Category: Psychology | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness.The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new d ...Show more
Category: Psychology
In an increasingly frenetic and fractured world, we have lost the essence of ourselves. This book is a guide to stripping away artifice in your life to discover your 'broad place', where you come into contact with your higher self as a creative and conscious human.High-Grade Living demonstrates how a st ...Show more
Category: Psychology
Michael has an absolute passion and belief in people's ability to change direction and become who they truly want to be and achieve success. This passion stems from his own story ... Before Michael was even one year old, he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer of the central nervous system - a ...Show more
Category: Psychology
A book for anyone and everyone who finds themselves going through big change, hard times, bad luck or tough sh it. A book for right now, as it turns out. From Bev Aisbett, Australia's bestselling author with decades of experience helping people through anxiety, depression and panic attacks, Cruising Thr ...Show more
Category: Psychology
All of us experience complicated thoughts and feelings as we negotiate the day, and these feelings can be difficult to manage. Sometimes we are aware that the way we think contributes to our difficulties, but don't know what to do about it. Change Your Thinking demonstrates how we tend to respond to str ...Show more
Category: Psychology
Increasing fatigue, loneliness, stress, relationship problems, loss of social connection and growing mental health issues are alarming problems we face at home, work and in society today. Yet how can this be when we have access to better information, technology, nutrition and healthcare than ever before ...Show more
Category: Psychology
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Category: Psychology | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Category: Psychology | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles
Based on astonishing case studies, this is a brilliant and beautifully written follow-up to Dr Doidge’s record-breaking bestseller The Brain That Changes Itself. In his first book, Norman Doidge described the most important development in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the ...Show more
Category: Psychology
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
Category: Psychology
How do we define mental illness? What does a diagnosis mean? What should you ask your doctor before you begin treatment? Are there alternatives to medication? What does the research show actually works? Practitioner and professor of psychiatry Dr Steve Ellen and popular comedian Catherine Deveny combine ...Show more
Category: Psychology
"General Practice Psychiatry" is compiled by a combination of practitioners and academics working in general/family practice, psychiatry and psychology. As General or Family Practitioners (GPs) are often the first contact for clients with mental health issues, this book focuses on higher prevalence diso ...Show more
