Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind. A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick. "Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and Psychonauts is the latest in a series of excellent ...Show more
Rising Strong by Brené Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. Social scientist Bren Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability--the ...Show more
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
* THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one'TELEGRAPH'This book is exactly what the world needs right now . . . Worth your time and certainly worth your focus'OPRAH WINFREY'A beautifully researched and argued ...Show more
The Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience, 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology by Wade E. Pickren; Philip G. Zimbardo (Foreword by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being ...Show more
Taming Toxic People: The Science of Identifying and Dealing with Psychopaths at Work & at Home by David Gillespie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
"I didn't know how to deal with the poisonous and toxic people in my life or why they behaved the way they did, so I went looking for an answer. This book is what I found." Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfor ...Show more
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing- take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how t ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently by Steve Silberman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Following on from his ground ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
The Best Minds A Story of Friendship, Madness and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023"Brave and nuanced...an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph." --The New York Times"Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting." --Wall Street JournalOne of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of NonfictionAcclaimed author Jonathan Rosen's haunt ...Show more
Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life by Viktor E Frankl
$36.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Never before published collection on finding fulfilment and purpose from the multi-million-copy bestselling author Viktor Frankl. 'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice An inspirational new collection on turning ...Show more