Popular Psychology Books
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
This wise, eloquent, and practical book illuminates the nature of self-compassion and offers easy-to-follow, scientifically grounded steps for incorporating it into daily life. Vivid examples and... (more)
The Joy of Work: Jobs, Happiness, and You
Are you happy at work? Do you like your job? We spend an average of 25 per cent of our lives week-to-week at work, yet many of us drift through life without really answering these fundamental... (more)
Writing and Personality: Finding Your Voice, Your Style, Your Way
'We cannot separate the writer from the writing. Nor should we try. Both our writing process and our writing products need to carry our unique signature, a bit of our personality.' - From Writing and... (more)
The Personal Development Group: The Student's Guide
The Personal Development Group plays a key part in counselling and psychotherapy training, and this book offers an insight into how it works and how to make best use of it. Taking the perspective of... (more)
The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think
How do myths that were deeply embedded in the customs and beliefs of their original culture find themselves retold and reinterpreted across the world, centuries or even millennia later? Focusing on... (more)
The Psychology of Prejudice
Why do we develop extreme attitudes to others? Can our personality contribute to our prejudices? How do we reduce prejudice and discrimination?
The Psychology of Prejudice explores different... (more)
Chinese Medicine from the Classics: A Beginner's Guide
The Huangdi Neijing, the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, is the foundation text of Chinese medicine. This book provides an introduction to the medicine of the Neijing and is a guide to the Monkey... (more)
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - New Edition
A new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary. This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the... (more)
Overcoming Depression: New Revised Edition
A self-help guide which provides step-by-step strategies for sufferers of depression, using cognitive therapy techniques. The book explains how mind and body interact and how depression can evolve.... (more)
Depression: A Very Short Introduction
What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? ... (more)
Psychobook: Psychological Tests, Games and Questionnaires
Psychobook will inform, entertain, delight and amaze you. It is a spectacular revelation of a world long hidden from the popular eye, bringing to light a fascinating array of psychological tests and... (more)
Dad's Not All There Any More: A Comic About Dementia
Louie what? John's dad, Pete, was already diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he began to have some very strange experiences, not least of which was the little red-haired girl who followed him... (more)
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think: Second Edition
In this influential bestseller, Drs. Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky put the proven tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) into an accessible self-help framework that has already... (more)
Talk Talk: Effective Communication in Everyday Life
Using the easily understood vocabulary of Transactional Analysis and her own original contribution to the theory, Mavis Klein presents a handbook that will vividly illuminate and clarify all the... (more)
What is Madness?
What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines... (more)
Well-Being and Work: Towards a Balanced Agenda
Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector and government. This book looks at the causes of stress in the modern work-place, and offers practical... (more)
The Mindful Way Through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life
Anxiety constrains the lives of millions, leaving sufferers exhausted, stressed, and overwhelmed. And the things most people do to try to feel better - avoiding feared situations, pushing worry out... (more)
No Fighting, No Biting, No Screaming: How to Make Behaving Positively Possible for People with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Fighting, biting, screaming and other behaviours that challenge the people dealing with them are often triggered by unsuitable surroundings or unrealistic demands. In this fresh and effective... (more)
My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic
Anxiety can make everything seem unmanageable from dealing with family and friends to managing schoolwork and extracurricular activities. Its been estimated that between 9 and 15 million teens in the... (more)
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide to the Father of Psychoanalysis
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know... (more)
My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds
Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation,... (more)
I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was
Dear Reader,
Checking into a mental clinic wasn't exactly on my radar in 2022. Writing about it wasn't either. But here we are.
I spent a lifetime trying to create a 'front' to give... (more)
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking 'What happened... (more)
Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing
Max van Manen offers an extensively updated edition of Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing to provide an eloquent, accessible, and detailed... (more)
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees
A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the... (more)
Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime
Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of... (more)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused... (more)
The Seven Emotions: Psychology and Health in Ancient China
This book presents a study of the energetics of the emotions. Looking at classical texts each of the seven emotions of Chinese medicine is discussed in detail. The etymology of the characters is... (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)