Popular Psychology Books
The Writer's Key: Introducing Creative Solutions for Life
The Writer's Key is a complete guide to writing for self-reflection and personal development. Creative writing can deepen our understanding of ourselves and our lives. This book unlocks the potential... (more)
Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology: Fourth Edition
This popular and critically acclaimed text, using movies to help learn about mental illness, is being fully updated with DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses, dozens of evocative and informative frame grabs, a... (more)
Winter Blues Survival Guide: A Workbook for Overcoming SAD
Using the engaging tools in this skillfully crafted workbook, sufferers of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) can create their own blueprint for greater well-being all year long. Simple checklists,... (more)
Out of the Blue: Six Non-Medication Ways to Relieve Depression
Depression is one of the most common issues that people bring to therapy. It is also a mental health condition with several well-known and readily available medications to treat it. That said, every... (more)
Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom
Anger is one the most common human emotions, so if you're not feeling it, then you're probably unconsciously burying it. But anger that is buried isn't actually gone. In fact, hidden or covert anger... (more)
8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness
Many people often say "yes" to something when they'd rather say "no." They offer cooperation through words but follow up with how they really feel--in actions that contradict their words. That's... (more)
The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
From the authors of the bestselling The Mindful Way through Depression - which explores how mindfulness can break the cycle of chronic unhappiness - this carefully constructed workbook shows the... (more)
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: A Five Areas Approach: Fourth Edition
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: A Five Areas Approach uses the proven and trusted five areas model of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people assess and manage depression and low mood... (more)
Life Lessons from Freud
Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed... (more)
Intimate Relationships: Pain and Joy
If human life, as the author argues, is a constant and desperate bid to compensate for our mortality, then the desire to love and to be loved is our greatest imagined panacea against the fact of our... (more)
Troubleshooting Relationships on the Autism Spectrum: A User's Guide to Resolving Relationship Problems
Don't you wish relationships came with a manual? Ashley Stanford has written a user's guide to relationships that adopts a practical troubleshooting approach to resolving difficulties that will... (more)
The Independent Woman's Handbook for Super Safe Living on the Autistic Spectrum
Certain characteristics of autism, such as difficulty understanding social cues, may make women vulnerable to potentially dangerous situations. Robyn Steward has written this supportive guide to help... (more)
Almost Anorexic: Is My (Or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?
Millions of men and women struggle with disordered eating. Some stand at the mirror wondering how they can face the day when they look so fat. Other over-exercise, binge, or purge. Many skip meals,... (more)
Confidence and Success with CBT: Small Steps to Achieve Your Big Goals with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Offering simple, time-tested techniques for zeroing in on and rewriting negative, self-destructive patterns of thought and behavior that a person can acquire over a lifetime, cognitive behavioral... (more)
The Good Life: Wellbeing and the New Science of Altruism, Selfishness and Immorality
Are we born selfish or primed to help others? Does stress make people more antisocial? Can we ever be genuinely altruistic?
This book explores some of the dilemmas at the heart of being human.... (more)
Putting on the Brakes: Understanding and Taking Control of Your ADD or ADHD: Third Edition
Completely updated and expanded, Putting on the Brakes: Third Edition continues to be the go-to resource for kids with AD/HD.
This essential guide — celebrating its 20th year in print — is... (more)
Now What?: An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery
Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention,... (more)
8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships
A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships, and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field is... (more)
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
This book gives you an analysis of the science and psychology of wilderness survival examines case stories of people who have survived against the odds or failed to survive despite comparatively... (more)
Almost a Psychopath: Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy?
Do you know someone who is too manipulative and full of himself? Does someone you know charm the masses yet lack the ability to deeply connect with those around her?
Grandiosity and exaggerated... (more)
Mindfulness: Be Mindful. Live in the Moment.
Too often, life just races by. You don't fully experience what's happening now, because you're too busy thinking about what needs doing tomorrow, or distracted by what happened yesterday. And all the... (more)
Shrinking the News: Headline Stories on the Couch
Shrinking the News brings together Coline Covington’s wide range of articles from her regular column in the online newspaper, The Week. The articles cover current events from October 2008 until... (more)
Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter Along the Path to Hope and Healing
One out of four Americans will experience mental illness in their lifetime; major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the United States for ages 15 through 44. However, only a... (more)
Counselling Skills For Dummies: Second Edition
Discover the practical skills for helping others. Whether you are considering becoming a counsellor, have to provide some form of counselling as part of your job, or are simply interested in... (more)
Talk Talk: Effective Communication in Everyday Life
Using the easily understood vocabulary of Transactional Analysis and her own original contribution to the theory, Mavis Klein presents a handbook that will vividly illuminate and clarify all the... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Reducing Stress: Using Compassion Focused Therapy
Stress is an integral part of life and something that affects us all to different degrees at different times. It can result from trivial events such as losing one's keys to extreme life events such... (more)
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me
A graphic memoir. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose... (more)
Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction
'Business owner of successful consulting company presents a pragmatic approach to spiritual development by indentifying twenty-one measurable spiritual intelligence skills described in faith-neutral... (more)
Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is designed for survivors of these abuses. It takes... (more)