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

Raymond Corsini first published his Encyclopedia of Psychology in 1984, using all the extant ex‐presidents 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.

There is, obviously, an enormous market for encyclopedias of psychology as it is both a widely studied academic subject and a subject of huge general interest. The publisher felt...