Popular Psychology Books
Psychology: The Basics
This compact introduction is the ideal primer for anyone looking for an accessible overview of the basic principles of Psychology, the fascinating science of mind and behavior. In everyday life we... (more)
A Brain Of My Own: A memoir about dissociation dissolved
A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were... (more)
Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the Twenty-First Century
Envision waking from a dream that felt 'big' and being able to understand why the characters, images and even landscapes appeared and what they are specifically communicating to you. What if you were... (more)
The Summer Book
Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel 'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane 'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabeth Gilbert The Worldwide Classic about a tiny... (more)
Cloud of Unknowing
Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing... (more)
Invisible Man
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.
'I am invisible, understand, simply because people... (more)
Extraordinary Knowing: Science Skepticism and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind
A leading psychoanalyst challenges the world of science and rational thinking as she explores the mysteries of intuition, mind and matter, and reality as she offers credible research into everything... (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)
Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation
Full Catastrophe Living is a manual for developing your own personal meditation practice and learning how to use mindfulness to promote improved health and healing in your own life. It is based on... (more)
Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Contains a step by step approach that tells how you can learn to break free from the destructive cycle of obsessive behavior and regain control of your life. This book shows you how to reduce the... (more)
Loving What is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life
In February 1986 Byron Katie woke up one morning to a fundamental, luminous state of being. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realised she developed a simple... (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)
How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood
An exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridleys The Red Queen and Steven Pinkers The Language Instinct.... (more)
Loving Him without Losing You: How to Stop Disappearing and Start Being Yourself - Seven Empowering Strategies for Better Relationships
Beverly Engel dispels the silence surrounding the Disappearing Woman Syndrome: a pervasive and disturbing syndrome that affects seventy-five percent of all women. "Loving Him without Losing You"... (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 Instinct To Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy
An award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist presents seven all-natural approaches to fighting depression and anxiety by building on the body's relationship to the brain, yielding dramatic... (more)
Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
Most of us walk through each day expecting few surprises. If we want to better ourselves or our lives, we map out a path of gradual change; perhaps in therapy or a 12-step group. University of New... (more)
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)
The successful self: Freeing our hiden inner strengths
The author's research and therapy is concerned with questions of how we create meaning and communicate with each other. She is also author of "Depression: the Way Out of Your Prison", "Living with... (more)
Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
The theory of "flow" is that it is a means by which we can improve our lives by constantly increasing our experience of happiness. The book examines the challenges of lifelong learning, flow and the... (more)
Confident Children: Help Children Feel Good About Themselves
In our increasingly competitive world, personal confidence is a prerequisite for success and confident children with a positive outlook have a much better chance to grow into successful,... (more)