Books in the History of Psychology series

Analyzing and rejecting various arguments adduced against the continuity of descent as applied to human mind and building a positive case based on presumed parrallels between ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, Romanes presented the classic 19th-century account of the origin of human faculty.

Emphasizing the influence of the mind on the body, Charles Tuckey was among the first to describe the potential therapeutic effects of hypnotic suggestion on a wide range of diseases.

The classic modern statement of the dual-aspect monist approach to the mind/body relation in which mind and body are viewed as different aspects of one and the same series of psychophysical events.

The first systematic handbook of the new, scientific, experimental psychology. Wilhelm Wundt's work is widely credited with introducing the new, scientific, experimental psychology to the world.

A revolutionary turning point in the history of psychology. Introducing action into psychology as a category of analysis in its own right, Alexander Bain was the first to bring the new physiology of movement into conjunction with an associationistic account of mind.

Morton Prince demonstrated that multiple personalities could be artificially induced in the trance state, applied and developed the concept of dissociation in the explanation of these phenomena, and presented a classic description of relevant therapy.

This text consists of Wilhelm Wundt's developed point of view on topics such as the the quality of sensation, the nature of feeling, the relation of feeling to will, consciousness, the develpment of attention, the temporal course of ideas, dreams, instincts and voluntary activity.

A 6-volume set that focuses on the roots of behaviourism. The series aims to document the origins of behaviourism, and includes important pre-Watsonian monographic contributions to theoretical and methodological objectivism, and reprints the first full text of the new behaviourism.