PSYCHOLOGY from Chilton Books

New York: Joint Committee on Methods of Preventing Delinquency, 1926.. 2nd printing, revised. Contents: I.Parental Attitudes; II.Feelings of Inferiority; III.Diverse Issues; IV.Questions of Honesty; V.Sex Problems. Plus a Description of the Purpose and Scope of Visiting Teacher Work by Howard W.Nudd. Pp.288, owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning to pages. Brown cloth spine with grey stiff… Read more about this item

New York: Joint Committee on Methods of Preventing Delinquency, nd. (c.1922).. Publication No.2.in a series initiated by the Commonwealth Fund for the Prevention of Delinquency, to demonstrate the value and promote the wider application of modern psychiatric service and visiting teacher methods to the study and guidance of children presenting problems of behavior and other maladjustments in school and… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1948.. 4th impression. The International Psycho-Analytical Library series No.26. Authorized translation by James Strachey. Of great interest "not only as the record of the personal life of the founder of psycho-analysis, but also because of the light which it throws on the development of the psycho-analytic movement." Pp.137. Green… Read more about this item

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932.. 1st edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library series No.21. A Psycho-Analytical Study of the Neurosis of Charles Baudelaire. Translated from the French by Herbert Agar. Pp.192, minor spotting to closed page edges. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, uneven fading to margins of boards. Good.

Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1965.. 1st edition. Proceedings of the Institutes of Catholic Pastoral Counseling and of the Conferences for Religious Superiors of Men under the auspices of the Director of Summer Session and Workshops, The Catholic University of America). Ex-religious college library. Pp.viii/234, college library inkstamps to front free endpaper and title page.White laminated boards,… Read more about this item

London: Vincent Stuart, 1953.. 2nd impression. "How can we begin to understand the 'invisible'? The invisible nature of man and the corresponding invisible side of the world are here dealt with from the standpoint of dimensions (not taken mathematically) and also from the related standpoint of higher levels of consciousness The question of a new understanding of Time, and… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926.. Supplemented by Extracts from the Unpublished Diaries of Clara Stern. Translated from the Third Edition - Revised and Enlarged - by Anna Barwell. Pp.557, owner's name to front free endpaper. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, some uneven darkening to cover. Good.

London: British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 1974.. 1st edition. "The members of the Working Party have looked at problems related to the impact of Dyslexia, its causes, prevention, prevalence and identification. They then seek to give guide lines in remedial work, taking into account vocational implications, examinations in the educational sense and the present[1974] provision of remedial… Read more about this item

London: The Francis Mott Company Ltd, 1935.. 1st edition. A Psychological Study of a Great Psychologist and His Work by Another Great Psychologist. Pp.xii/306, Black & white photo portrait frontispiece, owner's name to inside front board, gift message to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, rubbed with edge wear. G+.** "�mile Cou� de la Ch�taigneraie (26 February 1857 � 2… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University, 1985.. 1st edition. "Spitz proposes three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art...The first includes the relation between the life experience of the artist and his works; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience.Spitz illustrates her theoretical discussion with examples… Read more about this item

London: W.H.Allen, 1953.. 1st edition. Contents include: Part One: For a Better Understanding of Sex Happiness: I. Sex Psychology for Women; II. Wife vs. Mistress; III. Sex and Sex Appeal; IV. "Musts" for Sex Appeal; V. Sex and Love; VI. Prelude to Intercourse; VII. The Sexual Act; VIII. Postlude to Sexual Union; IX. Time, Duration and Frequency of Intercourse;… Read more about this item

Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.. Reprint. "By utilizing computer-based laboratories it is possible to give even the largest of first-year classes a sound introduction to the use of the experimental method in psychology....The experiments cover serveral areas of psychology, such as: Choice reaction time; feature detection; pattern recognition; stroop phenomenon; hemispheric asymmetry; global versus local processing; iconic memory; short-term… Read more about this item

London: The Psychologist, 1937.. Practical Psychology Handbooks No.9. "Do You Want - To be Able to Fall Asleep Easily? To Go Through the Night Without Lying Awake? To Rise Refreshed and Full of Energy? To Banish for Good the Fear of Insomnia? Then this handbook will enable you to realize your wishes, by giving you a New Conception of… Read more about this item

London: Gerald Howe Ltd, 1932.. An essay originally prompted by a book by H.L.Mencken. "It will be found that the examples used to illustratee particular contentions are almost always drawn from a particular stratum of society - what I believe is called the lower middle-class....the fact is that, broadly speaking, the wealthy can usually purchase an environment which… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1976.. 1st ed. Discusses a number of aspects of human perception within a theoretical framework. Pp.144, toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

London: Department of Health, 2003.. Children's Services Guidance. Pp.26. Paperback. VG.

Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann,1999.. A unique, practical book showing how professionals can bridge the gap between the conflicting needs of a child and its parents with mental health problems. The emphasis is on effective professional, interdisciplinary collaboration, illustrated through case examples of best practice....Drawing on practical and research based evidence, this book offers clear guidance to those at the sharp… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 2000.. Brings together the findings of research and clinical work by leading figures in the UK and USA. It makes visible the prevalence of sexual abuse and exploitation of children by normal, rdinary, heterosexual family men, both within and outside the family." Pp.xx/459. Paperback. VG.

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.. This important volume explores children's needs in the context of the policy, practice, legal and organisational responses to child sexual abuse...The book is organised around a series of themes identified by survivors of sexual abuse from the National Commission into the Prevention of Child Abuse. These themes include: justice, mediation, advocacy, confidentiality, communication,… Read more about this item

New York: Family Welfare Association of America, 1945.. This description of psychotherapeutic methods developed in the Jewish Board of Guardians should be of interest to the social work field, both as an illustration of a methodology used in child guidance and as an aid in showing how this method relates to other forms of social treatment." (Herschel Alt. Introduction).… Read more about this item