Heart & Soul - The Therapeutic Face of Philosophy by Chris Mace (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy's traditional concerns with the nature of knowledge, good conduct and the self cannot be ignored by psychotherapists, while the growth of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had a profound impact on philosophy. The essays in the books cover topics central to both psychotherapy and philosoph ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication - even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swi ...Show more
The Noonday Demon - An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
$18.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers an ...Show more
Mortal Secrets - Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis
$20.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: near fine
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they bur ...Show more
Sigmund Freud and Art - His Personal Collection of Antiquities by Lynn Gamwell (ed.); Richard Wells (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
A Clearing in the Forest - Law, Life, and Mind by Steven L Winter
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
Cognitive science is transforming our understanding of the mind. New discoveries are changing how we comprehend not just language, but thought itself. Yet, surprisingly little of the new learning has penetrated discussions and analysis of the most important social institution affecting our lives-the law ...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
$10.00 NZD
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
$12.00 NZD
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
$12.00 NZD
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