University Library The University of Adelaide Australia
You are here: Library Home

Text Zoom: S | M | L

Printer Friendly Version Print View

Theorists and Theories

Last update: 13 May 2008,
by Maureen Bell



LIST OF MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS

Aboriginal Mental Health

Administration and Policy in Mental Health

Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Phobias

Art Collections and Art Therapy

Books By or About People with a Mental Illness

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Consumers and Carers

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

Depression

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Dual Diagnosis

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry

Guidelines
- to assist with clinical treatment issues

Health Promotion (Mental Health)

Housing for People with a Mental Illness
- includes problems of homelessness

Legislation

Mental Health (General mental health sites)

Personality Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Primary Care - Mental Health

Psychiatric Drug Information

Psychiatric Nursing

PubMed (a free version of Medline) - and how to use it

Rating Scales

Rehabilitation and Recovery

Rural Mental Health

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Statistics

Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviour

Theorists and Theories

Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour

As I'm often asked to provide information on theories of personality or therapeutic methods I thought a list of links to readings and biographical information would be useful.

Lists of books and journal articles relating to individual theories or theorists can be found on my
bibliographies and reading lists page.

For additional sites covering nursing theorists and philosophical schools see my nursing page


Attachment Research and Theory at Stony Brook
From the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a collection of resources, including online articles, relating to attachment theory in the Bowlby - Ainsworth tradition.

Behaviorism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
A discussion of psychological and philosophical behaviourism.

British Psychoanalytical Society:(BPAS) Articles and Papers by members and guests of the British Psychoanalytical Society

The C.G. Jung Page
This page includes an extensive list of links to the full text of articles, interviews, and reviews.

Classic Theories of Child Development
Margaret Mahler, Sigmund Freud & Erik Erikson A Hypertext Overview. This is a brief hypertext tutorial that summarises the key stages in child development according to the three theorists: Margaret Mahler, Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. The tutorial includes a month by month look at development that lists the things a child might do at different ages according to the three theories.

Classics in the History of Psychology
Developed by Christopher D. Green (York University, Toronto, Ontario) Classics in the History of Psychology makes available the full texts of a number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines on the World Wide Web. For example A. H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation. The site also contains links to relevant works posted at other sites.

Emile Durkheim -- History of Psychology
Links to a wide range of resources from the Department of psychology at the University of Dayton.

Erich Fromm -- History of Psychology
Links to a wide range of resources from the Department of psychology at the University of Dayton.

Explore Transpersonal Psychology
This site is maintained by Michael Daniels, from the Consciousness & Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit, Liverpool John Moores University.

A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind
Provided by SWIF (Sito Web Italiano per Filosofia) at the Universita' di Bari, this site offers "Guided Tours" (in-depth explorations) of selected topics related to the "philosophy of mind and the philosophical issues arising in the allied domain of cognitive sciences." These tours are composed of two parts: an overview report on the topic explaining the question at hand and detailing various approaches and theories, and an annotated bibliographic guide to the relevant literature.

The Gestalt Therapy Page
This page is a joint project sponsored by The Gestalt Journal and the International Gestalt Therapy Association and contains the full text of a selection of classic gestalt therapy papers.

Great Ideas in Personality
This site is maintained by G. Scott Acton, who has a Ph.D. in the psychology of personality, and works at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California at San Francisco. It's an interesting collection of writings on subjects ranging from attachment theory to personality disorders.

Gregory Bateson
From the Towards an Ecology of Mind web site, this section deals with Gregory Bateson, anthropologist and social scientist, and his works.

Health Report - 19 November 2007 - Attachment theory
Transcript from Radio National's Health Report, with Norman Swan.

Humanistic Psychology: From Maslow to the 21st Century
A summary of the history of humanistic psychology, from the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Also at this site is a Humanistic Psychology Bibliography .

Humberto Maturana
From the Towards an Ecology of Mind web site, this section deals with Humberto Maturana, biologist and cybernetician, and his work.

Internationale Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft e.V.
A web site devoted to the life and work of Erich Fromm.

Melanie Klein I and II
Two introductory lectures on Klein given by Professor Robert M.Young in a series on ‘Psychoanalytic Pioneers’ sponsored by CONFER and given at the Tavistock Centre in London on 18 and 25 January 2000.

Michel Foucault, info.
A collection of resources on Michel Foucault, including the full text of lectures and interviews.

narrativeapproaches.com!
A site produced by therapists Jennifer Freeman, David Epston, and Dean Lobovits.

Narrative Psychology: Internet and Resource Guide
This guide, edited by Vincent W. Hevern of the Psychology Department at LeMoyne College, provides a broad set of bibliographical and Internet-based resources for use in the study of narrative psychology.

Narrative Therapy Gateway - Dulwich Centre Website
This site contains information on Dulwich Centre and Michael White's methods.

New York Freudian Society: Freud Abstracts
Abstracts of the Standard Edition of the Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.

Object Relations Theory and Therapy
This site is maintained by Dr Thomas Klee, a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.

Official Abraham Maslow Publications Site
A large classified list of publications by and about Maslow.

Opening of Narrative Space
An issue of the Journal of Pastoral Counselling (Vol 32, 1997) devoted to narrative approaches.

Personality Theories
This page is produced by Dr C. George Boeree of the Psychology Department of Shippensburg University. It is an electronic textbook which he created for the students of his undergraduate and graduate courses in Personality Theories. He also has a page An Introduction to Buddhism

R.D. Laing Bibliography
From the web site of the Society for Langian Studies.

Ronnie D. Laing
From the Towards an Ecology of Mind web site, this section deals with radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing and his works.

Sandor Ferenczi -- History of Psychology
Links to a wide range of resources from the Department of psychology at the University of Dayton.

Self Psychology Page
The Self Psychology Page is dedicated to discussion, information, and communication regarding Heinz Kohut's psychology of the self and contemporary developments.

Sigmund Freud Archives
Dedicated to collecting, conserving, collating and making available for scholarly use all of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic and personal papers, his correspondence, photos, records, memorabilia, etc.

Sigmund Freud [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a non-profit organization run by the editors.

Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Freud's theories have long inspired most heated debate, and this exhibition, which examines Freud's life and his key ideas and their effect upon the twentieth century, is well worth looking at.

Sigmund Freud: Selected Bibliography
From the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, a chronological list of selected publications.

The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
Thomas Szasz is a critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry. His article, The Myth of Mental Illness, published in the American Psychologist in 1960, set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

The Tidal Model The Discovery of Mental Health
This model was developed by Dr Phil Barker, who was a psychiatric nurse for almost 35 years and was the UK's first Professor of Psychiatric Nursing Practice in the Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, at the University of Newcastle, England. He offers a (free) psychotherapy service, to individuals, families and groups and is Visiting Professor at Trinity College, Dublin Ireland and Teeside University, England and has been Assistant Editor for the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing for the past ten years.

Whatever Happened to Human Nature?
A collection of essays by Dr. Robert Young, Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Sheffield, covering human nature. He brings together the fields of psychoanalysis, Darwinism, ideology and postmodernism in an attempt to understand human nature.