Pop Culture and Psychology

You are in control of your life: discover the mindset that is bound to make you happy. Do you know what it truly means to be happy? You may currently...

Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history...

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,...

This new edition of a text for both the professional and lay person focuses on self-hypnosis includes two new chapters on coping with depression and coping with surgery - alongside...

The concept of anxiety has long held a central place in psychoanalytic theories of mind and treatment. Yet, in recent years, data from the neurosciences and from pharmacological studies have...

Richard Gregory is one of the best known scientific personalities of our time. Here he not only presents essays on the rich subject of perception but shows how much we...

Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation, bitterness, anger and...

The author considers the development of psychology from the dawn of civilization to the present day. Available in paperback for the first time "The Shaping of Modern Psychology" will be...

In "Human Aggression" it is argued that the study of aggression by naturalistic approaches offers the best basis for designing more effective strategies for identifying, preventing and treating violent behaviour....

The authors provide a comprehensive and readable account of social identity theory. They consider the way people derive their identity from the social groups to which they belong and the...

Designed for psychology undergraduates, this is an introduction to the theory of personality. It suggests that the existence of several basic theoretical frameworks can enrich the teaching of the psychology...

The book titled Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New by the author Heinz Kohut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This original theory of personality is based on the concept that there are many workable ways by which individuals can construct their world. George Kelly's starting point and basic premise...

Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. The essays are arranged around major Kristevan themes:...

-- Albert J. Solnit, M.D., Yale University

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was the founder of psycho-analysis. From a method of treating neurosis in upper-middle-class patients in Vienna, Freud developed a novel way of looking at human nature. His...

This volume contains the last four of Freud's six major case histories. The "Rat Man" first came to Freud in 1907, aged 29, suffering from obsessional fears and irresistible, violent...

The book titled Freud and His Father by the author Marianne Krull. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An introduction to four influential models of personality development and organization: traditional psychoanalytic drive theory; ego psychology; object relations theory; and self psychology. The text systemmatically explores their implications for...

Is there a personality type that causes cancer? Can moods affect the course of disease? Many popular health books argue that our psyches control our diseases, in effect making us...

'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is...

This book aims to show that, contrary to the received wisdom, the ideas of the two most influential thinkers of the modern age were not by definition antagonistic or antithetical,...

'A fascinating exploration of human potential that will change how you think about thinking . . . Essential reading for anyone who wants to thrive in an uncertain world' DANIEL...

An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales, celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude 'An extra ordinary selection...

The book titled Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by the author John D'Emilio. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in psychotherapy? What role...

This book explores ways we make contact with the depths in ourselves and each other. We are deeply moved by contact we make with life, yet also puzzled by a...

Advocating a call to the return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis, the author of this text illustrates his writing with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott. He expands on...

In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest...

This text attempts to answer the question: how much of what we do is the result of conscious and deliberate decisions and how much originates in unconscious, unthought out, automatic...

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech...

In Hate and Love in Psychoanalytic Institutions, Jurgen Reeder investigates the professional superego of the psychoanalyst. This superego designates a prescriptive and prohibiting role that the individual must play within...

Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, setting its ideas in their appropriate social and intellectual context. Based on lectures given...

Subjects of Analysis, the fourth of Thomas Ogden's books, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of analyst and analysand in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity (the individual...

A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ - 'a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea' ( Harvard...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'In this book, Arthur C. Brooks helps people find greater happiness as they age and change' - The Dalai Lama 'This book is amazing'...

A look at 101 of the key issues that underpin our understanding of modern psychology - from addiction and body language, through to self esteem and work ethics. Psychologists have...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FROM THE 2025 BBC REITH LECTURER A Guardian , Daily Telegraph , New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended'...

The book that every parent needs. Written by the expert child psychologist, Dr Elizabeth Kilbey, from Channel 4's The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 Year Olds . 'Children...

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces A STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life'...

To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask:...

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what...

Emotional intelligence is an important trait for success at work. IQ tests are biased against minorities. Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter. Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate...

Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely is a fascinating and diverse look at loneliness from a psychoanalytic perspective. The four sections of the book: Loneliness, Creativity and Artists; Clinical Dimensions...

' A thorough and compassionate primer for people concerned about their safety ' Meryl Streep 'The book taps the anxieties of an era ' New York Times --- As seen...

The book titled The Essentials of Psychoanalysis by the author Sigmund Freud. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.