Popular Psychology Books
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)
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a... (more)
Connections: The New Science of Emotion
Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, its nature and origin a long-held mystery. But thanks to new science and technology, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In... (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)
Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviours and make positive changes to both your thoughts and... (more)
Love Bombing: Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat
"Love Bombing" is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier trajectory. It is simple to do, easily explained... (more)
Zero Degrees of Empathy
We have always struggled to explain why some people behave in the most evil way imaginable, while others are completely self sacrificing. Is it possible that - rather than thinking in terms of 'good'... (more)
The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems
Mindfulness offers a path to well-being and tools for coping with life's inevitable hurdles. And though mindfulness may sound exotic, you can cultivate it - and reap its proven benefits - without... (more)
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
"Passionate Marriage" is recognized as the pioneering book on intimate human relationships. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition explores the ways in which passion can be kept alive... (more)
The Art of Inspired Living: Coach Yourself with Positive Psychology
This book is about learning to live your life more fully. It doesn't promise you abundant joy, the relationship of your dreams, untold riches or miracle cures. But what it does promise you is a... (more)
Why Do People Get Ill?: Exploring the Mind-body Connection
Have you ever wondered why people get ill when they do? How does the mind affect the body? Why does modern medicine seem to have so little interest in the unconscious processes that can make us fall... (more)
Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence
The teenage author of this remarkable book has filled a gap in the current literature on Asperger Syndrome. Drawing from his own experiences, he wrote this enlightening, honest and witty book in an... (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)
Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
An exploration into the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented first world pantry of abundance, access and excess, Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific... (more)
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness: Updated and Expanded Edition
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate... (more)
8 Keys to Forgiveness
While it may seem like a simple enough act, forgiveness is a difficult, delicate process that, if executed correctly, can be a profoundly moving and deep learning experience. Whatever the scenario... (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)
How to Develop Emotional Health
Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different people. To some, it might mean life satisfaction, to others, a fleeting moment of joy. Rather than seeking to be happy, Oliver... (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)
The Complete CBT Guide for Anxiety
This is a highly respectable and authoritative self-help guide on all the anxiety disorders: generalised anxiety disorder, health anxiety, panic, phobias, social anxiety, OCD. Edited by three leading... (more)
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
The Mindful Way through Depression draws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to help you break the mental... (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)
This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency
'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still drive, the planes still fly...everything just continues. And that's probably the... (more)
Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality
AS WE TAKE CHARGE OF OUR INDIVIDUAL POWER TO CREATE, WE HAVE THE POTENTIAL, AS A SPECIES, TO CHANGE OUR WORLD. Every creation begins as a thought. Our thoughts travel as electrical impulses along... (more)
Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation
Full Catastrophe Living is a manual for developing your own personal meditation practice and learning how to use mindfulness to promote improved health and healing in your own life. It is based on... (more)
The Psychology of Grief
What is happening emotionally when we grieve for a loved one? Is there a `right' way to grieve? What effect does grief have on how we see ourselves? The Psychology of Grief is a humane and... (more)
Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why
How much do you really know about your own hands? Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing,... (more)
The Hero's Journey: A Voyage of Self-Discovery
Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts truly take you on a voyage of self-discovery. The Hero's Journey examines the questions: How can you live a meaningful life? What is the deepest life you are called... (more)
Parties, Dorms and Social Norms: A Crash Course in Safe Living for Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum
The late teens and twenties are exciting times, but filled with potential pitfalls as young people navigate the transition into independent adult life. This handbook is filled with the information... (more)