Popular Psychology Books
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Workout for Teens
This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health. Using tried and tested therapeutic techniques, readers... (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)
The Psychology of Retirement
How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with? The Psychology of Retirement looks at this... (more)
Motherhood Missed: Stories from Women Who are Childless by Circumstance
Many women expect to become mothers but are childless through social rather than biological reasons - perhaps they haven't met the right person or they prioritised career or education earlier in... (more)
In Writing
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project. But... (more)
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We are and How to End the Cycle
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Your Toolkit to Modify Mood, Overcome Obstructions and Improve Your Life
Change can often seem like an impossible task, but this practical book will help you put it into perspective. With guidance from two experts, you'll recognise the behaviours and thoughts that hold... (more)
Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
For many, having BPD is like living in emotional overdrive. And whether you are feeling depressed, anxious, worried, or angry, you might struggle just to get through each day. So, how can you start... (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)
Unforbidden Pleasures
So much has been written about forbidden pleasures. What about pleasures that are unforbidden? Society is fascinated by taboo - we spend our lives chasing illicit pleasures - but nobody pays much... (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)
Love and Sex: Fifty Therapy Lessons
In Love and Sex: Fifty Therapy Lessons, psychotherapist Patricia Morris reflects on the thought-provoking patterns of experience that patients reveal in speaking about how their intimate... (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)
It's All in Your Head: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2016. Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. After a routine... (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)
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think: Second Edition
In this influential bestseller, Drs. Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky put the proven tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) into an accessible self-help framework that has already... (more)
Dyslexia and Mental Health: Helping People to Overcome Depressive, Self-Harming and Other Adverse Emotional Coping Strategies
Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to... (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)
Overcoming Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
This is fully updated edition of the bestselling self-help book, now recommended on the national "Books on Prescription" scheme. This ever-popular guide offers a self-help programme, written by one... (more)
Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks
The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating... (more)
Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is designed for survivors of these abuses. It takes... (more)
Living with the Enemy: Coping with the Stress of Chronic Illness Using CBT, Mindfulness and Acceptance
'This isn't living, this is just existing.' A long-term physical health condition - a chronic illness, or even a disability - can take over your existence. Battling against the effects of the... (more)
The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-so-obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens with Asperger Syndrome
Being a teen or tween isn't easy for anyone but it can be especially tough for Asperkids. Jennifer O'Toole knows; she was one! This book is a top secret guide to all of the hidden social rules in... (more)
The Selfish Society: How We All Forgot to Love One Another and Made Money Instead
Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Selfish Society reveals the vital importance of understanding our early emotional lives, arguing that by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we can... (more)
Psychogames: Personality Tests, Games and Questionnaires
Box-set. Secrets of your personality revealed! A fascinating compendium of playful picture tests, games and questionnaires, based on real psychological techniques, to help you discover what sort of... (more)
Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook
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)
Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts
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)
