Social Scientists & Psychologists

Includes a mindfulness meditation led by the author! Instant New York Times Bestseller From psychotherapist and social media star Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking “cure for chronic people-pleasing” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct...

A revelatory exploration of how we can find meaning in the tumult of change, from a renowned cognitive scientist and host of the critically acclaimed podcast A Slight Change of Plans Life has a way of thwarting our best-laid plans. Out of nowhere, we’re confronting the end of a relationship...

'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung) In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But...

A pesar de los padecimientos y de la monstruosa brutalidad sufridos, Frankl pudo reconocer que, pese a todo, la vida es digna de ser vivida y que la libertad interior y la dignidad humana son indestructibles.

A National Bestseller! "Read this book to connect with your highest self.” —Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet “We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find it.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times...

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....

Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. In The Center Cannot Hold, Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health-care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be...

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making...

The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....

A deeply moving and revealing chronicle of the challenges and breakthroughs that come from a wholly new practice of one-hour, one-time-only sessions, from one of the most prominent psychotherapists of our time Facing memory loss at age ninety-three as well as the fallout from a global pandemic...

“Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening.” —Kirkus Reviews Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you’ve ever embraced the phrase “be here now,” practiced...

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "Brilliant and original...

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he...

From the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying comes an inspiring account of a life well-lived with compassion and service. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of...

First-hand accounts chronicle the life and spiritual journey of Bill Thetford, a brilliant, accomplished psychologist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on ego development....

Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

Dr. Peter McGraw, founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor. Their journey spanned the globe, from New York to Japan, from Palestine to the Amazon. Meanwhile, the duo...

Many people grapple with destructive thought processes or a "critical inner voice" that directs their behavior and, to varying degrees, limits their lives. Using deeply personal and very human stories based on his own clinical practice, noted psychologist Robert W. Firestone illustrates the...

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the...

This audiobook narrated by John Telfer presents the complete interviews that served as the basis for Jung's bestselling memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

With poignant honesty and raw vulnerability, Joshua shares his battles with mental health, addiction, self-hate, surviving cancer, and coming to terms with his queer identity.

The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were...

America's own The Professor and the Madman: the story of Noah Webster, author of the first dictionary of American English-and a forgotten leader during a turning point in our nation's history. Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but although there is much more...

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the 20th century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna, his...

In this haunting memoir, a clinical psychologist sentenced to 51 months for healthcare fraud confronts the harsh realities of federal prison.

Homeless, running from a violent partner, and battling suicidal depression, she found herself sitting by a river holding a bottle of pills in one hand and a bottle of red wine to wash them down in the other. Out of the twilight sky a majestic blue heron circled and landed just a few feet away. Something in the heron's piercing eyes caused her to stop swallowing the pills. In that moment, she realized that there was just too much beauty and magic in the world to give up. Thus began a decades-long quest to understand how wondrous encounters can spark healing from trauma and grief.

La psiquiatra Kim Hye-nam, con más de 30 años de experiencia clínica, había vivido siempre al pie del cañón: como doctora, esposa, madre e hija, su vida transcurría cumpliendo con todas y cada una de sus responsabilidades sin fallar. A los 43 años, justo al inaugurar su propia consulta, recibió el diagnóstico de párkinson. Tras un mes de depresión en la cama se dio cuenta de que darse por vencida no la iba a ayudar porque renunciaría a lo que la vida todavía podía ofrecerle. Así, recuperó fuerzas y volvió a experimentar el placer de vivir.

Ein starker Erfahrungsbericht über das Leben mit Borderline, der aufklärt und Mut macht Schon als Jugendliche spürt Joelle, dass sie ihre Gefühle anders wahrnimmt: Ihre Traurigkeit ist unendlich tief, die empfundene Hoffnungslosigkeit grenzenlos, ihre Freude übersprudelnd und allumfassend. Sich in ihrer Verletzlichkeit zeigen, das traut sie sich nicht, läuft lange mit einer Maske durchs Leben, bricht die Schule ab, reist alleine um die Welt und erlebt immer wieder Zusammen- und Beziehungsabbrüche. Erst als junge Erwachsene erhält sie die Diagnose: Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung.

Neste livro, Cleber Santiago compartilha uma jornada real de queda, consciência e reconstrução. Unindo fé, neurociência, inteligência emocional e experiências vividas, o autor revela como pensamentos, sentimentos e escolhas moldam não apenas a mente, mas também o corpo, os relacionamentos e o destino. Um chamado para quem sente que nasceu para algo maior, mas ainda não sabe como acessar isso.

Glasklare Augen, Schlitz im Ohr, seidenweicher roter Pelz und ein starker, gutmütiger Charakter. Das ist Kater Bert! Als seine todbringende Diagnose ausgesprochen wird, ist klar, dass einer der allerbesten Freunde sterben wird. Niemand weiß, wieviel gemeinsame Zeit noch bleibt und wie der Abschied ablaufen wird. Das Sterben und die Sterbebegleitung – auch mithilfe von Tierkommunikation – entpuppen sich am Ende als ein Geschenk.