Human Science / Psychology / Psychopathology

I am Aspiengirl: The Unique Characteristics, Traits and Gifts of Females on the Autism Spectrum

by Tania Marshall

Have you ever wondered why she says she feels different to her peers? Wondered why life seems challenging for her? Her peers seem to gracefully and naturally meet their milestones, yet she has reached some developmental...

Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder

by Marc D. Feldman

Taken from bizarre cases of real patients, Playing Sick? is the first book to chronicle the devastating impact of phony illnesses--factitious disorders and Munchausen syndrome--on patients and caregivers alike....

Rethinking Depression: How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning

by Eric Maisel

In recent decades, much of the unhappiness inherent in the human condition has been monetized and labeled as the disease of depression and related "disorders." Maisel persuasively critiques this sickness model...

Depression as a Spiritual Journey

by Stephanie Sorrell

Depression as a Spiritual Journey is the first book to address depression as a spiritual journey in the context of medication and counselling. It serves as an invitation to reframe depression in a new way. Many...

4 Weeks To An Organized Life With AD/HD

by Jeffrey Freed & Joan Shapiro

This innovative program offers practical, useful strategies for people with AD/HD, so that they can make use of their brain functions that do work well and learn day-to-day skills that may otherwise be too difficult...

All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body

by Kim Noble

Taking the reader through an extraordinary world where the very nature of reality is different, this personal narrative tells the story of one woman’s terrifying battle to understand her own mind. From the...

The Digital Diet: The 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life

by Daniel Sieberg

We all know someone who needs a digital diet.

Technology has overwhelmed our daily lives to the point of constant distraction. Many of us can no longer focus on a single task or face-to-face conversation without...

Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian

by John Elder Robison

In Be Different, New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye shares a new batch of endearing stories about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into...

Trauma-Attachment Tangle: Modifying EMDR to Help Children Resolve Trauma and Develop Loving Relationships

by Joan Lovett

Trauma-Attachment Tangle offers informative and inspiring clinical stories of children who have complex trauma and attachment issues from experiences such as adoption, hospitalization, or death of a parent....

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research challenges and solutions

by Jo Van Herwegen & Deborah Riby

Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research itself...

Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships

by Susan Peabody

Love addiction manifests in many forms, from Fatal Attraction-type obsessive lust to less extreme but nonetheless psychologically and emotionally harmful forms. The most common of these is staying in a bad relationship...

CBASP as a Distinctive Treatment for Persistent Depressive Disorder: Distinctive features

by Jr., James P. McCullough, Elisabeth Schramm & J. Kim Penberthy

The Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is the only psychotherapy model? developed specifically for chronic depression. In the latest addition to the successful Distinctive Features...

Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma: Conversations with pioneering clinicians and researchers

by Daniela F. Sieff

Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma is an interdisciplinary book which explores our current understanding of the forces involved in both the creation and healing of emotional trauma. Through engaging...

The Psychology of Eating and Drinking

by Alexandra W. Logue

Choice Recommended Read

This insightful, thought-provoking, and engaging book explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating...

The Correlation Between Trauma and Addiction

by Johanna O'Flaherty

Trauma and addiction frequently go together, and when they do they form complex, difficult to treat co-occurring disorders.

Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing through Intervention

by Norma Tracey, Marilyn Charles, Celia Conolly & Jeffrey L. Eaton et al.

Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child reveals ways of identifying, understanding, and healing transgenerational trauma. Gunawirra, a unique treatment project in Sydney, focuses on preschool...

Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

by Stephen M. Edelson, James B. Adams, Martha R. Herbert & Darold A. Treffert et al.

With updates from some of the best-known names in the autism field, Bernard Rimland's seminal work on autism theory is made available for a new generation of readers in this anniversary edition.

Hijacked Brains: The Experience and Science of Chronic Addiction

by MD Henrietta Robin Barnes

Personal narratives and recent studies in brain science illustrate how addiction is a chronic illness

DSM-IV-TR in Action: Includes DSM-5 Update Chapter

by Sophia F. Dziegielewski

Thoroughly updated and revised?the bestselling resource for the practical application of the DSM-IV-TR for clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment

Now with the most current treatments and evidence-based...

Depression: The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Tina P. Schwartz

Serious depression afflicts over two million teenagers each year in the United States alone, and it can often be difficult for teens to recognize, cope with, and get help for their depression. This book helps...