New Psychology Books
Psychology Book
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Dorling Kindersley
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature
The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. How does... Buy or find out more →
The Devil You Know: Looking Out For The Psycho In Your Life
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
How to spot the psycho in your life.
At some point or other we have all probably referred - perhaps flippantly - to a psycho ex or boss but it isn't always just a turn of phrase, there is a more significant truth that ex... Buy or find out more →
Zero Degrees Of Empathy: A New Theory Of Human Cruelty
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has carried out groundbreaking research to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this... Buy or find out more →
Understanding Troubled Minds
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Many of us take our mental health for granted. But when confronted by mental illness in family members, friends or ourselves, even the most competent can become overwhelmed.
Understanding Troubled Minds guides us calmly ... Buy or find out more →
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. He has us singing in the rain or tearing our hair out. Or duelling with his shadows, hate, jealousy and loss. This book tangles with the paradoxes of love through the spa... Buy or find out more →
Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered
$23.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
An inside look at the power of empathy: "Born for Love" is an unprecedented exploration of how and why the brain learns to bond with others--and a stirring call to protect our children from new threats to their capacity ... Buy or find out more →
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
$35.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
A leading British researcher of psychology and autism at Cambridge University, Baron-Cohen (Mindblindness) brings a fresh perspective to deciphering the enigma known as "evil." His jarring depiction of literal human obje... Buy or find out more →
Innovations in Narrative Therapy: Connecting Practice, Training and Research
$44.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Narrative therapy introduces the idea that our lives are made up of multiple events that can be strung together in many possible stories. Replete with case examples from clinical practice, this is the first book about na... Buy or find out more →
Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations
$27.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Michael White's death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a collection of the work he left behind-writings on topics dear to the psychotherapeutic world: turning po... Buy or find out more →
Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates
$54.95 – Paperback book / Wiley Blackwell
Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides a critical perspective on debates and controversies that have divided opinion within psychology both past and present. * Explores the history of psychology throug... Buy or find out more →
Psychotherapy and Culture: Weaving Inner and Outer Worlds
$47.95 – Paperback book / Karnac
This book explores cross-cultural relationships and the psychological journey of migration, drawing from the author's extensive experience in this field. Many complex theoretical and clinical questions are raised and cre... Buy or find out more →
Essential Psychotherapies: Theory and Practice (Third Edition)
$103.00 – Hardcover book / Guilford Publs Inc
The leading survey text for basic psychotherapy courses, this book offers authoritative, engaging presentations of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy practiced today. Prominent experts cover traditional treatme... Buy or find out more →
Coping with Depression: A Guide to What Works for Patients, Carers and Professionals
$19.95 – Paperback book / Oneworld Pubn
Depression can be an incredibly debilitating and isolating condition, with episodes recurring throughout a person's life. However, the good news is that with the right guidance it is possible to make a complete recovery.... Buy or find out more →
Therapy With Children: An Existential Perspective
$42.95 – Paperback book / Karnac
This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the practice of psychotherap... Buy or find out more →
Addiction and Responsibility
$53.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict’s happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of other cognitive impairments and behavioral defi... Buy or find out more →
Answers To Everyday Questions About Relationships
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
How do I get the sparks flying again? When is it okay to flirt? Can I cheat-proof my relationship? Should bad sex be a deal-breaker? Is this really love?
