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.
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 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