Psychology

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

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...

'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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually private...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of A...

Everyone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians, advertising, the media, and most definitely our families. Thank You for Arguing...

Wasn't the twentieth century the most violent in history? In his extraordinary, epic book Steven Pinker shows us that this is wrong, telling the st...

Translated by John W. Schwieter Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex abili...

Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being: human nature. Violenc...

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress ...

Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman with half a br...

Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started yea...

How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did langua...

What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live th...

'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,' begins Edward Wilson's sweeping examinatio...

Malcom Gladwell's bestselling books have engaged, entertained and inspired millions of readers, transforming the way they see the world and coverin...

The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that ...

How do we find the life that's right for each of us? More and more of us are feeling overwhelmed by the everyday struggle to lead the lives to whic...

Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of fa...

Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we ass...

After her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions of us,...

Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fund...

Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces throughout human history, each time telling us something new about our indivudual and collective ...

Losing your job may be one of the toughest challenges you will face in your career. It can make you feel completely powerless, anxious and thrown o...

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, ...

Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or in fact even understand ...