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Color psychology and color therapy; a factual study of the influence of color on human life.

Author: Faber Birren
Publisher: New Hyde Park, N.Y., University Books [1961]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A detailed study of the various sources and biological and emotional uses of color in all phases of human existence by a leading researcher in the field. Includes information on color symbolism of American Indians, the Egyptians, the Iliad, the Odyssey. Also includes symbolism of and healing power of the colors blue, green, red and yellow.
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Birren, Faber, 1900-1988.
Color psychology and color therapy.
New Hyde Park, N.Y., University Books [1961]
(OCoLC)563941059
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Faber Birren
OCLC Number: 224881
Description: 302 p. illus. 24 cm.
Contents: HISTORICAL ASPECTS --
Inspired mystics --
Bewildered philosophers --
Amulet wearers --
Aural healers --
Eager chromopaths --
BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS --
Electromagnetic energy --
Growth of plants --
Invertebrates and vertebrates --
Diagnosis through color --
Effects of visible light --
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS --
Emotional reactions --
Neurotics and psychotics --
Associations and analogies --
Anatomy of beauty --
This illusory world --
VISUAL ASPECTS --
Anomalies of seeing --
Color blindness and night blindness --
Problems of eyestrain --
Functional color --
Prescription of color --
NEW BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FINDINGS.

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A detailed study of the various sources and biological and emotional uses of color in all phases of human existence by a leading researcher in the field. Includes information on color symbolism of American Indians, the Egyptians, the Iliad, the Odyssey. Also includes symbolism of and healing power of the colors blue, green, red and yellow.

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