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LACAN, Jacques. De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité.Paris : 1932
First edition of Lacan's first published work. Lacan's ground-breaking thesis, particularly its central narrative of the story of the woman he named Aimée, immediately attracted the attention of the Surrealists. "To this thesis," Dali wrote in 1933, "we are indebted for giving us, for the first time, a global and homogeneous idea of the paranoid phenomenon,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 59379
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SPURZHEIM, J. G. Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity.Boston : 1833
First US edition, originally published at London in 1817. William Blake possessed a copy and annotated it: "Spurzheim's book of 1817 on insanity begins with a criticism of the public attitude toward and the medical treatment of madness... He argues that insanity and its symptoms have as many causes as any other disease and that it has no one specific... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 115247
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WAIN, Louis. [Kaleidoscope cat.]c.1930s
A rare, superbly coloured "kaleidoscope" cat by the beloved "asylum artist" Louis Wain, presumed to have been created during his later years at Napsbury Asylum when his fluctuating psychological state was profoundly transforming his art. In this case, the image retains the realistic form of a mischievous cat but with the psychotic gleam and unnaturally... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 125094
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WATSON, John B. Behaviorism.New York : 1924-25
First editions of this series of lectures given by Watson, the chief proponent of behaviorism in the US, giving an overview of the discipline. The 12 lectures were given for the non-profit People's Institute as part of their adult education programme, with each lecture printed in pamphlet form afterwards, with the publisher's chemise subsequently issued... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 136448
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BINET, Alfred. La suggestibilité.Paris : 1900
First edition. Alfred Binet (1857-1911) was a highly influential figure in French psychiatry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, now best remembered as being the inventor, with Théodore Simon, of the first practical IQ test. La suggestibilité is an analysis of suggestibility, based on Binet's studies on schoolchildren, where he was able to... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 131461
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HUBBARD, L. Ron. Dianetics: The Original Thesis.Wichita, Kansas : [1951]
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Original Thesis was written in 1948 and unofficially distributed among close friends, predating what is now seen as Scientology's foundation text Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950). In this work Hubbard introduces a branch of self-help... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140022
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams.New York : 1913
First edition in English, first printing, US issue, an unusually nice copy. Originally published as Die Traumdeutung (Lepizig & Vienna, 1900 1899). This important translation, by the Austrian-born psychiatrist, and the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States, Abraham Brill, was published simultaneously in London and New York and was Freud's... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 140894
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WATSON, John B. Behaviorism.New York : 1925
First edition in book form, signed by Watson on the front free endpaper, and scarce thus. The 12 lectures were given by Watson from 1924 to 1925 for the non-profit People's Institute as part of their adult education programme, and gave a popular overview of the behaviorist discipline. Each lecture was printed in pamphlet form afterwards by the Institute's... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 136450
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MEAD, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, of Mead's first and pioneering book which launched her career as an internationally recognised anthropologist. Based on Mead's immersive field work in American Samoa in 1925, Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read anthropology books ever published. Its unwavering influence during the following decades... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 118644
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MILLAR, John. Hints on Insanity and Signing Certificates.London : 1877
Second edition, expanded and with a new preface, following the first of 1861: "it continues to be a matter of considerable surprise and regret that the special study of insanity should still be so ignored by the various licensing medical bodies, that it forms no necessary part of the curriculum of a medical education" (preface). "John Millar was medical... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 114973
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FLEURY, Maurice de. The Criminal Mind.London : 1901
First edition in English, inscribed by the author on the half-title "A mon excellent ami le D Joe Stedman a Boston, heu affectueux souvenir, Dr Maurice de Fleury". Fleury argues for criminality being physiological, rather than conditioned, and proposes eugenics, segregation, and wider (though more humane) capital punishment. Originally published in... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 136443
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ESQUIROL, Jean-Étienne Dominique. Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal.Paris : 1838
First edition of "the first modern textbook of psychiatry" (Norman); this copy of especial interest as including, bound into the first volume, a fine original pencil drawing (dated 1836) of a psychiatric patient, ascribed by a later hand to the engraver Ambroise Tardieu, along with a suite of 19 proof engravings. Tardieu appears to have been responsible... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 128843
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(VERMONT ASYLUM.) Rules for the Attendants and Assistants of the Vermont Asylum.Vermont : c.1850
Founded in 1834 as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, later renamed the Brattleboro Retreat, and still in operation today as Retreat Healthcare, the asylum was one of the first such institutions established in the United States. The initial funds for its foundation came from a bequest left by Anna Hunt Marsh, the wife of a wealthy local doctor, who... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 111218
