Psychology

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...

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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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...

Enacting Solutions

by Claude Rosselet & Georg Senoner

Managers and consultants consistently note that much of what has been planned is not implemented and that on the other hand other things that were not planned successfully emerge. The driving forces for innovation...

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

by 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

by 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

by 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...

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

by 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

by 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

by 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...

Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers

by Eli R. Lebowitz & Haim Omer

"Lebowitz and Omer have taken the latest and most relevant scientific research and synthesized it into an essential read for caregivers of anxious children. Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide...

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

by Temple Grandin & Richard Panek

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate

Asylum: Hollywood Tales from My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son

by Joe Pantoliano

In this deeply moving and resourceful memoir, the beloved actor and New York Times bestselling author takes aim at the stigma attached to mental illness by writing candidly and humorously about his own struggle...

Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community

by Ryan LaMothe

A foundational premise in this book is that the question and struggle of the 21st century for people in Western societies is one of community. To be relevant and helpful, psychological and, in particular, psychoanalytic...

Trauma: A Social Theory

by Jeffrey Alexander

In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.

Alexander argues that traumas...

The Experience of Thinking: How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour

by Christian Unkelbach & Rainer Greifeneder

When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony's truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such "experiences...

Handbook of Vowels and Vowel Disorders

by Martin J. Ball & Fiona E. Gibbon

In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants. But what vowels are, how they differ from one another, how they vary among speakers, and how they are subject to...