Facets

1910

#12188

The faith that heals.

Perhaps Osler's most significant discussion of "faith" and faith healing. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. The same journal issue also contains Clifford Albutt's "Reflections on faith healing," pp. 1…

1911

#4985

La mesure du développement de l’intelligence chez les jeunes enfants.

Binet–Simon intelligence tests. As early as 1895 Binet had published a plan for studying intelligence. English translation, 1912.

1911

#4985.2

Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido. Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Denkens.

Reprinted in book form, Leipzig, F. Deuticke, 1912. Jung was among the first to support Freud’s views on psychoanalysis, and was considered by Freud to be his most brilliant pupil. Jung applied psychoanalytic theory t…

1911

#11330

La publicité suggestive théorie et technique.

Probably the first book on the application of hynosis in advertising. Gérin was professor at the Institut commercial de Paris, and his book was published in a series on "Les procedés modernes de vente." His book inclu…

1912

#4985.1

Über die nervösen Charakter.

Adler seceded from Freud’s psycho-analytical group and founded the school of individual psychology. English translation of above, 1917. See also his Practice and theory of individual psychology, 1924.

1912

#11535

The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness.

When this book was published Goddard was Director of the Research Laboratory of the Training School at Vineland, New Jersey, for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys. Though this work drew wide attention to the problems of pe…

1912

#13522

The influence of caffeine on mental and motor efficiency. Columbia Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. XX, No. 4.

"The Coca-Cola Company, facing a lawsuit from the federal government under the Pure Food and Drug Act, approached Hollingworth (after James McKeen Cattell and several other psychologists turned them down)[4] about inv…

1916

#13329

Instincts of the herd in peace and war.

Trotter, a surgeon, also contributed to social psychology. In this work he popularized in English the concept, first developed by French sociologist, Gustave Le Bon, of an instinct over-riding the will of the individu…

1917

#4631

Congenital word-blindness.

1917

#4986

The Stanford revision and extension of the Binet–Simon scale for measuring intelligence.

1918

#13905

Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.

Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.

1919

#4987

Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.

Watson was the principal exponent of behaviorist psychology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1921

#4988

Körperbau und Charakter.

Kretschmer has attempted to correlate body build and constitution with character and mentality.

1921

#4988.1

Psychodiagnostik. 1 vol & atlas of test cards.

Rorschach test. 2nd ed., Bern, 1932. English translation, Bern, Huber, 1942. See the biography of Rorschach in Bull. Menninger Clin., 1954, 18, 173-219.

1922

#9413

La maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente.

English translation as Self-mastery through conscious autosuggestion, New York: Markan Publishing Co., 1922. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#4990

La médecine psychologique.

Janet’s summary of his work with hypnosis, including one of the most detailed histories of hypnosis available. English translation, as Psychological healing, 2 vols., 1925.

1923

#12588

The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.

1925

#10610

The mental growth of the pre-school child: A psychological outline of normal development from birth to the sixth year, including a system of development diagnosis.

"The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925[1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate…

1927

#1529

An introduction to the theory of perception.

1927

#7698

Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.

Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…

1928 –1941

#1445

Lectures on conditioned reflexes. 2 vols.

Besides his work on digestion, Pavlov is remembered for his investigations upon conditioned reflexes. An English translation of another work by Pavlov, entitled Conditioned reflexes, appeared in 1927.

1928

#8796

Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.

The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.

1928

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1929

#4991

Gestalt psychology.

1934

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…

1934

#10609

An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)

Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…

1934

#13231

L'analisi electroacustica del linguaggio. 2 vols.

1937

#4963.1

Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.

English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.

1937

#7980

Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.

Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention Defi…

1938

#1532

The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.

Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical int…

1938

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1939

#11787

The measurement of adult intelligence.

Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…

1941

#1533

Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.

Electroretinography

1943

#1041

Human gastric function. An experimental study of a man and his stomach.

Important experiments on gastric function, made on “Tom”, a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9. Second edition in 1947.

1948

#4991.1

Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.

Foundation of "the science of control and communication theory, named ‘cybernetics’ by Wiener, from the Greek word ‘kubernetes’ or steersman. Automation, information feedback, regulators in engineering and biology, an…

1948

#7038

Sexual behavior in the human male.

1949

#5015.1

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

1950

#7537

Childhood and society.

1950

#13474

Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects--the pharmacology of placebos.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1951

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.

1952

#13155

Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition

1952

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1953 –1956

#86.1

Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. in 10.

1953

#7037

Sexual behavior in the human female

1954

#7981

Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.

The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.

1959

#13156

Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.

1960 –1979

#9377

The collected works of C. G. Jung. 20 vols. Edited by Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham and Herbert Read. Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull.

First collected edition, in English translation, published by the Bollingen Foundation created by Paul and Mary Mellon. Vol. 19, General bibliography, was revised and brought up to date for a second edition in 1990. V…

1961

#6945

Bibliography of memory.

The most complete bibliography to date on this subject. Regarding Young, see the unusually interesting obituary in The New York Times at this link.

1961

#8866

Thought reform and the psychology of totalism. A study of "brainwashing" in China.

1961

#9414

The nocebo reaction.

Kennedy coined the term nocebo in this paper.