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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Historically, Opened and Cut up.) by Robert Burton appeared in 1621. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatomy of Melancholy"

In psychology, bicameralism is a controversial theory asserting that the human brain once assumed a state known as a bicameral mind in which cognitive functions are divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking" and a second part that listens and obeys. The idea was proposed in the book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, written by Julian Jaynes in 1976. It suggested that the bicameral mind was the natural state of the human mind as recently as 3000 years ago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bicameralism (psychology)"

Civilization and Its Discontents is a book written by Sigmund Freud in the decade preceding his death in 1938. It was first published in German in 1929 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Culture") and is considerd to be one of Freud's most important and most-read works, though today it is usually read as a " cultural artifact" than for its theories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Civilization and Its Discontents"

Consciousness Explained (published 1991) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which attempts to explain how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consciousness Explained"

Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (1907) is a book by Sigmund Freud which analyses the short story Gradiva by Jensen, from a psychoanalytical point of view. ...more on Wikipedia about "Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva"

Nassim Nicholas Taleb authored the book Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. In 2001, TEXERE LLC published the first edition of Fooled. In 2004, TEXERE published the revamped second edition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fooled by Randomness"

How the Mind Works is a book by American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, published in 1996. The book attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms. Drawing heavily on the paradigm of evolutionary psychology first articulated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, Pinker covers subjects as diverse as vision, emotion, feminism, and, in the final chapter, "the meaning of life." ...more on Wikipedia about "How the Mind Works"

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Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. ...more on Wikipedia about "Human, All Too Human"

The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others. Kinsey was a zoologist at the Indiana University at Bloomington and the founder of the Institute for Sex Research. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kinsey Reports"

Migraine is the first book written by Oliver Sacks, the well known neurologist and author with a practice in New York City. The book was first published in 1970 and revised in 1992. ...more on Wikipedia about "Migraine (book)"

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think is a book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff. It argues that conservatives and liberals hold two different conceptual models of morality. Conservatives have a Strict Father morality in which people are made good through self-discipline and hard work. Liberals have a Nurturant Parent morality which sees people as something to be cared for and assisted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moral Politics"

On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a book by PalmPilot-inventor Jeff Hawkins with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory-prediction framework theory of the brain and describes some of its consequences. (Times Books: 2004, ISBN 0805074562) ...more on Wikipedia about "On Intelligence"

The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890. ...more on Wikipedia about "Principles of Psychology"

Psychopathia Sexualis ("Psychopathy of Sex") is the most famous work Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, first published in 1886. It is notable for being one of the earliest works on homosexuality. Krafft-Ebing combined Karl Ulrichs' Urning theory with B. A. Morel's theory of disease and concluded that most homosexuals have a mental illness caused by degenerate heredity. The book was controversial at the time, arousing the anger of the Church in particular. ...more on Wikipedia about "Psychopathia Sexualis" Evergreen www.shortopedia.com!!!

Seduction of the Innocent was a book by Dr. Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a bad form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. The book was a minor bestseller that created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship. At the same time, a U.S. Congressional inquiry was launched into the comic book industry, and the Comics Code Authority was voluntarily established by publishers to self-censor their titles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seduction of the Innocent"

The Society of Mind is the book and theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky. ...more on Wikipedia about "Society of Mind"

Studies on Hysteria ( German: Studien über Hysterie) was a book published in 1895 by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer. It contained a number of Breuer and Freud's case studies of " hysterics". It included one of their most famous cases, Breuer's Anna O., which introduced the technique of psychoanalysis as a form of cure. ...more on Wikipedia about "Studies on Hysteria"

The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the role of intelligence in American life. The authors became notorious for the book's discussion of race and intelligence in Chapters 13 and 14. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Bell Curve"

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about his experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery. The tendency to insanity he acknowledged may be partly hereditary, influencing him to take up the study of medicine and orthomolecular psychiatry. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Eden Express"

The Evolution of Cooperation is a book and an article of the same title by political science professor Robert Axelrod. The nine-page article is currently one of the most cited articles ever to be published in the journal Science ( ** ). ...more on Wikipedia about "The Evolution of Cooperation"

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud, the first edition of which was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugerated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which Freud believed was the "royal road to the unconscious". ...more on Wikipedia about "The Interpretation of Dreams"

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a book by Oliver Sacks describing the case studies of some of Dr. Sacks's patients. The case study that gives the book its title describes the study of a man with visual agnosia. It became the basis of an opera by Michael Nyman, composed in 1986. It was also the title of a song produced in 2004 by Iodo (a Lincoln based band). ...more on Wikipedia about "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (ISBN 0393039722) is a controversial book critiquing what he saw as " scientific racism," starting with ideas such as craniometry and the eugenics movement and concluding with more recent developments in the study of race and intelligence. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Mismeasure of Man"

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a controversial book by Thomas Szasz. It is highly influential in the anti-psychiatry movement. In it, Szasz argues that mental illness is a social construct created by doctors, and the term can only be used as a metaphor given that an illness must be an objectively demonstrable biological pathology, whereas psychiatric disorders meet none of these criteria. What psychiatrists label mental illness is in fact a deviation from the consensus reality or common morality, Szasz says. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Myth of Mental Illness"

The Primal Scream ( 1970) is a book by Dr. Arthur Janov, the inventor of primal therapy, sometimes wrongly called "primal scream therapy". ...more on Wikipedia about "The Primal Scream"

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