Pop Culture and Psychology

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND AFTERWORD 'A great read.' JON RONSON 'A wonderful introduction to neuroscience.' INDEPENDENT Have you wondered why we recognise people's faces but forget their names? Or...

Discover why patience really is a virtue with these 250 quotes and exercises designed to help you lead a happier, more successful life. Patience is both a virtue and a...

Theodore Hamm uses the 1960 execution of Caryl Chessman as a lens for examining how politics and debates about criminal justice became a volatile mix that ignited postwar California. The...

"Frazzetto uses psychology, neurology and biological information to explore the ways in which intimacy manifests in different types of relationships. He recounts the stories of eight relationships. . . ....

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather...

Discover the disturbing inner workings of the serial killer brain in this gripping compendium of true crime stories, each placing the mind of an infamous murderer under the microscope For...

We all know that the written word is full of traps for the unwary, and this goes double for those in their early years of learning it. An earnest attempt...

Discover the disturbing inner workings of the serial killer brain in this gripping compendium of true crime stories, each placing the mind of an infamous murderer under the microscope For...

All organizations have a culture, whether they acknowledge it or not, and whether it's helping or hindering them. Get it right, and culture can be a positive force for good....

Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to...

Social anxiety is a serious-yet often overlooked-form of anxiety commonly experienced by teens. If left untreated, it can lead to a significantly increased risk of developing depression and even addiction...

Think of a secret that you're keeping from others. It shouldn't take long; behavioural scientist Michael Slepian finds that on average, we are keeping as many as thirteen secrets at...

A landmark book that offers a holistic counseling approach that joins career planning and the life path of an individual. The author details the concept of integrative life planning (ILP),...

Advertising research organizations have been trying for years to measure the effectiveness of advertising. Recent research by Erik du Plessis and his colleagues at Adtrack South Africa, and subsequently at...

Prepare to view the world through a new lens - SPEED - a groundbreaking exploration that challenges your perceptions of life's driving force, from the internationally bestselling author Explore how...

Freud is discredited, so we do not have to think about the darker strains of unconcious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to...

Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be...

Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct propelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of...

The book titled Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva by the author Patrick Dillon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Lessons in mental health and life from acclaimed entertainment journalist Jonathon Moran Mental health issues can affect everyone, so it's crucial that you have strategies to help you combat life's...

An autobiographical "period piece" describing the events that led to the author's meeting and work with Jung and to her becoming a committed Jungian analyst. Her memoirs then portray her...

Written with the same clarity, directness, and humor that have made Simon LeVay one of the most popular lecturers at Harvard Medical School and at the University of California, San...

The book titled Driving Passion by the author Peter Marsh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Feelings, also known as emotions and affects, intrude on our awareness in all that we do. Affect: Psychoanalytic Perspectives addresses our newest views about these phenomena from multiple vantages. Developmental,...

The book titled Jung, Freud and Sabina Spie by the author Most Dangerous Method A. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Mind of Her Own: Life and Times of Karen Horney by the author Susan Quinn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Freud's most famous work and one of the most famous books in modern European history, published for the first time as a Penguin Modern Classic. By a detailed investigation of...

Series edited by celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Philips Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of...

'A modernist ... playing with meaning, creating a new language for the idea of self' - Independent The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the...

This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud...

One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings. This project, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers. Freud's religious unbeliefs...

This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...