaundice, scurvy, colic, venereal distempers, ...
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Children in Family Contexts: Perspectives on Treatment

By: Combrinck-Graham, Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Guilford Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2301964

ISBN: 089862732X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed. 1988 Hard Cover. Based on the premise that the family is a child's primary resource, this much-needed work bridges the gap between family therapy and child therapy by putting the child's experience into a family context. A unique and wide-ranging examination of young children within families and the larger systems that contain them, this volume features noted therapists who represent a variety of theoretical systemic models. They apply these approaches to the understanding of children, their families, and the diversity of challenges and environmental conditions th...
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

By: Crick, Francis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1994

Seller ID: 2297810

ISBN: 0684194317

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. xiv, 317 pp. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the molecular structure of DNA examines what makes humans sentient beings, offering an analysis and description of how the brain sees.
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Confronting Fear: A History of Terrorism

By: Cronin, Isaac

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2289008

ISBN: 1560253991

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

First printing. Quarter-inch missing across top edge length of front wrapper and half-title page, remainder mark, highlighting throughout. 2002 Trade Paperback. xiii, 561 pp. Confronting Fear addresses the question, How did we get here? The events of September 11, 2001, had their origins in both the recent history of the Middle East and in events that took place hundreds of years ago in Europe and elsewhere. The writing collected in Confronting Fear provides the broadest possible basis to probe and understand these horribly destructive acts—whose purpose and rationale is complex and sometime...
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Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind

By: Davidson, Margaret

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Scholastic Book Services: 1971

Seller ID: 2297334

ISBN: 0590720732

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Lightly stained, pages toned. 1971 Soft Cover. 80 pp. Braille alphabet on back cover. Blinded at the age of 3, Louis Braille developed a superb memory that enabled him to do well in school. But that wasn't enough--Louis wanted to read. Finding the alphabet impractical, he invented the raised dot alphabet, Braille, now used throughout the world.
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Status Anxiety

By: de Botton, Alain

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 2004

Seller ID: 2268612

ISBN: 0241142393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Wrapper edges very faintly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 314 pp. There are few more powerful desires than the wish to be thought of as a success, worthy of dignity and respect. We long for status and dread its opposite. But such aspirations and anxieties are rarely spoken about -- or at least not without sarcasm, embarrassment or condemnation. In STATUS ANXIETY, Alain de Botton asks where our worries about questions of status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. Looking at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past...
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Le Systeme de l'Ame.

By: De La Chambre, [Marin Cureau]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Iacques d'Allin [Jacques]: 1665

Seller ID: 2305911

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Small internal chip from spine, boards rubbed with minor loss from corners, light stain to edges of endpapers only. 1665 Full-Leather. [xliv], 554 pp. 16mo. French text. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations.A work by the French philosopher and physician discussing human knowledge, the soul, etc. Marin Cureau de La Chambre (1594-1669) was a physician from Le Mans who advised and treated two French Kings, Louis XIII and Louis XIV, as well as his patron, Chancellor Pierre Sguier. As both a physician and a philosopher, he was among the first members of the Acadmie Fra...
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1888; Also the Report of the General Agent and Secretary Statistics, and The Report of the Committee on Lunacy. (Official Document, No. 12.)

By: Dickinson, Mahlon H.; Biddle, Cadwalader

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Office of Eastern Executive Committee: 1888

Seller ID: 2159936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed, rear hinge beginning to loosen, ink initials and pencil gift note on front endpaper ('M.F. Kooser, Presented by The Hon. J.L. Pugh'). 1888 Hard Cover. cxlv, 226 pp. 8vo. An early source of statistical information related to jails and penitentiaries, insane asylums, miners' hospitals, immigration, almshouses, and other institutions related to rehabilitation or special needs (e.g., The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind).
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The Austrian Philosophy of Values

By: Eaton, Howard O.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1930

Seller ID: 2304498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good in well worn jacket. Jacket split in half along rear panel joint, large chips and tears to jacket, jacket spine stained. Ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. 380 pp. This study furnishes the basis for the rapprochement between psychology and the philosophical theory of values.
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