Popular Psychology Books
Fly Away Fear: Overcoming your Fear of Flying
Research indicates about 35 of every 100 people develop a fear of flying at some point in their life. Almost everyone knows someone who has it. If you've ever mentioned to others that you aren't... (more)
The Miracle Question: Answer it and Change Your Life
Have you ever considered how a miracle would change your life? Would a miracle enable you to get a better job, fix your marriage, stop drinking, keep your teenager home at night, make peace with your... (more)
Coping with Fears and Phobias: A Step-by-step Guide to Understanding and Facing Your Anxieties
Fear is a normal emotion. For some, however, fear is more extreme and disruptive than this: approximately 10 per cent of people have an anxiety disorder at any one time, only a tiny proportion of... (more)
Coping Better With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for CFS/ME
CFS/ME is a debilitating disorder which affects both physical and psychological functioning. It is also a poorly understood condition which was not widely accepted as a specific disorder until only a... (more)
Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies
There are many forms of anxiety disorder, including General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Attacks, Phobias (including social anxiety), Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,... (more)
Understanding Your Schizophrenia Illness: A Workbook
Being diagnosed with schizophrenia can be a devastating experience. It is therefore crucial that those diagnosed with the illness are provided with complete and accurate information that explains... (more)
No More Stress!: Be your Own Stress Management Coach
No More Stress! takes the skills and techniques of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioural Coaching to offer you the opportunity of taking control of your stress. It will help you... (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)
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
The Mindful Way through Depression draws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to help you break the mental... (more)
The Personal Development Group: The Student's Guide
The personal development group is a feature of many counselling and psychotherapy trainings. How does it facilitate personal development? Could it be more effective? Looking from the perspective of... (more)
Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say No Way - And Parents Say Way to Go
Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age eight, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. No one... (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)
A Playworker's Guide to Understanding Children's Behaviour: Working with the 8-12 Age Group
How do I manage an aggressive child positively when I have twenty other children who need my attention? How can I develop a good relationship with a child I seem to dislike? How do I maintain a... (more)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for Dummies
This is a plain-English resource for people suffering from the after effects of a traumatic experience. An estimated five percent of Americans - over 13 million people - suffer from Post Traumatic... (more)
Anger Management: An Anger Management Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities
The training program consists of 12 fully-scripted sessions, dealing with topics such as, recognising feelings of anger, learning to relax and think calmly, and being assertive and handling problems... (more)
Help Yourself Towards Mental Health
A comprehensive guide to how an individual can help themselves resolve a wide variety of ordinary, everyday life problems and improve their mental health.
'This is an extensive collection of... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life: A Guide for the Puzzled Consumer
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is in every way a perplexing business. Through a frank dialogue between a former patient and her former therapist Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life introduces... (more)
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A User-Friendly Alphabetical Guide to Psychiatric Symptoms and What You Should Know About Them
This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members... (more)
Moving On: A Guide to Good Health and Recovery for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
About one person in a hundred will be diagnosed with schizophrenia at some time in their life. The condition can be severe and debilitating with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and the... (more)
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages,... (more)
Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy and Personal Growth
An introduction to the yogic breathing and mind-body techniques of Kundalini yoga explains their potentially beneficial applications for such disorders as depression, ADHD, and chronic fatigue... (more)
How to Read Lacan
"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire." - Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical... (more)
How to Read Jung
David Tacey introduces the reader to Jung's unique style and approach, which is at once scientific and prophetic. Through a series of close readings of Jung's works, he explores the radical themes at... (more)
Act on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
The first bookto provide ACT principles and techniques for dealing with anger, and to teach readers how to change their relationship with, and response to, anger by developing compassion for... (more)
Staying Sane When You're Dieting
Presents true stories and practical advice for resisting temptation, curbing consumption, and avoiding midnight fridge raids. This humourous book aims to satisfy the dieter's appetite for distraction... (more)
Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: How to Gain Control of Your OCD
Although once thought to be a rare and unusual condition, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has become increasingly a part of everyday discourse as it has gathered more and more media attention.... (more)
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of the widely praised Wherever You Go, There You Are shows how the power of mindfulness can bring profound changes to your personal life. As stress continues to exact a toll on... (more)
No More Anger!: Be Your Own Anger Management Coach
There are now many studies supporting the view that the best treatment for a range of conditions is CBT. Indeed, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the NHS have both recommended CBT... (more)
How to Read Freud
In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight... (more)
No More Anxiety!: Be Your Own Anxiety Coach
This clear and concise volume looks at different anxieties, phobias, stress disorders, obsession-compulsive disorders and burn-out. It promotes the increasingly popular method of... (more)