Books for Review by General Psychology students

These books should be all available in the Bethel library.

Adams, R.L., Parsons, O.A., Culbertson, J.L., & Nixon, S.J.  (1996).  Neuropsychology for clinical practice:  Etiology, assessment, and treatment of common neurological disorders.  Washington, D.C.:  APA  

Aiella, R. & Sloboda, John A. (1994). Musical perceptions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Allen, J.B.  (2002).  Treating patients with neuropsychological disorders:  A Clinician’s guide to assessment and referral.  Washington, D.C.:  APA 

Aspinwall, L. G., & Staudinger, U. M. (eds.)  (2003) A psychology of human strengths    Washington, DC:   American Psychological Association

*Baars , B. J. (1997). In the theater of consciousness: the workspace of the mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Battro, A. M.  (2001)  Half a brain is enough: The story of Nico.    NY:  Cambridge University Press

*Baummeister, R.F. (1997). Evil: Inside human cruelty and violence. New York: Freeman.

Beam, A.  (2001).  Gracefully insane: The rise and fall of America’s premier mental hospital.  New York:  Public Affairs.

*Berg, F.M. (1999).  Women afraid to eat:  Breaking free in today's weight-obsessed world.  New York:  Healthy Weight Network.

Bersoff, D.N. (2003).  Ethical conflicts in psychology.  Washington, D.C.:  APA. 

Bodenhausen, G.V., & Lamber, A.J. (2003).  Foundations of social cognition:  A festschrift in honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr.  Mahwah, NJ:  LEA 

Bogdan, R.J. (1997). Interpreting minds: The evolution of a practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Boesch, C., Hohmann, G., & Marchant, L. F. (eds.)  (2002) Behavioural diversity in chimpanzees and bonobos,  NY: Cambridge University Press

Boss, P. (1999).  Ambiguous loss:  Learning to live with unresolved grief.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard.

Brown, L.M. & Gilligan, C. (1992).  Meeting at the crossroads:  Women's psychology and girls' development. Cambridge, MA:  Harvard.

Bruner, J. (1986).  Actual minds, possible worlds.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard.

*Buss, D. M. (1995). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. New York: Basic Books.

Cairns-Smith, A.G. (1999).  Secrets of the mind:  A tale of discovery and mistaken identity.  New York:  Copernicus.

Capaldi, Elizabeth (Ed.). (1996) Why we eat what we eat: The psychology of eating. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Carruthers, P., Stich, S., & Siegal, M. (eds.) (2002) The cognitive basis of science.   NY    Cambridge University Press

*Casey, N. (Editor). (2002).  Unholy ghost:  Writers on depression.  New York:  HarperCollins

Ceci, S. J., & Bruck, M. (1995). Jeopardy in the courtroom: A scientific analysis of children's testimony. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.

Christophersen, E.R. & Mortweet, S. (2001).  Treatments that work with children:  Empirically supported strategies for managing childhood problems.  Washington, D.C.:  APA  

Churchland, Paul M. (1995). The engine of reason, the seat of the soul: A philosophical journey into the brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

*Corballis, M. C.  (2002)   From hand to mouth: The origins of language.    Ewing, NJ:    Princeton University Press

Corrigan, P.W. and Penn, D.L. (2001).  Social cognition and schizophrenia.  Washington, D.C.:  APA 

Cohen, J. D., & Schooler, J. W. (1996). Scientific approaches to consciousness. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

*Cole, Jonathan. (1998). About face. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

*Conway, Martin A. (1995). Flashbulb memories. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Cooper, C.  (1999).  Intelligence and abilities.  New York:  Routledge.

Crossley, N. (1996). Intersubjectivity: The fabric of social becoming. London: Sage.

*Csikszentmihalyi, M.  any of his books

Cytowic, R. E. (1998). The man who tasted shapes. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Damasio, A. R.  Any of his books.

DeVries, M. (Editor) (1992).  The experience of psychopathology:  Invesitigating mental disorders in their natural settings.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

*De Waal, Frans (1989). Peacemaking among primates. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

*De Waal, Frans (1996). Good natured: The origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Deci, Edward L. (1995). Why we do what we do. New York: Penguin Books.

Dehaene, S. (1997. The number sense: how the mind creates mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dennett, E.C. (1996). Kinds of minds: Toward an understanding of consciousness. New York: Basic Books.

*Domhoff, G. W.  (2003)  The scientific study of dreams. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

*Edelman, G.M. & Tononi, G.  (2000).  A universe of consciousness:  How matter becomes imagination.  New York:  Basic Books

Edwards, D. (1997). Discourse and cognition. London: Sage.

*Engel, Susan. (1995). The stories children tell: making sense of the narratives of childhood. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Erikson, E.H. (1963).  Childhood and society.  New York:  W.W. Norton

Fivush, R. & Haden, C.A. (2003).  Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self.  Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum. 

