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The pioneer study of the psychological development of African children.
Atwater Collection 2126 (this edition). Though you'd never know it from the title, mostly devoted to explaining multiple personality, largely using Wigan's theory of the double-brain. An unknown MPD book waiting to be discovered.
Still the best biography, albeit considerably abridged from the original three-volume German edition published in 1902-1903.
GM 1332. The most important book on the subject, summarizing the results of nearly forty years of research. Langley named the autonomic nervous system in 1898 and in 1905 distingushed the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems on the basis of the effects produced by epinephrine.
Illustrated with 6 black and white plates.
Probably the most seminal 20th century work on localization of cerebral function. On the basis of his experimental work Lashley here posited two significant principles of enduring significance in neuropsychology: mass action and equipotentiality. Mass action postulated that certain types of learning are mediated by the cerebral cortex as a whole, contrary to the view that every psychological function is localized. Equipotentiality, associated chiefly with sensory systems such as the visual, states that some parts of a system can take over the functions of other parts.
11 lines plus heading and closing, signed "Eric". Lenneberg is responding to Brown's invitation to deliver a key-note address (organization not named). Lenneberg declines because he is "over-taxed and over-extended as is, and [it] would be simply insane to add a single further commitment to the rat-race that is already waiting for me. … I was actually honored to be offered the key-note address, and would have like to accept this invitation under more normal circumstances."
First published in French as a letter to Bolingbroke in Recueil de divers écrites sur l'amour et l'amitié, la politesse, la volupté, les sentimens agréables, l'esprit et le coeur. According to Brunet, first published separately as a book in 1743 by Lévesque's brother, but we can find no record of it. Published in 1749 both in Geneva and Paris as Theorie des sentimens agreables, from which the present work was translated. Reprinted a number of times in both French and English, with an American edition appearing in Boston in 1812, and translated into German in 1751.A book that greatly influencd both Hume and Adam Smith. "Equally learned in science, mathematics, and literature, Lévesque de Pouilly had been one of the earliest interpreters of Newtonianism in France, later visiting England, where he became the friend of Sir Isaac himself. He was also the friend of Lord Bolingbroke, and in 1720, during that statesman's exile in France, had guided him through a course of study in philosophy. Bolingbroke's Substance of Some Letters, Written originally in French, about the Year 1720, to Mr. de Pouilly was not published, however, until 1754. For his part, Pouilly published in 1736 a letter, originally written to Bolingbroke, under the title Theorie des sentimens agréables. This aesthetic and ethical work in the tradition of Shaftesbury, Dubos, and Hutcheson would certainly have been agreeable to David Hume; and it is worth noting that the manuscript would have been in the final stages of completion at the time of Hume's stay in Rheims" [Mossner The Life of David Hume, p. 97].
Wozniak Mind & Body: Renè Descartes to William James #10. Largely devoted to discussion of the nervous system, animal automatism, and the reflex theory.The classic formulation of dual-aspect monism. Lewes held that mental and physical descriptions were not intertranslatable and, thus, that the psychological was not reducible to the physical.
Published posthumously and probably the scarcest of the volumes in the series.
DeGarmo was professor of modern languages at Illinois State Normal University.
Professor at Prague, Lindner was the chief Austrian adherent of Herbart. His textbook, a presentation of Herbart's ideas, was the standard text used in Austrian schools throughout the late 19th century — indeed, Freud's knowledge of Herbart stems from his reading of it (See Ernest Jones's Life and Work of Sigmund Freud I, p.58).
