Self-help

Working memory refers to how we keep track of what we are doing moment to moment throughout our waking lives. This book brings together in one volume, state-of-the-science chapters written by the most productive and well known working memory researchers worldwide.

Your Weirdness Is What Makes Your Wonderful is a collection of captioned illustrations from popular art blogger, The Latest Kate and incorporates journaling prompts to help readers parse their experiences and feelings. The featured images are colorful, imaginative, and are accompanied by quotations that both validate readers and encourage mindfulness.

A true story of surviving Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer- and how amazing an accomplishment that is surviving one of the deadliest cancers. Utilizing a combination of Western and Eastern medicine, energy healing and spirituality, it is an inspirational read for anyone who wants to up-level their life. A lighthearted read full of hope!

Axiom Business Book Award Winner 2021 Got an idea? Want an easy way to test, refine and validate your idea? Wondering whether its worth investing your time, energy and money? Trying to work out your next step? Put it to The Really Good Idea Test! Whoever you are and whatever your idea is, this book gives you 7 practical steps to find out if it is worth pursuing. Spring into action as you read, using proven techniques, hands-on templates and lots of real examples. By the end of the test you will be able to move forward with confidence, making decisions based on evidence of what people want and need, rather than incorrect assumptions.

Featuring over 70 affirming interventions in the form of homework assignments, handouts, and activities, this comprehensive volume helps novice and experienced counselors support LGBTQ+ community members and their allies.

A beautifully illustrated, practical guide to holistic hypnobirthing - trimester by trimester.This modern guide to hypnobirthing provides you with practical techniques to stay safe, calm, and connected through every stage of your pregnancy and birth.- Follows trimester-by-trimester approach - Explores hypnobirthing techniques that empower you to have a positive birth- The benefits of embracing aromatherapy, yoga, partner communication, and more- Practical methods for deep relaxation, meditation, visualisation, and breathwork exercisesAnthonissa Moger, aka The Hypnobirthing Midwife, takes a holistic approach opening out the benefits to embrace aromatherapy, yoga, partner work, mindset exercises and more.Using hypnobirthing techniques as a path to a calm, connected pregnancy, you'll be fully prepared to respond intuitively and flexibly to your labour and birth feeling centred, composed, and in control.Achieve a Path of Calm - For You and Your BabyWhether you're planning a natural birth or assisted birth, this mindful pregnancy book will help every woman take control of their labour for a calm, connected and positive birth. It's the perfect gift for expecting mums who are looking for advice and techniques for a stress-free pregnancy.

An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village

Virtually all theories of how humans have become a distinctive species focus on evolution. Here, Michael Tomasello proposes a complementary theory focused on ontogenetic processes. Built on the essential ideas of Vygotsky, his data-driven model explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first six years of life.

4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) assumes that cognition is shaped and structured by dynamic interactions between the brain, body, and both the physical and social environments. With essays from leading scholars and researchers, The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition is the definitive work on this burgeoning field.

The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions offers breakthrough, new mindfulness skills and exercises drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you move past harmful emotions.

A revealing and unusal memoir by the bestselling author of What I Loved, an account of her search for the source of her mysterious nervous disorder which offers a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body 'provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth' Oliver Sacks.While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. She managed to finish her talk and the paroxysms stopped, but not for good. Again and again she found herself a victim of the shudders. What had happened?Chronicling her search for the shaking woman, Hustvedt takes the reader on a journey into contemporary psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. She unearths stories and theories from the annals of medical history, literature and philosophy, and delves into her own past. In the process, she raises fundamental questions: what is the relationship between mind and body? How do we remember? What is the self?In a seamless synthesis of personal experience and extensive research, Hustvedt conveys the often frightening mysteries of illness and the complexities of diagnosis. As engaging as it is thought-provoking, The Shaking Woman brilliantly illuminates the age-old dilemma of the mental and the physical, and what it means to be human.

From communication and cohabitation to in-laws, money, and sex, this guide is for every couple who is just starting out their new life together.At last! A guide to that crucial first year of marriage!You've exchanged your vows, cut the cake, and danced your first dance. Now what? The wedding may be over but the marriage has just begun. You're in the honeymoon period now, but when reality sets in you'll likely be full of questions: Is arguing normal? How do we decorate when we have two completely different styles? How do I deal with the in-laws? Are we ready for children?Fortunately, The Newlywed's Instruction Manual is here to help you and your spouse navigate the ins and outs of those early years of marriage.

