Search Results: PSYCHOLOGY AND SELF HELP from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

The African Mind in Health and Disease. A Study in EtnopsychiatryCarothers, J C. Published by Negro Universities Press, New York 1970. Reprint of World Health Organization Monograph no 17, 1953 . 8vo up to 9½" tall.177 pages. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles. Light wear to boards; contents are in fine condition without marks, tears etc. J C Carothers was a British colonial Kenyan psychiatrist considered a leading authority in the emerging field of Ethnopsychiatry. His research on the psychology and behavior of African people is now highly criticized.

The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar. Published by Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2010. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352 pp. Quarter red over blue boards with yellow spine titles. Light scuffing to unclipped jacket; volume in mint, unmarked condition.

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925, Meisel, Perry and Walter Kendrick. Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1986. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xii, 360 pp. with illustrations. Black boards with gilt spine titles, mapped endpapers. Name to blank endpaper and toning to text block, otherwise fine without marks, tears or folds; light wear to unclipped dustjacket. James Strachey was the younger brother of Lytton Strachey and one of the first people in England to train in and practise psychoanalysis. He translated Freud's work, and as a member of the Bloomsbury Group was instrumental in promoting it via publications with the Hogarth Press. The Letters of James and Alix Strachey is a record of the almost daily correspondence he exchanged with his wife Alix whilst she was being psychoanalysed as part of her training by Karl Abraham in Berlin.

Changing Patient Behavior: A Behavior Modification Manual for Dental Professionals, Fitch, Mary and Moxley, Roy. Published by Ram Press, Lakewood CO, 1978. Second printing. Card covers stapled booklet. 67 pages with black and white graphics, glossary, case studies. light fading to covers and otherwise in fine condition without tears, marks or folds.

Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Shuttleworth, Sally. Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996. Printed 1999. xiv, 289 pages including index. Blue scalloped boards with black titles front and spine. In unread condition without marks, tears or folds; lacks dustjacket.
This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bronte as having existed in a historical vacuum. Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes belonging to the Brontes', Sally Shuttleworth explores Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality and insanity, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex framework. Shuttleworth offers a reading of Brontë's fiction informed by a new understanding of the psychological debates of her time.

Churchill and the Black Dog of Depression: Reassessing the Biographical Evidence of Psychological Disorder, Attenborough, W., Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. Card covers. 247 pp. Neatly inked name to free endpaper and otherwise in fine condition without marks, tears or folds; binding remains tight.

Collected Papers Volume I-V, Freud, Sigmund. Authorized Translation under the supervision of Joan Riviere. Edited by J.D. Sutherland. Published by The Hogarth Press / Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, 1957. 10th and 11th printings. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Early Papers, 359pp.; Clinical Papers, 404pp.; Case Histories, 607pp.; Metapsychology, 508pp.; Miscellaneous Papers, 369pp. Comprehensive Index at the end of Vol IV, Volume V is separately indexed. Dark green coated cloth boards with gilt spine titles. In very good condition without markings tears or folds; Vol III has a small gouge to inner hinge exposing webbing. Dustjackets have some chips and closed tears and front flaps are pasted down. International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by Ernest Jones, numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, and 37.

Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror, Twitchell, James B. Published by Oxford University Press, 1985. First Edition. 385pp. with notes, bibliography and index. Quarter red cloth over red boards. Volume is in unread condition; jacket is clipped with rub to head of spine and toning inside flaps and rear panel.

James Twitchell traces our fascination with horror from the cave paintings at Lascaux to the "slasher" movies today.
Twitchell finds that three particular stories have had a special resonance in our culture: the bloodsucker (Dracula), the deformed creature (Frankenstein), and the transformation monster (The Wolfman, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Why have these stories persisted to the point of becoming mythic and to the exclusion of others? Insightful, provocative, and entertaining; film buffs and scholars, literary critics and devotees of the Gothic novel will all welcome this study.

