Breath in the Dark: A Childhood Lost When I was 6 years old, my favorite pastime was playing with dolls or playing dress-up. I can remember spending hours in my “princess” dress, dancing around the living room while my mother stood by ...
Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century In his latest book, Are We Getting Smarter?, James R. Flynn tackles serious debates. Flynn is a psychologist, professor, and author of 12 books — most notably Where Have All the Liberals Gone? (Cambridge, 2008) and, ...
The Inner Life of the Counselor Most counselors, psychologists, and therapists have bookshelves filled with ways to help their clients: volumes on dealing with certain disorders, using certain therapeutic techniques, or improving cultural competence. For the helping professionals among us, continuing ...
A Hidden Madness Memoirs of mental illness have crowded the literary landscape for the past two decades, and many have veered toward the sensationalistic in an attempt to stand out from the pack. James T.R. Jones’s A Hidden ...
The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World Introverts certainly are having a moment -- Susan Cain’s Quiet landed on the New York Times Bestseller List as soon as it came out in January 2012 -- and it’s about time.
The Introvert’s Way ...
Companion to an Untold Story Marcia Aldrich’s Companion to an Untold Story is the author’s attempt to make sense of her close friend’s suicide. In the time leading up to the unfortunate event, Aldrich’s friend Joel hatched a plan to ...
Everyday Kindness: Shortcuts to a Happier and More Confident Life It’s likely a safe assumption that most people would like to be considered kind. It is one of those adjectives that warms the heart and endears others to us. However, how do you really apply ...
The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging When my grandmother was 74-years-old, she was fired from a job at a hardware store that she’d held for more than 30 years. They fired her because of her bad hearing, a symptom of her ...
Stillpower: Excellence With Ease in Sports and Life "Stillpower: Excellence With Ease in Sports and Life" turns the conventional wisdom of sports on its head.
Garret Kramer, a former collegiate ice hockey player and the founder of Inner Sports, presents a unique approach advocating ...
The World Book of Happiness This book's subject is self explanatory. It is simply about the complex issue of happiness.
It attempts to explain what happiness in its various forms means to all of us. By “all of us,” I mean ...
The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders In "The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders," J. Gayle Beck and Denise M. Sloan collaborate with a group of world-class experts to address the current research and clinical knowledge concerning traumatic stress disorders.
Oxford Handbooks ...
Why Can’t I Change? How to Conquer Your Self-Destructive Patterns In Why Can’t I Change?: How to Conquer Your Self-Destructive Patterns, Shirley Impellizzeri outlines the psychological issues surrounding attachment from birth through adulthood.
Using the latest research on brain science plus well-supported theories, Impellizzeri does a solid job ...
Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God Many people have moments in their lives when they experience “wholeness" and are filled with a complete sense of peace and joy. Everything seems “right."
Many of these people claim that these moments are proof of ...