GM #4967. PMM #164; Wozniak Mind & Body #27 (all the first edition); Yolton 64; Oxford Companion to Philosophy, p. 62 ("associationism"); Brett History of Psychology, 2: 262-263 and Diamond Roots of Psychology 12.3 (both the 4th edition). The penultimate lifetime edition, the last lifetime edition issued with the frontis portrait, and—other than the first—the most important edition, for it is in this edition that Locke added the chapter on the association of ideas (Book II Chapter XXXIII), as well as a chapter on enthusiasm. Locke's chapter title—though not his actual discussion of the subject—is the origin of associationism, as elaborated much later by Hartley, Hume, James Mill, and Bain and, mistaken interpretation or not, is consensually regarded as the Ursprung of experimental psychology as opposed to merely speculative philosophical psychology.The foundation text for empirical psychology and the beginning of British empiricism. One of the great books in the history of thought. Of this 4th edition Diamond wrote: "Locke, who was too reasonable a man to be even a thoroughgoing empiricist …, was not at all an associationist. Association had no part in the original Essay, but in the fourth edition he added a chapter pointing to the chance 'connexion of ideas' (probably his rendering of 'liaison des idées,' which he would have met in Malebranche) as a major source of error in thinking. The more fortunate phrase, association of ideas, occurs only in the chapter title and is perhaps derived from the word consociatione which Molyneux used in the Latin edition which was being prepared simultaneously and for which the chapter was indeed written. In time, however, this phrase became so rivetted to Locke's name that the later associationists came to look upon him as their founder" [Diamond p. 281].
GM #4967. PMM #164; Wozniak Mind & Body #27 (all the first edition); Yolton 65. The last lifetime edition.The foundation text for empirical psychology and the beginning of British empiricism. One of the great books in the history of thought.
Yolton #368.
Contains the English translation of GM-5 511: "Ueber die Grenzen der Theilbarkeit der Eisubstanz" (1894-95).
"Lyell's summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity 'introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work' (Grayson). This work also contained Lyell's first published statements about Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection" (GM 204.1).
Zusne p. 153. First published in English in 1897 as Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, but with about half the length of the 1914 translatoin.Mach's principal contribution to psychology. "The Study of form perception begins with The Analysis of the Sensations, for, by making space a sensation that was correlated with the physical world, Mach made it amenable to scientific study. … Mach's seminal ideas concerning the nature of form were developed by the school of form qualities, a transitional stage between Mach and the Gestalt psychologists." [Zusne p. 153].
Abandoning his earlier Lockeanism, Maine de Biran argues that consciousness is maintained by will — something quite apart from a mere concatenation of sensations. Maine de Biran's emphasis on will and activity has remained an important theme in French psychology.
The fourth edition contains a 36 page preface in which Mansel responds to his critics.
Jessop p. 139 (under Hamilton, as is Mill's critique). Starting out as a review of Mill's 1865 book on Hamilton and originally published anonymously in The Contemporary Review, Mansel's essay turned into a defense both of Hamilton and of Mansel himself (referred to throughout the text as "Mr. Mansel"). Metz noted in his 1938 A Hundred Years of British Philosophy that Mill's criticism of Hamilton nearly dealt a death blow to Scottish realism (p. 38). Ordained a priest in 1845 and appointed in 1858 the first Waynfleet Professor of Moral Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, Mansel introduced Hamilton's philosophy to England, and edited the works of both Reid and Hamilton. Mansel's defense ultimately rests on founding the distinctions between consciousness and its objects, between knowledge and belief, and between religion and philosophy on our intuitions. His last book published in his lifetime, this stands as an important defense of Scottish realism against Millian empiricism and positivism.
Contains essays on religion and the sciences of life; mechanism, purpose and the new freedom; the Apollonian and the Dionysian theories of man; the need for psychical research; psychical research as a university study; anthropology and history; Japan or America - an open letter to H.I.M. the emperor of Japan; the island of Eugenia - the fantasy of a foolish philosopher; family allowances: a practical eugenic suggestion; family allowances as a eugenic measaure; was Darwin wrong?; world chaos - the responsibility of science as cause and cure; our neglect of psychology; ethics of natinalism; whither America?
