Popular Psychology Books
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: A Five Areas Approach: Fourth Edition
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: A Five Areas Approach uses the proven and trusted five areas model of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people assess and manage depression and low mood... (more)
Life Lessons from Freud
Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed... (more)
Intimate Relationships: Pain and Joy
If human life, as the author argues, is a constant and desperate bid to compensate for our mortality, then the desire to love and to be loved is our greatest imagined panacea against the fact of our... (more)
Troubleshooting Relationships on the Autism Spectrum: A User's Guide to Resolving Relationship Problems
Don't you wish relationships came with a manual? Ashley Stanford has written a user's guide to relationships that adopts a practical troubleshooting approach to resolving difficulties that will... (more)
The Independent Woman's Handbook for Super Safe Living on the Autistic Spectrum
Certain characteristics of autism, such as difficulty understanding social cues, may make women vulnerable to potentially dangerous situations. Robyn Steward has written this supportive guide to help... (more)
Almost Anorexic: Is My (Or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?
Millions of men and women struggle with disordered eating. Some stand at the mirror wondering how they can face the day when they look so fat. Other over-exercise, binge, or purge. Many skip meals,... (more)
Confidence and Success with CBT: Small Steps to Achieve Your Big Goals with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Offering simple, time-tested techniques for zeroing in on and rewriting negative, self-destructive patterns of thought and behavior that a person can acquire over a lifetime, cognitive behavioral... (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)
Putting on the Brakes: Understanding and Taking Control of Your ADD or ADHD: Third Edition
Completely updated and expanded, Putting on the Brakes: Third Edition continues to be the go-to resource for kids with AD/HD.
This essential guide — celebrating its 20th year in print — is... (more)
Now What?: An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery
Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention,... (more)
8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships
A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships, and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field is... (more)
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
This book gives you an analysis of the science and psychology of wilderness survival examines case stories of people who have survived against the odds or failed to survive despite comparatively... (more)
Almost a Psychopath: Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy?
Do you know someone who is too manipulative and full of himself? Does someone you know charm the masses yet lack the ability to deeply connect with those around her?
Grandiosity and exaggerated... (more)
Mindfulness: Be Mindful. Live in the Moment.
Too often, life just races by. You don't fully experience what's happening now, because you're too busy thinking about what needs doing tomorrow, or distracted by what happened yesterday. And all the... (more)
Shrinking the News: Headline Stories on the Couch
Shrinking the News brings together Coline Covington’s wide range of articles from her regular column in the online newspaper, The Week. The articles cover current events from October 2008 until... (more)
Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter Along the Path to Hope and Healing
One out of four Americans will experience mental illness in their lifetime; major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the United States for ages 15 through 44. However, only a... (more)
Counselling Skills For Dummies: Second Edition
Discover the practical skills for helping others. Whether you are considering becoming a counsellor, have to provide some form of counselling as part of your job, or are simply interested in... (more)
Talk Talk: Effective Communication in Everyday Life
Using the easily understood vocabulary of Transactional Analysis and her own original contribution to the theory, Mavis Klein presents a handbook that will vividly illuminate and clarify all the... (more)
Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for You: Second Edition
Millions of people would like to cut down on their drinking without giving it up altogether and this encouraging book has helped many make that goal a reality. Distinguished clinician-researchers... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Reducing Stress: Using Compassion Focused Therapy
Stress is an integral part of life and something that affects us all to different degrees at different times. It can result from trivial events such as losing one's keys to extreme life events such... (more)
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me
A graphic memoir. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose... (more)
Strictly Bipolar
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now... (more)
Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction
'Business owner of successful consulting company presents a pragmatic approach to spiritual development by indentifying twenty-one measurable spiritual intelligence skills described in faith-neutral... (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)
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Recovering from Trauma
Terrible events are very hard to deal with and those who go through a trauma often feel permanently changed by it. Grief, numbness, anger, anxiety and shame are all very common emotional reactions to... (more)
Mindfulness for Life: How to Use Mindfulness Meditation to Improve Your Life
Many of us in the modern world are unhappier than they need to be, and mindfulness offers a solution that works. Science and clinical practice have only recently 'discovered' the profound potential... (more)
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures.... (more)
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Building Self-Confidence
The aim of this self-help book is to help the reader to recognize the ways in which they are self-critical and to understand the impact it may be having on their life. Based on Compassion Focused... (more)
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life
Hundreds of thousands of people have read Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life to identify the things that are most important to them and give focus and direction to their lives. Get Out of Your... (more)