Psychology
Psychology: the Cognitive Powers
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James Mccosh
For the last thirty-four years I have been teaching Psychology by written lectures to students in Ireland and America. From year to year I h…
The Passing of the Year
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Passing of the Year by by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for D…
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria
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Pierre Janet
In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…
The Man of Genius
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Cesare Lombroso
Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated wit…
A Study of British Genius
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Havelock Ellis
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …
Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand G…
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Lewis Terman
It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…
The psychic life of micro-organisms : a study in experimental psychology
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Alfred Binet
Described by Binet as a branch of psychology little known, he endeavoured in the following essay upon Micro-organisms, to show that psycholo…
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Francis Tiffany
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …
The Emotions
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James McCosh and James Mccosh
I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…
Practical Mysticism (Version 2)
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Evelyn Underhill
I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…
The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells
The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The …
The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks
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Philip Ilott Roberts
After an introduction to the Ole Jerry McAuley Mission in the year 1912, many wonderful stories of destitute alcoholics and addicts making a…
The Kallikak Family
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Henry H. Goddard
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, …
Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity
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Richard Alfred Davenport
This book contains many brief tales from history of commoners pretending to be kings and kings pretending to be commoners. Learn the fate of…
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…
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…
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 …
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…