Classics of Psychology

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Charles Bonnet: "Essay on Psychology" (1754)
William Cullen: "First Lines of the Practice of Physic" (1777)
Jean-Baptiste Pussin (a mental-asylum doctor whose method influences Pinel)
Philippe Pinel: "Treatise on Insanity" (1801)
Pierre Cabanis: "On the Relations Between the Physical and Moral Aspects of Man" (1802)
Jean-Etienne Esquirol: "The Passions Considered as Causes, Symptoms and Means of Cure in cases of Insanity' (1805)
Immanuel Kant: "Critique of Pure Reason" (1781)
Johann-Christian Reil: "Rhapsodies about applying the psychological method of treatment to mental breakdowns" (1803)
Maine de Biran: "Essay on the Fundamentals of Psychology" (1812)
Spencer, Herbert: "Principles of Psychology" (1855)
Helmholtz, Hermann: "Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik" (1867)
Brentano, Franz: PSYCHOLOGY FROM AN EMPIRICAL STANDPOINT (1874)
Wundt, Wilhelm: "Principles of Physiological Psychology" (1874)
Ebbinghaus, Hermann: "Memory" (1885)
James, William: PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY (1890)
Dewey, John: "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology" (1896)
Titchener, Edward: "Outline of Psychology." (1896)
Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
Shaler, Nathaniel: "The Individual - A Study of Life and Death" (1901)
Rank, Otto: "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero" (1909)
Thorndike, Edward: ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE (1911)
Adler, Alfred: "Individual Psychology" (1911)
Jung, Carl: "Psychology of the Unconscious" (1912)
Selz, Otto: "On the Laws of the Orderly Thought Process" (1913)
Sapir, Edward: LANGUAGE (1921)
Kohler, Wolfgang: "The Mentality of Apes" (1925)
Watson, John: "Psychology as Behavior" (1913)
Piaget, Jean: "The Language and Thought of the Child" (1923)
Pavlov, Ivan: "Conditioned Reflexes" (1926)
Lashley, Karl: "Brain Mechanisms And Intelligence" (1930)
Bartlett, Frederic-Charles: REMEMBERING (1932)
Tolman, Edward: PURPOSIVE BEHAVIOR IN ANIMALS AND MEN (1932)
Vygotsky, Lev: "Thought and Language" (1934)
Koffka, Kurt: "Principles of Gestalt Psychology" (1935)
Reich, Wilhelm: "Sexuality in the Culture War" (1936)
Horney, Karen: "The Neurotic Personality of Our Time" (1937)
Skinner, Burrhus: "The Behavior of Organisms" (1938)
Goldstein, Kurt: THE ORGANISM - A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIOLOGY (1939)
Maslow, Abraham: "A Theory of Human Motivation" (1943)
Hull, Clark: "Principles of Behavior" (1943)
Viktor Frankl: "Man's Search for Meaning" (1946)
Hebb, Donald: THE ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR (1949)
Hovland, Carl: "Experiments on Mass Communication" (1949)
Miller, George: "Language and Communication" (1951)
Penfield, Wilder: "Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain" (1954)
Fromm, Erich: "The Sane Society" (1955)
Marcuse, Herbert: "Eros and Civilization" (1955)
Eissler, Kurt: "The Psychiatrist and The Dying Patient" (1955)
Bruner Jerome: A STUDY OF THINKING (Wiley, 1956)
Whorf, Benjamin-Lee: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND REALITY (1956)
Festinger, Leon: "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance" (1957)
Osgood, Charles: "The Measurement of Meaning" (1957)
Chomsky, Noam: SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES (1957)
Broadbent, Donald: PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION (Pergamon, 1958)
Kohlberg, Lawrence: "The Development of Modes of Thinking and Choices in Years 10 to 16" (1958)
Brown, Norman: "Life Against Death" (1959)
Laing, Ronald: The Divided Self (1960)
George Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl Pribram: "Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960)
James Taylor: "The Behavioral Basis of Perception" (1962)
Hamilton, William: "The Genetic Evolution of Social Behavior" (1963)
Rheingold, Joseph: "The Mother, Anxiety, and Death: the Catastrophic Death Complex" (1967)
Neisser, Ulric: Cognitive Science (1967)
Harrington, Alan: "The Immortalist" (1969)
Trivers, Robert: "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism" (1971)
Tulving, Endel: ORGANIZATION OF MEMORY (Academic Press, 1972)
Don Norman & Peter Lindsay: "Human Information Processing" (1972)
Allen Newell & Herbert Simon: "Human Problem Solving" (1972)
Becker, Ernest: "The Denial of Death" (1973)
Kahneman, Daniel & Tversky, Amos "On the Psychology of Prediction" (1973)
Baddeley, Alan: "Working Memory" (1974)
Matte Blanco, Ignacio: "The Unconscious as Infinite Sets" (1975)
Wilson, Edward Osborne: "Sociobiology" (1975)
Sperry, Roger: "A Unifying Approach To Mind And Brain" (1976)
Nelson, Katherine: LANGUAGE IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (1996)
Jaynes, Julian: THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND (1977)
Rosch, Eleanor: COGNITION AND CATEGORIZATION (1978)
Lakoff, George: METAPHORS WE LIVE BY (1980)
Gregory, Richard: MIND IN SCIENCE (1981)
Gazzaniga, Michael: SOCIAL BRAIN (1985)
Ornstein, Robert: MULTIMIND (1986)
Hameroff, Stuart: ULTIMATE COMPUTING (1987)
Greenfield, Patricia: LANGUAGE, TOOLS, AND BRAIN (1991)
Lazarus, Richard: EMOTION AND ADAPTATION (1991)
Karmiloff-Smith Annette: BEYOND MODULARITY (1992)
Cosmides, Leda & Tooby, John: THE ADAPTED MIND (1992)
Fauconnier, Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (1994)
Pinker, Steven: THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT (1994)
Dunbar, Robin: GROOMING, GOSSIP AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE (1996)
Blackmore, Susan: THE MEME MACHINE (1999)
Gopnik, Alison: THE PHILOSOPHICAL BABY (2009)