Psychological Science Research Guide: Find Books

Interested in physically browsing our book collection for books on psychology? Go to the General Collection, Reference Collection, Video Collection, or New Books Shelf (2nd & 3rd floors) of Woodward Library and look up the following call number ranges. 

Please Note: this list does not represent all titles or subjects of  interest available for research in psychology. Consult the library's online catalog, Austin, for additional areas of interest. 

Library of Congress (LC) Call Numbers

Subclass BF

BF1-990                    Psychology

BF38-64                    Philosophy.  Relation to other topics

BF173-175.5            Psychoanalysis

BF176-176.5            Psychological tests and testing

BF180-198.7            Experimental psychology

BF203                        Gestalt psychology

BF207-209               Psychotropic drugs and other substances

BF231-299               Sensation.  Aesthesiology

BF309-499               Consciousness.  Cognition                                                         

BF501-505               Motivation

BF511-593               Affection.  Feeling.  Emotion

BF608-635               Will.  Volition.  Choice.  Control

BF636-637               Applied psychology

BF638-648               New Thought.  Menticulture, etc.

BF660-685               Comparative psychology.  Animal and human psychology

BF692-692.5           Psychology of sex.  Sexual behavior

BF697-697.5           Differential psychology.  Individuality.  Self

BF698-698.9           Personality

BF699-711               Genetic psychology

BF712-724.85         Developmental psychology Including infant psychology, child psychology, adolescence, adulthood

BF725-727               Class psychology

BF795-839               Temperament.  Character

Subclass HF

HF5546-5548.6       Office management

HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial psychology

HF5549-5549.5       Personnel management.  Employment management

Subclass HM

HM1001-1281       Social psychology

HM1041-1101       Social perception.  Social cognition, Including perception of the self and others, prejudices, stereotype

HM1106-1171       Interpersonal relations.  Social behavior

HM176-1281          Social influence.  Social pressure

Subclass LB

LB1050.9-1091       Educational psychology

LB1101-1139          Child study

Subclass RC

RC321-571               Neurosciences.  Biological psychiatry.  Neuropsychiatry

RC346-429               Neurology.  Diseases of the nervous system, Including speech disorders

RC435-571               Psychiatry

RC475-489               Therapeutics.  Psychotherapy

RC490-499               Hypnotism and hypnosis.  Suggestion therapy

RC500-510               Psychoanalysis

RC512-569.5            Psychopathology

RC512-528               Psychoses

RC530-552               Neuroses

RC554-569.5           Personality disorders.  Behavior problems Including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse

RC569.7-571           Mental retardation.  Developmental disabilities

For a complete listing of all LC Call Numbers, go to the Library of Congress Classification Outline.