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Psychiatry/Psychology — page 2
61 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.