Popular Psychology Books
Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life: A Guide for the Puzzled Consumer
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is in every way a perplexing business. Through a frank dialogue between a former patient and her former therapist Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life introduces... (more)
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A User-Friendly Alphabetical Guide to Psychiatric Symptoms and What You Should Know About Them
This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members... (more)
Moving On: A Guide to Good Health and Recovery for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
About one person in a hundred will be diagnosed with schizophrenia at some time in their life. The condition can be severe and debilitating with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and the... (more)
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages,... (more)
Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy and Personal Growth
An introduction to the yogic breathing and mind-body techniques of Kundalini yoga explains their potentially beneficial applications for such disorders as depression, ADHD, and chronic fatigue... (more)
Act on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
The first bookto provide ACT principles and techniques for dealing with anger, and to teach readers how to change their relationship with, and response to, anger by developing compassion for... (more)
Staying Sane When You're Dieting
Presents true stories and practical advice for resisting temptation, curbing consumption, and avoiding midnight fridge raids. This humourous book aims to satisfy the dieter's appetite for distraction... (more)
Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: How to Gain Control of Your OCD
Although once thought to be a rare and unusual condition, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has become increasingly a part of everyday discourse as it has gathered more and more media attention.... (more)
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of the widely praised Wherever You Go, There You Are shows how the power of mindfulness can bring profound changes to your personal life. As stress continues to exact a toll on... (more)
No More Anger!: Be Your Own Anger Management Coach
There are now many studies supporting the view that the best treatment for a range of conditions is CBT. Indeed, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the NHS have both recommended CBT... (more)
No More Anxiety!: Be Your Own Anxiety Coach
This clear and concise volume looks at different anxieties, phobias, stress disorders, obsession-compulsive disorders and burn-out. It promotes the increasingly popular method of... (more)
Straight Talk About Psychological Testing for Kids
Taking a child in for psychological testing is a tough move. It's hard to imagine how experts who don't know your child can really get a handle on his or her complex strengths and weaknesses. This... (more)
Off the Couch
A humorous look at the world of therapy in a series of amusing cartoon drawings. The perfect present for all those interested in psychotherapy, counselling and psychoanalysis. (more)
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended... (more)
Managing anger: Simple steps to handling your temper
Anger can be a survival tool, as a means of releasing emotional pressure, or a dangerous force. Uncontrolled fury and repressed rage can damage health. Gael Lindenfield explains the effects of anger... (more)
Working With Emotional Intelligence
Drawing on access to business leaders around the world and thorough researh, Daniel Goleman demonstrates that emotional intelligence matters twice as much as cognitive abilities such as IQ or... (more)
Wherever You Go, There You are
Mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation. But its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to everyone. Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple... (more)
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy... (more)
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
This work develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole. The author presents a rational and scientific theory... (more)
Stop Arguing, Start Talking: The 10 Point Plan for Couples in Conflict: The Relate Guide
For some people, an argument with a loved one is a catastrophe, a sign that a relationship must surely be over, for others a heated discussion is a way of letting off steam, a way of ensuring that... (more)
The Feeling Good Handbook
Discusses how to overcome fears, phobias, and panic attacks; improve intimate communication, and cope with anxiety disorders, and includes information about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. (more)
Achieving Emotional Literacy
Emotional literacy is the ability to understand one's own feelings and to empathize with others in a way that enhances living. In this work Steiner shows how emotional intelligence can be developed... (more)
Awakenings
Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent... (more)
Becoming Orgasmic
A book for women who have inhibitions about sex and want to enhance their own pleasure and that of their partners. (more)
How to Overcome Premature Ejaculation.
This text discusses male sexual response and the cause of its disorders, and provides advice on leading a more normal sex life. (more)
Staying Together: From Crisis to Deeper Commitment: The Relate Guide
This guide offers advice on how to learn to come to terms with a failing relationship, assess whether it is worth saving, and how to overcome relationship difficulties. (more)
The Relate Guide to Better Relationships: Practical Ways to Make Your Love Last From the Experts in Marriage Guidance
When I fall in love it will be forever...' or so goes the song. The reality can be different and the truth is that the nature of relationships will change over time. Few things can be more... (more)
Starting Again: How to Learn from the Past for a Better Future: The Relate Guide
One in three marriages today ends in divorce. When a relationship that you thought would last forever finishes it can feel like the end of the world. This book is designed to help people come to... (more)