Birth Psychology

Dr. Kevin Leman's The Birth Order Book will help you understand yourself, get along better with others, overcome ingrained tendencies you never thought you could get rid of, and be more successful in the workplace. This revised and updated audio edition of Dr. Leman's classic book includes more than 30 years of experience and research, current examples, and fascinating stories to show how birth order impacts your life.

An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control...

Otto Rank Explained: Birth Trauma, Will Psychology, Creativity, Separation Anxiety, Art, and the Courage to Become an Individual Otto Rank was one of the most brilliant yet often overlooked pioneers of modern psychology. A close collaborator of Sigmund Freud and a central figure in the early psychoanalytic movement, Rank eventually broke away to develop a bold and original vision of the human mind. In Otto Rank Explained: Birth Trauma, Will Psychology, Creativity, Separation Anxiety, Art, and the Courage to Become an Individual, readers will discover the revolutionary ideas that reshaped ...

From an internationally renowned pediatrician and an eminent child psychiatrist, a guidebook that helps parents through the challenging preschool and first-grade years. Through delightful profiles of four very different children, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Joshua D. Sparrow apply the...

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...

This book discusses the traits of the firstborn, middle born, last born, and only child.

"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare."—Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s...

INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER New York Times USA Today Washington Post LA Times “Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove of practical, evidence-based guidance for living longer and better.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their...

This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley. The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges...

Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many blemishes. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattan offices...

Finding evidence in new psychological research, the myth of Psyche and Cupid, Shakespeare’s plays, Freud’s case histories, Anne Frank’s diaries and contemporary novels, Carol Gilligan discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us.

Not every woman gets the birth that she wants- you don’t have to let it go Birth can be beautiful and spiritual and joyous but there are also terrifying, emotionally raw, painful moments that can be difficult to move past. This book offers you a chance to experience the healing power of working through your birth story, while learning about trauma and developing coping skills for all those complicated feelings. Psychologist Maureen Campion shares her personal experience with birth trauma and the work she has been doing working with mothers through workshops and counseling to address ...

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness “One thrilling insight after another...

What if the origin of the vampire myth wasn’t born from fiction—but from fear? Long before Gothic castles and silver-screen immortals, there were whispers in the Carpathian Mountains—of Strigoi, the restless dead who walked among the living. They Rise at Midnight unearths the true story behind one of humanity’s most haunting legends, tracing its roots through Romanian folklore, death rituals, and the eternal struggle to understand what lies beyond the grave. From ancient Dacian temples and pagan gods to Christian conversions and village superstitions, this book delves deep into the ...

The History of Mental Health Treatment: From Ancient Practices to Modern Science BOOK 2: Asylums, Reform, and the Birth of Psychiatry: From Moral Treatment to Institutional Control in the Age of Science and Social Change explores one of the most consequential and troubling chapters in the history of mental health treatment. Spanning the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries, this book traces how Western societies moved away from supernatural explanations of mental illness and toward medical and institutional models that promised care, reform, and scientific progress. Along the way, ...

What if one voice could make the entire nation believe the impossible? On a quiet October evening in 1938, a young radio dramatist transformed a routine broadcast into the most extraordinary event in American media history. Within the span of an hour, ordinary listeners were swept from their living rooms into a world on fire, a world where fiction sounded exactly like the truth. Whispers in the Static: How a Single Broadcast Sparked Fear, Faith, and the Birth of Modern Myth unravels the story behind that night, the infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast, and the deeper truths it ...

Before hackers became household names, before cyberwar reshaped nations, there was a sound — 2600 hertz — that changed everything. In the 1970s, a handful of restless dreamers discovered that a toy whistle from a box of Cap’n Crunch cereal could trick the world’s most powerful phone network. Among them was John Draper, a radar technician turned underground legend, whose homemade “blue boxes” opened the hidden arteries of global communication. They weren’t thieves; they were explorers — probing the seams of a system that was never meant to be seen. Their curiosity would ...

What if you could support your baby’s brain, body, and emotional development before they are even born? From the moment of conception through the end of the first year, your baby’s growth is nothing short of miraculous. However, navigating the overwhelming flood of parenting advice, myth-filled forum posts, and dense medical jargon can leave you feeling uncertain. Prenatal and Infant Development bridges the gap between complex developmental science and practical everyday parenting. This comprehensive guide translates clinical research into actionable steps, giving you a clear roadmap to...

What if our deepest convictions about existence aren’t just about science, but about self-protection? In Naturalism: The Self-Made Cosmos, the author unearths a provocative psychological dimension behind the modern commitment to a universe without design. Blending insights from philosophy, psychology, and cultural analysis, this book explores the unsettling idea that the naturalistic worldview may serve less as a neutral conclusion—and more as a psychological shelter for the fragile human ego. Why alternative ideas to naturalism are so emotionally threatening to certain minds? Why does ...