Psychology/Psychiatry

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The journey to serenity and peace, Dr Peck writes, can only be made with increasing self-awareness and social awareness. There are no easy answers for complex problems. In this text, he aims to show that there is a way to think with integrity, and to come to terms with dying and death.

"Addiction is a disorder in self-regulation. Individuals who become dependent on addictive substances cannot regulate their emotions, self-care, self-esteem, and relationships. In this monumental and illuminating text Philip Flores covers all the reasons why this is so. But it is the domain of interpersonal relations that he makes clear why individuals susceptible to substance use disorders (SUDs) are especially vulnerable. His emphasis on addiction as an attachment disorder is principally important because he provides extensive sc... read more

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Spirituality is a fast expanding area of interest to both the popular press and mainstream research in education, science, psychology and religion. Spirituality reveals the truth of who we are and being more in touch with our spirituality can be life changing. So many new age books are sensational and superficial, but this book is both well researched and presents important concepts in an easily comprehensible manner for the popular market. Readers will learn how to enhance intuitive abilities for use in all aspects of life and liv... read more

This transcript of a process-oriented psychology seminar provides a theoretical overview, and then continues on with demonstrations of how to work with individuals and groups. The interactions between Drs. Mindell and the seminar participants show that in order to get to the process, it may be necessary to employ trickster-like ways, based on the fabled, wise trickster of a Native American tribe, who did everything differently. His horse went forwards, for instance, but he rode it facing backwards, thereby taking a new approach.

Between youth and old age lies the uncharted territory of the 50s; a decade of often dramatic change. The author of this text explores the experience of living through your 50s, offering interviews with men and women who share their sense of loss and confusion, as well as their hopes. The 50s are shown as a rite of passage involving a cycle of separation, initiation and return, on which the first task is separation from mourning the loss of youthfulness. The author aims to redefine the experience of growing older, allowing both mou... read more

Would you know if someone close was lying to you? Do you want to get the truth out of people? Do you need the upper hand in negotiations? You need this book to avoid someone lying to you, manipulating you, or backing you into a corner.Written by a highly successful former US army interrogator, this book explains how to read body language and behaviour to get to the truth in any situation. Applied to both the business world and personal life, this book uncovers how you can tell if someone is lying by what there are saying or not tel... read more

What behaviour qualifies as play, what brain mechanisms are needed to produce play, and of what benefit does play have to our lives? With reference to a range of species, but using the feisty rat as their model, the authors synthesize three decades of empirical research to create the first truly integrated study that appreciates the significance of such previously neglected phenomena as the multi-functionality of play and the differences that exist between species.About the author:Professor Sergio Pellis and Associate Professor Viv... read more

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Looks at the question psychologists have been asking for hundreds of years - why are we the way we are? This book starts with you, your mind and brain, broadening out to look at your friends and other relationships, then finally on to crowds, mobs and religion. It includes information on real-life psychology, testing your memory, and personality.

'"Women Who Run With The Wolves" isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom and love. An oracle from one who knows.' - Alice Walker. In the classic "Women Who Run With The Wolves", Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the 'wild woman' has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women's emotions. Using a combinat... read more

It is through phantasy that we as humans see, recognise and comprehend the world. Phantasy colours and moulds behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Constantly changing, phantasies move and develop with growth and, like dreams, are created through our desires, our hopes, our fears, conflicts and anxieties. Arising from real experience interlaced with emotional reality, with lies we tell ourselves or with a deep knowledge of inescapable truths, phantasies can both enrich and confuse. Phantasy adds not only pleasure and emotional resonanc... read more

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Do you find yourself with more money than time? Or are you time rich, money poor? The problem of how to spend time and money presents choices as well as challenges that can be both fascinating and infuriating. We're told we live more comfortably and have more leisure time than at any other time in history, so why do we feel so rushed and, at times, broke? Does money make you happier or does it take you further away from what really matters? "Time Money Happiness" is a book that helps navigate these difficult questions and personal ... read more

"Authentic Happiness" is the first book to examine the mechanisms by which mentally healthy people become happy, and how happy people become very happy. Martin E. Seligman is the international leader of the Positive Psychology Movement. His first trade book, the international bestseller "Learned Optimism", greatly influenced the way people thought about mental health by bringing the concepts of cognitive psychology to a mass audience. "Authentic Happiness" is an even bigger ground-breaker. It represents the first time any scientist... read more

This book offers a surprising new prescription for coping with depression and anxiety, as well as other painful emotional states: don't try to get rid of them.
In Healing Through The Dark Emotions, Miriam Greenspan shows us that there's something good in so-called 'bad' feelings, if we would only stop and listen to them. She explains why learning to attend, befriend, and surrender to emotional pain actually leads to lasting relief, greater wisdom, and a deep sense of fulfilment. "Greenspan writes intensely and compassiona... read more

The renowned authority on yoga-based Eastern chakra has revised her groundbreaking work to this more accessible presentation that seamlessly integrates Western psychology and the Eastern chakra system. Includes a new Introduction by the author

With the evolution of human consciousness, nature has finally become conscious of itself. It has taken eons of time, this lumbering progress through the minds of reptiles, mammals, and primates, and it is still working out its purpose in the archetypes of the collective unconscious encoded in the most ancient parts of the human brain. The recent evolutionary history of our species, which Jung personified as "the two million-year-old human being in us all," is still active in our dreams, myths, psychiatric symptoms, traditional heal... read more