Fletcher, Garth. (1995). The scientific credibility of folk psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Flett, G.L. and Hewitt, P.L. (2002).  Perfectionism:  Theory, research, and treatment.  Washington, D.C.:  APA Press

Freeman, Walter J. (1995). Societies of brains. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erbaum.

Feeney, J., and Noller, P. (1996).Adult attachment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

*Franzini, L.R., & Grossberg, J.M.  (1995).  Eccentric & bizarre behaviors.  New York:  John Wiley and Sons

Freud, Sigmund.  Any of his books.

Funder, D.C. (1999).  Personality jusdgment.  Washington D.C.:  Academic Press.

Garbarino, J.  (1999).  Losat Boys:  Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them.  New York:  Free Press.

*Gardner, H. (1983).  Frames of mind:  The theory of multiple intelligences.  New York:  Basic Books.

Gazzaniga, M. S. (1996). Conversations in the cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chapman, L.J. & Chapman, J.P. (1973).  Disordered thought in schizophrenia.  New York:  Appleton Century Crofts

Gigerenzer, G. (2002).  Adaptive thinking:  Rationality in the real world.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press

Gilligan, C. Any of her books

Glynn, I. (2002)    An anatomy of thought .   New York: Oxford University Press

*Goleman, Daniel. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam Books.

Gottesman, I.I. (1991).  Schizophrenia Genesis:  The origins of madness.  New York:  W.H. Freeman.

*Grandin, Temple (1995). Thinking in pictures and other reports from my life with autism. New York: Vintage Books.

    Any of her books

*Green, M. F. (2001).  Schizophrenia revealed:  From neurons to social interactions.  New York:  W.W. Norton.

Gregory, R. L. (1994). Even odder perceptions. New York: Routledge.

Hamer, Dean, & Copeland, Peter (1998). Living with our genes. New York: Doubleday.

*Harris, J.R. (1998).  The nurture assumption:  Why children turn out the way they do.  New York:  Free Press.

Heinrichs, R. Walter (2001).  In search of madness:  Schizophrenia and neuroscience.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press

Herrnstein, R.J. & Murray, C. (1994).  The bell curve:  Intelligence and class structure in American life.  New York:  Free Press.

Hobson, J. Allan (1994). The chemistry of conscious states: how the brain changes its mind. Boston: Little, Brown.

Hofmann, S.G., & Tompson, M.C. (2004).  Treating chronic and severe mental disorders:  A handbook of empirically supported interventions.  New York:  Guilford

Hyman, J.W.  (1999).  Women living with self-injury.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

*Jamison, K. R. (1996). An unquiet mind. New York: Random House.

*Jamison, K. R. (1999).  Night falls fast:  Understanding suicide.  New York:  Knopf.

*Jeeves, M. A. (1997). Human nature at the millennium: Reflections on the integration of psychology and Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

*Josselson, R. (1996). Revising herself: The story of women’s identity from college to midlife. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Kagan, J. (1994). Galen's prophecy: Temperament in human nature. New York: Basic Books.

Kagan, J. & Lamb, S.  (1990).  The emergence of morality in young children.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Kassenbaum, R. (2000).  The psychology of death.  Amsterdam:  Springer.

*Kaysen, S.  (1993).  Girl, interrupted.  New York:  Vintage Books

Keyes, C. L. M., & Haidt, J. (eds.)  ( 2003)  Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived.    Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Khalfa, Jean. (1994). What is intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kimura, D.  (1999).  Sex and cognition. Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Kohlberg, Lawrence.  Any of his books.

*Langer, E.J. (1989).  Mindfulness.  New York:  Addison-Wesley

*Larson, R. & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1984).  Being adolescent:  Conflict and growth in the teenage years.  New York:  Basic Books.

*Levinson, D.J. (1978).  Seasons of a man's life.  New York:  Ballantine

*Levinson, D.J. (1997).  Seasons of a woman's life.  New York:  Ballantine

*Lifton, R. J. (1995). The protean self. New York: Basic Books.

Luhrmann, T.M. (2000).  Of two minds:  An anthropologist looks at American psychiatry.  New York:  Vintage Books. 

Lutz, T. (1999).  Crying:  The natural and cultural history of tears.  New York:  W.W. Norton.

MacNair, R. M. (2003) The psychology of peace.  Westport, CT: Praeger

MacNair, R. M. ( 2002)  Perpetration-induced traumatic stress.   Westport, CT: Praeger

Margolis, D.R.  (1998).  The fabric of self:  A theory of ethics and the emotions.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.

McLaughlin, M.L. , Cody, M.J., and Read, S. J. (1992).  Explaining one’s self to others:  Reason-giving in a social context.  Hillsdale, NJ:  LEA 

Meadows, Sara. (1993). The child as thinker. London: Routledge.

*Milgram, S. (1969).  Obediance to authority.  New York:  Harper Torch books.

