Psychology
67 books
Psychology
577
John Dewey - Human Nature and Conduct - Part 2, The Place of Impulse In Conduct
Part 2 describes Dewey's concept of IMPULSES. They encompass the interaction of one's self with the environment. When the environment encounters problems with one's HABITS, Impulses are the motivating, innate forces...
2 hours 53 minutes
Education
640
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: «I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on....
14 hours 39 minutes
Psychology
538
Arthur Christopher Benson - Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear
Surely all of us know fear, and know the different types of fear we can experience. In this book, Arthur Christopher Benson walks us through these different types, going through a range of different topics, among...
4 hours 53 minutes
Psychology
529
Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2
«Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.» «In reading the history of nations, we find that, like...
14 hours 37 minutes
Psychology
502
Elliott O'Donnell - Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales
Old buildings necessarily have a history. It is not always a happy history and folklore abounds. Sometimes unhappy souls come back to haunt the current residents or their guests. Whether you believe in ghosts or not,...
5 hours 21 minutes
Psychology
503
Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual pervisons or abberations. In this essay, Freud concludes that «a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of...
3 hours 32 minutes
Medical
416
William Marcet - On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the abuse of alcohol as a predisposing cause of disease
Physician William Marcet treated numerous cases of acute alcoholism (delirium tremens) and chronic alcoholism. He suggests gastrointestinal disease, gout and rheumatism are diseases associated with chronic alcoholism...
4 hours 20 minutes
