Nonfiction » Psychology » History

Foundation of Psychology as a Scientific Discipline: Perspectives, Views, Theories, and Therapies Second Edition    by Steven Carley
Price: $7.95 USD. 106560 words. Language: English. Published on April 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » History.

The text covers the perspectives, therapies, views, theories, and theorists building psychology throughout the generations from a casual observation into the advent of a scientific investigation. This investigation will discuss the earliest treatments of the mentally ill and how the treatment of the mentally ill improves over the years into modern psychology.
The Art of War in plain English - digital edition with active table of contents    by Sun Tzu
Price: $0.99 USD. 10660 words. Language: English. Published by E-Eye Digital Editions on February 15, 2012. Essay » Business.

This digital edition of Sun Tzu’s masterpiece ‘The Art of War’ has been considerably simplified from the original 1910 translation by Lionel Giles. The lengthy and often laborious footnotes have been done away with, and clarifications where appropriate have been included in Master Sun’s text, retaining its original charm and delightful use of language.
The Lumber Room: Mental Illness in the House of Medicine    by D.S. Arrowsmith
Price: $0.99 USD. 16130 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2011. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Medical science.

A lively, literate essay argues that, with progress in medicine, difficult, unruly mental illnesses vanish and re-emerge as quantifiable, often curable physical illnesses. Includes references to the DSM, epilepsy, lycanthropy, syphilis, cancer, the Capgras delusion, malaria, Alzheimer's disease, porphyria, multiple sclerosis, psychoanalysis, E.M. Forster, Samuel Johnson and Louis Pasteur.
A causa da homossexualidade. ( Português)    by Ariano Torres 
Price: Free! 4380 words. Language: Portuguese. Published on April 1, 2011. Nonfiction » Psychology » History.

Ariano conta uma história verídica e explicativa sobre o começo da depressão, a causa do homossexualismo e a difusão do bullying. De forma simplés e bucólica você vai mergulhar numa história que vai mudar sua concepção sobre esses assuntos lhe tornando um ser humano muito mais especial e preparado para lhe dar com a vida.
Essays on God and Freud    by Sam Vaknin
Price: Free! 31740 words. Language: English. Published on January 3, 2010. Nonfiction » Psychology » History.

Six essays about the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science and four essays about Psychoanalysis and its role in the landscape of modern, scientific psychology and evidence-based psychotherapies.
The Conundrums of Psychology    by Sam Vaknin
Price: Free! 33960 words. Language: English. Published on January 3, 2010. Nonfiction » Psychology » History.

The fundamental assumptions underlying the modern study of psychopathology examined.
Revisiting The Catcher In The Rye    by handsome
You set the price! 1850 words. Language: English. Published on August 16, 2008. Nonfiction » Psychology » History.

This is a speculative essay about the meaning in J.D.Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye.