Watson Library has a variety of books and eBooks on Psychology and related topics. The books listed below are a sampling of what we have available in the library - to find more, check our library catalog, or contact us for help!
American Psychological Association Publishing is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. APA offers authoritative, up-to-date and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students and the general public. Topics covered include DSM, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, child and adolescent psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and more.
Note: Downloading eBooks can be confusing for initial access, to view instructions for accessing OhioLink eBooks go here.
Classics in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is an essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.
EBSCO also offers their own mobile app experience, click here to learn more.
APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 133,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members. This link it to their newswire listing of APA items in the news.
Credo Reference is our scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Use this search box to browse Psychology related topics from titles including:
Big Ideas Simply Explained: The Psychology Book
Clearly explaining more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the field, The Psychology Book uses accessible text and easy-to-follow graphics and illustrations to explain the complex theoretical and…
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc. 2012
Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine
Offers an entirely up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for clinical psychologists, mental health professionals and specialists in health-related matters.
Cambridge University Press 2007
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid
Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively with adversity. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid is…
Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
