Browsing the "Psychology & Psychiatry" category: 900 books
THE HOLES IN YOUR HEAD... is an entertaining, informative compilation of over 400 amazing facts about the human mind and psychology drawn from the cutting edge of contemporary research. Some of these entries will amuse you; others shock. ...more »
ISBN: 192967094X / Renaissance E Books / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 253K
"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology—an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.... Jung’s insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such ...more »
ISBN: 1400804191 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 689K
Bringing Out the Best in People, New & Updated Edition, provides the latest and best motivational methods currently in use at such major companies as Xerox, 3M, and Kodak. ...more »
ISBN: 0071367691 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 734K
Lively, a popular speaker on time management and overcoming procrastination, covers the pros (yes, there are some!) and the cons of procrastination, then shows how to handle the situations that relate to it -- including those over which we have littl ...more »
ISBN: 007136644X / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Jun 1999 / File Size: 595K
Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others. ...more »
ISBN: 1400808782 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 338K
Inspiring, real-life examples reveal what it takes for women to leave their abusers, offering hope to those seeking answers about their own abuse or that of people they love. ...more »
ISBN: 0231500181 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 392K
How do you choose between hundreds of available therapies — offered by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors — to help you conquer painful feelings, dysfunctional relationships, or out-of-control behavior? Veteran m ...more »
ISBN: 0679647236 / At Random / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 270K
Blending Eastern practices, such as breathing, meditation, and energy work, with modern knowledge about physiology, Barefoot Doctor’s Handbook for Modern Lovers prescribes dozens of techniques, ranging from the erotic to the exotic, for ...more »
ISBN: 076790964X / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 352K
"My brother saw the face of God. You never recover from a trauma like that."So begins Angelhead, a taut, powerful memoir of the madness and crime that rips a family apart. "I didn't see God, of course, but I ...more »
ISBN: 0676806546 / Crown / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 218K
Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clin ...more »
ISBN: 1400803268 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Jun 1998 / File Size: 694K
Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities be cured? Should it be? Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews conducted in thirty-seven countries on six continents, as well as insights from recent discoveri ...more »
ISBN: 0684867869 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 313K
From the bestselling coauthor of Raising Cain comes a pathbreaking new book about the intricacies of children's friendships. ...more »
ISBN: 0345449452 / Ballantine / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 351K
Dr. Arthur Sokoloff, known as the "Zen Dentist, " has seen what stress can do to his patients and his colleagues, and, after traveling extensively in the Far East and studying for years in Buddhist monasteries and with well-known Zen Masters, he has ...more »
ISBN: 076799941X / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 615K
Until recently, theories of the brain and its diseases, and how it gives rise to mind and emotions were based on the model of a static, non-renewable network of nerve cells and their connections. Then, seemingly overnight, a revolutionary new concept ...more »
ISBN: 0071374485 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 449K
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer's childhood memories center around his warm, attentive father, a man whose exceptional mind earned him accolades as a sociology professor and author. But when Charles Lachenmeyer was stricken with paranoid schizophrenia, a disea ...more »
ISBN: 0767908988 / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 455K
Bringing order and relevance to the cascade of recent brain-search findings, the author makes clear how the brain responds to the guidance of the user. ...more »
ISBN: 0375421793 / Knopf / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 694K
It seems children are more violent and angry than ever before. Does our society make it difficult for them to stay out of trouble? Are neglectful, abusive, absent parents to blame? Does easy access to guns actually drive boys to violence? Faced with ...more »
ISBN: 0684857693 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 294K
At the turn of the twentieth century, William James was America's most widely read philosopher. In addition to being one of the founders of pragmatism, however, he was also a leading psychologist and author of the seminal work, The Principles of Psyc ...more »
ISBN: 1400807972 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 656K
ISBN: 0941711501 / Lerner Communications / Pub Date: Mar 1995 / File Size: 1243K
As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections bee ...more »
ISBN: 1400808847 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 510K
Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing fea ...more »
ISBN: 0520900251 / University of California Press / Pub Date: May 1998 / File Size: 908K
the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing. They imagined the human mind as quantifiable, defining their new enterprise through analogies to the better establi ...more »
ISBN: 1400800927 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 598K
Comparable in importance to Mikhail Bakhtin, Lydia Ginzburg distinguished herself among Soviet literary critics through her investigation of the social and historical elements that relate verbal art to life in a particular culture. Her work speaks di ...more »
ISBN: 1400802814 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 493K
ISBN: 5552039211 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 297K
ISBN: 5552039238 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 393K
