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My Therapist's Dog: Lessons in Unconditional Love

by Diana Wells

Diana Wells's intriguing exploration into the rewards of relationships--both the canine and human varieties--begins when she reluctantly starts seeing a psychologist, Beth, during a difficult time in her life....


Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

by Sudhir Venkatesh

In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs

First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded...


Freud

by Peter D. Kramer & Peter Kramer

Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also...


Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology 2011

by Sylvia Nasar

In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It’s...


The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

by Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic...


To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World

by Gail A. Hornstein

In this marvelously researched and moving biography closely grounded in Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's work, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone...


Brain in Pain: A Wounded Healer's Heart-Wrenching and Heart-Warming Guide to Schizophrenia

by Peter Cohen

Brain in Pain gives a first-hand view of the world of schizophrenia and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness. Written by Peter Cohen, Brain in Pain is an invaluable window into his compelling world....


My Father's Guru

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

As a child growing up in the Hollywood Hills during the 1950s, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson thought it was perfectly normal that a guru named Paul Brunton lived with his family and dictated everything about their...


Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian "inner circle" with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff...


Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle

by Lois W. Banner

A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student,...


My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician

by Lon Milo DuQuette

A rare glimpse into the fascinating, sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious world of a modern ceremonial magician. Hailed by critics as the most entertaining author and one of the most widely respected members...


The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress

by Scott Nadelson

Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson’s life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into...


Heinz Kohut

by Charles Strozier

An incisive biography of the founder of "self psychology" -- a key movement in American psychology -- and one of the greatest analysts since Freud.  Heinz Kohut was at the center of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic...


The Other Side of the Couch

by Gail Albert

The Other Side of the Couch is a book by Gail Albert, who received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.


Doctor of Love: James Graham and His Celestial Bed

by Lydia Syson

Widely accepted as the world's first sex therapist, Dr Graham was devoted to the research of the effect of physical stimuli on the psyche, and more specifically on sexual activity. This biography is a depiction...


Loving the Tasmanian Devil: Reflections on Marriage and Asperger Syndrome

by Maureen McCarthy Bartlett

Loving the Tasmanian Devil combines research on autism spectrum disorders and the author's knowledge of literature, pop music and philosophy with accounts of daily life on a large dairy farm with three sons...


Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism

by Dawn Phd Prince-Hughes

“This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people’s autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the...


Brief Lives: Sigmund Freud

by David Carter

Born to Jewish parents in mid-19th-century Austria, Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure needing no introduction, yet his reputation owes as much to myth as to the facts of his life and his work. Here, David...


Some NEW Kind of Trailer Trash: The Story of an Outsider's Inside View of the Revolution of Consciousness

by Brad , Ph.D. Blanton

Dr. Brad Blanton, bestselling author of the Radical Honesty book series, is at ease in this first volume of his autobiography Some NEW Kind of Trailer Trash. He is free in telling any tale about himself, including...


Serving the Insane : True Stories from the Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse

by Bruce Donald Gilham

Synopsis: From 1969 to 1974, Bruce Donald Gilham experienced a mental institution from inside its locked doors... as a psychiatric nurse. Written from the perspective of forty years later, this collection of...