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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric R. Kandel Publisher Comments A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover 
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault Staff Pick When I was immersed in a sea of literary criticism a few years ago, Foucault, more than anyone else, caught my attention. Looking deeply at the roots of our behavior and our cultural attitudes, his examination of different kinds of power and control is... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone Publisher Comments Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt Publisher Comments Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century to the Second World War by Gustav Jahoda Publisher Comments Outlines the history of social psychology and the links between early and current thought.... (read more) List Price $122.50 Your price: $19.97 Sale - Hardcover
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History of Madness by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Unhinged (10 Edition) by Daniel J. Carlat Publisher Comments IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Freud and Beyond : a History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (95 Edition) by Stephen A. Mitchell Publisher Comments Freuds concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-In Edition): The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) by John Kerr Publisher Comments NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL “Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —Newsday In 1907, Sigmund Freud and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-233) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy by Bruce Levine Publisher Comments The rate of depression in the U.S. has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years. By not seriously confronting societal sources of despair, American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution.The good... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter Publisher Comments "[This book] provides a clear portrait of the evolution of psychiatric thinking over the past two centuries . . . sure to create an intellectual controversy . . . no one will be able to ignore the powerful argument." — Gerald N. Grob Henry E... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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History of Modern Experimental Psychology (07 Edition) by George Mandler Publisher Comments Modern psychology began with the adoption of experimental methods at the end of the nineteenth century: Wilhelm Wundt established the first formal laboratory in 1879; universities created independent chairs in psychology shortly thereafter; and William... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital by Alex Beam Staff Pick Gracefully Insane is a captivating and entertaining biography of Boston's McLean Hospital, an asylum for the elite established in the early 19th century and still in operation today. Throughout are compelling and often humorous stories about both staff... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E Fuller Torrey Publisher Comments Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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This Quintessence of Dust?: Discovering Who We Are--From Ancient Greece to the Modern World (Gateway Bookshelf) by Joseph K Kovach Synopsis Drawing on the multiple perspectives of philosophy, art, literature, and science, Kovach traces the evolving concept of the self as it changed at pivotal points of Western history.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory by David E. Stannard Publisher Comments Attacks the theory and fundamental concepts of psychohistory, the formation of psychoanalytic hypotheses about history, challenging the validity of the evidence and logic used to support its... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Putting Psychology in Its Place: An Introduction from a Critical Historical Perspective by Graham Richards Book News Annotation A critical history of psychology's development, placing 19th and 20th century psychoanalytical methods into a wider social context. Although Richards (Staffordshire U.) has written the volume as an introductory psychology text, he manages to avoid the... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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