Psychology
Essays in Radical Empiricism
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William James
William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American …
The Theory of Psychoanalysis
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Carl Gustav Jung
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3
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Havelock Ellis
Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and PainIn the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which…
Nerves and Common Sense
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Annie Payson Call
This is a collection of 30 articles on mental health, stress reducing and general advice on how to deal with everday problems at work or at …
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime
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Hugo Münsterberg
Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
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Herbert Mayo
"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…
Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic
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Francis Grierson
A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of pagani…
Mental Fatigue
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Tsuru Arai
Published as a doctoral thesis, the human capacity for sustained effort in mental work and the occurrence of exhaustion has been examined in…
Weather Influences
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Edwin Grant Dexter
An empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. The seasonal and daily climatic changes th…
Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy
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Josephine A. Jackson And Helen M. Salisbury
This book shall give information to practitioners and others on the subject of nervous disorders, and especially knowledge of the significan…
Home Education: a Course of Lectures to Ladies
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Charlotte Mason
In proposing these lectures, my original notion was to popularize and amplify the valuable educational hints contained in some two or three …
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
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Jane Addams
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
Genetic Studies of Genius Volume 2: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses
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Catharine Cox Miles
The second volume in the longitudinal study of gifted children in the United States of America supervised by Lewis Terman. An extensive disc…
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)
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Oskar Pfungst
Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have…
Psychology of the Stock Market
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G. C. Selden
Written in 1912 (before the 1929 crash and way before electronic trading), economist G. C. Selden explores the psychology behind stock marke…
Mythology
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Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison was an English classical scholar whose work had a particular focus on the earliest origins of Greek religion. Her Mythol…
Psychology: the Motive Powers
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James McCosh and James Mccosh
Dr. McCosh, in his second volume on Psychology, treats of the Motive Powers as distinct from the Cognitive Powers, which were discussed in t…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
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Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…