Secondhand Psychology & Psychoanalysis Bargain Book Box SP2872

Secondhand Psychology & Psychoanalysis Bargain Book Box SP2872

Twenty-three books from the golden age of popular psychology publishing — Freud, Jung, and Winnicott in vintage Pelican and Mentor editions, the Essential Psychology series, and academic texts that took the science seriously. A box for the reader who wants to understand what actually makes people tick.

1. Images of Man in Psychological Research — John Shotter (Essential Psychology, ed. Peter Herriot) — an examination of how assumptions about human nature shape psychological research itself.
2. The Undiscovered Self — C.G. Jung — Jung's most accessible work: a short, powerful argument about the individual's role in resisting the mass psychology of the modern world.
3. What Freud Really Said — David Stafford-Clark (Pelican) — a clear-headed guide through the original texts, separating what Freud actually argued from decades of distortion and misrepresentation.
4. An Introduction to Jung's Psychology — Frieda Fordham (Pelican) — the standard introductory text to Jungian thought, written with Jung's approval. The best place to start.
5. The Person in Psychology — Radford and Kirby (Essential Psychology, ed. Peter Herriot) — an exploration of selfhood, identity, and what psychology actually means when it studies a person.
6. Need to Change? — Fay Fransella (Essential Psychology, ed. Peter Herriot) — a personal construct psychology approach to why people resist change and how they might not.
7. The Psychotic: Understanding Madness — Andrew Crowcroft (Pelican Original) — a psychiatrist's attempt to explain psychosis to the general reader, sympathetic and clinically honest.
8. Radical Perspectives in Psychology (Essential Psychology, ed. Peter Herriot) — a challenge to the mainstream assumptions of academic psychology from the critical tradition.
9. Growing Up in Society — Tony Booth (Essential Psychology) — socialisation, development, and how the world outside the family shapes who we become.
10. Approaches to Personality Theory — Peck and Whitlow (Essential Psychology, ed. Peter Herriot) — a survey of the major theoretical frameworks for understanding personality, from trait theory to psychodynamics.
11. Individual Differences — Richard Kirby and John Radford (Essential Psychology, ed. Peter Herriot) — why people differ, what that means, and how psychology attempts to measure and explain it.
12. Human Aggression — Anthony Storr (Pelican) — the influential argument that aggression is instinctual, inevitable, and capable of being redirected: Storr's most enduring book.
13. Attitudes — a social psychology text examining how attitudes are formed, changed, and measured, with the classic source-person-object model.
14. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky — C.G. Jung (Mentor) — Jung's astonishing late work: not a defence of UFOs but a Jungian analysis of why modern people need to believe in them.
15. Freud: Political and Social Thought — Paul Roazen (Prentice Hall) — an examination of the political and social dimensions of Freudian theory, and what Freud actually believed about society.
16. The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung — edited with an introduction by Violet S. de Laszlo (Modern Library) — the major works in one volume: Psychological Types, Symbols of Transformation, the Archetypes, and more.
17. The Child, the Family, and the Outside World — D.W. Winnicott (Pelican) — the beloved paediatrician and psychoanalyst on early childhood, the mother-child relationship, and what children need to flourish.
18. Totem and Taboo — Sigmund Freud (Pelican) — Freud's anthropological masterwork applying psychoanalytic theory to the origins of religion, morality, and social organisation.
19. Pioneers of Psychology — Raymond E. Fancher — studies of the great figures who created the science: Wundt, Helmholtz, Darwin, Galton, Freud, and the others who built the discipline.
20. Man and His Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology after Totem and Taboo — edited by Warner Muensterberger — the collected essays of those who took Freud's anthropological project seriously and extended it.
21. Readings in Human Intelligence — edited by H.J. Butcher and D.E. Lomax — a comprehensive academic anthology of the research and debate on the nature and measurement of intelligence.
22. King Solomon's Ring — Konrad Z. Lorenz (University Paperbacks) — the Nobel Prize-winning ethologist's enchanting account of animal behaviour and what it tells us about our own: one of the great popular science books.
23. Two Short Accounts of Psycho-Analysis — Sigmund Freud (Pelican) — Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis and The Question of Lay Analysis in one volume: Freud explaining his own ideas at his most lucid.