Popular Psychology Books
The art of happiness: A handbook for living
A Tibetan spiritual leader's guide to dealing with everyday human problems and achieving happiness. It addresses issues such as: the sources of happiness; desire and greed; marriage and romance;... (more)
Talk Yourself Better: A Confused Persons Guide to Therapy Counselling and Self-Help
So you've decided you want to try therapy. But which type of therapy is best for you? Do you know your CBT from your DBT, your cognitive analytic therapy from your psychoanalysis? Talk Yourself... (more)
Will I Still Be Me?: Finding a Continuing Sense of Self in the Lived Experience of Dementia
What does a dementia diagnosis mean for an individual's sense of self? Christine Bryden shares her insider view on living with dementia and explains how a continuing sense of self is possible after... (more)
The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it: Second edition
From mild worry or social unease to severe phobia and panic, anxiety affects millions of people. This book offers answers and relief. Drawing on brain science, it highlights the top 10... (more)
Using Positive Psychology Every Day: Learning How to Flourish
This book is for anyone experiencing stress, distress or lower well-being, as well as coaches and therapists can use the book for clients in the context of guided self-help. (more)
Living Longer, Living Better: Lifestyle, Exercise, Diet and Yoga for Heart and Mind
Living Longer, Living Better: Lifestyle, Exercise, Diet and Yoga for Heart and Mind is written for all those who strive for optimal long-term health and the maximal functioning of their hearts and... (more)
Love and Sex: Fifty Therapy Lessons
In Love and Sex: Fifty Therapy Lessons, psychotherapist Patricia Morris reflects on the thought-provoking patterns of experience that patients reveal in speaking about how their intimate... (more)
Beating Bipolar: A Therapist's Journey to Overcoming One of the World's Most Challenging Mental Disorders
Beating Bipolar explains how to emotionally overcome bipolar disorder, sharing insider lessons from a leading expert who also lives with the illness. It will help families, teachers, mental-health... (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)
Master Your Mind: The Mental Health Guide
Master Your Mind is a practical guide for individuals wrestling with a mental disorder - it is also of interest to carers, family and friends of someone within a mental disorder.
The book is... (more)
Personality: What Makes You the Way You are
Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices... (more)
What You Can Change...and What You Can't: Learning to Accept Who You Are: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
If you believe that dieting down to your "ideal" weight will prolong your life; that reliving childhood trauma can undo adult personality problems; that alcoholics have addictive personalities, or... (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)
You Can Heal Your Life
Full of ideas and strategies that have worked for millions of people worldwide. You Can Heal Your Life, the definitive bestselling book on self-healing, has transformed the lives of millions of... (more)
Children's Minds
Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought. In this concise and brilliantly readable book, Margaret... (more)
Essays Critical and Clinical
This collection of essays testifies to Deleuze's fundamental conviction that philosophy cannot be undertaken independently of science and art. Deleuze's long-term ambition is realized with this book:... (more)
Girls & Sex - Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
'If you're going to talk about women in the 21st century, you MUST read Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex.' - CAITLIN MORAN, author of How to Be a Woman.
*TIME Top 10 non-fiction books of... (more)
ADHD an A-Z: Figuring it Out Step by Step
Navigating the world with an ADHD brain can be exhausting. The rollercoaster ride from clinical assessments through diagnosis to treatment can leave you feeling anxious and isolated, worried about... (more)
The Qur'an
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad... (more)
Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transatlantic Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus
Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus brings together leading scholars in the field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish emigrants... (more)
Ireland's Independence: 1880-1923
Review:
'A comprehensive guide to the political history of a most complex period. This excellent book manages to achieve the difficult trick of combining a vast amount of detail with a humane... (more)
Invoking Ireland
In the nineteenth century, here in Ireland, we started to walk away decisively from a native language that was a way of seeing and knowing things. In the twentieth century we started to walk away... (more)
Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health
Aparna Piramal Raje's life looks successful. Hailing from a well-known business family, she is married, has two children, is a published author, a popular columnist with a leading daily and was the... (more)
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more... (more)
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia.... (more)
The Dream and Human Societies
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... (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)