Psychology

Most people would like to be more creative, more persuasive and more attractive. For years, gurus and 'life coaches' have urged people to improve t...

This is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book...

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everyth...

illustrated by Sophie Standing What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make em...

There is a distinct lack of art therapy literature on working with adults with autism spectrum disorders, and this book combats this dearth by look...

The controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics. For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational ind...

It is human instinct to sort and categorize. According to Professor Kevin Dutton, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, we are hardwired to d...

An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will st...

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, bre...

'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I w...

Most people now realise that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems. Instead, we need a philosophy and a science which...

illustrated by Flo Perry Ever wanted to know what really happens in a therapist's consultation room? Bestselling author Philippa Perry turns her ke...

What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the ...

Across the world, 44 million people live with dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings ...

What do Pokemon Go and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have in common? Why do some businesses survive, and others fail at the first sign of change? Wha...

Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess the truth. Insightful, fu...

illustrated by Sophie Standing What is forgiveness? What enables people to forgive? Why do we even choose to forgive those who have harmed us? What...

Four- Legged Therapy is a delightfully illustrated collection of ten stories that recognise the therapeutic value of having animals in our lives. A...

Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psyc...

With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a book that transforms ou...

Fumio Sasaki is a writer in his thirties who lives in a tiny studio in Tokyo with three shirts, four pairs of trousers, four pairs of socks and not...

How can we make it easier to be happy? Using the latest cutting-edge research, Professor Paul Dolan reveals that wellbeing isn't about how we think...

Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives c...

From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies to reach judgements, establish the right level of...

We are creatures of habit, living most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of more or less comfortable routine. But sometimes outside force...

Friedrich Nietzsche's work rocked the foundation of Western thinking and continues to permeate our culture, high and low - yet he is one of history...

Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. In a Different Key tells the ex...

Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in...

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or...

When a personal crisis causes her world to come crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a thriving practice in Los Angeles - i...

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the res...

Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and...

An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory und...

Stories people tell-about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin-can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narrative...

New Aging invites us to take everything we associate with aging--the loss of freedom and vitality, the cold and sterile nursing homes, the boredom-...

The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We're expected to be authentic but ...

The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy. When Mat...

When did creative work become so boring? How did 'digital-first' come to dominate everything? ...and why is nobody talking about it? Part insider e...

On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity—including art, literature, love, d...

In the twenty essays gathered here, ranging across his entire oeuvre, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips offers a vivid introduction to his discipline as ...

With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most...

Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In thi...

illustrated by Sophie Standing Answering questions such as 'how can I change my pain experience?', 'what is pain?', and 'how do nerves work?', this...

You may not believe it, but there is a link between our current political instability and your childhood attachment to teddy bears. There's also a ...

Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with eac...

In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find ...

Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Do I really have to floss? Are office meetings actually worth the time they take up? Am I spending...

How can the furniture in your home affect your well-being? What colour clothing will help you play sport better? And what simple trick will calm yo...