Right Brain Psychology

Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors.

Fevered Egos: How Civilization Taught Us to Worship the Human Ego Why do we keep electing tyrants, worshiping narcissists, and celebrating antiheroes—while pretending to hate them? Why do our systems reward cruelty, performance, and domination, even as they leave us anxious, divided, and lost? Because our civilization is built on a trance: the hallucination of the ego. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, history, and culture, Fevered Egos exposes how the left hemisphere of the brain’s cerebral cortex—our mapmaker and narrator—hijacked human perception, crowned itself reality, and ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Michael Gazzaniga A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy What happens when the brain is literally divided in two? Michael S. Gazzaniga’s split-brain experiments revealed that the mind is not a single voice but a chorus — and that our sense of unity is the product of the brain’s storytelling machinery. His discoveries reshaped psychology, philosophy, and even the law, earning him recognition as a founding figure of cognitive neuroscience. This concise yet powerful volume distils Gazzaniga’s life and ideas into clear, engaging chapters. From his ...

Most people experience themselves as two-sided: one side seems mature and stable, the other emotional and impulsive. But have you ever wondered if there really are two minds in each of us? If so, do traumatic as well as ordinary experiences affect the way our minds grow and interact? According to Fredric Schiffer, a leading Harvard psychiatrist and researcher, advances in science prove what many of us have always intuited is true: We are of two minds, each one with a different degree of maturity, and each one associated with the left or the right brain. This brilliant, provocative book ...

Human behavior is lopsided. When cradling a newborn child, most of us cradle the infant to the left. When posing for a portrait, we tend to put our left cheek forward. When kissing a lover, we tend to tilt our head to the right. Why is our behavior so lopsided and what does this teach us about our brains? How have humans always used this information to make our images more attractive and impactful? Can knowing how left-brain right-brain differences shape our opinions, tendencies, and attitudes help us make better choices in art, architecture, advertising, or even athletics?

The Trance of Civilization: How Agriculture Remapped the Human Brain by Mark R. Pifer (in collaboration with ChatGPT) What if the root of modern suffering isn’t psychological or political—but perceptual? In this radical synthesis of neuroscience, history, and evolutionary psychology, The Trance of Civilization argues that the Agricultural Revolution did more than change how humans lived—it rewired how we think. With surgical clarity, Mark R. Pifer and ChatGPT trace how agriculture tipped the brain toward left-hemisphere dominance, fostering control, abstraction, hierarchy, and ego. ...

In The Traumatic Stress Recovery Workbook, trauma and neuroscience expert Jennifer Sweeton provides forty brain-changing techniques for overcoming PTSD that you can begin using right away to build resilience, boost self-confidence, and develop self-efficacy. You'll learn what happens in your brain after experiencing trauma, and why it reacts in ways that cause even more distress. You'll also discover evidence-based strategies grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience to manage psychological and physical—or somatic—symptoms—so you can get back to your life.

Are you ready to live the life you were meant to live? This book is about how to live a creative life; not how to paint or draw, but how to think like an artist, and how to find a joyous, complete life as a result. A motivational and inspirational guide to developing or enhancing your creative genius Author and artist Aliyah Marr uses practical examples and guides us through conceptual, transpersonal art experiments to demonstrate how we can use the power of art to access our inner child, express our buried emotions, and use any form of art as a catalyst to transform our lives. Release your...

Oxytocin, estrogen, endorphins, dopamine. Hormones produced by the body and all but one relate to feeling happy. Estrogen is responsible for developing and maintaining the female characteristics of the human body. But what exactly do they do to make us feel happy? Are they dangerous or addicting? How does estrogen work? This guidebook will answer these questions and any others you may have about these subjects.