Popular Psychology Books
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing... (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)
Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
You're learning to let go, to live your life free of the grip of someone else's problems. And yet you find you've just started on the long journey of recovery. Let Melody Beattie, author of the... (more)
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
International Bestseller!
A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get what they want from love and friendship. The author encourages readers to... (more)
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Contacting The Power Of The Wild Woman
In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the "wild woman", the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and... (more)
Coping with chronic fatigue
A self-help book for everyone who feels exhausted all the time including sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). This book encourages chronic fatigue sufferers to assess their own level of... (more)
The road less travelled
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Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperement
The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's... (more)
D.W. Winnicott
Presents the life, theoretical contributions, and legacy of Donald Winnicott who, as well as a psychoanalyst, was also a child psychologist and paediatrician. The book explains in detail the... (more)
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally... (more)
Imitation: The Basics
Imitation: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the topic of imitation behavior in humans, providing a summary of existing scientific research on imitation, covering everything from examples of... (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)
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Journalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is "a hopeful, maddening... (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)
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults... (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)
A Winter Book: Selected Stories
'Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.' Ali Smith Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter... (more)
The Pocket Guide to Neurodiversity
The book also explains some common co-occurring conditions, strengths and difficulties, and concepts such as spiky profiles, executive functioning and working memory. (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)
Identity and Difference
`The book is easy to use and its layout demonstrates some skill in constructing volumes that `work' as study guides and reference tools. The merit of this book goes well beyond its suitability for... (more)
Antiemetic for Homesickness
*Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize 2021*
*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021: A 'tour-de-force'*
*An Irish Times and Poetry School Book of the Year 2020*
'A... (more)
Islamic Psychology: Human Behaviour and Experience from an Islamic Perspective
Islamic Psychology or ilm an-nafs (science of the soul) is an important introductory textbook drawing on the latest evidence in the sub-disciplines of psychology to provide a balanced and... (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)
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
'It all starts with waking up... to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing'
Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on... (more)
The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies
As groundbreaking synthesis that promises to shift our understanding of the mind-brain connection and its relationship with our bodies.
We understand the workings of the human body as a series... (more)
This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings
At a time when even the most certain things feel disrupted, acclaimed psychotherapist Julia Samuel provides an antidote to the chaos we are all feeling. In this Sunday Times bestseller, Julia draws... (more)