Psychologie

Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment

de Barbara De Angelis

In Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know, Barbara De Angelis, one of the nation's premier relationships experts, turns her attention to the most important relationship a woman could ever have: the one with...

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

de Stephen Grosz

An extraordinary book for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our lives.We are all storytellers-we create stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must...

The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy

de Stephen Gilligan

This is a book about how psychotherapy may be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love.In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair rising, it presents love as a skill and force that...

The Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku

de Eric Chudler

Fun, informative poetry about the brain.Elephant on brain

"You have a lot on your mind"

Neurologist says.

The brain has fascinated philosophers and scientists for centuries. And why not? It is perhaps the most...

Failure to Launch: Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult

de Michael DeVine & Lawrence V. Tucker

Failure to Launch sets out to identify the underlying reasons for the failure to launch epidemic with adult children. Morever, it also lays out a treatment plan to help launch these children out of their parents'...

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

de Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending.

Happy...

Saving Normal

de Allen Frances

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization...

Creating A Healthy Life and Marriage: A Holistic Approach: Body, Mind, Emotions and Spirit

de Judith Anne Desjardins

Winner of 16 prestigous book awards in the United States and Canada, the message of this book is one of hope and optimism that we can improve ourselves and our relationships with others. The material in this...

Dawn of Memories: The Meaning of Early Recollections in Life

de Arthur J. Clark

Dawn of Memories explores the significance of first memories and enables individuals to understand the meaning of early recollections throughout their lives. Using historical examples as well as firsthand accounts,...

Erotic Lifestyles

de Iris Finz & Steven Finz

Few writers know sex like Steven and Iris Finz. For more than a decade they have interviewed men and women across America, asking them to reveal their most intimate fantasies and their most sensual experiences...

The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby

de Kerry Malawista & Anne Adelman

The unexpected loss of a client can be a lonely and isolating experience for therapists. While family and friends can ritually mourn the deceased, the nature of the therapeutic relationship prohibits therapists...

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

de Daniel Derrin

Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the rhetorical practice of Francis Bacon and John Donne in both their writing and public speaking. It explores how their rhetorical planning negotiates the need both to use...

Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development: New Directions and International Perspectives

de Karen Caplovitz Barrett, Nathan A. Fox & George A. Morgan

The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together...

A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times

de Colin Heywood

In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. Heywood examines the different...

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

de Gary Greenberg

For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-the DSM-the...

Deadly Desires: A Psychoanalytic Study of Female Sexual Perversion and Widowhood in Fin-de-Siecle Women's Writing

de Julie Lokis-Adkins

During the fin-de-siecle, stories about hysterical women filled the air of Paris and the novels emerging during this era conveyed this hysteria and openly portrayed the symptoms of the women being treated at...

Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

de Shahrzad Siassi

How does one overcome the hardship of letting go of resentment in order to resume or establish a substantial bond with the traumatizing person, usually a parent, mindful of the fact that the experience of the...

Living on the Border: Psychotic Processes in the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

de David Bell & Aleksandra Novakovic

This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic...

The Transformational Self: Attachment and the End of the Adolescent Phase

de Harold K. Bendicsen

This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes associated with the transition from adolescence to young adulthood....

Who Was Mrs Willett?: Landscapes and Dynamics of Mind

de Chris Nunn

Here is an account of mentality and human experience, written for a multi-disciplinary readership. The focus is on how mind, consciousness and selves inter-relate, extending into exploration of ideas about the...