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Pathfinder: Notable Psychologists

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications 

SCOPE: The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the materials in the library, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources that are available. Subjects covered include biographies, and autobiographies of noted psychologists whose theories and principles have influenced the world of psychology. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS 

Books dealing with notable psychologists are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

Psychologists
Psychologists--United States--Biography 

There are books in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give an overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library on this topic.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF BF 31.C66 Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology
REF BF 31.E52 Encyclopedia of Psychology 

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located on the second floor of the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Bjork, Daniel W. B.F. Skinner: A Life. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Breger, Louis. Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision. New York: Wiley, 2000.

Buckley, Kerry W. Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism. New York: Guilford Press, 1989.

Evans, Richard L. Dialogue with Jean Piaget. New York: Praeger, 1981. 

Eysenck, H.J. Genius: The Natural History of Creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Eysenck, H.J. Rebel with a Cause: The Autobiography of Hans Eysenck. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Hayman, Ronald. A Life of Jung. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.

Knapp, Gerhard Peter. The Art of Living: Erich Fromms Life and Works. New York: P. Lang, 1989.

Krull, Marianne. Freud and His Father. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986.

Lewis, Helen B. Freud and Modern Psychology. New York: Plenum press, 1983.

Masson, J. Moussaieff. The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.

Minton, Henry L. Lewis M. Terman: Pioneer in Psychological Testing. New York: New York University Press, 1988.

Paris, Bernard J. Karen Horney: A Psychoanalysts Search for Self-Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Rieff, Philip. Freud, the Mind of the Moralist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Sayers, Janet. Mothers of Psychoanalysis: Helen Deutch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Segal, Julia. Melanie Klein. Newbury park, Calif: Sage Publications, 1992.

Simonton, Dean Keith. Great Psychologists and Their Times: Scientific Insights into Psychologys History. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association, 2002.

Skinner, B.F. Particulars of My Life. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Skinner, B.F. The Shaping of a Behaviorist: Part Two of an Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1979.

Sternberg, Robert J. Psychologists Defying the Crowd: Stories of Those Who 
Battled the Establishment and Won
. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003. 

Stevens, Gwendolyn. The Women of Psychology. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Pub Co; 1982.

Vander Goot, Mary. Piaget as a Visionary Thinker. Bristol, Ind: Wyndham Hall Press,
1989.

Wallerstein, Robert S. and Leo Goldberger, eds. Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik Erikson. Madison, Conn.: Itnernational Universities Press, 1998.

Some of the specific journals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of psychologists are:

JOURNALS, PERIODICALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS 

American Psychologist
American Journal of Psychiatry 
Journal of Abnormal Psychology 
Journal of Psychology 
Psychology Today
Psychiatric Annals
Psychological Review

 

Updated 02/08/2007