Psychology & Psychiatry
67 Articles & Excerpts
What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?
 Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
The quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis stem from the same basic problem, but the resulting panic couldn't be more opposite. At their cores, both the quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis are about a major life change.
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, And Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology
by William Healy, A.B., M.D., Mary Tenney Healy, B.L.
Through comparison of the literature on pathological lying with our own extensive material we are led to perceive the insistent necessity for closer definition of the subject than has been heretofore offered.
What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
 The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Some years ago, back at the dawn of Prozac, I met weekly with a woman who was excruciatingly single and full of self-recrimination for it. Hers is a familiar unhappy story.
From Whence We Came
 The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power
by Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D.
If you look at all the things money can buy today, there's no question that we're better off than any generation in history. In the industrialized world, we're blessed with an abundance of choice in every aspect of life.
The Nervous Housewife
by Abraham Myerson, M.D.
Did the semi-mythical Cave Man (who is perhaps only a pseudo-scientific creation) on his return from a prehistoric hunt find his leafy spouse all in tears over her staglocythic house-cleaning, or the conduct of the youngest cave child?
Origin and Nature of Emotions
by George W. Crile, M.D.
Traditional religion, traditional medicine, and traditional psychology have insisted upon the existence in man of a triune nature. Three 'ologies' have been developed for the study of each nature as a separate entity - body, soul, and spirit
Essence or Evanescence?
 The Geography of Thought
by Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D.
More than a billion people in the world today claim intellectual inheritance from ancient Greece. More than two billion are the heirs of ancient Chinese traditions of thought.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology: And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
 by William James
In the general activity and uprising of ideal interests which every one with an eye for fact can discern all about us in American life, there is perhaps no more promising feature than the fermentation which for a dozen years or more has been going on
Love in Ruins
 Minds in Distress: The Clash of Evolution, Human Conditioning, and Culture in America
by Edward E. Loewe Ph.D.
Romantic love is an aspect of the human condition which has shown itself to be both a source of jubilation and of pain. Its hallmark is in many ways unpredictability. Love shows no reliability whatsoever in terms of when it will appear in one's life
The Secret Life of the Mind
 Anatomy of a Secret Life
by Gail Saltz, M.D.
It was loneliness that drew her to the desktop computer at first, and later on it was excitement. Adrian always made sure to finish her homework first, and then she kissed her mother good night (her father was usually traveling) and went upstairs to her
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
by Hugo Münsterberg
Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.
The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology For Beginners
by William Henry Pyle
Before attempting to define psychology, it will be helpful to make some inquiry into the nature of science in general. Science is knowledge; it is what we know. But mere knowledge is not science.
Dunblane
 The Anatomy of Motive
by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
I just happen to be in Scotland when I hear about the massacre. It's the morning of Wednesday, March 13, 1996, and I'm in a television studio in Glasgow as part of a promotional tour for my book Mindhunter, at the invitation of our British publisher.
Increasing Efficiency In Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business
 by Walter Dill Scott, Ph.D.
The modern business man is the true heir of the old magicians. Every thing he touches seems to increase ten or a hundredfold in value and usefulness. All the old methods, old tools, old instruments have yielded to his transforming spell
How to Use Your Mind
by Harry D. Kitson, Ph.D.
The kindly reception accorded to the first edition of this book has confirmed the author in his conviction that such a book was needed, and has tempted him to bestow additional labor upon it. The chief changes consist in the addition of two new chapters
The Story of the Mind
by James Mark Baldwin
Psychology is the science of the mind. It aims to find out all about the mind - the whole story - just as the other sciences aim to find out all about the subjects of which they treat - astronomy, of the stars; geology, of the earth; physiology
Freedom Talks No. II
by Julia Seton, M.D.
With the ever present increase of insanity, it is not only interesting but important that the subject of insanity should be studied from all view-points, and anything which can be contributed that will help in controlling or curing it
Why Worry?
by George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
Few of us are likely to attain this level; few, perhaps, aspire to do so. Nevertheless, the training which falls short of producing complete self-control may yet accomplish something in the way of fitting us, by taking the edge off our worry
Journey to Elsewhen
 Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Priests vow to remain celibate, physicians vow to do no harm, and letter carriers vow to swiftly complete their appointed rounds despite snow, sleet
The Analysis of Mind
 by Bertrand Russell
There are certain occurrences which we are in the habit of calling 'mental.' Among these we may take as typical BELIEVING and DESIRING. The exact definition of the word 'mental' will, I hope, emerge as the lectures proceed
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