Forensic Psychology

The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law promotes scientific and educational activities in forensic psychiatry by facilitating the exchange of ideas and practical clinical experience through publications and regularly scheduled national and regional meetings.

Forensic Psychology is the application of the science and profession of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system.

The voice and conscience of modern psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association currently represents a growing membership of 36,000 psychiatrists globally. Our member physicians work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorders.

APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. The mission is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.

Provides information from the American Psychological Association about forensic psychology. Includes associations, career information, education & training directory, government resources, and books published in the field.

Offers information on psychology and social work careers, internships, jobs, school information, and interviews with people working in these fields.

"Welcome to CogPrints, an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science ... as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition."

Contains "a collection of over 20,000 dream reports. The reports come from a variety of different sources and research studies, from people ages 7 to 74, and they can be analyzed using the search engine and statistical programs built into this site."

A hierarchical database of links to websites providing information about scientific psychology including links to career information and psychological organizations.

"This IPIP Website is intended to provide rapid access to measures of individual differences, all in the public domain, to be developed conjointly among scientists worldwide."

This site is "a free encyclopedia of mental health information" created with a broad-based audience in mind. Its goal is to "improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout the world."

"National Center for PTSD attempts to be the clearinghouse for all information and activities related to posttraumatic stress disorder."

Seeks to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illness through research.

"The World Wide Web meta-source devoted exclusively to the subject of Human Neuropsychology ... a new branch of science with the specific and unique aim of investigating the role of individual brain systems in complex forms of mental activity."

"These pages are meant to guide those interested in personality theory and research to the current personality research literature."

"This Web site contains lots of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology."

Provides "highly relevant, reliable and up-to-date career, employment and education information."

"This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods."

A scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States that seeks to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives.

The Association for Humanistic Psychology is the voice of ordinary people with an extraordinary vision for a more conscious and humane global society. Founded in 1962 as a bold new affirmative approach to psychology and life.

A nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level. Seeks to to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare.

NASP represents school psychology and supports school psychologists to enhance the learning and mental health of all children and youth.

The mission of NJASP is to:
(1) Advocate for all children to realize their full potential, and
(2) Promote school psychological services for children and families.

This professional organization representing psychologists throughout the state of New Jersey provides information and resources for the public and professionals in the mental health community that can improve lives, families, workplaces, communities, and practices.

"This guide has been developed to act as your starting point for finding every type of national, international, model and online self-help support group that is available."

"This site provides information on the University of Akron's archive of print/media/realia materials from 740 psychologists and 50 organizations, materials including personal papers, manuscripts, films, audio and video tapes, instruments, test materials, books, photographs, and other materials. The main purpose of the site is to make potential users aware of the wide array of materials available and guide them to visit the archive; the materials themselves are not available in full text."

"Classics in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web."

"This permanent online exhibit from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division provides a concise overview of pre-20th-century US psychiatry... serves as an excellent starting point for students researching the history of American psychiatry."

"The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime."

"In the former living quarters and office of Sigmund Freud in the house at Berggasse 19 in Vienna's ninth district, the Sigmund Freud Museum presents an exhibition documenting the life and work of the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud lived and worked in this house from 1891 until 1938, when on 4 June he was forced by the National Socialists to flee with his family into exile in England."