Moghaddam, F.M. & Marsella, A.J. (2004).  Understanding terrorism:  Psychosocial roots, consequences, and interventions.  Washington D.C.:  APA press

*Nasar, S. (1998).  A beautiful mind.  New York:  Simon & Schuster

Neugeboren, J. (2001).  Transforming madness:  New lives for people living with mental illness.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S. & Larson, J. (1999) Coping with loss.  New York:  LEA

Panksepp, J. (1997). Affective neuroscience: the foundations of human and animal emotions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pendergrast, Mark. (1995) Victims of memory: Incest accusations and shattered lives. Hinesburg, Vt.: Upper Access.

Perkins, David. (1995). Outsmarting IQ: The emerging science of learnable intelligence. New York: Free Press.

Pert, C. (1997). Molecules of emotion: why you feel the way you feel. New York: Scribner.

Piaget, Jean.  Any of his books.

*Plutchik, R. ( 2003)  Emotions and life.   Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association

Posner, M. I., & Raichle, M. E. (1994). Images of mind. New York: W. H. Freeman.

Rapoport, J.L. (1989).  The boy who couldn’t stop washing:  The experience and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.  New York:  Signet

Reese, H.W. And Franzen, M.D. (Editors) (1997). Biological and neuropsychological mechanisms: Life-span development psychology.

Root-Bernstein, R. & Root-Bernstein, M. (1999).  Sparks of genius:  The thirteen thinking tools of the world's most creative people.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

Rubin, David C. (1995). Memory in oral traditions: The cognitive psychology of epic, ballads, and counting-out rhymes. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Sacks, O.  Any of his books

Sameroff, A.J. and Haith, M.M. (Editors) (1996). The five to seven year shift: The age of reason and responsibility. Chicago: U. Of C. Press.

Schacter, D. L. (1996). Searching for memory: the brain, the mind, and the past. Dunmore, PA: HarperCollins.

Scheff, T.J. (1999).  Being mentally ill:  A sociological theory.  Chicago:  Aldine de Gruyter.

*Seligman, M.E.P. (1990).  Any of his books.

Semel, E., & Rosner, S. R. (2002)  Understanding Williams Syndrome.  Mahwah, NJ :   Lawrence Erlbaum

Serpell, J., & Barret, P. (1996). The domestic dog: its evolution, behaviour, and interactions with people. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sherman, R. A. (1996). Phantom pain. New York: Plenum.

*Shermer, M. (1997). Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time. New York: W. H. Freeman.

Singer, D.G. & Revenson, T.A.  (1998).  A Piaget primer:  How a child thinks.  New York:  International Universities Press.

*Snyder, C. R..(1994). The psychology of hope: You can get there from here. New York: Free Press.

Spanos, N.P. (1996). Multiple identity and false meories: A sociopathic perspective. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Spencer, S.J., et al.  (2003).  Motivated social perception:  The Ontario symposium, V. 9.  Mahwah, NJ.  LEA

Spilka, B., and McIntosh, E.N. (Editors) (1997). The psychology of religion: Theoretical approaches. Boulder, CO: Westview Press

Sternberg, R. J. (1997). Thinking styles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R, J. & Grigorenko, E.L. (2004).  Culture and competence:  Contexts of life success

*Taylor, S.E. (1989).  Positive illusions:  Creative self-deception and the healthy mind.  New York:  Basic Books.

Tomasello, M., & Call, J. (1997). Primate cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Torrey, E. Fuller (2001).  Surviving schizophrenia:  A manual for families, consumers, and providers.  New York:  HarperCollins

Torrey, E. Fuller, Bowler, A.E., Taylor, E.H., Gottesman, I.I. (1994).  Schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder:  The biological roots of mental illness as revealed by the landmark study of identical twins.  New York:  Basic Books.

Trout, J.D.  (1998).  Measuring the intentional world:  Realism, naturalism, and quantitative methods in the behavioral sciences.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

VanderStoep, S.W. (2003).  Science and the soul:  Christian faith and psychological research.  Lanhan, MD.  University Press of America

Velmans, M. (Editor). (1996). The science of consciousness: Psychological, neuropsycholgocial, and clincial reviews. London: Routledge.

Walsh, F. (1998).  Strengthening family resilience.  New York:  Guilford

Ward, T. B. et al.. (1995). Creativity and the mind. New York: Plenum Publishing.

Weissmark, M.S. & Giacomo, D.A. (1998),  Doing psychotherapy effectively.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

*Wilson, T.D. (2004).  Strangers to ourselves:  Discovering the adaptive unconscious.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press

Wright, Robert. (1995). The moral animal. New York: Vintage Books.

Wulft, D.M. (1997). Psychology of religion: Classic and contemporary. Second edition. New York: Wiley.

Young, Allan. (1996). The harmony of illusions: Inventing post-traumatic stress disorder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Zebrowitz, L.A. (1997). Reading faces: Window to the soul? Boulder, CO: Westview Press.









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