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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
Sarah Wise · Counterpoint; Reprint edition
Format: Print book |
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The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical... |
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Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World
Elaine Reese · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading - and some new ones - for childrens language and emotional development, coping skills, and sense of belonging. Tell Me a Story Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Childs World shows parents how telling and sharing stories... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls · Crown Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
The captivating untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture
In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe... |
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Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing
Leonard Peikoff · NAL
Format: Print book |
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Ayn Rands philosophy of Objectivism is increasingly influencing the shape of the world from business and politics to achieving personal goals. Here, Leonard Peikoff—Rands heir—explains how you can communicate philosophical ideas with conviction, logic, and, most of all, reason.Based... |
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses,... |
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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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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Ronald Epstein · Scribner
Pages: 287
Format: Print book |
The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.
As a third-year Harvard... |
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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
Theodore Dalrymple · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover |
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In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues... |
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In a different key : the story of autism
John Donvan · Crown Publishers
Pages: 670
Format: Print book |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood... |
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Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
Susan Peirce Thompson · Hay House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail... |
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan · Times Books
Format: Hardcover |
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A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our cultureWhy do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution.
Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed... |
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The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving
Lisa J Miller · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerUSA TODAY BestsellerPublishers Weekly BestsellerIn The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows... |
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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Scott Sonenshein · HarperBusiness
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A Rice University social scientist teaches you to rethink what you need to succeed, and do more with what you already have, in this counterintuitive, evidence-based guide to changing the way you work and live.Stretch identifies key ways for people and organizations to work beyond their... |
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