Psychology / Emotions

Conquering Fear

by Harold S. Kushner

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.

An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises. In...

Tools for Transforming Trauma

by Robert Schwarz

Tools for Transforming Trauma provides clinicians with an integrative framework that covers a wide range of therapeutic modalities and a "black bag" full of therapeutic tools for healing trauma patients.

A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

by Marilee Strong

Self-mutilation is a behavior so shocking that it is almost never discussed. Yet estimates are that upwards of eight million Americans are chronic self-injurers. They are people who use knives, razor blades,...

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

by 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...

Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor

by Mikita Brottman

Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social force and...

Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents: Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts

by Denis Flynn

Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents conveys the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores the life and death...

Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis

by Susan Kavaler-Adler

In her earlier books, Susan Kavaler-Adler identified healthy mourning for traumas and life changes as an essential aspect of successful analysis, and drew the distinction between a healthy acceptance of mourning...

The Voice of Shame: Silence and Connection in Psychotherapy

by Robert G. Lee & Gordon Wheeler

Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this groundbreaking...

Clinical Values: Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment

by Sandra Buechler

In this refreshingly honest and open book, Sandra Buechler looks at therapeutic process issues from the standpoint of the human qualities and human resourcefulness that the therapist brings to each clinical...

Linking Emotional Intelligence and Performance at Work: Current Research Evidence with Individuals and Groups

by Vanessa Urch Druskat, Gerald Mount & Fabio Sala

In this edited volume, leading edge researchers discuss the link between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and workplace performance. Contributors from many areas such as social science, management (including organizational...

The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood and Emotion

by Valerie Ann Worwood

This unique guide to aromatherapy examines the effects of fragrance on our minds and emotions and advises on using fragrance for emotional healing and personality enhancement.

The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them

by Karuna Cayton

With lively exercises and inspiring real-world examples, this book will help you neutralize suffering and step onto the path of a radically liberating self-understanding.

The Culture of Shame

by Andrew P. Morrison

The author exposes the many masks of shame and examines the way it paralyzes us, individually and collectively. He draws on powerful case stories to illustrate the language and impact of shame and how it can...

About Grief: Insights, Setbacks, Grace Notes, Taboos

by Ron Marasco & Brian Shuff

About Grief is a refreshingly down-to-earth book about an issue that blindsides many people. Written in a warm and conversational way that is, at times, deeply moving, at times, surprisingly amusing, and always...

Coping with Guilt

by Windy Dryden

Do you sometimes wish you could turn the clock back and re-live past mistakes? Do you feel it’s your responsibility to make others happy? Are you more worried about hurting others than living your own life?...

Sandtray: Playing to Heal, Recover, and Grow

by Roxanne Rae

Sandtray refers to psychotherapies that use sand, water, and miniatures in a tray of sand where clients create a three-dimensional “world.” This story-driven book is based in clinical practice and illustrated...

The Anatomy of Bereavement

by Beverley Raphael

In this comprehensive book, Beverley Raphael describes all the stages of mourning and healing, and analyzes how the effects of loss differ at each stage of life.

Uncommon Path: Awakening Authentic Joy

by Mick Quinn

Through his simple yet profound message in The Uncommon Path, author Mick Quinn offers a compelling guide to uncovering and growing beyond concealed conditioning on the road to awakening our full potential....

Outsmarting Anger: 7 Strategies for Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion

by Joseph Shrand & Leigh Devine

Surefire strategies for transforming anger in yourself and others In this must-have resource, Dr. Joseph Shrand offers seven innovative yet remarkably uncomplicated strategies to help turn powerful anger impulses...

Love

by Tom Inglis

Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of...