Psychology and Counseling

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​Finding Psychology and Counseling Books on the Shelf

Ellender Memorial Library classifies books using the Library of Congress Classification System. The lists below include call numbers where you can BROWSE the shelves to find something that interests you. Books from similar subject areas can be found together.

Library of Congress

BF 1-99: Psychology

BF 38-64..........Philosophy. Relation to other topics
BF 173-175.5......Psychoanalysis
BF 176-176.5......Psychological tests and testing
BF 180-198.7......Experimental psychology
BF 203............Gestalt psychology
BF 207-209........Psychotropic drugs and other substances
BF 231-299........Sensation. Aesthesiology
BF 309-499........Consciousness. Cognition (including learning, attention, comprehension, memory, imagination, genius, intelligence,thought and thinking, psycholinguistics, mental fatigue)
BF 501-505........Motivation
BF 511-593........Affection. Feeling. Emotion
BF 608-635........Will. Volition. Choice. Control
BF 636-637........Applied psychology
BF 638-648........New Thought. Menticulture, etc.
BF 660-685........Comparative psychology. Animal and human psychology
BF 692-692.5......Psychology of sex. Sexual behavior.
BF 697-697.5......Differential psychology. Individuality. Self.
BF 698-698.9......Personality
BF 699-711........Genetic psychology
BF 712-724.85.....Developmental psychology (including infant psychology, child psychology, adolescence, adulthood)
BF 795-839........Temperament. Character
BF 839.8-885......Physiognomy. Phrenology
BF 889-905........Graphology. Study of handwriting

LB 1050.9-1091 Educational psychology