Psychology

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs....

There's never been a better time to make a few tiny changes that will revolutionise your life.... 

It is a strange paradox that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better....

For over 70 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this audiobook has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives....

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Find out....

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it....

Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling....

Spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity and shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment....

Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health....

As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead....

GP and best-selling author, Dr Rangan Chatterjee shows how making small changes to our mindset is the secret to feeling both happier and healthier....

All around us people are looking at their phones too much, eating too much, drinking too much. Our world is addicted to fleeting distracting pleasures that get us nowhere. Dr Anna Lembke provides a clear way back to a balanced life....

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a ground-breaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices.... 

The mind and body are often talked about as separate entities, but it’s only when they work in harmony with one another that one can truly push oneself to the highest heights....

David J. Lieberman understands that a change in perspective is all that is needed to help keep from flying off the handle....

The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and best-selling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd....

Let Owen O’Kane, psychotherapist, former NHS clinical lead, and Sunday Times best-selling author of Ten to Zen, show you how anyone can use simple, understandable techniques to unlock better mental health....

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids....

A groundbreaking, no-holds-barred guide to the menopause - that combines a passion to enlighten and inform as well as entertain - from inimitable broadcaster, writer and campaigner Mariella Frostrup and award-winning health journalist Alice Smellie....

The program in Recovery has given Russell Brand freedom from all addictions, and it will do the same for you....

From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living....

Allen Carr's Easyway is the most successful self-help stop-smoking method of all time.... 

In 2000 Dennis O'Donnell was approached to work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in central Scotland....

In 1997, David Deida released what would become one of the most widely read books on men’s spirituality ever published - The Way of the Superior Man. Deida presents a new preface to the now-classic text on how to live a life of masculine freedom, integrity, and authenticity....

In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures....

Jung's discovery of the 'collective unconscious', a psychic inheritance common to all humankind, transformed the understanding of the self and the way we interpret the world. In On the Nature of the Psyche Jung describes this remarkable theory in his own words, and presents a masterly overview of his theories of the unconscious, and its relation to the conscious mind. Also contained in this collection is On Psychic Energy, where Jung defends his interpretation of the libido, a key factor in the breakdown of his relations with Freud. 

Kick toxic thoughts in the teeth—without the same “happy thoughts” advice. Stop Toxic Thoughts is the guide you need to learn precisely how to break free from negative thinking for good with mindfulness, self-awareness, and the tried-and-tested practices shared inside. Skip the psychobabble and fluff and get ready for an easy-to-understand, informative, "tell me what I need to know" guide bursting with practical examples, exercises, techniques, and advice to help you find relief and get on with your life.

The secrets of the mind were always the most exciting thing for me. How a few words, specific body language, the right tonality, and timing can completely change the conversation's flow, people's thoughts, and behavior. Are you interested in these things too? If that's the case, I am about to reveal to you some of the biggest secrets of mind control, personality types, and specific self-protection tactics you can use in the real world and with real people.

Being an empath can be very difficult: Unlike most people, it is normal for an empath to feel the emotions of others excessively. This makes them more sensitive, tolerant, and understanding than other people. However, if this power is mismanaged, it can explode and lead to a constant change of emotional states that leave the empath physically and mentally exhausted. You will be happy to know that the whole game changes when an empath becomes an empowered empath, and this book will help you figure out how to become one!

Modern life is a minefield for stress. Whether it’s juggling work, relationships or money, we often struggle to make time for ourselves. And can find ourselves stuck in a rut with bad habits or worries. In How to Be Your Own Therapist, Owen O’Kane reveals how short smart techniques throughout the day can form a healthier perspectives and let you ditch harmful thought patterns.

In 1984, Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakes at home in Bath, Somerset, and wonders where her 17-year-old daughter Melanie can be. Her bed hasn’t been slept in. Just then, Jean and her husband, Tony, hear someone shouting through a loudspeaker: ‘Does anyone know Melanie?’ Jean runs to the police car outside only to discover that her daughter has been murdered in a nearby street as she walked home from a club in the early hours. Britain’s biggest manhunt begins.

BFF? will take a close look at society's most underappreciated relationship to interrogate what modern friendship means, how it can survive, why we need it and what we can do to get the most from it. Featuring interviews with brilliant women on what friendship means to them, Claire Cohen argues that, unlike romantic relationships, friendship is much harder to pin down and quantify—and shows how often our friendships are taken for granted.

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her—what to call it?—depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. 

In this book, you will learn how to overcome emotional eating and binge eating and how to stop sabotaging your weight loss efforts. This book provides you with a step-by-step guide to developing a plan of action to understand and overcome intuitive eating, emotional eating, and food cravings. This book will teach you how to overcome emotional eating, which is one of the most powerful yet most complex forms of dieting. It will provide you with a step-by-step road map for developing a plan of action to understand and overcome intuitive eating, emotional eating, and food cravings.

Born different, a boy struggles. His story draws you in. So, too, does his mother's unending fight, the fight for an appropriate education and effective health care through to the fight for his life as he enters the harrowing world of addiction. The adolescent boy’s longing for affirmation and his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy dovetail with failed systems—school, health, legal—to create the perfect storm. Yet his grit and resilience—his capacity to love and forgive—present a formidable counterforce to the wounds of injustice. But they lose. She, her son. He, his life.

This audiobook shows you how to find your truest self so that your mind, body, and soul can weather any culture shock or life transition with grace and poise. This audiobook isn’t about faking it until you make it or finding a sudden Eat, Pray, Love-type epiphany. Instead, this audiobook is about doing the daily work to uncover your authentic self and receiving gradual understanding and enlightenment as you begin living a life in harmony with your true self.

Dr. Amador's research on poor insight was inspired by his success helping his brother Henry, who had schizophrenia, accept treatment. Like tens of millions of others diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addictions, Henry did not believe he was ill. In this latest edition, all chapters have been updated with new research on anosognosia (lack of insight) and much more detail on LEAP. Listeners will find expanded guidance on how to learn and use LEAP.

Award-winning blogger and author Claire Eastham is an expert on panic. She's not a doctor or an academic, but over a seven-year period, she has experienced 371 panic attacks (and counting), and learnt a thing or two along the way. Part memoir, part guide, How I Learned to Live with Panic is an intimate, honest and ultimately uplifting exploration into panic attacks. In practical thematic chapters Claire covers the crisis points where panic can hit and interviews a host of people to anatomise how it can be managed.

Do you want to feel less anxious and more positive? Do you want to change the unhealthy habits that are destroying you? To improve your life, you need to understand the simple techniques to help you reprogram the brain easily. Neuroplasticity is a process that occurs inside the human brain that allows new brain cells to grow from new experiences, letting you transform yourself based on what you want. Then there is Emotionally Focused Therapy, a treatment for physical pain and emotional distress and will help you to rewire your mind with easy methods and restore balance to your body.

Toughness has long been held as a fundamental key to achieving peak performance. For generations, we've been taught toughness means bulldozing through—pushing to the point of breakdown—and that showing any sign of weakness is failure. This model of toughness has long been glorified and celebrated. But the truth is, it doesn't work. Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, now offers a new kind of toughness—real toughness—that can help anyone navigate adversity. Real toughness works with our biology and psychology; fake toughness fights against them.