Psychology
Explore top psychology books, from social psychology and sports psychology to novels and beginner guides. Discover bestsellers and highly recommended reads in human psychology available online.
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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive UnconsciousKnow thyself, a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson...
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Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and MemoryKatherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. She argues that children be seen not as scientists but as members of a community of minds, striving not only to make sense, but also to...
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Psychology, Mental Health and DistressIs depression simply the result of chemical imbalances, or Schizophrenia a wholly biological disorder? What role do the broader circumstances of an individual's social, cultural and heuristic world play in the wider scheme of their psychological wellbeing? In this ground-breaking and highly innovative text,...
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Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New Psychoanalytic ApproachIncluded are previously unpublished essays on courage, leadership, and the self in society, earlier published papers presenting the theoretical basis of Kohut's ideas, and transcripts of conversations between Kohut and Strozier about cultures as interpreted by depth psychology.Psychoanalysts, as well as historians and others...
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The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy TalesIn The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment...
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Soul MatesIn Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore explored the importance of nurturing the soul and struck a chord nationwide the book became a long-term bestseller, topping charts across the country.Building on that book s wisdom, Soul Mates explores how relationships of all kinds enhance...
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Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and Its InterruptionIn Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)--this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes,...
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Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an EmotionIn Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how being compassionate is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes place...
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A Life of One's OwnHow often do we ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One's Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes...
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Statistics in Psychology: Explanations without EquationsHow do you choose the appropriate statistical method for any given research task? What are the features that discern one statistical method from another, and for which research projects are they appropriate to use? Written specifically with the undergraduate psychology student in mind and...
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The Making and Breaking of Affectional BondsHelping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with...
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Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the MindFrom the back rooms of New York City's age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone's quest to join the ranks of master magicians.As he navigates this quirky and...
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Psychology of the MediaFrom newspapers to social networking sites, the mass media play a huge role in shaping the way we see ourselves and others. In this engaging introduction, Giles explores our relationship with the media, looking at the effects of advertising, celebrity worship and media influence...
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The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of LifeFor decades, neuroscientists, psychologists, and an army of brain researchers have been struggling, in vain, to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Now there is a clear trail to the answer, and it leads through the dense jungle of quantum physics, Zen, and subjective experience,...
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Psychology of the Transference: (From Vol. 16 Collected Works)Extracted from Volume 16. An authoritative account, based on a series of 16th century alchemical pictures, of Jung's handling of the transference between analyst and patient.Author: C. G. JungPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 06/21/1969Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.41h x 5.45w x 0.63dISBN: 9780691017525
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Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and ZekiExploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winckelmann, Ruskin, Pater, Gombrich, and Baxandall), as well as artists such as Alberti and Leonardo and scientists from Aristotle to Zeki, John Onians shows...
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On BalanceEvery day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and preserve a balance of power in our government. Disturbed people are described as unbalanced. In this insightful, charming book, the philosopher and...
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The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought KnownDuring our formative years, we are continually "impressed" by the object world. Most of this experience will never be consciously thought, but it resides within us as assumed knowledge. In this influential work, Christopher Bollas terms this "the unthought known," offering radical new visions...
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Neuro-Hypnosis: Using Self-Hypnosis to Activate the Brain for ChangeDrawing from over 30 years of teaching, researching, and practicing hypnosis, the authors share systematic instructions, techniques, and exercises for finding your way into a hypnotic trance--or deepen your trance if you've already found it. With exercises specifically tailored to address a wide range...
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On CreativityCreativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book...
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