Jo Lamble, Australia's leading relationships expert, knows the ans... Buy or find out more →
Boredom: A Lively History
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of... Buy or find out more →
Trauma Essentials: Go-To Guide
$24.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Since 1980, when PTSD first appeared as a diagnostic category, the number of people seeking trauma therapy has grown exponentially. Victims of traumatic events seek treatment for their often debilitating symptoms. Here, ... Buy or find out more →
Meditation And Yoga In Psychotherapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice
$49.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
Consistent with the positive psychology movement, meditative yoga practice puts people on a positive path to actualize change. This timely and unique book provides practical tools for integrating meditation techniques fr... Buy or find out more →
The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with Your Family
$29.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
This notable work poignantly explains how a tool of family history-gathering the genogram, or a basic family tree-can help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Here, fully updated for the f... Buy or find out more →
Understanding Disorganized Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults
$35.95 – Paperback book / Jessica Kingsley Pub
Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is meant to protect them becomes a source of danger. Someone with disorganized attachment experiences 'fea... Buy or find out more →
1001 Solution-Focused Questions
$32.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
This book provides a step-by-step description of a solution-focused approach to interviews. Topics include an overview of the approach, how to handle the first interview, opening questions to subsequent interviews, preci... Buy or find out more →
Marriage and Relationship Education: What Works and How to Provide It
$53.95 – Hardcover book / Guilford Publs Inc
Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this indispensable book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of conducting effective marriage and relationship education. Leading authority W. Kim Halford r... Buy or find out more →
The Place In Between
$36.95 – Paperback book /
The Place in Between is about accessing hidden potential. Exploring seven passions in depth, Helena Phillips writes about a much needed balance. She suggests that living as passionately alive and engaged human beings is ... Buy or find out more →
Depression In Adolescent Girls: Science And Prevention
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Guilford Publs Inc
Compared to boys, adolescent girls face an increased risk of depression and repeated recurrences throughout adulthood. This unique volume presents a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework for understanding how girls b... Buy or find out more →
Work Without Boundaries: Psychological Perpectives on the New Working Life
$59.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
Drawing on more than a decade of inter-disciplinary research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories, concepts, data and research on new work organizations and the concept of 'work without ... Buy or find out more →
Metareasoning: Thinking About Thinking
$62.00 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart of what it means to be both human and intelligent. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated these matters for many years. Researchers in ar... Buy or find out more →
Neuro-Hypnosis: Using Self Hypnosis to Activate the Brain Forchange
$32.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Presented here is the latest research on the neurological processes that occur during hypnosis. Readers are provided with the tools needed to use self-hypnosis to address a number of concerns, from mood disorders to eati... Buy or find out more →
Man's Search For Meaning (Gift Edition)
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Rider
A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War: Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz.
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Vi... Buy or find out more →
The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques
$24.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Why is depression one of the most pervasive of all mental health complaints? What makes the lethargy, mental rumination, loss of concentration, unassuageable negativity, and feelings of inadequacy so stubbornly resistant... Buy or find out more →
The Anxiety And Phobia Workbook (Fifth Edition)
$35.95 – Paperback book / New Harbinger
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has already helped over one million readers make a full and lasting recovery from generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disord... Buy or find out more →
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers "Chaos" and "Genius, " now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defi... Buy or find out more →
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
Consider Facebook--it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and... Buy or find out more →
An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications (Second Edition)
$62.00 – Paperback book / Sage
An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is the definitive beginner's guide to the basic theory, skills and applications of CBT.
In this eagerly-awaited second edition, the authors set out the core concepts and gen... Buy or find out more →
Close Relationships
$90.00 – Paperback book / Routledge
This multidisciplinary text introduces the concepts, methodologies, theories, and empirical findings of the field of interpersonal relationships. Information is drawn from psychology, communication, family studies, marri... Buy or find out more →
Navigating Art Therapy: A Therapist's Companion
$59.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
Art therapy is used in an increasing range of settings and is influenced by a range of disciplines, including psychotherapy, social psychiatry, social work and education. Navigating Art Therapy is an essential companion ... Buy or find out more →
Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being
$81.00 – Paperback book /
The 2nd edition of this successful textbook introduces the history and values of community psychology, showing how research can be applied to a range of social issues. Critical commentaries, international examples on how... Buy or find out more →
Out Of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (Second Edition)
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Capstone Press
"It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future.They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way andyou lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the otherw... Buy or find out more →
Distress Tolerance: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications
$55.95 – Hardcover book / Guilford Publs Inc
This state-of-the-art volume synthesizes the growing body of knowledge on the role of distress tolerance—the ability to withstand aversive internal states such as negative emotions and uncomfortable bodily sensations—in ... Buy or find out more →
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Quercus
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, returns to the front-line w... Buy or find out more →
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the freezing water of Newhaven estuary outside Brighton and tried to swim across, almost drowning in the process. Voices, he said, had ... Buy or find out more →
What Do Patients Want? Psychoanalytic Perspectives From The Couch
$47.95 – Paperback book / Karnac
What do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients' psychoanalytic experiences "from the couch".
Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher's voice, whilst underutilizing th... Buy or find out more →
Play In Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches
$63.00 – Hardcover book / Guilford Publs Inc
Going beyond traditional play therapy, this innovative book presents a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the latest knowledge about t... Buy or find out more →
Tell-Tale Brain
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
This new book will explore why the human brain is so unique and how it became so enchantingly complex. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about the bra... Buy or find out more →
The Mindful Way Through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life
$28.95 – Paperback book / Guilford Publs Inc
Anxiety constrains the lives of millions, leaving sufferers exhausted, stressed, and overwhelmed. And the things most people do to try to feel better—avoiding feared situations, pushing worry out of mind—only make the pr... Buy or find out more →