The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology

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PENGUIN REFERENCE
This important and wide^^ranging reference work clarifies approximately 17,000 terms from psychology, psychiatry and related fields./
In this dictionary Professor Rehier resolved some of the problems raised by psychological terms. It is, however, mucli more than a compendium of 'raw' definitions.'As .well as focusing on what a given technical term means, the author shows how the term is actually emplbyed, its connotations and how it has been used - and abused - in the past. The result is a volume of enormous interest, ; written with the broadest possible audience in mind.—^ _
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'Written in simple and straightforward language and refreshingly free from ] pretentious jargon The dictionary is as much a joy to dip into as to use. It is | far and wide the best reference work of its kind' - Paul Edward, Emeritus if Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York
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Fülszöveg

PENGUIN REFERENCE
This important and wide^^ranging reference work clarifies approximately 17,000 terms from psychology, psychiatry and related fields./
In this dictionary Professor Rehier resolved some of the problems raised by psychological terms. It is, however, mucli more than a compendium of 'raw' definitions.'As .well as focusing on what a given technical term means, the author shows how the term is actually emplbyed, its connotations and how it has been used - and abused - in the past. The result is a volume of enormous interest, ; written with the broadest possible audience in mind.—^ _
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'Written in simple and straightforward language and refreshingly free from ] pretentious jargon The dictionary is as much a joy to dip into as to use. It is | far and wide the best reference work of its kind' - Paul Edward, Emeritus if Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York
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'The best dictionary of psychology since Warren's 1934 volume of -extraordinary value*^^- fiu/iet/n of the British Psychological Soc/e^
'Reber brings<,h;umg^r/aiid c^ÎTion sense to defining some 17,000 terms deserverto"become a classj)c'i)f jts kind' - The Times Educational Supplement
PENGUIN REFERENCE
This authoritative and wide-ranging reference wori< has been thoroughly revised and includes the latest definitions used in psychology, psychiatry and related fields.
In this dictionary Professor Reber resolves some of the problems raised by psychological terms. It is, however, much more than a compendium of 'raw' definitions. As well as focusing on what a given technical description means, the author shows how the term is actually employed, its connotations and how it has been used - and abused - in the past. The result is a volume of enormous interest, written with the broadest possible audience in mind.
'Written in simple and straightforward language and refreshingly free from pretentious jargon The dictionary is as much a joy to dip into as to use. It is far and wide the best reference work of its kind' - Paul Edward, Emeritus \ Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York
'The best dictionary of psychology since Warren's 1934 volume of extraordinary value' - Bulletin of the British Psychological Society
'Reber brings humour and common sehse<o defining some 17,000 terms deserves to become a classic of its kind' - Thh Times Educational Supplement
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