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Papers presented in 1988 at an international symposium on research & development, industrial change, and economic policy at the University of Karlstad in Värmland, Sweden.
Chapters on the ethical subject of discourse; Lacan as a Reader of Merleau-Ponty; Derrida and the Theory of Difference; Levinas and the Ethics of Exteriority; the Ethical Feminism of Julia Kristeva; Deconstruction's "Impossible" Ethics; Derrida's "Negative" Autobiography.
Reprints in somewhat abridged form the considerably altered and already truncated text of the 1921 5th edition. This reprint omits the introductory letters by William James and Booth Tarkington as well as the supplementary material on the mental hygiene movement that Beers added to the 5th edition.The book that began the mental hygiene movement and by far the most influential twentieth century first person account of mental illness in English.
With a 10 page introduction written by Bergson for the English translation.
Two further editions appeared in 1899 and 1910, with (I think) only the former revised. For this 4th edition Campbell, who was professor of logic and metaphysics in Edinburgh, considerably revised and enlarged his historical introduction.
Co-founder of the Review of Neurology and Psychiatry in Edinburgh; the Scottish-born Campbell moved to the USA where he became a professor of psychiatry in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins and then Harvard.
Cavarero is professor of political philsophy of the university of Verona.
Mea culpa is Céline's scathing denunciation of Stalinist Russia; Semmelweis was his 1924 doctoral dissertation. "Céline"—his grandmother's first name—was the nom de plume used by Louis-Ferdinand Destouches for his literary works. Though highly controversial because of anti-Semitic pamphlets he wrote in 1937 and during the Second World War, Céline was one of the most innovative and influential writers of the 20th century. His 1932 book Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) established his literary reputation and nearly won the Prix Goncourt.
Read before the Section on Neurology and Psychiatry, Southern Medical Association, Fifteenth Annual Meeting, Hot Springs, Ark., November 14-17, 1921. From 1920 until his death Chapman superintended the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. Chapman ran the hospital while Harry Stack Sullivan was introducing his new methods of treating schizophrenia.
Chairman's Address, Section on Neurology and Psychiatry, Southern Medical Association, Twentieth Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-18, 1926. From 1920 until his death Chapman superintended the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. Chapman ran the hospital while Harry Stack Sullivan was introducing his new methods of treating schizophrenia.
Given at the joint annual meeting of the Association with The American Psychiatric Association, Minneapolis, Minn., June 8, 1928. From 1920 until his death Chapman superintended the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. Chapman ran the hospital while Harry Stack Sullivan was introducing his new methods of treating schizophrenia.
From 1920 until his death Chapman superintended the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital.
Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Cheney was assisted in his revision by Doctors Howard W. Potter and Leland E. Hinsie. The major changes in this edition are: 1) The outline for the study of the family & personal history now includes the study of the personality. 2) The APA's classification of psychiatric disorders has been included (with Cheney's definitions and explanatory notes). 3) A new section on the psychiatric examination of children has been added. 4) The classification of psychiatric disorders in children compiled by Sanger Brown, Otto Pollock, and Howard Potter has been included with some modifications.A revision of George H. Kirby's 1921 Guides for History Taking and Clinical Examination of Psychiatric Cases, which was based on the form Adolf Meyer made up and used at Manhattan State Hospital in 1905-1906. This edition begins the merger with the APA's own classificatory scheme that ended with publication of DSM-I in 1952 as Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. A third and last edition of this Meyer-Kirby-Cheney NY PI manual appeared in 1943, revised by Nolan D. C. Lewis. These manuals are an unattributed ancestor to DSM-I, whose direct line of descent goes through the Standard Classified Nomenclature of Diseases and Operations (1933 with two revisions through 1942) back to the APA's own 1917 report by the Committee on Statistics that was published in vol. 74 #2 of the American Journal of Insanity, pages 255-270, which was widely used in psychiatric hospitals.
A philosophically sophisticated structuralist defence of the validity of psychodynamids. Originally trained as a classicist, Cheshire was Lecturer in Psychology and Senior Clinical Psychologist at University College, Bangor, North Wales.
Cordasco 90-136. Not in OCLC though Cordasco lists copies at NLM and the NY Academy of Medicine. The first paper is reprinted from the New York Medical Journal, July 18, 1898; the second and third both from the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, respectively October 1895, and January 1896.Professor of Physiological Chemistry in Yale University, Chittenden was a founder of the American Physiological Society, over which he presided from 1896 to 1904. See Bruce Fye's The Development of American Physiology, p. 188. A number of American bacteriologists studied with him at Yale.