'Most men are not fully alive' is the dramatic opening to Steve Biddulph's bestseller, Manhood, which has now been fully revised and updated in this 2015 edition. Exploring two critical social issues: how to establish a healthy masculinity and how men can release themselves from suffocating and outdated social moulds, Biddulph addresses the problems and possibilities confronting men in their daily lives. Women have found the book to be a profoundly moving and revealing read, while men acquire recognition and a sense of hope that life can be different. Topics include:- Your relationship with your father - Getting sex right- Being a true dad - Real male friends - Finding a job with heartThis edition has been revised and updated to meet the needs of younger men, who are struggling with these issues in the twenty-first century.

One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.

Habits are more powerful than your will if you know how to make them work for you Two strings are hanging from a ceiling, one at the centre of the room, one near the wall. Youre asked to tie the strings together, but you cant reach both at the same time. You look around the room and see a table and a pair of pliers. How would you solve the problem? When confronted with challenges, most people let habits rule them (in this case, ignoring the pliers, the creative tool at your disposal). That is not surprising when you realise that at least a third of our waking hours are lived on auto-pilot ruminating over past events, clicking through websites trawling for updates and the like. Such unconscious thoughts and actions are powerful. But the habits of the mind do not have to control us we can steer them.Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies, psychologist Jeremy Dean the mind behind the hugely popular and insightful website PsyBlog shares how the new brain science of habit can be harnessed to your benefit, whether youre hoping to eat moreveg, take an evening run, clear out your email backlog, or be more creative when faced with challenges at work and at home.

Never forget a name or a number again! Dominic O'Brien is legendary for winning the World Memory Championship eight times and outwitting the casinos of Las Vegas to win a fortune at blackjack. Here, for the first time, he reveals his secrets for memory mastery. Follow his brain-boosting techniques and turn your mind into a super-powered computer that will recall PIN numbers with ease, remember directions, and help bring you success in business, leisure, and relationships.

How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but this remained an intriguing guess--until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about language origins, Derek Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial problem that biology and the cognitive sciences have systematically avoided. Before language or advanced cognition could be born, humans had to escape the prison of the here and now in which animal thinking and communication were both trapped. Then the brain's self-organization, triggered by words, assembled mechanisms that could link not only words but the concepts those words symbolized--a process that had to be under conscious control. Those mechanisms could be used equally for thinking and for talking, but the skeletal structures they produced were suboptimal for the hearer and had to be elaborated. Starting from humankind's remotest past, More than Nature Needs transcends nativist thesis and empiricist antithesis by presenting a revolutionary synthesis that shows specifically and in a principled way how and why the synthesis came about.

From Barbara De Angelis, author of 14 bestselling relationships titles and internationally-recognised relationship psychologist, comes the definitive book on compatibility. Are You The One For Me? is an engaging and lucid guide to creating - and sustaining - the fulfilling relationships you deserve.Are You The One For Me? is an engaging and lucid guide to creating - and sustaining - the fulfilling relationship you deserve.World-renowned relationship counsellor Barbara De Angelis reveals everything you need to know about compatibility. You'll learn:* Why you've chosen the partners you have - and how to make better choices,* How much sexual chemistry you and your partner really have,* The ten types of relationships that won't work,* How your childhood memories may be affecting your love life,* The six essential qualities to look for in a mate,* How to spot fatal flaws in a partner,* Why you may be falling in love for the wrong reason.If you're single or divorced: read this book to understand why your past choices weren't right for you and how to get it right this time.If you're in love: learn how to be 100% certain that this relationship is the one for you.If you're married: discover how to understand and balance your differences so that you can live happily together every day.Repackaged and redesigned for the modern reader with an iconic new cover, Are You The One For Me? is the last word in finding the right type of companionship for you.

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery. Trauma Treatment Toolbox teaches clinicians how to take that brain-based approach to trauma therapy, showing how to effectively heal clients' brains with straightforward, easy-to-implement treatment techniques. Each tool includes a short list of post trauma symptoms, relevant research, application, and clinician tips on how to complete the exercise. Trauma treatment roadmap, based on neuroscience Poses and movement-based techniques Breathing and body-based scripts Cognitive tools Inspiring new strategies Psychoeducational handouts for clients

Unique and creative warm-up exercises that facilitate communication, connection and creative expressionExpanding upon art therapist Susan Buchalter's celebrated 250 Brief, Creative& Practical Art Therapy Techniques, this follow-up book provides 200 more art exercises clinicians can use in art therapy and psychotherapy groups.With just a few simple materials, Buchalter provides endless opportunities for clients to create meaningful images, share their experiences, and become more focused and open in therapy. To make it easier for therapists, teachers, psychologists, counselors, and individuals, the exercises are categorized into beneficial themes: Self- Care Self-Compassion Mindfulness Stress & Anxiety Happiness Self-Awareness Self-Esteem & Self-Acceptance