Meshcheryakov supervised from 1960 the work with blind and deaf children at the Institute for Research into Physical and Mental Handicaps and at the special home in Zagorsk, founded in 1955 by Professor Ivan Sokolyansky, under whom Mexcheryakov studied. His book was the first report of the group's scientific work with blind and deaf children.
Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Missouri, Meyer developed the first behaviorist psychology, before Watson.
An elaborate survey of Hamiltonian Intuitionism, Mill's book provoked much controversy, especially with Hamilton's disciple Mansel.
Moreno's fourth publication in English and the first extensive presentation of his ideas about sociometry and groups to reach a wide medical audience. Preceded (in English) only by two multi-authored pamphlets issued in 1932 by the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor, and by his 104 page 1932 book Group Method and Group Psychotherapy, which couldn't have been read by many people as we think we have never had a copy and know for sure that we have not seen one since before 1983.
The first textbook of comparative psychology. Influential both in psychology and biology, Morgan after 1909 was Professor of Psychology at the Univ. of Bristol. Morgan's Canon, though well-known and only a special application of Occam's Razor is worth repeating: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale."
Morgan's first major contribution to evolutionary and comparative psychology in which he laid the monistic foundations for his later work in comparative psychology. See Robert J. Richards's acute discussion in his Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, pp. 379-382. An unaltered reprint of the first edition with an added brief preface in which Morgan notes that, though he's permitting the re-issue in a cheaper edition, his ideas on the issue have changed considerably.
Howes M-802.
Probably the first study of the behavior of a single animal in the modern sense and certainly the first American work on comparative psychology. Contains a chapter on animal psychology.
- The author's Ph.D. thesis at Clark under Hall, who states in his brief introduction that this is one of the earliest studies of the abnormal aspects of religion — and, indeed, Vande Kempe lists it as the fourth book in her section on religion & psychopathology. Morse undertook the study as his thesis topic at Hall's urging. He must have legally changed his name later, since he is listed in the Psychological Register and OCLC as "Morse" not "Moses." Born in Richmond, Morse gained his doctorate from Clark University in 1904, taughty there for several years, and secured a position in 1911 at the University of South Carolina, where he became Professor of Psychology and Philosophy. Most of his publications relating to religion are pre-1914, after which he turned to more traditional topics in psychopathology and to race relations in the South.
- The journal in which Morse's thesis appeared as the first monograph supplement became in 1912 The Journal of Religious Psychology, beginning with Vol. 5 No. 1, and continued until Dec. 1915, when it closed with Vol. 7 No. 4. See Vande Kempe 1034.
German-born British philologist, Max-Müller was one of the founders of Indian studies and almost single-handedly created the discipline of comparative religion. In the present book he set forth his own nominalist ideas about language and cognition based on his philological work, especially in Sanskrit.
GM-5 601; Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, pp. 308-9; Norman Catalog 1568 (original German edition); DSB: 567-74; Diamond Roots of Psychology 2.8; Waller 6730; Heirs of Hippocrates 1632; Wozniak Mind and Body #38 & pp. 38-39. The first textbook of physiology and one of the most important scientific books of the 19th century, Müller's handbook played an important role in the emergence of the monist-materialist model in medicine and psychology. Müller's doctrine of specific nerve energies, of great importance in the history of psychology, first became widely known through this handbook.
- "Müller's work began a new era in the study of physiology: he pioneered the use of experimental methods in medicine, introduced the element of psychology into physiological investigation … and made the first attempts to explain physiological problems in terms of existing comparative physical and chemical knowledge" [Norman Catalog]. "Müller's Handbuch is the great classic of the nineteenth century in the field of physiology. Here he summarizes the advances of the preceding decades and successfully integrates the contributions of other fields, notably comparative chemistry, physics, and psychology. It is largely through this work that physiology emerged as a medical discipline under Müller's leadership" [Heirs].
