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...

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...

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

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

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

The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific to...

This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann dra...

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...

The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about o...

illustrated by Sophie Standing What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? When something traumatic hap...