Popular Psychology Books
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Are you one of the countless people who grew up with emotionally immature parents? If you suffer from this troubling parent/child dynamic, you may still recall painful moments from your childhood... (more)
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM KRISTIN NEFF 'Kristin Neff offers practical, wise guidance on the path of emotional healing and deep inner transformation.' Tara Brach, PhD,... (more)
The Recovery Cycle: A Practical Guide to Loving Your Sober Life
This book introduces the Recovery Cycle, the only relatable model for positive change in sobriety and a simple roadmap for sober living. The author, a clinician in recovery herself, demonstrates how... (more)
Facing the Storm: Using CBT, Mindfulness and Acceptance to Build Resilience When Your World's Falling Apart
Facing the Storm is a self-care book which aims to assist readers in dealing with life-changing events and recovering in the face of adversity.
Drawing on evidence-based techniques from CBT and... (more)
The Complete Family Guide to Dementia: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Parent and Yourself
*A straight-to-the-point handbook of critical information, ideal for overwhelmed caregivers.
*Some guides offer too much information or are overly clinical; this one provides straightforward... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions: Using Compassion Focused Therapy
Emotions bring purpose, pleasure and meaning to our lives. However, for many people, they are synonymous with distress, pain and suffering. Anger and rage can wreck relationships and cause problems... (more)
Resilient: 12 Tools for transforming everyday experiences into lasting happiness Resilient: 12 Tools for transforming everyday experiences into lasting happiness
Resilient: 12 Tools for transforming everyday experiences into lasting happiness
Your key to lasting happiness, self-love and inner peace
'A master of his craft' - Prof Mark Williams, bestselling author of Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic... (more)
Neurodharma: 7 Steps to the Highest Happiness
'Accessible and gentle, there is deep wisdom here from which all may benefit' Professor Mark Williams, bestselling author of Mindfulness.
'Astonishing' Ruby Wax.
Explore the new... (more)
CFT Made Simple: A Clinician's Guide to Practicing Compassion-Focused Therapy
Created by world-renowned psychologist Paul Gilbert, compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is extremely effective in helping clients work through painful feelings of shame and self-criticism. However, the... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach To Postnatal Depression: Using Compassion Focused Therapy to Enhance Mood, Confidence and Bonding
It is well-known that having a baby can be a time of joy but also one of anxiety and even depression for new mothers. Indeed it is very common for new mothers to experience a short period of distress... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self
There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can have a profound impact on our physiological, psychological and social processes. In contrast, concerns... (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)
In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self
Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood. This original study intertwining Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory... (more)
Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology
The new edition of Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life, thought, work and impact of some of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed modern psychology, considering... (more)
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a... (more)
The Famine Irish: Emigration and the Great Hunger
From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of... (more)
Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transatlantic Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus
Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus brings together leading scholars in the field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish emigrants... (more)
Ireland's Independence: 1880-1923
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'A comprehensive guide to the political history of a most complex period. This excellent book manages to achieve the difficult trick of combining a vast amount of detail with a humane... (more)
Irish Famines Before and After the Great Hunger
The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora. Since 1995, there has been a renewed interest in studying this event, not only by history... (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)
Shaman Pathways - The Celtic Chakras
We've largely forgotten our ancient Celtic chakra heritage, indeed some people think there is no concept of chakras in the western tradition but this is not the case. The chakras are found throughout... (more)
Invoking Ireland
In the nineteenth century, here in Ireland, we started to walk away decisively from a native language that was a way of seeing and knowing things. In the twentieth century we started to walk away... (more)
Women and the Great Hunger
Even considering recent advances in the development of women's studies as a discipline, women remain underrepresented in the history and historiography of the Great Hunger. The various roles played... (more)
Environmental and Architectural Psychology: The Basics
Environmental and Architectural Psychology: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to the relationship between people and their natural and built environment. Exploring everything... (more)
In The Kitchen: Essays on food and life
'I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.' Food speaks to our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell... (more)
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It
Trauma is everywhere and so many of us are silently affected by it. Stressful, challenging and frightening events can happen to anyone, at any age, leaving us feeling overwhelmed, anxious and... (more)
Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health
Aparna Piramal Raje's life looks successful. Hailing from a well-known business family, she is married, has two children, is a published author, a popular columnist with a leading daily and was the... (more)
Why Him? Why Her?: How To Find And Keep Lasting Love
Are you looking for The One? Well, according to Dr Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and relationship expert, you don't have to look any further for the way to find that special someone than... (more)
On Self-hatred: learning to like oneself
A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself.
Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don't like ourselves very much. We... (more)
On Mental Illness - what can calm, reassure and console
We accept without shame that most organs in our bodies might at some point develop problems - and could need a bit of help. We should not make an exception of our minds. Our lives are so complicated... (more)