📚 Mental Processes

Books with mental processes on their catalogue record, first published between 1781 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mental processes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 676 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Mental efficiency	Arnold Bennett	1887	65
	Inquiries concerning the intellectual powers, and the investigation of truth	John Abercrombie	1830	52
	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	2012	22
	The concept of mind	Gilbert Ryle	1949	19
	Introduction to psychology	Dennis Coon	1977	15
	Metamagical Themas	Douglas R. Hofstadter	1985	15
	An introduction to social psychology	McDougall, William	1908	14
	Personal knowledge	Michael Polanyi	1958	13
	Mental evolution in animals	George John Romanes	1883	12
	The mechanism of mind	Edward de Bono	1969	11
	The society of mind	Marvin Minsky	1986	10
	Lectures on human and animal psychology	Wilhelm Max Wundt	1894	9
	Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience	Bradley R. Postle	2015	9
	Principles of mental physiology	William Benjamin Carpenter	1874	8
	Association theory to-day	Edward Stevens Robinson	1932	8
	The study of man	Michael Polanyi	1959	8
	The Geography of Thought	Richard E. Nisbett	2003	8
	Mapping the mind	Rita Carter	1998	7
	Radical embodied cognitive science	Anthony Chemero	2009	7
	Biological Psychology	Suzanne Higgs	2014	7
	A Mind of Its Own	Cordelia Fine	2005	6
	Handbook of mentalization-based treatment	Jon G Allen	2006	6
	The physical basis of mental illness	Ronald Chase	2012	6
	The Psychology of proof	Lance J. Rips	1781	5
	Psychology Or, A View Of The Human Soul	Friedrich August Rauch	1840	5
	Outlines of psychology	Sully, James	1884	5
	The Edinburgh lectures on mental science	T. Troward	1900	5
	The mind of man	Nigel Calder	1970	5
	High-level vision	Shimon Ullman	1996	5
	Essential cognitive psychology	Alan J. Parkin	2000	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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