Psychology

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Incarceration Games

A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance

By Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Psychology, American Studies

Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

The Future of Digital Surveillance

Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose Its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI

By Yong Jin Park
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology, Psychology

We are willing participants in our own surveillance

Sex between Body and Mind

Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

By Katie Sutton
Subjects: History, Gender Studies, German Studies, Psychology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
 

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Embroidering the Scarlet A

Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

By Janet Mason Ellerby
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology

The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption

By E. Wayne Carp
Subjects: History, American History, Psychology, Literary Studies, American Literature, Biography, American Studies, Sociology

One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people

Researching Black Communities

A Methodological Guide

Edited by James S. Jackson, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and Sherrill L Sellers
Subjects: Psychology, Political Science, Political Methodology, African Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations

Beyond Groupthink

Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-making

By Paul 't Hart
Edited by Eric Stern & Bengt Sundelius
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Psychology

Effects of group dynamics on decision making

The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders

With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton

Edited by Jerrold M. Post
Subjects: Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Methodology, Psychology, Comparative Politics

An effective system of at-a-distance evaluation combined with comprehensive political and psychological profiles

Striving to Save

Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families

By Margaret Sherrard Sherraden & Amanda Moore McBride
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Public Policy, American Studies, Psychology

The struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts

Remembering to Live

Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia

By M. Hay
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Health & Medicine, Psychology

An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people

Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analysis

By Robert Franzese & Cindy Kam
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, Psychology, Economics

Look at Me!

The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

By Orville Gilbert Brim
Subjects: Psychology

A unique study of the desire for fame, its origins, and its consequences from one of the leading scholars in the field of human and child development

The Accidental Teacher

Life Lessons from My Silent Son

An Autism Memoir

By Annie Lubliner Lehmann
Subjects: Memoir, Education, Special Education, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Psychology

A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism

Lost and Found

The Adoption Experience

3rd Edition, Expanded and Updated

By Betty Jean Lifton
Subjects: Psychology, Sociology, Gender Studies

Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins

The Logic of Democracy

Reconciling Equality, Deliberation, and Minority Protection

By Anthony McGann
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Political Theory, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Sociology, Psychology
Series: Michigan Studies in Political Analysis

How does democracy work?

Architexts of Memory

Literature, Science, and Autobiography

By Evelyne Ender
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science, Modern Literature, Psychology

Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance

The Color of Privilege

Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism

By Aida Hurtado
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, African American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

The Limits of Heroism

Homer and the Ethics of Reading

By Mark Buchan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the relationship of desire to heroic ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey

Melancholy, Love, and Time

Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature

By Peter G. Toohey
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Classical Studies, Psychology, Sociology

An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature

Telling Incest

Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard

Light from the Ashes

Social Science Careers of Young Holocaust Refugees and Survivors

Edited by Peter Suedfeld
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, German Studies, Psychology

Child survivors of the Holocaust and World War II share their life experiences—and how they became social scientists

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