Popular Psychology Books
Sister Outsider
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.
The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the... (more)
The Psychology of Video Games
What impact can video games have on players? How does psychology influence video game creation? Why do some games become cultural phenomena?
The Psychology of Video Games explores the... (more)
Being Mortal: Illness Medicine and What Matters in the End
So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong. (more)
Life After Darkness: A Doctors Journey Through Severe Depression
The story of a doctor and mother of four, who endured seven years of severe depression. Years of self-harm, attempted suicides and admissions to psychiatric units culminated in her resorting to brain... (more)
Love Is a Verb: How to Stop Analyzing Your Relationship and Start Making It Great
Are you a co-dependent Cinderella who loves a man who hates women too much? A Peter Pan in denial about his inability to make a commitment? If so, it's time to stop analyzing your relationship.Here... (more)
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Handbook for Schools: Transforming Mental Health Support On A Budget
This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health support for students. With a focus on providing staff... (more)
Creating Compassionate Kids: Essential Conversations to Have with Young Children
If you had to choose one word to describe the world you want children to grow up in, what would it be? Safe? Understanding? Resilient? Compassionate? As parents and caregivers of young... (more)
Can I Tell You About Being a Young Carer?: A Guide for Friends Family and Professionals
Meet Carly. Carly is a young person caring for her mother who has Multiple Sclerosis and depression. Part of the best-selling Can I Tell You about... series this book raises awareness about children... (more)
Emotion: The Basics
While human beings might be rational animals, they are emotional animals as well. Emotions play a central role in all areas of our lives and if we are to have a proper understanding of human life and... (more)
Obsessive Compulsions
Almost everybody has an obsession or feels a compulsion to do something a certain way. Magic numbers, intrusive thoughts, unusual fears and superstitions happen to about four people out of five, but... (more)
The Psychology of Gender
What is the difference between sex and gender? What is the impact of gender-role stereotypes on our lives, our relationships and the world? What does gender mean to you? The Psychology of Gender... (more)
The Psychology of Sex
What can psychology teach us about sex? How do different bodies and brains respond sexually? How can we prevent people being stigmatised for their sexuality? The Psychology of Sex takes you on a... (more)
The Psychology of Performance
Why is performing under pressure often so difficult? What strategies can help us deliver our best performance? How can we boost our self-confidence? The Psychology of Performance explores the key... (more)
User's Guide to GF/CF Diet for Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD
As the evidence increases that gluten free and casein free diets can really improve symptoms in certain developmental disorders, Jaqui Jackson decided to try it out with her sons Luke, Joe and Ben. (more)
The ABCs of Coping with Anxiety: Using CBT to Manage Stress and Anxiety
Research findings consistently show that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is very effective in treating anxiety. However, many people with this problem do not seek treatment: something this new... (more)
The Art of Being Human: Life, Family, and Creativity
Deborah Ravetz explores the territory of our inner landscape by showing us that it is only through embracing and working with all aspects of our selves, including our vulnerability and pain, that we... (more)
Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety
Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety is a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity. While anxiety has assumed a central role in the... (more)
Stress, Anxiety, Depression
Allowing clients to work on their own problems and at their own pace, this excellent title recognises that solving personal problems is a skill to be learnt just like any other. It teaches the reader... (more)
Motivational Games and Activities for Groups: Exercises to Energise, Enthuse and Inspire
How can you encourage people to be motivated? How can you create that sense of yearning to achieve or reach a goal? How can you energise and inspire group members? The exercises and activities in... (more)
Derrida Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'.... (more)
Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing
Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors offers inspiring, hopeful, creative resources for the millions of male and female adolescents and adults who struggle with eating disorders, addictions, any... (more)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disabling and distressing mental health problem. This accessible introduction examines OCD's causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and is richly illustrated... (more)
Schizophrenia
This comprehensive introduction to schizophrenia is an ideal starting point for students. It covers the theoretical foundations of different perspectives of schizophrenia, including medical,... (more)
Water, Snow, Water: Constructive Living for Mental Health
You can't be happy all the time. You can't feel comfortable all the time. Life just doesn't operate like that. Maybe you have tried counselling, therapy, diets, meditation or chemicals to work on... (more)
Inner Dialogue in Daily Life: Contemporary Approaches to Personal and Professional Development in Psychotherapy
Connecting to our inner lives can foster healing, self-development and self-awareness. This unique book looks in depth at ten major contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches which all use inner... (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)
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 Five Minute Coach: Improve Performance - Rapidly
The Five-Minute Coach offers a simple, but very effective, step by step guide to coach quickly and effortlessly with amazing results. Short, punchy and easy to read, the user can swiftly learn this... (more)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Essential Guide
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious anxiety-related condition which affects as many as three in a hundred people from young children to older adults regardless of gender and social or... (more)