Psychology & Culture eBooks
Civilization and its Discontents
Psychology & Culture, by Sigmund Freud.In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving...
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism
Psychology & Culture, by A. AlpheusHow to perform these acts
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Psychology & Culture, by Robert Louis Stevenson.Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The original pronunciation of Jekyll was "Jeekul" which was the pronunciation used in Stevenson's native Scotland. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or simply Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.[1] It is...
Dynamic Psychology (1918)
Psychology & Culture, by Robert Sessions WoodworthRobert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962) was an influential American academic psychologist of the first half of the twentieth century. He studied under William James along with such prominent psychologists as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, James Rowland Angell, and Edward Thorndike. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, his textbook Psychology: A study of mental life, which appeared first in 1921, went...
Educational Psychology (1919)
Psychology & Culture, by Daniel StarchDaniel Starch (1883–1979) was an American psychologist and marketing researcher. He is considered to be have been one of the pioneers of marketing and consumer research in the early 20th century.
Eichman in Jerusalem
Psychology & Culture, by Hannah ArendtArendt states that aside from a desire for improving his career, Eichmann showed no trace of antisemitism or psychological damage. Her subtitle famously introduced the phrase the "banality of evil," which also serves as the final words of the final chapter. In part, at least, the phrase refers to Eichmann's deportment at the trial, displaying neither guilt nor hatred, claiming he bore no...
Elements of psychology (1893)
Psychology & Culture, by James Mark BaldwinJames Mark Baldwin (January 12, 1861, Columbia, South Carolina – November 8, 1934, Paris) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of...
Explorations in Personality
Psychology & Culture, by Henry A MurrayExplorations in Personality is an account of a three-years* study of fifty young men of college age by twenty-eight psychologists of various schools and persuasions, among whom were three physicians and five psychoanalysts.
Fact and fable in psychology 1901
Psychology & Culture, by Joseph JastrowJoseph Jastrow (January 30, 1863 – January 8, 1944) was an American psychologist, noted for inventions in experimental psychology, design of experiments, and psycho-physics. Jastrow was one of the first scientists to study the evolution of language, publishing an article on the topic in 1886. He also worked on the phenomena of optical illusions, and a number of well-known optical illusions...
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