<p>Sense and Nonsense in Psychology (Pelican)</p>

Sense and Nonsense in Psychology (Pelican)

Politics & Social Sciences

H.J. Eysenck

Philosophy

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Fact and Fiction in Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin??Books

<p>Freud's ideas have influenced almost every aspect of our lives, but have they been confirmed by experimental science? Did Freud say anything that was new or true? Has his influence been good or malign? To answer those questions, the author draws on his knowledge of recent psychological research and produces evidence indicating that we should now dismiss psychoanalysis as a pseudo-science. He explores the heroic myths Freud created about his own originality and the hostility he encountered - myths repeated to this day by credulous disciples. He argues that psychoanalysis, unlike behavioural therapy, is unsuccessful at curing neurotic patients and that Freudian theories about dream interpretation and the Oedipus complex, anal personalities and slips of the tongue, are, at best implausible.</p>

Decline and fall of the Freudian empire

Literature & Fiction

VIKING

This is the original work on which Hans Eysenck's fifty years of research have been built. It introduced many new ideas about the nature and measurement of personality into the field, related personality to abnormal psychology, and demonstrated the possibility of testing personality theory experimentally. The book is the result of a concentrated and cooperative effort to discover the main dimensions of personality, and to define them operationally, that is, by means of strictly experimental, quantitative procedures. More than three dozen separate researches were carried out on some 10,000 normal and neurotic subjects by a research team of psychologists and psychiatrists.  A special feature of this work is the close collaboration between psychologists and psychiatrists. Eysenck believes that the exploration of personality would have reached an advanced state much earlier had such a collaboration been the rule rather than the exception in studies of this kind. Both disciplines benefit by working together on the many problems they have in common.  In his new introduction, Eysenck discusses the difficulty he had in conveying this belief to scientists from opposite ends of the psychology spectrum when he first began work on this book. He goes on to explain the basis from which Dimensions of Personality developed. Central to any concept of personality, he states, must be hierarchies of traits organized into a dimensional system. The two major dimensions he posited, neuroticism and extraversion, were in disfavor with most scientists of personality at the time. Now they form part of practically all descriptions of personality. Dimensions of Personality is a landmark study and should be read by both students and professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and sociology.

Dimensions of Personality

Routledge

The Measurement of Personality: Readings Selected and Comments Written by H. J. Eysenck

University Park Press

Race, Intelligence and Education

Maurice Temple Smith Ltd

The Inequality of Man

Temple Press / Aerospace Publishing

The IQ argument: race, intelligence, and education,

Library Press

Case Studies in Behaviour Therapy (Psychology Revivals)

Taylor&Francis

The Causes and Cures of Neurosis (Psychology Revivals)

S Rachman

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