Human Science / Psychology

The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture

by Mary Pipher

"Mary Pipher takes on our planet's greatest problems with the skills of a truly gifted therapist. She knows why we avoid and deny the truth and she knows how we can heal ourselves and our communities even as...

What Do Women Want?

by Daniel Bergner

When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's...

The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love

by Anodea Judith

Positing that modern society is an adolescent culture, driven by greed and power and lying on the cusp of an era of spiritual growth and shifting values, this book explores mythic themes in various historical...

The Recovering Heart: Emotional Sobriety for Women

by Beverly Conyers

For women in recovery from addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, and compulsive behaviors, this painful self-criticism goes even deeper.. Many of us have endured some sort of trauma at a critical point in our...

Awakenings

by Oliver Sacks

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a...

Migraine

by Oliver Sacks

The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange...

Lincoln Dreamt He Died

by Andrew Burstein

Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual’s inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In...

Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy: Studies in Comparative Religion

by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading authors...

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...

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization...

The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

Have you ever . . .

• Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
• Paid too much in an eBay auction?
• Continued to do something you knew was bad for you?
• Sold stocks too late, or too...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Healing Paradox: A Revolutionary Approach to Treating and Curing Physical and Mental Illness

by Steven, M.D. Goldsmith

Why does Western medicine fail to cure chronic physical and mental illness? Why do so many treatments and drugs work only for a limited time before eventually losing effectiveness or producing harmful side effects?...

A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind

by Robert Burton

What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?

Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world’s greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither...

Industrial Psychology

by Charles S. Myers

One of the first psychology books written for the general population, written by several members of the psychological community wishing to explain their field and its worth in the industrial world.

The Psychology of Hysteria - A Selection of Classic Articles on the Analysis and Symptoms of Hysteria

by Various

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from...