A Life in Pieces - The Harrowing True Story of a Woman with Multiple Personality Disorder by Richard Baer
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
In 1989 a woman named Karen showed up at author and psychiatrist Richard Baer?s practice, terribly frightened and at breaking point. She explained that her husband beat her, her mother stole from her; she was in tremendous physical pain and wanted to die. Within a few sessions she also revealed that her ...Show more
Living at the Boundary by Laura Perls; Joe Wysong (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
The Lucifer Effect - How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will nev ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Erik H. Erikson - The Growth of His Work by Robert Coles
$20.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Acts of Meaning - Four Lectures on Mind and Culture by Jerome Bruner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jerusalem Lectures | Reading Level: new
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor," has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we gras ...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 ...Show more
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.
The Better Angels of Our Nature -The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes by Steven Pinker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
Do we really care about each other less than we did in the past? This myth-destroying book shows that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less, not more, violent from prehistory to today. Even the twentieth century, commonly perceived as the most brutal, is part of this trend ...Show more
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 ...Show more
The Wandering Mind - What the Brain Does When You’re Not Looking by Michael C. Corballis
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The brain is never inactive, the mind never still. For at least half of our lives, our minds are wandering away from the chores of life — the homework, the tax return, the board meeting, the meal to be cooked, even driving the car . . . In this book, I wander through the various hills and valleys of min ...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.