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Teaching Psychology
Teaching Psychology: A Handbook
  edited by James Hartley

Teaching Psychology in Large Classes: Research and Personal Experience
  by James J. Jenkins, in Teaching of Psychology

Teaching a Social Psychology Course on the Web
  by Timothy J. Lawson, in Teaching of Psychology

Images of Madness: Feature Films in Teaching Psychology
  by Michael Z. Fleming, Ralph L. Piedmont, & C. Michael Hiam, in Teaching of Psychology


Causes of and Coping with Stress
The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress
  by Robert E. Thayer

People and Change: An Introduction to Counseling and Stress Management
  by Catherine M. Flanagan

Personal Coping: Theory, Research, and Application
  edited by Bruce N. Carpenter


Problems in Romantic Relationships
What Women Want-What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently
 by John Marshall Townsend

Problems in Falling in Love
 by Lewis A. Kirshner, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
 edited by Victor C. de Munck


Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Review
  by John B. Murray, in Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Trauma and Recovery
 by Judith Lewis Herman

Cataclysms, Crises, and Catastrophes: Psychology in Action
 edited by Gary R. VandenBos & Brenda K. Bryan


Depression in Children
Understanding Depression
 by Patricia Ainsworth

The Development of Depression in Children and Adolescents
 by Dante Cicchetti & Sheree L. Toth, in American Psychologist

Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents
 by Kenneth W. Merrell


The Effect of Television Violence on Children
Children's Attitudes toward Violence on Television
 by Kirstin J. Hough & Philip G. Erwin, in Journal of Psychology

Television and Children: Program Evaluation, Comprehension, and Impact
 by Brian R. Clifford & Barie Gunter

Considering Policies to Protect Children from TV Violence
  by W. James Potter & Ron Warren, in Journal of Communication

Television, Imagination, and Aggression: A Study of Preschoolers
 by Jerome L. Singer & Dorothy G. Singer


Psychological Aspects of Eating Disorders
The Developmental Psychopathology of Eating Disorders: Implications for Research, Prevention, and Treatment
 by Linda Smolak, Michael P. Levine & Ruth Striegel-Moore

Students in Discord: Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
 by C. Robin Boucher

The Body Electric: Thin-Ideal Media and Eating Disorders in Adolescents
 by Kristen Harrison, in Journal of Communication

Activity Anorexia: Theory, Research, and Treatment
 edited by W. Frank Epling & W. David Pierce


Dream Theory
An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming
 by Kelly Bulkeyley

Dreams: A Key to Self-Knowledge
 by Albert M. Biele & Zygmunt A. Piotrowski

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Dreams
 by S. Baker, M. Kawenoka, C. Legg, D. Meers, Humberto Nagera L. Neurath & K. Rees


The Effect of Propaganda on Attitudes About War
Propaganda for War: The Campaign against American Neutrality, 1914-1917
 by H. C. Peterson

Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War: A Study in War Propaganda
 by Marcus M. Wilkerson

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
 by Paul Fussell

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