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First published in 1957 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy summarizes and evaluates the trends in this field in the 1950s. Dr Alexander illuminates interesting points of theory, discusses controversial issues, and offers views.

The subject of thinking is the oldest in the whole science of psychology, going back to well before the separation of the disciplines of philosophy and psychology. Originally published in 1983, this collection of up-to-date critical essays about thinking ¿ with particular emphasis on reasoning ¿ is written from the perspective of psychologists who are themselves actively engaged in research into the nature of human thought.

Though an important figure, Cheyne has been little studied. No scholarly reprint exists of his major thematic work, The English Malady. This edition, originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, prefaced by a substantial introduction by Roy Porter, aims to contextualize the work in respect of eighteenth-century medicine, culture and society.