- "Fundamentally, the doctrine [of specific nerve energies] involved two cardinal principles. The first of these principles was that the mind is directly aware not of objects in the physical world but of states of the nervous system. The nervous system, in other words, serves as an intermediary between the world and the mind and thus imposes its own nature on mental processes. The second was that the qualities of the sensory nerves of which the mind receives knowledge in sensation are specific to the various senses, the nerve of vision being normally as insensible to sound as the nerve of audition is to light" [Wozniak p. 39].
GM-5 601; Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, pp. 308-9; Norman Catalog 1568 (original German edition); DSB: 567-74; Diamond Roots of Psychology 2.8; Waller 6730; Heirs of Hippocrates 1632; Wozniak Mind and Body #38 & pp. 38-39. DE.
Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, pp. 308-9; Norman Catalog 1568 (original German edition); DSB: 567-74; Wozniak Mind and Body #38 & pp. 38-39. The first textbook of physiology (first published in German in four parts from 1833 to 1840) and a key book in the emergence of the still-dominant monist-materialist model in medicine and psychology. A vastly influential text. Müller's doctrine of specific nerve energies, of great importance in the history of psychology, first became widely known through his Handbuch.
- "Müller's work began a new era in the study of physiology: he pioneered the use of experimental methods in medicine, introduced the element of psychology into physiological investigation … and made the first attempts to explain physiological problems in terms of existing comparative physical and chemical knowledge" [Norman Catalog].
- "Fundamentally, the doctrine [of specific nerve energies] involved two cardinal principles. The first of these principles was that the mind is directly aware not of objects in the physical world but of states of the nervous system. The nervous system, in other words, serves as an intermediary between the world and the mind and thus imposes its own nature on mental processes. The second was that the qualities of the sensory nerves of which the mind receives knowledge in sensation are specific to the various senses, the nerve of vision being normally as insensible to sound as the nerve of audition is to light" [Wozniak p. 39].
Osier & Wozniak #184. Contains Edwin B. Holt's "Eye-Movement and Central Anaesthesia" and "The Illusion of Resolution-Stripes on the Color-Wheel"; Charles H. Rieber's "Tactual Illusions"; Knight Dunlap's "Tactual Time Estimation"; J. Franklin Messenger's "Perception of Number Through Touch"; Robert MacDougall's "The Subjective Horizon" and "The Structure of Simple Rhythm Forms"; Harvey A. Peterson's "Recall of Words, Objects and Movements"; Frederick Meakin's "Mutual Inhibition of Memory Images"; Charles S. Moore's "Control of the Memory Image"; R. H. Stetson's "Rhythm and Rhyme"; Ethel D. Puffer's "Studies in Symmetry"; Rosewll Parker Angier's "The Aesthetics of Unequal Divisin"; Robert M. Yerkes' "The Instincts, Habits and Reactions of the Frog" and [with Gurry E. Huggins] "Habit Formation in the Crawfish, Camburus affinis"; and Münsterber's "The Position of Psychology in the System of Knowledge."
So far as we can determine, this is the first book by an American with 'Psychotherapy' in the title, one of the earliest American books dealing with the subject, and the first book by an American psychologist explicitly on psychotherapy.
A thoroughly Darwinist treatment, hence an incunable of Darwinist psychology, published before Darwin himself had applied evolutionary theory to human mental development in The Descent of Man and The Expression of the Emotions. A second edition of Murphy's book appeared in 1879; he also wrote The Scientific Bases of Faith (1873) and Natural Selection and Spiritual Freedom (1893).
So rewritten and re-organized as virtually to constitute a new book. In this second edition all the chapters dealing only with physical science are omitted, as well as the chapter on the senses and the three chapters on the classification, history, & logic of the sciences. Added to the text are three chapters on the facts of variation; the effect of change of conditions; and on mimicry, color, and sexual selection—all adapted from Darwin's works; and new chapters on classification and parallel variation; classification and the fixation of characters; structure in anticipation of function; the origin of man; automatism.A thoroughly Darwinist treatment, hence an incunable of Darwinist psychology, published before Darwin himself had applied evolutionary theory to human mental development in The Descent of Man and The Expression of the Emotions. Murphy also wrote The Scientific Bases of Faith (1873) and Natural Selection and Spiritual Freedom (1893).
