Facets

1834 CE

#1457

De pulsu, resorptione, auditu et tactu. Annotationes anatomicae et physiologicae.

Includes Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. English translation of De tactu, New York Academic Press, 1978. Weber's hearing test is on p.41.

1888 CE

#4996

Der Hypnotismus und die suggestive Psychotherapie.

1846 CE

#1459

Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefühl. In: Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie, Braunschweig, 3, Abt. 2, 481-588.

English translation of Tastsinn, Academic Press, 1978.

1649 CE

#4965

Des passions de l’âme.

Descartes believed the soul to be a definite entity, giving rise to thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition. He was one of the first to regard the brain as an organ integrating the functions of mind and body. English…

1962 CE

#11836

Development of psychological thought in India.

1881 CE

#5002

Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.

A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.

1900 CE

#5005

Die Literatur der Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychologie von 1459-1799. 3 vols.

1895 CE

#1474

Die Physiologie des Geruchs.

For his studies on olfaction and olfactometry Zwaardemaker developed the so-called “camera inodorata” (odorless chamber), or olfactometer. His instrument to check the patency of the nasal passages is still…

1868 CE

#4974

Die Schnelligkeit psychischer Prozesse.

Donders was the first to measure the reaction-time of a psychical process.

1900 CE

#4980

Die Traumdeutung.

Freud’s greatest work, the influence of which has been felt far beyond the psychiatric and medical community. Here he refined his understanding of the operation of the unconscious, interpreted dreams on the basi…

1887 CE

#4945

Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.

“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated in…

1512 CE

#571

Divini Gregorii Nyssae episcopi qui fuit frater Basilii Magni libri octo. I. De homine. II. De anima. III. De elementis. IIII. De viribus animae. V. De voltario etinuoltario. VI. De fato. VII. De libero arbitrio. VIII. De prouidentia.

Nemesius’ De natura hominis, a physiological and psychological study of man, was highly esteemed during the Middle Ages. Nemesius, who wrote in the 4th century CE, was one of the first to propose that mental pro…

2016 CE

#12312

Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.

1905 CE

#4983

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.

The work which Freud considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud’s epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infanc…

1966 CE

#7716

Écrits.

Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, translated by Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).

1950 CE

#13474

Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects--the pharmacology of placebos.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1887 CE

#4627

Eine besondere Art der Wortblindheit.

Berlin first suggested the term “dyslexia”. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1860 CE

#4972

Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.

The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…

1851 CE

#10748

Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele der Kindes.

Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1830 CE

#12104

Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.

In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…

1861 CE

#7608

Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology by John Hunter, F.R.S. Being his posthumous papers on those subjects, arranged and revised, with notes; to which are added the introductory lectures on the Hunterian collection of fossil remains delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 8th, 10th and 12th, 1855 by Richard Owen .... 2 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1575 CE

#4964

Examen de ingenios para las ciencias.

Huarte was a distinguished Spanish physician and psychologist. His Examen, which gained for him a European reputation, was the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology. English translatio…

1999 CE

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

1967 CE

#8865

Foundations of physiological psychology.

1978 CE

#6623.3

Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.

The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.

1999 CE

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

1992 CE

#9781

From paralysis to fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era.

1993 CE

#9782

From the mind into the body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms.

1970 CE

#9128

Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.

1937 CE

#4963.1

Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.

English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.

2013 CE

#7691

Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.

In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessa…

1904 CE

#148

Galeni De temperamentis libri III recensuit Georgius Helmreich.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1929 CE

#4991

Gestalt psychology.

1873 CE–1874 CE

#4976

Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie. 2 pts.

Wundt made experimental investigations of normal individual reactions, reflex responses, and general behavior, and interpreted them in terms of neural mechanisms. He was the founder of experimental psychology, and his…

2005 CE

#9945

Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.

Translated into English by Ann M. Hentschel as Brainwaves: A cultural history of electroencephalography. Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018.

1842 CE

#11260

Homoeópathy, and its kindred delusions; Two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2014 CE

#8705

Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).

Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.

1943 CE

#1041

Human gastric function. An experimental study of a man and his stomach.

Important experiments on gastric function, made on “Tom”, a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9. Second edition in 1947.

1952 CE

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1903 CE

#5005.1

Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.

An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).

1817 CE

#10747

Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Entwicklung des kindlichen Alters. Psychologische Untersuchungen.

Perhaps the oldest separate work on the psychological development of children, written five years after Grohmann published a work on the education of children. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1872 CE

#12187

Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1883 CE

#230

Inquiries into human faculty and its development.

Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, founded the science of Eugenics. In his important Inquiries he showed mathematically “the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of…

1908 CE

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1916 CE

#13329

Instincts of the herd in peace and war.

Trotter, a surgeon, also contributed to social psychology. In this work he popularized in English the concept, first developed by French sociologist, Gustave Le Bon, of an instinct over-riding the will of the individu…

2013 CE

#11582

Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.

1921 CE

#4988

Körperbau und Charakter.

Kretschmer has attempted to correlate body build and constitution with character and mentality.

1934 CE

#13231

L'analisi electroacustica del linguaggio. 2 vols.

1903 CE

#13067

L'Étude expérimentale de l'intelligence.

Once education was made mandatory for all French children from ages six to fourteen, it became necessary to determine which children might be considered retarded. To do so the question arose concerning what test shoul…

1876 CE

#174

L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.

Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the…