A Dream of Undying Fame - How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis by Louis Breger
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In 1877, a young Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work, Studies on Hysteria. But by the time it released, Freud was moving to establish himself as a major figure in the treatment of mentally ill patient ...Show more
Steady - Keeping Calm in a World Gone Viral by Sarb Johal
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
How do you deal with uncertainty and anxiety when your world is upended by the coronavirus pandemic? Dr Sarb Johal, an expert in emergency management and disaster psychology, had to answer that question for an entire country as he helped develop the world-leading response that saw Covid-19 stamped out b ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us by Christopher Chabris; Daniel Simons
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch, you'd notice it. Wouldn't you? If a serious violent crime took place just next to you, you'd remember it, right? The Invisible Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable, yet routine tricks that your brain plays on you. In an award-w ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Political Psyche by Andrew Samuels
$18.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
What can depth psychology and politics offer each other? In The Political Psyche Andrew Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked. He brings an acute psychological perspective to bear on public themes such as ...Show more
Psychoanalysis Observed by Charles Rycroft, Geoffrey Gorer, Anthony Storr, John Wren-Lewis, Peter Lomas
$7.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
Before I Was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination by Enid Balint (Editor); Juliet Mitchell (Editor); michael Parsons (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
For Enid Balint, the practice of analysis can be compared with the process of learning a language. The analyst who can do this, she says, will continue to learn with every patient who comes to him throughout his professional life. Enid Balint has been a training analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical ...Show more
Depression - An Integrative Approach by Katia Herbst and Eugene Paykel (eds)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Inter-Cultural Therapy, Themes, Interpretations and Practice by J. Kareem; R. Littlewood (eds)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The Cambridge Companion to William James by Ruth Anna Putnam (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this Companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral p ...Show more