Entering the Stream: An Introduction to The Buddha and His Teachings, Bercholz, Samuel and Kohn, Sherab Chodzin (Compiled and Edited By). Foreword by director Bernando Bertolucci (The Little Buddha). Published by Shambhala, Boston, 1993. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 334 pages including black and white photographs and Illustrations, bibliography and glossary.In fine condition with a bit of sunning to front cover.

Mental Pathology and Therapeutics, Wilhelm, Griesinger. The New Sydenham Society Volume 33. Published by The New Sydenham Society, London, 1867. First English Edition. Translated from the second German edition by C. Lockhart Robertson, MD and James Rutherford, MD. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 530pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles; all edges red. Foxing to first few pages and occasional spotting in text and otherwise contents are clean without markings, tears or folds. Front hinge is cracked and weak, rear hinge is weakened; back strip is missing pieces top and bottom, rubbing to corners; text block is tight and secure.
Presented in five major sections: general, the cause and mode of origin of mental disease, forms of mental disease, the pathological anatomy of mental disease, and the prognosis and treatment of mental disease. Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. He is noted for initiating reforms in treatment of the mentally ill as well as introducing changes to the… Read More

On Learning From the Patient, Casement, Patrick. Published by Tavistock Publications, London, New York,1985. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 244 pages with 2 appendices, glossary and index. Black boards, gilt spine titles. Volume in fine condition without marks, tears or folds; unclipped dustjacket has light toning and otherwise fine.On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores afresh the dynamics of the helping relationship - learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in search of.

The Time of Your Life: Choosing A Vibrant, Joyful Future, Margaret Trudeau. Published by Harper Perennial, 2016, Soft cover. 320 pages. Signed (not inscribed) to half title: "Read and Enjoy! Margaret Trudeau". In fine condition without tears, marks or folds.

The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Margaret Cameron. Published by J P Tarcher/ Putnam Books, Los Angeles, 1996. 8vo up to 9½" tall. xiv, 368 pp. including index, discography, filmography, bibliography and index. Quarter black over red boards, gilt titles front and spine, black endpapers. Volume is in pristine, unmarked condition; unclipped jacket has the lightest of to head of spine. The companion to the best-selling The Artist's Way contains essays on the creative process and more than one hundred imaginative exercises that help readers reach new spiritual heights and expand their creativity

Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD, Dallaire, Romeo. Published by Random House Canada, 2016. Black boards, grey spine, black spine title. Unclipped jacket and volume both in mint condition. "In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life since the Rwandan genocide."

The Werewolf Delusion, Woodward, Ian. Published by Paddington Press, New York and London, 1979. First Edition. 256pp., illustrated. Red cloth boards with red endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition; unclipped jacket has light rubbing to edges.
A wide-ranging examination of the werewolf in history and present times. "There can be little doubt that the werewolf as a psychic phenomenon could, did, and perhaps still does exist. What superstition, one that is a thousand years or so older than Christianity, could survive to the present day if there were not a germ of truth somewhere?"

William James: Selected Writings, William James. Introductory essay by Robert Coles. Published by Book of the Month Club, New York, 1997. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 549 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue paper, gilt spine, blue endpapers.A series of twenty lectures on Psychology, Human Behavior and Personality, Pragmatism, Religion, Neurology, the Sick Soul, the Divided Self, Conversion, Saintliness, Mysticism, Philosophy, etc. In mint, unread, unmarked condition. Also available: Sigmund Freud: Selected Writings; Carl Gustav Jung: Selected Writings

World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place and Politics, Peter Dickinson. Published by Manchester University Press, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 272 pages including index, bibliography and 24 pictures. Black cloth boards, silver spine titles. Very light shelf wear to jacket; volume pristine and unread.
In World Stages, Dickinson suggests that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting point, Dickinson maps the spaces of connection and contestation, the flows of sentiment and social responsibility, produced by different communities in response to global sports spectacles. He also analyses how such topics are taken up in the work of playwrights, conceptual, installation, and performance artists like Ai Weiwei, and Rebecca Belmore. In so doing, Dickinson makes an original… Read More