The earliest Canadian psychology textbook we have seen — Murray was John Frothingham professor of mental and moral philosophy at McGill.
Origins of Cyberspace 809: "Probably the first international conference on artificial intelligence." What a cast! Contains Minsky's "Some Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Programming"; Ashby's "The Mechanism of Habituation"; Rosenblatt's "Two Theorems of Statistical Separability in the Perceptron"; McCullough's "Agatha Tyche: Of Nervous Nets - the Lucky Reconers"; Gregory's "Models and the Localization of Function in the Central Nervous System"; and 22 other papers.
Cooter 843.9 Examines the nature and origin of mental states. Contains a long chapter on "the functions of the brain as revealed by Gall's method." Written while Noble still staunchly believed in phrenology. He abandoned his belief in phrenology after W. B. Carpenter praised his book but pooh-poohed the phrenology in his review, "Mr. Noble on the Brain nd its Physiology," British & Foreign Medical Review, 22 (Oct 1846).Noble was trained at Guy's hospital, and began his medical practice in Manchester 1834, where he became Visiting Physician to the Clifton Hall Retreat. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1867 and was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Noble wrote four books, of which this is the second, and the first dealing with psychological and neurological matters.
16 essays including "The Psycho-Physiology of Genius and Talent"; "Suggestion"; "Gratitude"; "The Natural History of Love"; "Evolution in Aesthetics"; "The State an Annihilator of Character"; "Optimism and Pessimism."
Of this book E. D. Adrian wrote: "Sir John's book was a masterly analysis of the facts and an unbiassed examination of the theories, both rare delights. Much of the material was assembled for the first time and given orderly presentation and meaning. His book soon became the classical work of reference on colour vision and its redressing of the balance between fact and theory gave a new impetus to the subject" [British Journal of Ophthalmology 1948, 32 (9): p. 519]. Adrian clearly regarded this as more important than Parsons' general study of perception, though it is the latter that made it into Garrison-Morton.
Fay p. 223. An English congregational divine, Payne "has furnished us with an abridgment of (Thomas) Brown's philosophy, which, while it wants the poetry of the original, at least equals it in the clear and succinct statement of the philosophical doctrines which are advanved. Moreover, in the moral department Brown's errors and imperfections are well portrayed; and an attempt is made … to lay afresh the foundations of the emotional theory of morals" (Morell, p. 499).
The standard biography, not likely ever to be exceeded in its wealth of detail — as Jeremy Norman added in a note to Galton's Hereditary Genius in his 5th edition of Garrison & Morton: "one of the most remarkable biographies ever published on any scientist." Pearson, a close friend and himself a distinguished scientist, intended his work to be not just a biography but a monument to Galton's many achievements. Pearson included a complete comparison with Galton's ancestors (Charles Darwin was his cousin) and provides a complete description of Galton's work and publications. The founder of eugenics (which word he coined in 1883), Galton also is a central figure in the history of psychology, initiating the modern study of individual differences. Included in the set are numerous facsimiles from Galton's publications and all the illustrations in his important 1893 Finger Prints, which created the modern taxonomical system for comparing fingerprints that is still used today.
An argument for the developmental importance of child play by an early American promoter of the kindergarten movement.
Collects Prince's papers. So far as we can ascertain, this was the 3rd or 4th book published by Sci-Art (founded and owned by Roback) and the firm's first book not authored by Roback.
A centrally important psychological journal. The early issues have contributions by James, Dewey, Baldwin, Calkins, Dunlap, Angell, G. H. Mead, Seashore, Stratton, etc. Indispensable for charting the growth of American psychology in the early 20th century.Section 1: Antiquarian Psychology in English (A-J)
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