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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Gail Saltz · Flatiron Books
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities," revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths. In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling... |
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Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
Mac McClelland · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Irritable Hearts striking candor will win McClelland the empathy she deserves. - The New York Times Book ReviewI had nightmares, flashbacks. I dissociated... Changes in self-perception and hallucinations-those are some of my other symptoms. You are poison, I chanted silently to myself.... |
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Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Suzanne O'Sullivan · Other Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A neurologist's insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders, told through individual case histories It's happened to all of us: our cheeks flush red when we say the wrong thing, or our hearts skip a beat when a certain someone walks by. But few of us realize... |
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Building Self-Esteem in Children and Teens Who Are Adopted or Fostered
Sue Cornbluth · Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Just because children have been fostered or adopted, it doesn't mean they can't grow up to be happy, healthy and successful. In Building Self-Esteem in Children Who Are Adopted or Fostered, Dr. Sue offers simple and practical advice to those supporting children aged 7+ to help them... |
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Peter McGraw · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist “shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why” (New York Post).Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball... |
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A Book About Love
Jonah Lehrer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites,... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Jamie James · Farrar
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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According to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In The Glamour of Strangeness, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them."... |
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted?... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve
Pages: 168
Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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Freud: In His Time and Ours
Elisabeth Roudinesco · Harvard University Press
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century -- a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly... |
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How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
David Richo · Shambhala
Format: Book : English : 1st ed
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How to let love into our lives, and how to express that love to the world at large--the latest from a best-selling author.We were made to love and be loved. Loving ourselves and others is in our genetic code. It’s nothing other than the purpose of our lives—but knowing that... |
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