NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming What is Neuro-Linguistic Processing? According to the authors of NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming, it is a “revolutionary” study of the process of thought -- a step-by-step breakdown of what happens in the ...
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Imagine growing up in a family in which the father reads to his children every night before they go to bed. Now imagine that the stories he reads are those about Sherlock Holmes. Such is ...
The Divorce Party I enjoy reading anything by Laura Dave; I find that her characters embody a perfect blend of endearment and fault that really make them human. Dave does not disappoint with The Divorce Party, an entertaining ...
How to Talk to Crazy People Many different types of people, for many different reasons, read memoirs about mental illness. Some may be suffering from an illness themselves and are looking for guidance or inspiration. Some may have questions as a ...
How to Think More About Sex Titles like “How to Think More About Sex” have to be targets for wisecracks.
Written by Alain de Botton, this, however, is intended to be a serious book about a very serious subject. The emphasis is ...
The Oxford Handbook of Prevention in Counseling Psychology As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Unfortunately, when we practice prevention there’s rarely any kind of instant “return on investment” to reinforce our behavior. The results ...
Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir “You cannot distract yourself from grief. You cannot dispel it. You cannot conquer it. You can only live through it.”
When Paul Gruchow first started putting Letters to a Young Madman together, he wondered how his disjointed ...
The Boy on the Lake Trevor was a preteen growing up in the breathtaking landscape of McCall, Idaho -- a carefree kid who enjoyed being active and swimming in the local lake. When he became plagued with sharp, debilitating headaches, ...
An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth For those concerned about the state of our planet and the lack of a concerted effort to help restore it, here is an exceptional solution -- one that suggests a more compassionate population is the ...
Hopping Roller Coasters Stories about mothers and their daughters tend to be sweet. Admittedly, there is usually some sort of tension. Still, whether that is teenage angst or the daughter trying to gain more independence and freedom from ...
Infant Research & Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy For decades, psychotherapy has been considered “the talking cure”: two people in conversation, with a shared goal of relieving the suffering of the patient. From the early days of Freud to the current popularity of ...
Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom Increasing brainpower is about "changing the inherent way we perceive and respond to the world," Shlomo Breznitz and Collins Hemingway write. Their recent book, Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom, is an in-depth look at ...
Movers, Dreamers, and Risk-Takers: Unlocking the Power of ADHD When you have a disability, the world by and large tends to magnify and focus on what is “wrong” with you. Friends of mine who were diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in school were constantly ...
Reboot: A Novel of Bipolar Disorder After my girlfriend, whom we will call Elle, had her first full-blown manic episode, I began to read several books on bipolar disorder. These included books on medications and the use of ECT (electroconvulsive therapy), which Elle received ...
Crochet Saved My Life I began crocheting when I was 19. It was the most stressful point in my life. I had just started my first semester of college, had moved to a different state where I knew no ...
Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Accessing the best doctors in the world, getting help to create a family foundation, mining alternative fields to solve a mystery illness: these are financial and intellectual opportunities not afforded many people faced with medical ...
Manopause: Your Guide to Surviving His Changing Life If ever a book were written with a clearly defined purpose, it is Manopause: Your Guide to Surviving His Changing Life. The book, co-authored by Lisa Friedman Bloch and Kathy Kirtland Silverman, is meant as ...
The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology What’s the difference between personality psychology and social psychology? In essence, personality psychology focuses on the person, while social psychology focuses on the situation—how people act in different situations, or how situations affect individuals. In ...
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook Two decades ago, in January 1993, Susan Lukas released Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook, aimed at guiding mental health practitioners toward better psychological assessments and intake interviews.
Though the author ...
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries “I’m a midwife to the dying – for those who want to hasten their death,” says George Exoo, a Unitarian preacher who claims to have assisted 102 people in killing themselves. He often carries a ...
