Psychology Humor

Audie Award, Humor, 2016. In Furiously Happy, number-one New York Times best-selling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you’re failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome. Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it.

Sure, everyone gets sick sometimes, but do you realize that plenty of those folks also die slow, unpleasant deaths from diseases that stumped even the experts at top-notch (still privately run) hospitals? That's right: There are plenty of illnesses that even physicians have never heard about. Nodding Disease, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, and Cutaneous Horn (yes, you grow a horn) are all featured here in pithy, energetic entries. You won't have to worry about socialized medicine if you have this book....

Laughter: a double edged sword. Positive humor engenders euphoria; negative, can humiliate. Triggered by the COVID quarantine, Therapist and Author Annette Poizner revisited the sitcoms of her youth – the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. Looking through the lens of the ancient Kabbalah, Poizner then performed an inquiry into laughter, examining the mystical infrastructure of this every day phenomenon and getting insight into the how, why and what of funny. Can we find the root of all humor in the 'Knock, Knock' jokes of yesteryear? Or even further back, with the 'Peekabo' we play when ...

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the listener from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness". This uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is.

Inessential Pharmacology is a playful romp through the data behind psychiatric medications. The point of the book is to teach my readers how to understand what a medicine does. I give them the same tools I use, as a practicing psychiatrist, with a lot more humor than used to teach me. We go through a list of common medications, and using those as examples, we learn how to read research about those same medications. We learn about charts, graphs, tables, and the lawsuits and side effects that made these drugs famous. They also made pharmaceutical companies billions. This is a book written ...

What if being “a little neurotic” wasn’t an insult… but a clue? Welcome to Are You Neurotic? — a fascinating, funny, and eye-opening exploration of the quirks, worries, and habits that make us gloriously human. This is not a stuffy psychology textbook. This is a mirror. Written by Dr. Harold Laski, a physician with decades of real-life medical wisdom, and Carmen Laski, an EMT with a sharp eye for human behavior, this book pulls back the curtain on neurosis — what it really is, how it shows up in everyday life, and why it might not be the monster you think it is. Do you double-...

Self-discipline sounds tempting, but do you feel like it's not for you? Do you want to have only good and useful habits, but for some reason, only the bad ones "stick" with you? Do you lack the strength and self-confidence to improve yourself and become successful? Are you looking for the easy way? Don’t worry—you’re perfectly normal! Book It's easy! The Habits of a Successful Person will destroy your fears about the difficulty of the road to success. Author Trevor Garrett encourages you to become successful by staying happy. He says everyone can become successful and effective by ...

Ann Gadd brings the Enneagram's lost childhood messages to tweens. Help your tweens understand themselves. Growing up can be challenging. As parents we can help by using the wisdom of the Enneagram. Lost Messages is a fun, engaging, illustrated adventure with clear explanations of each message your child needs to hear. Each mysterious message reveals the words the 9-types need to hear. The book is not a guide to the Enneagram. Rather, it uses the story to accessibly uncover messages to bring about greater self-awareness and deeper understanding between the types.

While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks stateside, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe’s chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is owed to preserve his legacy; down-on-her-luck journalist Katie, who fabricates a story about Doe to save her job at a failing website.

THE RUNNER NEXT DOOR is the amusing, enlightening account of one man’s transition from unhealthy couch potato to successful ultra-runner, all in the space of a year. When Barry moves in next door to Martin, the middle-aged running veteran is far from impressed by the morose, overweight southern bloke who looks so out of place in the affluent seaside town of St Anne’s. The somewhat snobbish narrator assumes Barry to be an incorrigible slob until his astute wife Caroline sees the newcomer marching towards the beach in his vintage tracksuit and trainers. From that moment on Martin is eager...

Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.

You will say, "OMG That's Me!" Meet six people who transformed their struggles with bipolar disorder, depression, PTSD, and more... through their strength, perseverance and by finding humor in their challenges. This poignant, funny and refreshing book let's us know we are not alone by sharing challenges, and heartbreak along with the ridiculous moments of life with mental illness.

At last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world’s smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday. Stupidity is all around us, from the colleagues who won’t stop hitting ‘reply all’ to the former school friends posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to battle idiocy, we must first understand it.

Living is hard. Living is complicated. But, this book can help you make sense of everything important in the life of (almost any) individual, along with a pinch of humor and a lot of pop-culture references. Written by a practicing counseling psychologist with over 10 years of therapeutic experience - who’s also a game design teacher - this book aims to cover it all. It does the same through simple and clear language, steering clear of complex psychological notions and statistics of any kind. There’s no hard data in this book and the author takes pride in that fact. But, it’s full of ...

"Everything Is Already Priced In" is a darkly humorous exploration of the efficient market hypothesis taken to its logical extreme. Through a series of increasingly absurd scenarios, the book illustrates how every conceivable piece of information—from the most mundane to the most outlandish—has already been factored into stock prices. Readers will find themselves questioning the nature of free will and original thought as they confront a market that seems to know everything before it happens. Part financial satire, part existential crisis, this book challenges readers to reconsider ...

Discover the secret weapon to navigating life's ups and downs with a smile in Laughing Through Life's Mishaps. This delightful eBook unveils a fresh perspective on dealing with everyday struggles, offering readers the tools to infuse humor into even the most challenging situations. Unravel the psychology of laughter and how it shapes our daily existence, setting the stage for a journey into finding humor in unexpected places. From recognizing the absurdities that surround us to transforming mishaps into comedic gold, every chapter is designed to highlight the joy that can be found in the ...

Conviértete en una potencia comunicativa irresistibleVa mucho más allá de la palabra hablada. Lo que tienes que decir verbalmente es sólo una pequeña parte de lo que se necesita para cautivar a tus oyentes y ganarte al mundo.

Sis. Boo. Hun. Babe. Fave. Bestie. We use these terms quite liberally; even too loosely in some instances, which is fine—until we discover that our “ride or die” friend got off the ride a few stops back. There are so many things in life that we have to dissect, but true friendship shouldn’t be one of them. When we cross that fine line between friendship and sisterhood, we should be able cherish that bond and trust that our sister is truly our keeper. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case, and all it takes is one wrong turn to derail the beauty of true sisterhood. Not anymore. ...

Have you ever really considered the psychological effects of the Santa Claus story and Holidays in general? A Holiday Hazing Santa Clause Syndrome is a presentation of one of the most devastating and most commonplace psychological afflictions of the postmodern era; Santa Clause Syndrome. A Holiday Hazing Santa Clause Syndrome dissects the psychological results of the cultural initiation that is celebration of Santa Clause. Moreover no one has elaborated on Christmas and holidays in general like this in 2,000 years! You will laugh, you may cry, and you will forever more question institutions...