Fear and Self-Loathing in the City is a practical guide to both managing the pressures of the workplace and coping with the struggles we may have in our personal lives. It incorporates simple... (more)
Why do you zig while others zag? What makes you seem unique or peculiar to some people, yet similar or comforting to others? The differences are in our personalities and how they shade our perception... (more)
Hypnosis for pain management is not a newly invented therapyor clinical application, but in fact has been employed with great success for more than two centuries. The use of hypnosis as a tool for... (more)
This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of self-help approaches. "The Handbook of Self-Help Therapies" summarizes... (more)
For clients who want to know how to get the most out of a therapeutic relationship, this book explains what therapy is (and isnt), how therapy works (what makes change happen) and elaborates on... (more)
Offers basic information about borderline personality disorder. The book is interactive so that clients can explore their own attitudes and concerns about their diagnosis and tackles some of the... (more)
This new title, aimed at the individual, leads readers on a journey to define success. We are all different and success means different things to different people. The author encourages us to look at... (more)
Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers... (more)
Eckhart Tolle's first full length book in eight years will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come. Taking off from the introspective work that he began with... (more)
Noted Belgian psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe shows us what it is about sex that both keeps us moving and inhibits us at the same time. The first essay, “The Impossible Couple”, is both a humorous and... (more)
Why use this particular book to beat stress? Simple. This guide presents a useable and accessible programme of exercises that offer long-term stress solutions. It identifies and explains the most... (more)
Explores the premise that negative beliefs play an important role in the development and continuation of mental health problems. The book offers a new integrative model of causality for instigating... (more)
An indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce. Leaver or left, breaking up is much more painful than youd ever expect. There are so many pitfalls that can... (more)
People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of coping with problems or stresses in the their life. This... (more)
This new volume summarizes the current understanding of the autistic spectrum, from Asperger syndrome to autism. Written first and foremost as a guide for parents, but what is also certain to become... (more)
Smoking is one of the greatest preventable causes of death, disease, and disability. While many people want to give up smoking, they are often unable to do so alone. Many smokers are also put off... (more)
Smoking is one of the greatest preventable causes of death, disease, and disability. While many people want to give up smoking, they are often unable to do so alone. Many smokers are also put off... (more)
What's going on in your head when you go to bed? We talk about sex increasingly openly today, but when it comes to our most private fantasies it's often a different matter.
Here psychotherapist... (more)
This practical workbook offers effective, useful strategies to promote well-being and successful ageing. Filled with skill-building tips and advice based on the most recent research on the psychology... (more)
Have you ever wondered why people get ill when they do? How does the mind affect the body? Why does modern medicine seem to have so little interest in the unconscious processes that can make us fall... (more)
Are you troubled by hearing voices or seeing visions that others do not? Do you believe that other people are trying to harm you or control you? Do you feel that something odd is going on that you... (more)
Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising... (more)
It was Winston Churchill who popularized the phrase 'Black Dog' to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life. This work presents an illuminating, moving, and ultimately... (more)
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, starving youngsters raised in cages, toddlers who witnessed their parents' murders, teenagers... (more)
Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr.... (more)
This concise and practical guidebook shares specific anger management methods, skills, and exercises that will help you identify the sources of your anger and release yourself from their grip. You'll... (more)
Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' - can have unforeseen but... (more)
Many of enjoy collapsing in front of the TV with a doughnut at the end of a long day, or grabbing a MacDonalds after an exhausting shopping trip, but just when does comfort eating become dangerous?... (more)
'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)