Crisis Psychology

New York Times bestselling psychologist Dr. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive advice about the crucial (and difficult) years we cannot afford to miss. Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter...

🧠 Learn why panic kills faster than zombies 🧟 Separate survival facts from movie myths 🎒 Build a realistic bug-out bag that actually works 🏠 Choose, fortify, and defend safe shelter 🚶 Move safely through cities and open terrain 🩺 Handle injuries when hospitals are gone 🔊 Master silence, awareness, and avoidance 👥 Survive group dynamics, conflict, and betrayal 🌱 Plan for long-term food, water, and stability 🔥 Prepare for collapse without paranoia What would you do if the world ended tomorrow? When the dead rise, governments fall, supply chains collapse, and ...

Author James Hollis' eloquent reading provides the listener with an accessible and yet profound understanding of a universal condition - or what is commonly referred to as the mid-life crisis. The book shows how we may travel this Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

"What is wrong with men today?" That is the question the 27 million single, separated, and divorced women in this country ask themselves again and again. Married women sometimes wonder too. This is the book they’ve all been waiting for. The Love Crisis is a field guide to the contemporary male. Women define the Love Crisis through complaints about skittish men who play destructive games with them or who are unable to make commitments.

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Erik Erikson A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Erik Erikson was more than a psychologist—he was a storyteller of the human lifespan. His theory of psychosocial development redefined how we understand identity, purpose, and the lifelong interplay between self and society. From the challenges of infancy to the reflections of old age, Erikson revealed that life’s central task is not merely to survive, but to grow through each stage with resilience and meaning. This concise, engaging volume distills Erikson’s remarkable journey—from his ...

Join Dr. Andy Young on an “up close and personal” journey into the world of crisis negotiation. Experience a 360-degree panorama of hostage situations from the vantage points of SWAT teams, police, victims, the bad guys, and the specially trained mental health professionals who help save lives and bring relief to the extreme distress that comes with the trauma of crisis. Aside from the drama, danger, tension, and terror of crisis situations, the crux of this book is a profound and deeply human story of real people and real stories—perpetrators, victims, law enforcement, and families...

With intensive couples therapy, you can create the opportunity for real progress to be achieved—not weeks or months down the road but now, when the couple needs it the most. In The Clinician’s Guide to Intensive Couples Therapy, you’ll find an accelerated framework for couples therapy that involves meeting with clients for two to three consecutive days, for six hours at a time. Written by relationship expert and renowned Gottman therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw (@lizlistens), this approach allows you to dive deep into the heart of relational issues.

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative...

Increasing numbers of people involved in personal transformation are experiencing spiritual emergencies - crises when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Unfortunately, much of modern psychiatry has failed to distinguish these episodes from mental illness. As a result, transformational crises are often suppressed by routine psychiatric care, medication, and even institutionalization. When understood and treated in a supportive manner, spiritual emergencies can become gateways to higher levels of functioning and new ways of being.

Monsters aren’t born. They’re made—and America helped make this one. What happens when a tantrum-prone trust fund heir is raised in a mansion where love is conditional, cruelty rewarded, and winning isn’t just everything—it’s the only thing? The Making of a Monster: Volume 1 – Donald J. Trump is Robert Ragnar’s darkly witty autopsy of Trump’s formative years—long before MAGA rallies, red hats, and criminal indictments. Drawing on biography, historical records, cultural analysis, and psychological profiling, Ragnar digs into the family dynamics, toxic culture, and ...

Crisis intervention is of the essence now more than ever. Empower yourself to take control of a situation with this 3-step crisis intervention plan. This guide to crisis intervention takes you through a blueprint of assessing and intervening during a crisis to make sure that individuals in need receive the immediate support and guidance they deserve, ultimately helping them find their way back to safety and stability.

Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, “Twitter wars” produce real world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations. The result is that war, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones.

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how...

This book brings together Erich Fromm's basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. At the same time, it offers an image of man consonant with the hopes of radical humanism. The Crisis of Psychoanalysis is a collection of nine brilliant essays. Although his work is deeply rooted in Freudian theory, Fromm further develops Freud's doctrines by including both social and ethical dimensions, and applies his discoveries and insights to address the problems we face in society at large.

PLEASE WAIT! is not a textbook. It’s a voice that sits next to you when you feel like giving up and are considering suicide. If you’re tired, if the pain feels too heavy, if you’ve thought about ending it all—this book is here to tell you: don’t. Please, just wait. In these pages, you’ll find honest words, not lectures. Real stories—like the afternoon I stood on a bridge, face to face with a teenager who was about to jump. Reflections that feel like a late-night conversation with someone who actually gets it. Someone who knows what it’s like to want to disappear, but also ...

What if everything orthodox psychology understands about selfhood is built on a critical epistemological illusion? In a challenge to Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and Kohut, the architect of Self Psychology, this multidisciplinary research argues that the ego—therapy’s dogmatic mediator—is not the reality tester, but the delusion maker. The ego is a pathological artifact of mirroring. Grounded in the lived reality of Panmodal Aphantasia (absence of mental representations across all modalities), this book proves that the self emerges even without reflection, autopoietically—...

With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding around us, how can therapists adapt to promote healing and growth? “As these intriguing essays make clear, some of the finest minds in the world are thinking through the problems and arriving at powerful answers." —Bill McKibben...

America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look.

You want to borrow my magic wand to turn your tiny terror into a sweet angel? You can't have it, it's mine! But I can offer you the next best thing. Together we'll help children have behaviors that are safe and kind while you reclaim your peace of mind. From neurotypical toddler to neurodivergent teen and everything in-between stop surviving days full of disruption - defiance, disrespect, dysregulation - and start thriving with your child.

The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred. Twelve days is all it took. Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and...