Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1951). Hardcover - A book originally published in 1942 by this Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. Bibliography, index. 335 pp.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 1963.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A book 'about the common causes of school difficulty and failure, about ways to help in identifying them, and about some other steps that can be taken to set things right.' A Gesell Institute of Child Development title. Includes information on the tests used at the Gesell Institute, references, index. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0101148.

Atlanta, GA: Humanics, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - 'Our US presidents 1945 through 1999 and what made them tick. New understandings of our presidents personalities, sexual styles and their women are presented in a most intriguing way.' A serious look at the subject - and at the variety of relationships from the more than 50 year marriage of George Bush Sr to his high school sweetheart - a match which appears to be a comfortable and genuinely loving one - to the philandering of Clinton and the support provided by Hilary despite his behavior. 359 pages. ISBN: 0-89334-2890.

Atlanta, GA: Humanics, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - 'Our US presidents 1945 through 1999 and what made them tick. New understandings of our presidents personalities, sexual styles and their women are presented in a most intriguing way.' A serious look at the subject - and at the variety of relationships from the more than 50 year marriage of George Bush Sr to his high school sweetheart - a match which appears to be a comfortable and genuinely loving one - to the philandering of Clinton and the support provided by Hilary despite his behavior. 359 pages. ISBN: 0-89334-2890.

New York: Macmillan, 1969. dj. Hardcover - Looks at the child-rearing and educational practices of the Israel kibbutzes and their ramifications for Americans - both poor and middle class. Bibliography, index. 363 pp.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, Stanford University. Each volume has a bibliography and index. xvi, 400 pp. xix, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-87589-0334; 0-87589-0342.

New York: Prentice-Hall, (1991) dj. SIGNED Hardcover first edition - A book which probes the limits of our understanding of the human mind. NSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "Larry Owens, best wishes to a serious bookman" and dated in 1995. References, selected bibliography, index. xxiii, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-13-4715829.

New York: Twelve / Hachette, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - In each chapter of this book, the authors explode a myth about child raising and offer new insights into the inner world of children. Provocative, entertaining and ver worthwhile. INSCRIBED on the title page and signed by Po Bronson. Sources and references. 327 pp.

New York: Twelve / Hachette, (2009.). First edition - In each chapter of this book, the authors explode a myth about child raising and offer new insights into the inner world of children. Provocative, entertaining and ver worthwhile. Sources and references. 327 pp.

New York: Twelve / Hachette, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - In each chapter of this book, the authors explode a myth about child raising and offer new insights into the inner world of children. Provocative, entertaining and ver worthwhile. SIGNED on the title page by Po Bronson. Sources and references. 327 pp.

Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by two psychologists which joins "the age-old wisdom of mindfulness with cognitive behavioral science the best-tested set of practices for alleviating stress and anxiety." With a separate page for each day, it includes "365 reflections and invitations to be mindful in specific ways. They range over paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and actions; noticing our bodies from our hands to our feet; noticing our sensory capacities and our desires and disappointments; noticing the way we may start each day with a hope, a rush to do,' or a dread." Foreword by Alice Boyes. xiii, 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1982501839.

New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "A deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful and thought-provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies -" A book which is arguably even more relevant now than when it was written. Notes. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148845.

New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "A deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful and thought-provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies -" A book which is arguably even more relevant now than when it was written. Notes. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148845.

Boston: Little Brown, (1967.) dj. Hardcover - The first volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses on Ruby Bridges, the little 6 year old girl who was the first black girl to desegregate the schools in New Orleans, as well as 20 other children, both black and white, during the era of school integration and Civil Rights movement in the South. Illustrated with full color drawings by Ruby. References, index. 401 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - The fourth volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork, an award-winning series which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses three different groups of disadvanted - even oppressed - children in the United States. Based on his studies among the Eskimos in Alaska and the Pueblo and Hopi territory of New Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. Illustrated in with full-color drawings by children. References, index. 587 pp. ISBN: 0-316-151629.

Boston: Little Brown, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - The fifth and volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork, an award-winning series which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses on the children of affluent families in many different parts of the United States. Illustrated in with full-color drawings by children. References, index. 583 pp. ISBN: 0-316-151491.

Boston: Little Brown, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - The third volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork, an award-winning series which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses on the children, both black and white, living in the ghettos of our Northern cities - including Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New York and others, children of families who left the rural South and Appalachia to try and find a better life in the North. Illustrated in with full-color drawings by children. References, index. 687 pp.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of treating four, long-dependent, apparently unreachable, drug addicts - Roxy, a 52 year old heroin addict and con man; Mae, a discarded prostitute; Gerard, who clings to silence; and Connie who uses words to hide and distort reality. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-231036353.

London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Hardcover first edition - The author divides this work into three parts entitled: analytical therapy; yoga; and a comparison. She discusses in some detail both the similarities and differences found between the two. 248 pp. plus a 1 p bibliography. Although this has been recently issued in paperback, the hardcover first edition is rather uncommon.

Kill Devil Hills, N.C.: Transpersonal Publishing, (2007). SIGNED - "A book which offers strategic information and hope for parents of A.D.D./A.D.H.D. children by taking a holistic, mind-body approach to the disorder. In this second edition, the authors give up-to-date information about current drug therapies with penetrating insights about their use and abuse, challenging readers to either integrate holistic and conventional medical approaches or abandon alopathics for a natural, effective approach for 'moving beyond'." INSCRIBED on the first page by the author, Rita Kirsch Debroitner. Notes, bibliography, index. xviii, 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1929661190.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Hardcover first edition - A largely rewritten work, originally published in 1894 and now brought up to date, by this English physician, writer, and social reformer who was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality. Index. vii, 495 pp.

New York: Sheed and Ward, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book based on a series of lectures (called Understanding Human Nature) given to nuns in 1960. It "deals in dialogue form with the application of psychological studies to the life of nuns." viii, 247 pp.

New York & London: Grune & Stratton, (1968). Hardcover first edition - A look at the human side of psychiatrists - the first section focuses on psychiatrists as critics of pyschiatry, while others look at the discovers, the theorists, the dynasties. Includes a detailed look at two Philadelphia clinicians - Benjamin Rush, 1746-1813, and S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1913. Photographs, index. x, 293 pp.

London: George Allen & Unwin, (1931.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Four lectures given before the teachers at the Children's Centres in Vienna, translated from the German by Barbara Low. Index. 117 pp. and 2 pp advertisements.

New York: Dell, 1967. Nice older paperback of this classic (50c cover price.) Introduction by David Reisman.