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Leaving the OCD Circus: Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing
Kirsten Pagacz · Conari Press Pages: 262 Format: Print book
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"It's like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me." That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist on their first session when she was well into her 30s -- she'd been following orders from this mean taskmaster... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 280 Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone · Experiment Llc Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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From the emerging field of resilience/well-being psychology, an alternative to the five stages of grieving: a proactive and mindful path to recovery Widely published resilience expert Dr. Lucy Hone is the first academic researcher to fuse the fields of positive psychology and bereavement... |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success  Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—Joshua Wolf... |
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Cleveland Clinic Guide to Epilepsy: Essential Reading for Families
Elaine Wyllie MD · Elaine Wyllie, MD Pages: 192 Format: Paperback
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One in 10 Americans will experience a seizure in his or her lifetime. If you have had a seizure or if you're one of the 3 million Americans experiencing epilepsy, you might not know how best to cope with this common condition. Many myths surround epilepsy, and it's hard to separate... |
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La Petite
Michele Halberstadt · Other Press Format: Paperback
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In La Petite, the renowned French writer and film producer Michèle Halberstadt vividly recounts the painful events that surrounded the death of her beloved grandfather, which led to a suicide attempt when she was twelve years old. Michèle’s mother favored her older sister,... |
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Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
Eugene Soltes · PublicAffairs Pages: 464 Format: Print book
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Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes took a remarkable journey deep into the minds of these white-collar... |
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Welcome to the Jungle, Revised Edition: Facing Bipolar Without Freaking Out
HILARY SMITH · CONARI PR Pages: 224 Format: Paperback
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"I wrote Welcome to the Jungle because it's the book I should have been given when I was diagnosed." Bipolar disorder is one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions among teens and twentysomethings, yet there are few books out there written specifically for this... |
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing · Picador, 2016. Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo SpringWhat does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being?... |
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Siri Hustvedt · Simon & Schuster Pages: 576 Format: Print book
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A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works.... |
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Katie Roiphe · The Dial Press, 2016. Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, and Maurice Sendak - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected... |
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Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids, Fourth Edition
Timothy E Wilens · The Guilford Press Pages: 342 Format: Print book
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When a child is struggling with an emotional or behavioral problem, parents face many difficult decisions. Is medication the right choice? What about side effects? How long will medication be needed? In this authoritative guide, leading child psychiatrists Drs. Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness... |
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When Someone You Know Has Depression: Words to Say and Things to Do
Susan J Noonan · Johns Hopkins University Press Pages: 160 Format: Print book
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Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder can be devastating to the person who has the disorder and to his or her family. Depression and bipolar disorder affect every aspect of how a person functions, including their thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships with other... |
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