Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood) by Thomas Erikson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner get your back up?You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, ...Show more
Do As I Say: How cults control, why we join them, and what they teach us about bullying, abuse and coercion by Sarah Steel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has research ...Show more
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ - 'a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea' (Harvard Business Review)Featuring a new foreword from the authorDoes IQ define our destiny? In his ...Show more
The Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection of Freud's major texts on love, human relations and loss, including: "The Taboo on Virginity"; "On Female Sexuality"; "A Child is Being Beaten"; "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" and the case history "Dora".
Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent by Ryan Holiday
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and ...Show more
Troubled Minds: understanding and treating mental illness by Sidney Bloch, Nick Haslam
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
An authoritative resource for understanding the nature of mental illnesses and for pointing the way to recovery, written by two eminent mental health professionals with almost a century of academic achievement and clinical experience between them.Many of us take our mental health for granted. But we can ...Show more
Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader
$39.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, ...Show more
Minding Your Mind by James O'Loghlin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Written with compassion and curiosity, warmth and humour, Minding Your Mind is for anyone who wants the best for their mental well-being but might not know the best way to get there. It's a check-up for everything happening between the ears and through the body, flagging the warning signs when things ge ...Show more
The Ritual Effect: The Hidden Power of Everyday Actions by Michael Norton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Think of the quirky traditions that you keep up with your friends.Or the unusual ways that you and your family mark special occasions.Or the gifts that your partner gives - and what you'd think if they'd bought the same for an ex.These are rituals- practices that are imbued with symbolic meaning. And th ...Show more
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life. Make Your Four Thousand Weeks Count by Oliver Burkeman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR** **ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S 75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021** 'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' EMMA GANNON What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you ...Show more
Power by Foucault, Michel
$26.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
Head First: A Psychiatrist's Stories of Mind and Body by Alastair Santhouse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
'Wise, timely and eloquent... A joy to read.' GuardianWhat does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective - something of the mind? In this profound collection of clinical stories, eminent psychiatrist Dr Alastair Santhouse draws on his experience of treating ...Show more