Satire Psychology

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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...

Two New York Times-bestselling psychologists explain the science of cons—and how we can avoid them From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody’s Fool...

Tired of Walking on Eggshells? Discover How Evolutionary Biology Exposes Her ‘Innocent’ Tests—And How to Crush Them. Do you feel punished for being “too nice” while arrogant men win? Ever wonder why apologizing kills attraction, but playful defiance sparks desire? Worry modern dating rigs the game to strip your rights, wealth, and dignity? Discover why “being the nice guy” guarantees failure (and what to do instead). Unlock the 7 nonverbal cues women use to spot weakness in 3 seconds. Learn the legal loopholes 95% of men ignore to avoid divorce rape.

Are you drowning in clutter and treasured keepsakes but can’t bear to part with any of it? Then enlist Maisie Messington—a creative clutterbug—to lead your decluttering crusade. Join Maisie and her sidekick, Dusty Hoover, a vintage vacuum who fancies himself a sports announcer, as they navigate the labyrinth of hoard. From crafting your unique “clutter identity” to curating collections that scream “artfully organized chaos,” you’ll learn to laugh at life’s little mess-ups while embracing your inner pack rat. It’s not just about the mess; Maisie’s journey is packed with...

Evil does not arrive screaming. It arrives explaining. Idiot: Evil’s Advocate is a philosophical novel about complicity, language, and the quiet mechanisms by which cruelty becomes reasonable. This is not a thriller, nor a story of monsters or possession. It is an interior descent into how justification itself can become a moral anesthetic. A philosopher, once devoted to clarity and truth, begins to experience a dialogue with a Voice that claims to be reason. The Voice does not threaten or command. It argues. Patiently and politely, it reframes faith as order, order as efficiency, and ...

At the Institute, psychiatrists profit from lithium clinics while patients vanish. Undercover as a patient, investigator Harry Hopkins uncovers corruption and a conspiracy reaching beyond hospital walls. Part mystery, part dark comedy, and part indictment of modern psychiatry, The Lithium Conspiracy reveals how far institutions of power will go — and how one man stumbles into truths he may not survive.

A man looking for romance on the adult affair website Ashley Madison thinks a woman fleeing a sexless marriage may be creating what she’s attempting to escape from, as she works to transform him.

"Despite its taxing themes and unconventional plotting, Shroff’s well-drawn characters, artful prose, and entertaining dialogue balance out these heavier aspects of the book and make for an enjoyable journey through some deeply unsettling territory." (Rob Stirrups in The Lancet Oncology, Vol 16, Jan. 2015)) After being diagnosed with cancer, a therapist finds herself gradually descending into her own version of madness and delusion. Reality and hallucination, psychoanalysis and psychopathy, right and wrong all merge and split, roll together and spin apart for Dr. Natalie Kruger and her ...

Definitely not for the faint-hearted or the easily offended, The Spiritual Slob is, perhaps, the most entertaining and straight-forward book of its kind - the perfect antidote to those of us who are tired of flapping our wings so hard to get to heaven.