Facets

1918 CE

#13905

Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.

Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.

1885 CE

#13153

Über das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie.

Ebbinghaus conducted a series of experiments on memory and forgetting using himself as subject. Out of this came concepts such as the learning curve and the forgetting curve, and the serial position effect. Digital fa…

1877 CE

#9481

A biographical sketch of an infant.

The first significant paper on child psychology, written from Darwin's personal notes of his observations of the development of his first born son, William Erasmus. The text is available from Darwin Online at this link.

1666 CE

#4992

A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq., 1666.

The earliest scientific account, by a practitioner, and corroborated by witnesses, of healing by the “laying-on of hands”. Greatrakes became known as “the Irish stroker” because of his method o…

2016 CE

#10240

A critical history of schizophrenia.

1788 CE

#10004

A dissertation on the influence of passions upon disorders of the body.

A treatise on the psychosomatic aspects of certain diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#13230

A history of psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomsky Era.

2007 CE

#13331

A history of social psychology: From the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the Second World War.

1810 CE

#4969.2

A letter to Henry Cline, Esq. on imperfect developements (sic) of the faculties mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic; and on on the treatment of impediments of speech.

The first book on mental deficiency. Thelwall recognized that sensory deprivation could be a cause of apparent mental defect through his work with handicapped children. He established criteria for distinguishing betwe…

1896 CE

#9319

A new factor in evolution.

The Baldwin effect. "In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect describes the effect of learned behavior on evolution. In brief, James Mark Baldwin suggested that an organism's ability to learn new behaviors (e.g. to…

1898 CE

#4629

A treatise on aphasia and other speech defects.

Bastian localized the auditory and visual centers, and he described word-blindness and word-deafness. (See also No. 4622.)

2007 CE

#9944

Advances in the History of Psychology: A current look at the history of psychology, with news, notes, and additional resources. Edited (in 2018) by Jacy L. Young and Shayna Fox Lee. Faculty Consultant: Christopher D. Green.

https://ahp.apps01.yorku.ca/ "Advances in the History of Psychology is a news and notes aggregator pertaining to the history of the discipline. "AHP notifies readers of resources, publications, conferences, and other …

1934 CE

#10609

An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)

Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…

1690 CE

#4967

An essay concerning humane understanding.

Locke, a physician, laid the foundation of modern psychology. For two centuries the principles laid down by him were unquestioned. The writing of the Essay occupied him on and off for twenty years.

1909 CE

#12455

An experimental study of sleep. (From the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis' Laboratory).

Sidis emphasized his physiological approach in the wording of the title of this book. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1798 CE

#7978

An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement: comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind, and a history of the passions and their effects. 2 vols.

In chapter 2 of vol. 1, pp. 254-90, “On Attention and its Diseases” Crichton described a mental state much like the inattentive subtype of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He did not mentio…

1927 CE

#1529

An introduction to the theory of perception.

1988 CE

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1798 CE

#4969

Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst.

Kant attempted a classification of mental diseases.

2020 CE

#12627

Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.

2015 CE

#12736

Architecture of the cerebral cortical association connectome underlying cognition.

"Significance "Connections between cerebral cortex regions are known as association connections, and neural activity in the network formed by these connections is thought to generate cognition. Network analysis of mic…

1495 CE–1498 CE

#8395

Aristotle. [Opera omnia]. 5 vols.

Between November 1495 and June 1498 scholar printer Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Mannucci) of Venice issued the first edition in the original Greek of Aristotle's Opera omnia. The set appeared in five thick quarto or smal…

1472 CE

#9400

Aristotle's De anima with the commentary of Averroes.

"Each paragraph of the text of Aristotle is printed in a new and an old translation, and is followed by the commentary of Averroes on the latter (BMC)" (ISTC No. IDia00969000). Because of the supreme position of Arist…

1959 CE

#13156

Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.

1952 CE

#13155

Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition

2011 CE

#13906

Barbed wire disease: British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19.

"By the time of the Armistice in 1918, around 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated suffering a…

1937 CE

#7980

Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.

Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention …

1886 CE

#10450

Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.

Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…

1858 CE

#1463

Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung.

Sensory perception. Wundt was one of the founders of experimental psychology.

1877 CE–1882 CE

#9640

Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.

Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la co…

1927 CE

#7698

Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.

Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…

1961 CE

#6945

Bibliography of memory.

The most complete bibliography to date on this subject. Regarding Young, see the unusually interesting obituary in The New York Times at this link.

1996 CE

#7520

Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.

1967 CE

#11492

C. G. Jung Bibliothek Katalog by Die Bibliothekskimmission.

1983 CE

#8612

Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.

1961 CE

#9648

Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.

Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…

1963 CE

#9647

Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.

Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …

1950 CE

#7537

Childhood and society.

1928 CE

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1917 CE

#4631

Congenital word-blindness.

1941 CE

#1533

Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.

Electroretinography

1948 CE

#4991.1

Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.

Foundation of "the science of control and communication theory, named ‘cybernetics’ by Wiener, from the Greek word ‘kubernetes’ or steersman. Automation, information feedback, regulators in eng…

1974 CE

#8912

Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.

In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …

1896 CE

#9007

Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.

This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…

1672 CE

#1544

De anima brutorum

Chap. XIV is devoted to the sense of hearing; in it Willis described the “paracusis of Willis” (p. 73). English translation, 1683. A probable description of myasthenia gravis is given in Pars. 2, Cap. IX. …

1538 CE

#4963.2

De anima et vita libri tres.

Vives anticipated Bacon and Descartes in developing an empirical psychology in which the mind was to be studied both through introspection and observation of others. From his exhaustive analysis of memory he developed…

1704 CE

#10160

De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana, et morbis inde oriundis.

Mead formulated the position that periodic atmospheric tides arising from planetary forces produced alterations of gravity, elasticity, and air pressure; these changes, he argued, affected the human body in health and…

1801 CE

#4969.1

De l’éducation d’un homme sauvage, ou des premier développemens physiques et moraux du jeune sauvage de l’Aveyron.

A pupil of Pinel, Itard pioneered in the attempt to educate a young “wild boy” who had lived since infancy entirely apart from human contact. In adapting the methods of teaching deaf-mutes to his extraordi…

1884 CE

#4995.1

De la suggestion dans l’état hypnotique et dans l’état de veille.

The foundation of the Nancy school of hypnosis. Like Liébeault, Bernheim studied the scientific applications of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent …

1491 CE

#4511.01

De omnibus ingeniis augendae memoriae.

An early work on memory disorders and aids to memory. ISTC no. ia00210000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link.