COLLECTION POLICY

PSYCHOLOGY, PARAPSYCHOLOGY, AND THE OCCULT

BF 1 - 1999

Bibliographer: Religion & Personality

Date Revised: September 14, 1998

General Purpose:

The Psychology collection in the Divinity Library is intended to support undergraduate religious studies classes; M.Div., M.T.S., and D.Min. professional programs; M.A. and Ph.D. graduate programs; faculty research; and continuing studies by ministers; primarily in the area of Religion and Personality but also in informing a hermeneutical method in others (e.g., a psychoanalytic interpretation of . . .)

Purchases in Psychology for the Divinity Library consist of classic texts that have special significance in the history of Religion & Personality studies, of psychological studies of religion, and of works written by those authors with a professional identity which is primarily in the area of Religion and Personality. The psychoanalytic tradition (broadly defined) is the predominant psychological influence in the Religion & Personality area of study at Vanderbilt. Parapsychology and Occult Science are given minimal attention, i.e., basic critical works and basic primary materials pertaining to anthropological issues are collected.

Languages

English-language material is emphasized, with German and French material also collected.

Geographic Areas:

The collection emphasizes works written by persons in the United States or in Europe.

Chronological Limits:

Works written in the 20th century are emphasized.

Types of Material Collected:

Monographs and sets.

Journal and serials, including certain reports or proceedings of associations, societies, symposia conventions, and others

Dissertations on an occasional basis when the topic is of special faculty or student research interest.

Phonodiscs, films, and audio and video tapes in very rare cases.

Others Factors:

Because Psychology is not directly a divinity study, the Divinity Library relies heavily upon the collections in other Jean and Alexander Heard libraries, especially Medical (with an equivalent "W" classification which holds psychoanalytic materials), Central, and to a lesser degree, Education (especially for family therapy materials and for developmental and cognitive psychology).

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Subject and Collecting Levels:

LC Number LC Subject Descriptor Current Desired Notes
BF 1-990 PSYCHOLOGY
BF 1 Congresses, Collected Works 3.2F 4F
BF 38 Philosophy 4F 4F
BF 77 Study & Teaching 3.2F 4f
BF 81 History 4F 4F
BF 150 Mind and Body 2.2F 3.2F
BF 173 Psychoanalysis 4F 4F
BF 180 Experimental Psychology 3.2F 3.2F
BF 207 Psychotropic Drugs 2.2F 1
BF 231 Sensation 2.2F 0
BF 309 Csns. Cognition. Perception 4F 3.2F
BF 501 Motivation 2.2F 3.2F
BF 511 Affection, Feeling, Emotion 4F 3.2F
BF 608 Will. Volition. Choice 2.2F 3.2F
BF 636 Applied Psychology 4F 4F
BF 638 New Thought. Menticulture 2.2F 1F
BF 660 Comparative Psychology 3.2F 4F
BF 696 Personality 4F 4F
BF 699 Genetic 2.1E 2.2F
BF 701 Developmental 4F 4F
BF 725 Applied Pastoral Theology 2.1F 3.2F
BF 1001-1999 Occult Science 2.1F 2.2F