Chodoff was in the Department of Neurology at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.
Chodoff was in the Department of Neurology at George Washington University Medical School.
Crapsey, about whom we have been able to find out little, was a New York journalist. A number of the chapters first appeared in The Galaxy, predecessor magazine to The Atlantic Monthly. Contains chapters on professional and casual criminals; harbor thieves; private detectives; "circular" swindlers; "skinners"; "fences"; faro gamblers; lottery gamblers; tenement life; outcast children; pauperism; prostitution; abortionists; haunts of vice; plus four other chapters.
Originally a clinical lecture given at the North-East London Post-Graduate College.
An account of the first year of the Low-Cost Psychoanalytic Service of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry in New York City, the third such service after those in Chicago (1932) and the Columbian Presbyterian Medical Center's, also in New York City.
With Dexter M. Bullard's complimentary stamp. Bullard (1898-1981) was medical director of Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium in Rockville, Maryland, which is where Crowley was when he published the paper.
Papers originally given at a symposium held at Wesleyan University.
Includes selections from Thomson's letters to Dobell. Best known for his poem "The City of the Dreadful Night," Thomson (1834-1882) wrote numerous freethought and rationalist essays for The New Reformer and Secularist magazines. A notable antiquarian bookseller, Dobell had been a close friend of Thomson's from 1868 on. His 1895 edition of Thomson's complete poetical works ensured the survival of Thomson's literary reputation (according to Ann Margaret Ridler in the ODNB).
First book by the greatest American chess player. Contains Fischer's introduction recounting his chess career, May 1955—May 1958; 13 annotated games from the 1957-1958 U.S. Championship, and 1 from the 1956 Lessing J. Rosenwald Tournament; his 21 games played at the 1958 Porotoz International Tournament, where he qualified as the youngest international grandmaster in chess history, at age 15. Publication of the book was delayed to include the Porotoz games, which are not annotated. John W. Collins assisted in the annotation of the Rosenwald game, which was awarded the first brilliancy prize.
A French astronomer who founded the French Astronomical Society and in 1882 the monthly review L'Astronomie, Flammarion studied spiritualist phenomena for fifty years and wrote a number of significant books on the subject (numerous citations in Crabtree). His 1872 novel Récits de l'infini is regarded as a pathbreaking book in the literature of science fiction. Lumen was the first imaginative work "to offer any real idea of the scale of the universe; the first to investigate the implications of the finite speed of light …; and the first to examine the implications of evolutionary theory in the modeling of alien life-systems" [Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 84].
Fordyce was professor of psychology in the department of rehabilitation medicine and pain clinic at the University of Washington's hospital in Seattle.
GM 4260; Grinstein #10629; Norman Freud Catalog 67; Norman Catalog Norman Freud Catalog F91. The first part (dealing with slips of the tongue) of Freud's famous introductory lectures, delivered at the University of Vienna. Part two appeared later in 1916 and part three in 1917, with the parts then being bound together and issued in book form.
Grinstein #10470; Norman Catalog F118; Norman Freud Catalog #70.Freud's polemical account "written in response to the defections of Adler and Jung, who had broken with Freud and his theories in 1911 and 1913 respectively, but even so continued to call their work 'psychoanalysis,' a misnomer to which Freud had grave objections. His essay gave a brief history of the movement from its earliest days to the time of writing, stated the fundamental hypothesis and postulates of psychoanalysis, and showed how these were incompatible with the theories of Adler and Jung" [Norman Catalog].
An account of Friedman's and his wife Abby's experiences as subjects of Timothy Leary's research into the effects of psilocybin and LSD.
#48 in Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels. Gardner's third novel, a retelling of Beowulf from the monster's point of view.
The entire work is built upon the Table of Classification that precedes the main text of the first volume. This in turn is a revision of Good's 1817 Physiological System of Nosology. Good's nosology divides diseases into six classes: Coeliaca; Pneumatica; Haematica; Neurotica; Genetica; Eccritica. Of these, the first two volumes (of four total) deal with the first three classes.Professor of Surgery in the University of London and Surgeon to the North London Hospital, Cooper took over editorship beginning with the 1829 third edition, published by T. & G. Underwood, with the copyright transferring to Longmans after the failure of the Underwood firm. For this fourth and last revision, Cooper added numerous notes, otherwise keeping the text close to that of the third edition.
Greenish was Professor of Pharmaceutics to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and Director of the Pharmacy Research Laboratory.
