She - Understanding Feminine Psychology by Robert A. Johnson

$8.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

Many writers and scholars have long considered that the ancient myth of Amor and Psyche is really the story of a woman?s task of becoming whole, complete, and individuated. Here, examining this ancient story in depth and lighting up the details, Robert Johnson has produced an arresting and perceptive ex ploration of what it means to become a woman. You will not read these pages without understanding the important women in your life and a good deal more about yourself as a woman. ...Show more

The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and The Interpretation of Dreams by C G Jung

$10.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good

Mindblindness - An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind by Simon Baron-Cohen

$14.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret, predict, and participate in social behavior and communicati on. We ascribe mental states to people- states such as thoughts, desires, knowledge, and intentions.Building on many years of research, Baron-Cohen concludes that children with autism, suffer from "mindblindness" as a result of a selective impairment in mindreading. For these children, the world is essentially devoid of mental things.Baron-Cohen develops a theory that draws on data from comparative psychology, from developmental, and from neuropsychology. He argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms have evolved that allow us to mindread, to make sense of actions, to interpret gazes as meaningful, and to decode "the language of the eyes."A Bradford Book ...Show more

Erik H. Erikson - The Growth of His Work by Robert Coles

$20.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Jill Bolte-Taylor

$18.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple- in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently , each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this ground-breaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are- Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking. Everything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon brain cells to perform that function. Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells that feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts. In Whole Brain Living, Dr. Taylor shows us how to get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well. And she introduces a practice called the Brain Huddle-a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another so we can tap their respective strengths and choose which one to embody in any situation. The more we become familiar with each of the characters in ourselves and others, the more power we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives. Indeed, we discover that we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every moment. And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace. ...Show more

Freud And Man's Soul by Bruno Bettelheim

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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good

Freudian Slips - The Casualties of Psychoanalysis from the Wolf Man to Marilyn Monroe by Luciano Mecacci

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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

This historical and scientific study of psychoanalysis and its founding group brings together Luciano Mecacci's own work and existing material, and presents the reading public with a story that is not only fascinating and terrible but also essential and thought-provoking, given the enormous influence of Freud's ideas on European art, writing and wider culture throughout most of the twentieth century. It is important to distinguish between Freud the scientist and Freud the creative thinker. The former often lacked rigor and allowed his ideas to run audaciously ahead of the evidence he had collected. The latter, on the other hand, was brilliant, innovative and prolific, but the material produced was untested, as Mecacci demonstrates convincingly, and therefore unsuitable for clinical application. Freud's psychoanalytical therapy established a movement and set in train a series of often tragic events, which were almost always ignored at the time of their occurrence. Mecacci argues that there was nothing casual about these, and their roots are to be found in the manner in which the psychoanalytical movement was born and the historical context - dark times of war, economic crisis and xenophobia. ...Show more

The Future of Psychoanalysis by Johannes Cremerius (editor); Jeremy Gaines (Translator)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Series: Psychoanalysis and Society Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good

A century years after the foundation of psychoanalysis it is necessary to re-evaluate its position in the modern world and think about its future. The editor of this volume is guided by the conviction that psychoanalysis as a science of man is not only an important therapeutic procedure whose innovation s have provided new insights into the human mind, but also a new and even more significant contribution to a theory of culture and critique of society. ...Show more

Touch - Attachment and the Body by Kate White

$12.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Series: The\Bowlby Centre Monograph Ser. | Reading Level: very good

This book compiles the papers presented at John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003, exploring the complex and interwoven themes of touch, attachment and the body and their emergence in clinical work. It offers a new theory of the body, and of the role of the body in psychoanalytical practice.

Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder by Christopher Green; Kit Chee

$12.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good

ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) refers to a cluster of behaviours (including inattentiveness, impulsiveness and overactivity) that cause a child to underachieve academically and behave poorly despite having a good intellect and quality parenting. This text provides an overview of the condition.

A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr

$14.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein: a patient and lover to Jung, a colleague and confidante to Freud, and one of the greatest minds in modern psychiatry. This mesmerizing book reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical methods and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail. Learned, humane and impossible to put down, A Dangerous Method is intellectual history with the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy. In spring 2012, legendary director David Cronenberg unites Viggo Mortensen, Kiera Knightley and Michael Fassbender in a heavyweight Hollywood film already tipped for Oscar success. ...Show more

Worry - The root of all evil by Theresa Francis-Cheung

$12.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: good-very good

Being a seasoned worrier herself, Theresa Francis-Cheung writes from an insider's perspective. She shows how the principles advocated in the book can really work for everyone who wants to turn their worry and fear into contentment and confidence.