American Psychologist

James, Henry: The Golden Bowl. Introduction by Richard P. Blackmur. Blackmur wrote: "These novels (The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl) constitute poetic dramas of the inner life of the soul at the height of its struggle, for good and for evil, with the outer world in which it must live and to which it must respond, the world which it must deny, or renounce, or accept...". New York, Dell Publishing, 1963.
Befriedigender Zustand. Mit zusätzlicher Einbandfolierung versehen. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Besitzerstempel auf dem Vorsatz: Bibliothek Amerika Institut. - Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The gilded crystal bowl, with its almost invisible flaw, is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanors and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption. - - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843(1843-04-15) - February 28, 1916(1916-02-28)) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. James spent the last 53 years of his life in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. James is also known for his participation in the British common law trial Mercutio v. Miller in which he was brought as a witness to testify for the American credentials of Anna Kilroy Miller who was later proved to be an illegal immigrant. Miller was then returned to the United States. James engaged in frequent correspondence with Miller to ameliorate his failure in ensuring her remaining in Britain. James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognizable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. The concept of a good or bad novel is judged solely upon whether the author is good or bad. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales. ... .

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THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST. The professional journal of the American Psychological Association. Vols. 1-58. Washington/DC, 1946-2003.

Mostly bound. (ZY16325) Publishes all the official papers of the American Psychological Association. Substantive articles are included. Important to all libraries that have holdings in psychology.

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Fullerton, George Stuart (1859-1925): System of Metaphysics, NY 1904

NY: Macmillan, 1904. 1st Edition. x+[2]+627+[3]pp. + inserted rear ad leaf. Thick octavo. Paneled pebbled olive cloth with gilt-stamped spine. A bit of rubbing to the extremities, but a very nice, tight and attractive copy. From 1904 professor of philosophy at Columbia University, Fullerton had earlier been a pioneer American experimental psychologist. He co-authored with Jacques Cattell in 1892 On the Perception of Small Differences and served in 1896 as president of the American Psychological Association. Weight: 2 pounds 2.4 ounces = 980 grams. Size: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches = 23 x 15.5 x 4cm. HB

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Gurney, Edmund (1847-1888), et al: Phantasms of the Living, London 1886

London: Trubner, 1886. 2 vols. 1st Edition. lxxxiv+573+[3]; xxvii+[1]+733+[3]pp. Heavy octavo. Printed blue cloth with gilt spine & front lettering and glazed dark brown endpapers. Joints split with spines separated along the rear joints, tops and bottoms of the spines quite chipped and worn, a good set only. Scarce. Later issue with errors corrected (as stated on the verso of the title-page). Crabtree 1144. Weight: 5 pounds 12.0 ounces = 2.6 kg. Size: 9.1 x 6.4 x 3.8 inches = 22.8 x 16 x 9.5cm. G. Stanley Hall's set with his bookplate to both front paste-downs, and with his pencil signature "G. S. Hall" above both bookplates and in the top margins of both title-pages. With the rubber stamp of Saul Rosenzweig on both bookplates. Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924) received the first American PhD in psychology (1878, Johns Hopkins under William James); founded the 2nd American psychological laboratory at Hopkins in 1883, and another at Clark in 1889; was president and professor of psychology at Clark University 1889-1920; was the first president and founding member of the American Psychological Association; founded in 1887 the American Journal of Psychology, the first American pyschological journal and the first purely psychological journal in English; brought Janet & Ramon y Cajal to lecture at Clark's 10th birthday celebration, and Freud and Jung in 1909 to lecture at Clark's bidecennial celebration; pioneered developmental psychology in the United States (called by Hall "genetic psychology"); published in 1904 the first large-scale study of adolescence and introduced the concept of adolescence as a discreet developmental stage. See Zusne's Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, p. 168. A distinguished American psychologist, Rosenzweig (1907-2004) was professor of psychology at Washington University for decades. His 1936 paper "Some Implicit Common Factors in Diverse Forms of Psychotherapy" was the foundation text for the "common factors" movement and remains very influential. In 1992 Rosenzweig published a book on Freud and Hall: Freud, Jung and Hall the King-Maker: The Expedition to America (1909). "With Myers's Human Personality ... this work stands as the most important ever written in the field of psychical research. It was published with the sanction of the Society for Psychical Research and was the result of a long and laborious collection of first hand evidence of psychic occurrences. Myers was responsible for the lengthy introduction and the forty page "Note on a Suggested Mode of Psychical Interaction" in the second volume; Podmore collected and sifted through a large part of the evidence used in the book; and Gurney worte all of the text apart from the sections done by Myers. ... the work embraces all transmissions of thought and feeling from one person to another by means other than through the recognized channels of sense, and this includes apparitions [but not of the dead]. Myers had already coined the word 'telepathy' to denote these transmissions" [Crabtree]. HB

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