"More than just a bibliography of the subject, this is also a bibliographical document of the Psychedelic Movement …" [Dailey Rare Books description]. Separate sections for Books, pamphlets and computer software; Monographs, offprints, mimeographed reports and broadsides; Books with contributions; Books with reprinted works; journals & magazines with contributions; Interviews; Translations; Phonograph records & tape recordings; Films & TV shows with appearances by Leary; Works edited; Unpublished writings & talks; Books, articles, songs and films about Leary; Legal briefs & documents pertaining to Leary; Miscellanea, including posters, fliers, slogan buttons and bumper stickers.
The British edition, published after the Basic Books edition, has a slightly different text from the American edition.
Ress 1914c p.15. Five papers by followers of Jung. One of the first productions of the Jungian school after his break with Freud.Contains: Josef B. Lang. Zur Bestimmung des psychoanalytischen Widerstandes. — Lang. Eine Hypothese zur psychologischen Bedeutung der Verfolgungsidee. — J. Vodoz. Napoleons Novelle: Le masque prophète. — Hans Schmidt. Zur Psychologie der Brandstifter. — C. Schneiter. Archaïsche Elemente in den Wahnideen eines Paranoiden.
Contains: Josef B. Lang. Zur Bestimmung des psychoanalytischen Widerstandes. — Lang. Eine Hypothese zur psychologischen Bedeutung der Verfolgungsidee. — J. Vodoz. Napoleons Novelle: Le masque prophète. — Hans Schmidt. Zur Psychologie der Brandstifter. — C. Schneiter. Archaïsche Elemente in den Wahnideen eines Paranoiden.
First translation into English of Kant's 1803 Ueber Pädagogik along with translations of passages in his other works relating to pedagogy, and with Buchner's scholarly 97 page introductory essay on Kant's ideas about education. At the time Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Alabama, Buchner (1868-1929) had gotten his doctorate in psychology from Yale in 1893. From 1980 to 1915 he was Professor of Education and Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University; from 1915-1929 Professor of Education.
Kropotkin's most important book, published in English while he was living in England. The leading anarchist theoretician, Kropotkin developed a naturalistic ethics emphasizing an idealistic version of evolutionary ethics. With a 2 1/2 page preface written by Kropotkin for the 1914 printing. Reprints the text of the first edition without the appendix.
Originally written in November 1968 and August 1970, Ginsberg's 7 page foreword originally appeared in 1970 in Leary's book Jail Notes. Ginsberg slightly modified the text in 1995 for its use here.
Two texts in German, all others in French or Latin.
The older brother of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Mably was a French philosopher & politician born in Grenoble. Though now obscure, he was widely read in the 18th century. His writings contributed to the concepts of communism and republicanism that emerged after his death. Two posthumously published works influenced early deliberations on the assembly of the Estates-General in 1789: an enlarged version of his 1765 Histoire de France and Des droits et des devoirs du citoyen, written in 1758 but withheld from publication until 1789, when it appeared to great acclaim despite efforts by the authorities to suppress it. In the latter Mably warned against just the extremes that the French Revolution turned into.
Martin was Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at McGill.
The author is professor of philosophy at Rutgers. Introduces philosophers to the relevant physics, all of which is derived from first principles. Regarded as possibly the clearest exposition of Bell's theorem.
Professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric at Columbia University, McVickar was one of the first Americans to teach political economy. His book reprints the text of John Ramsay McCulloch's 1824 essay on political economy in the Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with the addition of an elaborate synopsis and copious notes that constitute the first attempt to adapt David Ricardo's ideas to American conditions. A colleague of McVickar's at Columbia, Kent was professor of law. Kent's notes were reproduced from his copy of McVickar's book.
This second edition has a new 19 page introduction, two new appendices, and an index, which the original edition lacked. A scathing indictment, almost entirely based on sworn testimony and U.S. government documents, of the complicity of physicians and psychologists in the torturing of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay.
The author was Assistant Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania. Issued as a book in 1940 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, with a second edition in 1947 by J. B. Lippincott Company.
Though written October 15th to November 4th, 1888, Nietzsche's last prose work did not appear in print until 1908, eight years after his death.
First separate appearance, with a slightly revised text.Grinstein 26440. First pub in Imago, 1922. Rank studies the Don Juan legend in tradition & literature up to Mozart's Don Giovanni and shows that the pervasive motives of guilt & punishment are rooted in the Oedipus Complex.
Grinstein 26508.The first "Rankian" text, which prefigured Rank's break with Freud and in which he stressed the child's earliest relationship to its mother, playing down the importance of the later oedipal conflict.
