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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Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable PatientsAfter thirty-five years in practice, prominent New York psychotherapist and author Robert Akeret found himself in the thrall of a single question: Did therapy make a real difference in his patients' lives? So on a sunny morning in April Dr. Akeret got into his...
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Identity and the Life CycleThis book collects three early papers that--along with Childhood and Society--many consider the best introduction to Erikson's theories. Ego Development and Historical Change is a selection of extensive notes in which Erikson first undertook to relate to each other observations on groups studied on...
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The Minimal SelfFaced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern,...
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My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for IdentityWhen Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970's no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to...
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and DecidesFrom a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams?...
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds"Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Terrific." --@MichaelPollan "Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating." --USA Today "A vivid and thought-provoking...
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Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday LifeIn the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness....
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The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech WorldA "brilliant and practical" study of why our brains aren't built for media multitasking--and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way (Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart) Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed...
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Theories of Development: Concepts and ApplicationsThe result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also...
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Reconstructing Reason and RepresentationA study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology, suggesting that knowledge is a set of natural kinds housed in the modules of a massively modular mind. In Reconstructing Reason and Representation, Murray Clarke offers a detailed study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary...
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Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive PsychologyWhen we think of psychology, we think of a field dedicated to understanding and curing the dark side of life--addictions, phobias, compulsions, anxieties, and on and on. But there is a field of psychology that looks at the bright side, that considers seriously these...
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The Community of Advantage: A Behavioural Economist's Defence of the MarketThe Community of Advantage asks how economists should do normative analysis. The growing consensus in favour of paternalism and 'nudging' has urged normative analysis towards the satisfaction of individual's preferences. Its conclusions have supported a long-standing liberal tradition of economics that values economic freedom...
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Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and FutureNurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking...
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Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier LivesCollege students and other young adults today experience high levels of stress as they pursue personal, educational, and career goals. These struggles can have serious consequences, and may increase the risk of psychological distress and mental illness among the age group now commonly referred...
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Bullying Scars: The Impact on Adult Life and RelationshipsAn explosion of research on bullying has raised our collective awareness of the serious impacts it can have on children. No longer do we accept it as an innocuous rite of passage, just a part of growing up that we grin and bear and...
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them"Surprising and remarkable...Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars."--The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us)...
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We AreIn 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between...
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The Farther Reaches of Human NatureAbraham H. Maslow was one of the foremost spokespersons of humanistic psychology. In The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, an extension of his classic Toward a Psychology of Being, Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science...
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Revel for Life Span Development: A Topical Approach -- Combo Access CardFor courses in Lifespan Development A brief, topical overview of life span development Revel(TM) Life Span Development: A Topical Approach helps students to see the "big picture" of development across the entire life span. Throughout this brief version of his hallmark text Development Across...
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Revel for Working in Groups: Communication Principles and Strategies -- Access CardA practical approach that helps students learn how to work together in groups successfully REVEL(TM) for Working in Groups provides students with practical strategies, built on theory and research, for communicating and working successfully in groups. Utilizing the concept of balance as a unifying...
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