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General Psychology Books
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APA Dictionary of Psychology by ISBN: 1591473802Publication Date: 2006-07-15With over 25,000 terms and definitions, the "APA Dictionary of Psychology" encompasses all areas of research and application, and includes coverage of concepts, processes, and therapies across all the major subdisciplines of psychology. -
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Dsm-5®) by ISBN: 0890425558Publication Date: 2013-05-22The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders. -
Psychology by ISBN: 0192853236Publication Date: 1998-07-23In Psychology: A Very Short Introduction, Dr. Gillian Butler and Dr. Freda McManus provide an understanding of some of psychology's leading ideas and their practical relevance
Books on Developmental Psychology
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The Birth of Intersubjectivity by ISBN: 9780393707632Publication Date: 2014-01-13Grounding their analysis of intersubjectivity in the newest advances from developmental neuroscience, modern attachment theory, and relational psychoanalysis, Massimo Ammaniti and Vittorio Gallese illustrate how brain development changes simultaneously with relationally induced alterations in the subjectivities of both mother and infant. -
Gender and Development by ISBN: 9781848721432Publication Date: 2013-12-09Gender and Development is an important new volume that charts how children practice gendered identities at different ages and in different social contexts -
Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems by ISBN: 9781462512706Publication Date: 2013-12-09This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help children recover from experiences of disrupted or insecure attachment.
Library Catalog
Finding the Best Book for You
UW-Madison Library Collections are a complex and growing system that can be difficult to navigate when beginning your research. This guide is meant to help you navigate the library's resources and hopefully point you towards the best places to start your research.
There are 38 libraries on UW-Madison campus. Each library collects books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and electronic resources specific to a field of study. The libraries that will have the most relevant material for your research are:
- Memorial Library (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Merit Library (Education)
- Social Work Library
- Ebling Library (Health Sciences)
Library of Congress Call Numbers
A call number is like an address; it tells you where the book is located on the shelf. Each item in the library has its own unique call number which is attached to the book's spine or upper left hand corner of the cover. The Library of Congress arrnages materials by subject. The first section fo the call number represents the subject of the book. The second section often represents the author's name, and the last section is the date of publication.
Books on psychology are classifed as BF. This subclass is then further broken up by call number ranges to specify different areas of study within psychology. For example:
- Books on psychology of conciousness (including learning, memory, and intelligence) are within the range BF309-499
- Books on genetic psychology are within the range BF699-711
- Books on developmental psychology are within the range BF712-724.5
- Books on parapsychology are within the range BF1001-1389
- Books on psychoanalysis are within the range BF173-175.5
- Books on experimental psychology are within the range BF180-198.7
All of the Library of Congress subclasses for psychology can be found in Library of Congress Classification Online. If you have any more questions about Library of Congress call numbers or how to use the library, ask a friendly librarian!
Library of Congress Call Numbers
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Books on Parapsychology
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Adventures in Paranormal Investigation by ISBN: 0813124670Publication Date: 2007-11-09Nickell employs skepticism and scientific analysis to pull truth from the mires of false evidence and trickery that surround both old and new legends and mysteries. -
Confrontation with the Unconscious by ISBN: 1908995076Publication Date: 2013-11-23Carl Gustav Jung pioneered the transformative potential of the deep unconscious. Psychedelic substances provide direct and powerful access to this inner world. How, then, might Jungian psychology help us to better understand the nature of psychedelic experiences? -
William James, Science of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse by ISBN: 9781107026957Publication Date: 2013-09-30In this book, Bernadette M. Baker offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century, via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first.
Books on Psychoanalysis
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Becoming Freud by ISBN: 0300158661Publication Date: 2014-05-27In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls “Britain’s foremost psychoanalytical writer,” emphasizes the largely and inevitably undocumented story of Freud’s earliest years as the oldest—and favored—son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many other things, a psychology of the immigrant—increasingly, of course, everybody’s status in the modern world. -
Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern by ISBN: 9781400852796Publication Date: 2014-06-01From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children’s dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of this landmark seminar, presenting the sessions devoted to dream interpretation and its history.
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Books on Experimental Psychology
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Behind the Shock Machine by ISBN: 9781595589217Publication Date: 2013-09-03In Behind the Shock Machine, psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths for the first time the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions. Interviewing the original participants—many of whom remain haunted to this day about what they did—and delving deep into Milgram’s personal archive, she pieces together a more complex picture and much more troubling picture of these experiments than was originally presented by Milgram -
Experimental Design by ISBN: 9781412974455Publication Date: 2012-06-13Roger E. Kirk shows how three simple experimental designs can be combined to form a variety of complex designs.
Books on Consciousness and Cognition
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Sensation by ISBN: 9781451699135Publication Date: 2014-04-29In Sensation, one of the world’s leading experts on human behavior, Dr. Thalma Lobel, shares an exciting, completely new view of physical intelligence, or embodied cognition. She reveals that physical experiences unconsciously affect your everyday decisions and choices—with profound implications for your everyday life. -
Visual Experience by ISBN: 0199597278Publication Date: 2012-09-07Visual Experience considers methodologies for studying conscious visual perception, efforts to describe visual experience in relation to constancy, what it means that constancy is not always perfect, and the conceptual resources needed for explaining visual experience.
