Self-help

Presents a synthesis of the findings in biology and brain science, revealing a fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a 'neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us. This work explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions, the basis of charisma and emotional power, and more.

We all have people in our lives that we just can't seem to get along with. This title provides method of cognitive interpersonal therapy to teach us how to take control of our relationships. It offers innovative techniques designed to improve communication skills and shows us how to cope with different personality types.

Healing Your Emotional Self shows readers how to become reunited with their true self, quiet their inner critic, raise their self-esteem, and begin to love their body. It also teaches survivors how to separate emotionally from their parents and provide for themselves what they missed as a child.

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written in the 1930s for the middle classes - one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains delightfully arcane and timelessly true advice: After all is said and done, husbands are not terribly difficult to manage.

From breaking the law to breaking a promise, how do people lie and how can they be caught?

Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. This cast of character defects will undermine the best-laid plans for recovery from addiction. It's not uncommon for individuals in recovery to hang on to negative, self-defeating behaviors after they've given up their addiction. These are the "rocks" that can sink recovery - or, at the least, block further progress. With more than 100,000 copies sold, Drop the Rock is the definitive guide to removing character defects that can prevent gratifying, long-standing recovery. Based on the Twelve Step program, particularly the principles behind Steps Six and Seven, Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help readers move forward in recovery. The second edition features additional stories, a reference section, and information about starting a Drop the Rock study group.

Describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts. This work revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness.

A gifted and successful animal scientist, the author, who is autistic, tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way - somewhat akin to how animals think. She gives an insight into autism and its challenges using her observed understanding of the workings of her mind.

Helps you identify the causes of stress in your life, and shows you how to deal with them in a practical way. With true-life examples, explanations and advice, this book is an aid to overcoming stress.

In tune with the needs of students, Thinking Clearly focuses squarely on core issues of critical reasoning.

A noted author and Jungian analyst teaches how to use dreams and inner exercises to achieve personal wholeness and a more satisfying life.

Step-by-step process of listening to your body, finding words and images to fit emerging feelings, and letting these messages lead to insights, decisions, & positive change.

Gathers together the insights and wisdom of some of the most inspirational teachers and authors the author knows, people who have demonstrated the power of gratitude in their own lives.

Explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. This book also discusses the stages of life, Jung's theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, and the practice of Jungian analysis.

In 1994, "The Mistress Manual" was born as a simple pink guidebook self-published by a long-term and experienced dominant woman. She moved on to other efforts, and the book fell out of print -- much to the disappointment of thousands of eager and hopeful submissive men and dominant women.Now, Greenery Press has brought this underground classic back to life in an updated second edition. The perfect reading for the woman or man who has completed our "Sexually Dominant Woman" and is looking for more information, "The Mistress Manual" covers everything from establishing your authority to exerting discipline.

the state of mind changes the state of the body by working through the central nervous system, the endocrine system and the immune system. Exceptional patients manifest the will to live in its most potent form .

The goal of an "integral psychology" is to honor and embrace every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sources-Eastern and Western, ancient and modern-Wilber creates a psychological model that includes waves of development, streams of development, states of consciousness, and the self, and follows the course of each from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious. Included in the book are charts correlating over a hundred psychological and spiritual schools from around the world, including Kabbalah, Vedanta, Plotinus, Teresa of Ávila, Aurobindo, Theosophy, and modern theorists such as Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Jane Loevinger, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Erich Neumann, and Jean Gebser. Integral Psychology is Wilber's most ambitious psychological system to date and is already being called a landmark study in human development.

This text demonstrates that identities are constructed "live" in the actual exchange of talk. It identifies how a person can be ascribed to a category, and the ways in which people are able to create their own "identity" beyond the classic categories of age, gender, class and ethnicity.

We can reclaim our futures by rediscovering what it is that truly makes us happy. By providing a meditation for each day of the year, Sarah illuminates our journey of self-discovery and shows us that simplicity does not imply doing without - true simplicity illuminates our lives from within.

'Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence...her examples are so vivid and so ordinary they touch the hurt child in us all' New York Magazine

Brilliantly re-packaged, with colourfulmodern covers, NOTES FROM A FRIEND is a quick and simple guide to taking charge of your life - Anthony Robbins distils his key arguments into bite-sized nuggets.

Bestselling author Richard Carlson shows us how to reduce stress where we need help the most: at work

The work of Abraham Maslow occupies a central position in popular psychology and is the foundation upon which humanistic management models were first developed. This third edition of the landmark book first published in 1962 describes Dr. Maslow's theories of self-actualization and the hierarchy of needs.

World Glamour - the sum total of human ignorance, fear and greed - can dissipate through the clear, inclusive thinking of those in whom the soul (Christ) principle is awakening. Glamour results from a negative emotional focus. The dissipation of glamour depends on illumined thinking.

A book where John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills.

Brings together some of the author's works contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. This title includes essays that range in topic from 'The Concept of a Healthy Individual' and 'The Value of Depression' to 'Delinquancy as a sign of Hope'.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE'Powerful and comforting ... Donna's words could change your life.' DAWN FRENCH'Absolutely beautiful ... whenever I'm feeling lost, I reach for Donna Ashworth's words and feel found.' BRYONY GORDON'Some people have the Bible by their bed. Others a self-help manual. I have Donna Ashworth.' SUSANNAH CONSTANTINEIn this powerful new collection of wisdom and poetry, Donna Ashworth helps us to find strength and courage on the days we feel lost, to pick ourselves up when times are hard, to soothe fear and self-doubt when we are in their grip, and to let in more life and love as we brave our challenges.Every day we are bombarded by thoughts, feelings and information that make us feel anxious and afraid. We worry we don't measure up, we are scared of failure and we find it hard to be ourselves. We also feel powerless watching the world getting messier. Fear is a limiting factor for many of us and if we don't challenge it we can find ourselves keeping out more of the good stuff in life than the bad.With poems such as 'One Day You'll See', 'Growing in Moonlight', 'The Comparing' and 'Always There', bestselling author Donna Ashworth helps us to see that whatever we are facing, no matter how small or afraid we feel, we make the biggest difference in this world and to our own happiness when we are brave enough to show up as ourselves.