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Psychiatry/Psychology — page 2
73 public-domain psychiatry/psychology books, summarised. Page 2 of 2.
Supreme Personality: Fun in Living. A Doubt, Fear, and Worry Cure
Delmer Eugene Croft
A guide to self-mastery through the power of positive thought, this manual promises to dissolve doubt, fear, and worry. It offers a structured approach to reclaiming vitality and mental clarity in an age of anxiety.
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion
James H. (James Henry) Leuba
Humanity’s drive toward the divine is not a sudden spark, but a calculated, evolutionary response to the persistent demands of life.
Mental Radio
Upton Sinclair
The human mind may possess a latent, biological capacity for long-distance communication that defies conventional physics. This detailed record of personal experiments explores whether individuals can truly receive thoughts across space.
Mentally Defective Children
Alfred Binet
Schooling fails children when it treats every mind as identical. A rigorous scientific framework can identify vulnerable learners and build special educational pathways to protect them from institutional neglect.
A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes
Sanford Bell
Children feel genuine, fully realized romantic love long before adolescence, developing complex emotional lives that challenge the conventional medical belief that romantic affection begins strictly with puberty.
Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology
E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray
Early childhood hides the roots of all adult thought, and true education begins by honoring the child's natural impulse toward self-directed activity.
Special talents and defects
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
This study offers a foundational look at the nature of human aptitude, arguing that while general intelligence is a powerful predictor of success, specific talents and defects often operate independently of that baseline.
The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
Robert Mearns Yerkes
An examination of the erratic grace and quiet intelligence of the dancing mouse, this study bridges the gap between casual observation and rigorous laboratory analysis. It offers a window into the mind of a creature whose biological peculiarities raise profound questions about animal behavior.
Duality of Voice
Emil Sutro
The human voice is not merely a product of the throat, but a complex intersection of anatomy, spirit, and national character. By re-examining the physical mechanics of speech, a hidden dual system is revealed.
Practical school discipline
Ray Coppock Beery
Teachers today often wrestle with the same classroom management challenges as their predecessors a century ago. This volume serves as a systematic manual for navigating the varied behavioral instincts of students through practical, psychological intervention.
Materialized apparitions
Edward Augustus Brackett
Can the dead return to take on solid flesh, touch our hands, and speak to us in daylight? A nineteenth-century observer sets out to test the physical reality of spirit mediumship and finds himself drawn into an unexpected world of vanishing forms and intimate encounters.
Practical Phrenology Simplified
Theodore Foster
The shape of one’s skull, according to this nineteenth-century manual, serves as a precise map of the soul’s hidden geography. By measuring the cranial bumps of a subject, any observer can unlock the secrets of their character and predict their future behavior.
The evolution of general ideas
Th. (Théodule) Ribot
Human thought ascends in a steady, unbroken line, transforming raw bodily perception into high abstractions that need no physical form.
Little Masterpieces of Science: Mind
Unknown
The mind is a frontier where biology meets behavior, a complex tapestry of instinct, habit, and social evolution. This collection probes the silent mechanics of human thought and the developmental arc of the individual.
Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals
Auguste Forel
Ants and their kin navigate a world of intense, complex sensation, challenging our long-held assumptions about the boundaries between instinct and intelligence. By examining the humble ant, we uncover the intricate machinery of the natural mind.
Self-Organizing Systems, 1963
Unknown
=Self-Organizing Systems, 1963= chronicles a pivotal moment in cybernetics, capturing the ambitious quest to bridge biological brain function with the burgeoning field of electronic computation. It serves as a technical record of an era when researchers first dared to treat the human mind as a system that could be…
Name Your Symptom
Jim Harmon
A psychiatrist who fashions mechanical "Cures" for the neuroses of a crumbling society realizes that his own medical practice is merely fueling a collective descent into madness. He decides to discard his own crutch, with fatal consequences.
The Air of Castor Oil
Jim Harmon
Trapped between fleeting memories of the past and a shifting, synthetic present, one man risks everything to uncover why his reality is tearing at the seams.
The Sense of Taste
Harry L. (Harry Levi) Hollingworth
What we call the rich flavor of food is largely an illusion, stripped away by science to reveal just four basic gustatory elements.
Office call
Charles E. Fritch
Dr. Rawlings is a psychiatrist whose professional skepticism is tested by a mathematician who claims he can open doors to other dimensions. It is a sharp, brief exploration of the thin line between clinical delusion and cosmic reality.
The accomplishment ratio
Raymond Franzen
Measuring the efficiency of learning relative to innate capacity, this study argues that school performance should be understood as a function of intellectual potential rather than mere classroom exposure.
The Big Leap
Charles E. Fritch
Alone in the vastness of space, an astronaut discovers a terrifying truth: Earth is not a planet, but a living, breathing creature, and we are merely its parasites.
The Rumble and the Roar
Stephen Bartholomew
A man overwhelmed by the relentless cacophony of a high-tech society seeks a desperate, final refuge in absolute, unadulterated silence.
Subjectivity
Norman Spinrad
When a totalitarian government decides that star travel is mandatory, they turn to a potent new hallucinogen to keep a ten-person crew sane over a sixteen-year voyage.
An essay towards a theory of apparitions
John Ferriar
Spectral visions are not supernatural visitations, but rather the internal projections of a brain in distress. By grounding the eerie in the physiological, this work strips the terror from the unknown.