Language, Cognition, and Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W Sacks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: very good
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car a ...Show more
Lacan by Malcolm Bowie
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Fontana Modern Masters | Reading Level: very good
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is a uniquely complex writer and the originator of an especially unsettling view of the human subject. But the singularity of Lacan's achievement has been understated by many of his critics. Often he is seen merely as a figure famous for being famous--a ...Show more
Freud for Beginners by Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zarate
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life and thought of the m ...Show more
Within Reason - Rationality and Human Behavior by Donald B Calne
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous? In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donal ...Show more
Touched With Fire - Manic-depressive Illness and the artistic temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artis ...Show more
Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science - A New Model for Healing the Whole Person by Anne Wilson Schaef
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
Original, controversial, and provocative--this long-awaited work confronts the reigning scientific and psychotherapeutic worldviews and presents Schaef's innovative process for working with addicted and codependent people. She argues that the prevalent views perpetuate the addictive process they seek to ...Show more
Conversations with Neil's Brain - The neural nature of thought and language by William H. Calvin; George A. Ojemann
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Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Love and Its Vicissitudes by Gregorio Kohon; André Green
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
In Love and its Vicissitudes André Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love.In Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', André Green addresses some important questions: What is essential ...Show more
How To Do The Work: the million-copy global bestseller by Nicole LePera
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
As a clinical psychologist, Dr Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients - and for herself - she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with the interdisc ...Show more