Popular Psychology Books
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
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)
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to... (more)
The Art of Loving
A look at the theory and practice of love. The author discusses romantic love, the love of parents for children, brotherly love, erotic love, self love and love of God.
The Anxiety Survival Guide: Getting through the Challenging Stuff
Co-written with psychologists and a college student who has experienced anxiety herself, this is a relatable and straightforward guide to managing worry in emerging adulthood. As well as providing... (more)
Rekindling Desire: Third Edition
For over a decade, Rekindling Desire has helped to restore and affirm pleasure-oriented sexuality for thousands of people. Drawing on respected therapist Barry McCarthy's extensive knowledge and... (more)
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Handbook for Schools: Transforming Mental Health Support On A Budget
This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health support for students. With a focus on providing staff... (more)
The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: Third Edition: What You and Your Family Need to Know
Over 275,000 bipolar sufferers and their loved ones have found the crucial information and support they need in this indispensable guide, now in a thoroughly updated third edition. Trusted authority... (more)
Timeless: Nature's Formula for Health and Longevity
Few prejudices in Western society are more powerful than those concerning aging. Until recently, we have assumed that the story of aging is one of loss and decline. But there's an entirely different... (more)
Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World
Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their... (more)
The Intelligent Body: Reversing Chronic Fatigue and Pain from the Inside Out
Optimum health, peace of mind and personal fulfilment emerge from a sense of wholeness and alignment with our true selves. But challenges like trauma, chronic illness and stress can all-too-easily... (more)
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test and the Power of Seeing
The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture. In 1917, working alone in a... (more)
It Wasn't Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion
Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you a... (more)
Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation
This user-friendly manual presents an innovative, tested approach to helping teens overcome the frustrating organizational and motivation problems associated with executive function deficits and... (more)
The Art of Being Human: Life, Family, and Creativity
Deborah Ravetz explores the territory of our inner landscape by showing us that it is only through embracing and working with all aspects of our selves, including our vulnerability and pain, that we... (more)
Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction
Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through, and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers, and social workers. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the... (more)
Reasons to Stay Alive
What does it mean to be truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that... (more)
Disordered Heroes in Opera: A Psychiatric Report
The retired psychiatrist and former music graduate John Cordingly examines twelve operatic heroes under six sub-categories of personality disorder. He justifies his view that they are not 'mad' by... (more)
The Road to Calm Workbook: Life-Changing Tools to Stop Runaway Emotions
Emotional flooding - being overwhelmed by feelings - happens in response to stress, anxiety and life's challenges. In this client-orientated accompaniment to Affect Regulation Toolbox, Carolyn Daitch... (more)
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In... (more)
Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform Our Lives
Based on the latest work from Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, bestselling author of The Compassionate Mind, and Buddhist expert Choden. Professor Gilbert has spent the past twenty years developing a new... (more)
Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self-Reflection
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms... (more)
The Science of ADHD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
The Science of ADHD addresses the scientific status of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an informed and accessible way, without recourse to emotional or biased viewpoints. The author... (more)
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain: Second Edition
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and... (more)
The Good Life: Wellbeing and the New Science of Altruism, Selfishness and Immorality
Are we born selfish or primed to help others? Does stress make people more antisocial? Can we ever be genuinely altruistic?
This book explores some of the dilemmas at the heart of being human.... (more)
A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life: Self-reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing
An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer join forces in this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to... (more)
Love in a Time of Loneliness
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)
Breaking Up Blues: A Guide to Survival and Growth
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)
Achieving Emotional Literacy
Emotional literacy is the ability to understand one's own feelings and to empathize with others in a way that enhances living. In this work Steiner shows how emotional intelligence can be developed... (more)
Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide
Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian... (more)