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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Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for SelfLike Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.Author: David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter, Robin Marantz HenigPublisher:...
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Evolution's EndIt's time for the way we think about our families, our schools, and our lives to evolve.This passionate and provocative critique of the way we raise our children and undermine our society's future delineates the ways in which we thart our creative progess, and...
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Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn'tInsults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others?...
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Innovative IntelligenceInnovation is a key source of competitive advantage, but it remains frustratingly elusive for many organizations. This book shows you how to close the innovation gap by making individuals and organizations systematically and sustainably innovative. You will learn how to embrace a culture of...
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Creating Mental IllnessIn this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social...
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Other Side Normal PBIn this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind's most enduring and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be "normal?" In The Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological component of normalcy, revealing the hidden...
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered ProstitutesIn this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles,...
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Nice To Meet MeIn the United States alone, there are almost twenty million men who experienced unwanted sexual abuse before the age of eighteen. One in every six men. Consequently, these men are forced to go through life managing the horrors of their past, while society as...
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Kinds of Power: A Guide to Its Intelligent UsesIn the boldest expose on the nature of power since Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety. Power, we often forget, has many faces, many different expressions. "Empowerment,"...
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The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with MusicIn his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect(R), Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music. Now he shows you how to help the children in your life experience the same benefits.You don't have to be an expert on classical music to use...
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Women in TherapyIn clear, lively prose, Harriet Lerner takes a bold look at women and the psychotherapists who work with them.Author: Harriet LernerPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1994Pages: 266Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.56w x 0.68dISBN: 9780060972288About the AuthorLerner, Harriet: - Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is...
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Yalom ReaderIn both his nonfiction and his fiction, Yalom uses the lens of psychotherapy to explore human nature and shows us that the line between the true and the imagined is not always easy to distinguish. What has driven Dr. Yalom from the beginning of...
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The Goddess: Mythological Images of the FeminineIn a series of chapters each focusing on a different goddess or mythical woman, Christine Downing traces her own path of individuation from maiden-daughter to mature woman. A therapist, university professor of religion, and former president of the American Academy of Religion, she writes...
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Lonely: Learning to Live with SolitudeIn a boldly honest and elegantly written memoir--the first on this topic--Emily White reveals the painful and sometimes debilitating experience of living with chronic loneliness. In the vein of popular favorites such as Girl, Interrupted and Manic, Lonely approaches loneliness in the way that...
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Coping with Chronic Illness: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach for Adherence and DepressionIf you suffer from a chronic medical condition like cancer, HIV, diabetes, asthma, or hypertension, you know how hard it can be to perform all the self-care behaviors required of you, especially if you are also dealing with depression. Studies have shown that depressed...
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Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible WorldHumans are existential animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our ability to ponder the big questions about death and meaning and the anxiety that these questions can provoke have motivated us to be a species not...
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The Mourning Handbook: The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping with All Aspects of Death and DyHelen Fitzgerald, author of The Grieving Child, has compiled a guide to help readers practically and emotionally grieve the death of loved ones. No one should be left to grieve alone. Even with the help of friends and family, grieving the death of a...
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Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled ChildHave you, as a parent, ever found yourself treating your children in a way you would never tolerate from someone else? The authors of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting call for a new Golden Rule: Do unto your children as you would have other people do...
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Making Nice with Naughty: An Intimacy Guide for the Rule-Following, Organized, Perfectionist, Practical, and Color-Within-The-Line TypesHave too much self-control?Society tells you self-control is great; it's a virtue. Yet, your success in managing emotions, getting the job done, getting accolades for being detail-oriented, planful, driven, etc. haven't led to success in your intimate relationships and in the bedroom.You've been told...
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Self Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative SocietyGardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational. Clark Kerr, ScienceAuthor: John W....
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