Crabtree #1497. "The author attests to the reality and objectivity of many paranormal phenomena, but points out the danger of prolonged experience with these manifestations" [Crabtree].
The author's name is probably a pseudonym. He, she, or it is sufficiently obscure as not to have made it into the new ODNB. Ravenstone is usually considered a Ricardian Socialist, but Wesley C. Mitchell regarded him as an early representative of Veblen's type of institutional theory.
English poet, satirist, critic, playwright, and later lawyer, who was a close friend & correspondent of John Keats, Reynolds originally published The Fancy in 1820 as "a collection of poems loosely based on sport and especially on prize-fighting, and presented as the poetic remains of a young law student, Peter Corcoran" [Andrew Bennett's essay on Reynolds in the ODNB].Elkin Mathews (1851-1921) founded the Bodley Head in London in 1887 with the young bibliophile John Lane as silent partner until 1892. Unable to get along thereafter, the two dissolved the partnership in 1894, with Mathews retaining the premises at 8B Vigo Street, while Lane moved across the street, taking the Bodley Head sign and imprint with him. Mathews continued both as an antiquarian bookseller and publisher of avante-garde literature, going on to publish under his own name Joyce, Pound, Synge, W. B. Yeats, and books, such as this one, illustrated by W. B.'s brother, the Irish artist, Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957). Masefield (1878-1967) was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967.
The first volume of a series of reports with this title funded by the Enviromental Protection Agency. Contains chapters on chemical contaminants; microbiology; solid particles in suspension; inorganic solutes; organic solutes; radioactivity.
Abstracts and bibliographs the principal as well as many lesser works of virtually all 20th century philosophers. Though handicapped by the lack of an index, this is especially valuable for minor Italian, French, and Spanish philosophers.
Contains facsimile reprints of An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy (1827); Three Lectures on the Transmission of the Precious Metals (1828); Two Lectures on Population with a Correspondence between the Author and T. R. Malthus (1829); Three Lectures on the Cost of Obtaining Money (1830); Two Letters on the Factory Acts (1837); Three Lectures on the Value of Money (1840); Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1852).
Johns Hopkins University doctoral dissertation.
Horowitz Leary Bibliography J335. The first trade book published about Leary. "A full length book about the author's encounters with Leary. Both were clinical psychologists who taught at Harvard" [Horowitz bibliography]. Parts were previously published in Psychology Today and Eye Magazine.
The only Sullivan book published in his lifetime. Originally delivered in Washington, D.C. as five lectures in 1939, then hastily put together by Sullivan for publication in Vol. 3 #1 of Psychiatry (Feb 1940). Re-issued in the spring of 1947 as an offprint in book form with Mullahy's paper from Vol. 8 #2 of the journal (May 1945) and a new foreword by Sullivan.
Originally published 1947 in Psychiatry and as an offprint. The first posthumously published Sullivan book.
Franz Hessler (1799-1890), the translator, was a Bavarian physician who was the first serious Western student of Hindu medicine, his 1830 medical thesis being on Indian medicine. He taught himself Sanskrit and between 1844 and 1850 translated all six books of Susruta's Samhita into Latin, with Books 3-5 appearing in 1847, and Book 6 in 1850. These were followed by two volumes of commentary in 1855. Though the first edition of an Ayurvedic text published in the West, Hessler's Latin translation of Susruta was preceded by an English translation by Sri Madhusudana Gupta that was published in two volumes in Calcutta in 1835-36.
Taussig, an eminent American economist, was one of the founders of the Harvard School of Business Administration.
A notable notable poet and freethinker, the Scottish-born Thomson published numerous rationalist and freethought essays in the National Reformer and Secularist, using the initials "B.V., " which stood for "Byshe" and "Vanola," referring to Shelley and Novalis.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1621: "Examines mental disturbances that he believes can be linked directly or indirectly to a belief in spiritualism."
Reports on work done at the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory by members of the Nuffield Research Unit into Problems of Ageing.
Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Michigan and for many years the State Geologist of Michigan, Winchell tried to reconcile the Bible with Darwinism in this and other books. Mt. Winchell in California is named after him. He is best known for coining in 1869 the term "Mississippian" for limestone-rich lower Carboniderous rock layers along the drainage basin of the Mississippi River.
An expanded version of one of a series of four lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in May, 1962. The series was called "Ethics and Logic."
A classic textbook, see GM 2568 for the 1914 first edition.Return to Gach Books home page