Online Psychology Documents

Here are some resources on psychological information on clinical and health issues.  This will provide you with some insight on the importance in clinical psychology in today’s medical practices.  Take a look at our other guides to various psychology topics to increase your education and knowledge.

When most people think of psychology they imagine a restful patient recalling episodes of maternal affection to some bearded, note-scribbling doctor. In fact, the doctor-patient realm of psychology accounts for only a small portion of psychological study called clinical psychology. Clinical psychology aims to understand and treat various mental ailments through one-on-one counseling and medication. This branch of psychological thought became popular at the end of the nineteenth century when Lightner Witmer successfully treated a young boy suffering from a form of dyslexia. Soon after, many psychologists began forming clinics with the goal of observing and treating instances of psychological disorder in their patients. Despite these initial goals, clinical psychology first gained acclaim as a way to evaluate groups of people for mental deficiency rather than as a tool to change thought patterns. World War II brought “shell shock”, today known as post-traumatic stress disorder, to the forefront of psychological thought and inspired a treatment centered, rather than evaluative, approach to psychology. This paradigm shift forced a split in the psychological world between those focused on research and education and those interested in practice. Today we have both Ph. D. (research-oriented) and Psy. D. (practice-based) doctorates in the psychological field. Although part of a much larger psychological system, clinical psychology remains important as the public face for the psychological profession.

Clinical & Health

• APA (1990). What You Should Know About Women and Depression.
• Brent, D. (1996). Rogerian Rhetoric: An Alternative to Traditional Rhetoric.
• Henderson, L. & Zimbardo, P. (1998). Shyness.
• Hubbard, J.A. & Coie, J. D. (1995).  Emotional Correlates of Social Competence In Children’s Peer Relationships.
• Kupper, Z. & Hoffmann, H. (1995). Modeling the Dynamics of Psychosis by Kinetic Logic.
• Manai, S. (1995). Notes on the Theorization of the Therapeutic Relationship.
• Ochberg, F.M. (1993). Gift From Within – Posttraumatic Therapy.
• Robbins, B.D. (1997). Phenomenology, Psychology, Science and History.
• Sciacca, K. & Hatfield, A.B. (1996). The Family and the Dually Diagnosed Patient.
• Thomas, K.G.F., Laurance, H.E., Jacobs, W.J. & NAdel, L. (1995). Traumatic Memory and its Recovery: Formulating Hypotheses and Critical Experiments.

Cognitive

• McKoon, G. & Ratcliff, R. (1995).Conceptual combination and relational contexts
• Balkenius, Ch. (1995).Biological Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Clayton, K. & Frey, B. (1995). A Nonlinear Dynamics Approach to Studying Short-Term Memory.
• Kaiser, S. & Wehrle, T. (1994). Emotion research and AI: Some theoretical and technical issues
• Hernegger, R. (1995).Change of paradigms in consciousness research.
• Soffer, J. (2006). Beyond Cognitive Psychology.
• Forssell, D. & Cziko, G. (1995). Introduction to Perceptual Control Thory (PCT), the Control System Group (CSG), and the Control System Group Network (CSGnet)
• Johnstone, I. T. & Scherer, K. R. (1995). Spectral Measurement of Voice Quality in Opera Singers: The Case of Gruberova.
• Kearsley, G. (1994).Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database.
• Johnson, T. R. (1996). Control in Act-R and Soar.

Differential & Personality

• Stein, H.T. & Edwards, M.E. (1996).Classical Adlerian Theory and Practice.
• Bruck, A. Alfred Adler, As I Remember Him.
• Freud, S. (1911).The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd edition).
• Egger J., De Mey H., Derksen J.(1996). MMPI-2 and MCMI-III scores among dutch inpatient substance abusers: Assessing correspondence and cross-cultural equivalence.
• Zumkley, H. (1994).The Stability of Aggressive Behavior: A meta-analysis.
• Hamling, J. E. (1995).A review of the Freudian perspective on human motivation.
• Revelle, W. (1995).Personality Processes.
• Revelle, W. (1993).Individual Differences in personality and motivation: ‘Non-cognitive’ determinants of cognitive performance.
• Corelli, R.J. (1995). Symbolism in dreams.
• Shalif, I. (1991).The emotions and the dimensions of discrimination among them in daily life.

Psychophysiology

• Tiller, W.A. & McCraty, R. & Atkinson, M. (1996).Cardiac Coherence: A New Noninvasive Measure of Autonomic Nervous System Order.
• Sirosh, J., Miikkulainen, R. & Choe, Y. (Eds.) (1996). Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function.
• Revelle, W. & Loftus, E. (1992). The Implications of Arousal Effects for the Study of Affect and Memory.
• Perry, B.D. (1995). Childhood Trauma, the Neurobiology of Adaptation and Usedependent Development of the Brain: How States become Traits.
• McCraty, R., Atkinson, M., Tiller, W.A., Rein, G. & Watkins, A.D. (1995).The Effects Of Emotions On Short Term Power Spectrum Analysis Of Heart Rate Variability.
• Jung, T.P., Makeig, S., Stensmo, M. & Sejnowski, T.J. (1997). Estimating Alertness from the EEG Power Spectrum.
• Kamal S., Mostafa S., (2009). Cognitive Function and Electroencephalogram in Chronic Tobacco Smokers.
• Honts, C. R., Kircher, J. C., & Raskin, D. C. (1995). Polygrapher’s dilemma or psychologist’s chimaera: A reply to Furedy’s logico-ethical considerations for psychophysiological practitioners and researchers.
• Ghahremani, D., Makeig, S., Jung, T.P., Bell, A.J. & Sejnowski, T.J. (1996). Independent Component Analysis of Simulated EEG using a Three-shell Spherical Head Model
• Freeman, W.J. (1991).The Physiology of Perception.

Research Methods and Statistics

• Hoeting, J.A. (1994). Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Linear Regression.
• Gediga, G. & Düntsch, I. (1995). Rough set dependency analysis in evaluation studies – An Application in the study of repeated heart attacks.
• Raferty, A.E., Hoeting, J.A., & Madigan, D. (1996). A Method for Simultaneous Variable Selection and Outlier Identification in Linear Regression.
• Judd, C.J., & McClelland, G.H. (1996).Measurement
• Raferty, A.E., Madigan, D. & Hoeting, J.A. (1997). Bayesian Model Averaging for Linear Regression Models.
• Hu, X. (1995). Multinomial Processing Tree Models: An Implementation.
• Düntsch, I. & Gediga, G. (1995). Statistical Evaluation of Rough Set Dependency Analysis.
• Kohnert, A. (1996). RTSIM: A Program to Simulate the Effect of Outlier Procedures on Reaction Time Data.
• Helberg, C. (1995). Pitfalls of Data Analysis.