PSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOUR from

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 2001. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, figures, tables, minor edgewear. 293 pp. Robert Bartholomew, a medical sociologist living in New Zealand, provides a concise comprehensive history of mass hysteria and social delusions. He differentiates between the two and investigates cases, both in closed settings (such as work and school) and in… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, minor edgewear jacket, remainder stamp bottom edge. 276 pp. The essays in this book argue that the joint study of the imagination and pathology is long overdue, and to integrate the two would be theoretically and clinically useful. The book emphasizes the holistic… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2021. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, slight ridge spine (binding error), corner tips covers & few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 351 pp. Sarah Krasnostein relates stories we tell ourselves to deal with the distance between the world as it is, and the world as we would like it to be. She puts together… Read more about this item

Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1984. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (reverse side slightly foxed), slight foxing edges & endpapers, small cross mark front free flyleaf. 160 pp. Colin Wilson tells a fascinating biographical narrative with a penetrating analysis of Carl Jung's ideas, thus providing a clear, readable introduction to… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Brunswick: Scribe Publications, 2019. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 400g pp. Judith Hoare relates the true story of the little-known Australian G.P. who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Dr Weeks wrote 'Self Help for Your Nerves', which was first published in… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP), 1962. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), edges little foxed, reverse side jacket foxed (littled toned, spine lightly faded, flaps lightly foxed), pages lightly toned, light foxing endpapers, some edgewear. 132 pp. David Armstrong, an Australian philosopher, argues that bodily sensations are nothing but impressions that physical… Read more about this item

London: Abacus, 2006. 1st U.K. p/b, reprint ed.. Paperback small, very good condition, bottom edge lightly toned, minor edgewear. 370 pp. James Surowiecki shows, citing many examples, how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations. He argues that large groups of people are better at accurate decision-making, rather than individual leaders or experts. The author of this bestselling… Read more about this item

London: Rider, 2020. 1st U.K. ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good plus dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (top corner scuffed, spine ends little rubbed, sticker mark rear cover). 141 pp. This book is an extraordinary uncovered work by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, the author of the bestselling classic ’Man's Search for Meaning'. Published in English for… Read more about this item

London: Picador Classic, 2015. Reprint ed.. Paperback large trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, price sticker rear cover. 262 pp. A classic work of psychology by American neurologist Oliver Sacks, a million-copy bestseller, that provides a groundbreaking narrative insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg, he knows he has lost a leg. But if… Read more about this item

Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks / Cole, 1990. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve (Brodart). 231 pp. Irving Kirsch, an American psychology professor, describes how therapists can help their clients break the cycle caused by dysfunctional, self-confirming beliefs. From a thorough review of relevant research, he demonstrates that… Read more about this item

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2007. 8th ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good plus condition, figures, minor edgewear. 473 pp. Eighth edition. This popular bestselling textbook is an easy-to-use handbook for practitioners who want to overcome behavioral deficits and excesses in a wide variety of populations and settings.

London: Verso, 2018. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 234 pp. Oli Mould, a lecturer in human geography at University of London, suggests new ways to look at creativity. He shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of the ever-expanding marketplace, which unfortunately refuses to acknowledge anything - job, place, person - that can be… Read more about this item

London: Harper / HarperCollins, 2009. Revised & expanded ed.. Paperback small trade, good plus condition, crease front cover, pages faintly toned, tiny foxed spots few pages, small bump spine edge, minor edgewear. 368 pp. Dan Ariely, an American professor of behavioural economics, shows how expectations, emotions, social norms and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. He… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2018. Paperback octavo, very good condition, photos inside covers, tiny bump top spine, small scuff flyleaf (sticker mark, minor edgewear corner tips. 375 pp. Gina Perry describes a group of boys who in 1954 attended a remote summer camp where they were split into two groups, and encouraged to bully, harass, and demonise each other. The… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (small crease top edge). 256 pp. This well-researched book by Edward Shorter urges that the diagnosis of depression be re-thought. His argument is based on historical research on the past and future of psychiatric diagnosis, and in… Read more about this item

New York: Harper / HarperCollins, 1994. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, light toning pages, top corner tip rear cover scuffed. 243 pp. Mary Catherine Bateson, a notable American cultural anthropologist, starts with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moves on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and finishes with a description of… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minimal edgewear, bottom corner tip front cover bent, few tiny spots on bottom edge of pages, bottom corners of pages little bent. 296 pp. This book is an optimistic guide to borderline personality disorder (BPD). It provides information that brings newfound hope to those who have… Read more about this item

Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1994. 4th, reprint ed.. Hardback wide octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, minor edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 506 pp. The fourth edition of the standard tetxbook on group counseling by Gerald Corey. Covers the key concepts and techniques of ten theoretical approaches to group… Read more about this item

Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2000. 6th, 1st printing ed.. Hardback wide octavo, good plus condition, pictorial cover, inner hinge repaired, first few pages little creased, minor edgewear. Heavy. 556 pp. This sixth edition of this classic textbook by Gerald Corey covers ten contemporary theories of counselling and psychotherapy. Contains a new chapter on feminist therapy. (The book only:… Read more about this item

New York & London: Plenum Press, 1987. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, tables, top edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 424 pp. Two leading British psychologists, Hans and Michael Eysenck, provide a ground-breaking study of personality and individual differences. Deals with… Read more about this item