The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science (3rd edition)

RR 2004/417 The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science (3rd edition) Edited by W. Edward Craighead and Charles B. Nemeroff Wiley Hoboken, NJ 2004 vii + 1,112 pp. ISBN 0 471 22036 1 £78.50/$150 Also available as an e-book (ISBN 0 471 60415 1)

Keywords Psychology, Behavioural science

Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410565611

Raymond Corsini first published his Encyclopedia of Psychology in 1984, using all the extant expresidents of the American Psychological Association as his section editors. This did not stop the American Psychological Association from subsequently bestowing its imprimatur on a different multi-volume encyclopedia (Kazdin, 1992). Nevertheless, Corsini has gone on developing and is now in its third edition (Craighead and Nemeroff, 2001) in four volumes, retailing at £148.

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