Popular Psychology Books
What Mental Illness Really Is… (and what it isn’t)
We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why.
How do mental health problems arise?
How do we distinguish between the 'normal'... (more)
The Human Stain
The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best.
It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a... (more)
Connections: The New Science of Emotion
Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, its nature and origin a long-held mystery. But thanks to new science and technology, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In... (more)
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Artist meets Jeannette Fischer
In summer 2015, performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovic's house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they explored - from a... (more)
Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism
This book examines the psychology involved in handling, and responding to, materials in artistic practice, such as oils, charcoal, brushes, canvas, earth, and sand. Artists often work with intuitive,... (more)
The Psychology of Art
Why do we enjoy art? What inspires us to create artistic works? How can brain science help us understand our taste in art?
The Psychology of Art provides an eclectic introduction to the myriad... (more)
Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power
The menstrual cycle is a vital and vitalizing system in the female body, yet our understanding of and respect for this process is both limited and distorted. Few women really know about the... (more)
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and... (more)
Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges
Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to... (more)
Intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore... (more)
Critical Social Psychology of Social Class
This book argues for the importance of considering social class in critical psychological enquiry. It provides a historical overview of psychological research and theorising on social class and... (more)
White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour
'Powerful and provocative' - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Sunday Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist
'A MUST read for any white women who consider themselves "feminist"' - Scarlett... (more)
The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life
When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the... (more)
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate... (more)
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
Deepening global crises surround us. We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species, to say nothing of nuclear weapons proliferation and... (more)
The Positive Power of Negative Emotions: How harnessing your darker feelings can help you see a brighter dawn
The pursuit of happiness is universal. Most of us would like to experience more joy and elation, but when we feel like we are falling short of this ideal, we can often feel downcast. We may even see... (more)
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and... (more)
On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life
The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy and sadness. Psychologist William Miller--one of the... (more)
The Healing Power of Pleasure: Seven Medicines for Rediscovering the Innate Joy of Being
A step-by-step journey into sensuality to rediscover the delight that lies just below the surface of everyday experience.
• Shares seven easily accessible spiritual “medicines”--slowing down,... (more)
The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia, an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday... (more)
Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have... (more)
The Redstone Book of the Eye
As we look at the world the eye seeks meaning, searches for the familiar. 'I see!' we say when the penny drops, when things make sense. Then we smile - for the mind enjoys the eye surprised. But... (more)
The Book of Emotions
The Book of Emotions will entertain, inform, surprise and, above all, it will involve you. Playful, provocative and a visual delight, it will enhance your emotional intelligence, fine-tune your... (more)
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous generations, we have unprecedented access to information, increased... (more)
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian Faulks.
Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous... (more)
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization
A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and how and why we do it.
"I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to... (more)
Thin Places
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerri’s family were forced out of two homes and when... (more)
Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining Our World and Ourselves
Climate crisis disrupts the beliefs, values and behaviors of contemporary societies, sparking potential for radical changes in culture and consciousness. Drawing upon her experience as a Jungian... (more)