"Brain Storms: A Study of Human Spontaneity, Wayne Barker, 1969. Medical doctor examines the trance-like states of famous geniuses, such as Yeats, Eliot, Mozart, and Poincare. Brain storms are the sudden episodes of neural activity as it races to cope with the threats of everyday living. Combining logic, intuition and often other undefinable forms of cognition, brains storms may arise as convulsive fits or transcendent moments of intuition. Used paperback, some general shelf wear to exterior, interior tight, square and clean. 276pp." View More...
"Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud, 1953. Original English publication 1930, this is a sixth printing. Classic Western work of psychological philosophy where Freud states that civilization made possible by individual renouncements. Instinctively mankind is aggressive and egoistic, culture is a structure of intentionally designed limitations, prohibition and taboos. Guilt, conscious or unconscious is a unique hall mark of modern civilization, not typically seen in less developed culture. VG book with poor dust jacket, in two pieces and torn. Text very good, gilt spine, text clean and tigh... View More...
"Dreams of Isis, A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn, Normandy Ellis, Quest Books, Wheaton, 1995. Dreams of Isis is a personal odyssey - author Ellis' revelation of her essential self through the legacy of ancient Egyptian myth and the empowering embrace of the Goddess Isis. Near Fine / Near Fine." View More...
"Practical Hypnotism, small hardbound folio presumably privately printed. Instructions provided in lesson format, including amusing advice such as, 12. Don't joke. Subjects, to be hypnotized easily, should be in a serious frame of mind. Subjects who've been drinking heavily may be reluctant to wake up; they enjoy the sleep.31pp. with photographs and drawings. 8vo. Some expected shelf wear. Else clean and tight." View More...
"Psychoanalysis for Teachers and Parents: Introductory Lectures, Anna Freud translated by Barbara Low, 1954. Third Printing. A renowned psychoanalyst of children in her own right, Sigmund Freud's daughter's four lectures in this text were given before the teachers at the Children's Centers in Vienna by Anna Freud Delivered in clear, accessible terms, her book outlines the basic findings of psychoanalysis and their implications for the understanding, care, and education of young children. VG book with VG unclipped jacket in protective sleeve. Small chips to spine, sunned, cloth boards have slig... View More...
"Third edition. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, Woodworth studied under William James. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life was the first introductory text undergraduates for good part of the 20th Century. Clean book, lacking jacket, spine lightly sunned. Very Good condition. 546pp. 8vo." View More...
"Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion, pamphlet from 1922. Widely known and advertised as "Coue's Own Method", the French psychologist and pharmacist from the turn of the century, Emily Coue, popularized self improvement through a specific kind of self hypnotism founded in optimistic autosuggestion. While critics and the public often misunderstood his mantra ""Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"" (French: Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux) - it less well known that his application was developed through a fairly rigorous scientific observ... View More...
"Studies in Hysteria, by Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer, 1957. Translated by James Strachey in collaboration with Anna Freud. First definitive English edition of master work which sets the standard for modern psychoanalytic practice. This edition was worked on no only with the oversight of Freuds daughter, but was written with the original 1925 German text containing extensive footnotes. Studies of Hysteria sets forth the cathartic method of treatment employed by Breuer and Freud. In it, according to Dr Ernest Jones, the biographer of Freud, symptoms were cured by getting the patient to recollec... View More...
"Third revised and corrected edition, an outline of psychiatry discussing melancholia, schizophrenia, hypnosis, and war neuroses. Good with fair unclipped dj. Damp stain affecting edge of dj and front board. Text unaffected, clean and tight. 518pp. 8vo." View More...
"Understanding Human Nature, Alfred Adler, 1927. BCE. Adler explores human personality from all angles - how character develops, the nature of the psyche, how we see the world and how we become who we are. Good / Good. Deckled edges, 1" chip taken from front cover dj. Some age related wear, else tight and clean. 238pp+20pp ads. 5.5x8" View More...
