Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed by Lori Gottlieb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the YearEver wonder what your therapist is really thinking? Now you can find out ...Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems. There's the struggling new parents; the older woman who feels she has noth ...Show more
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
An epoch-defining history of African America co-curated by bestselling author of How To Be an Antiracist*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. ...Show more
If I Were You by Peter Quarry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
Curious to make sense of your life? Want to understand who you are and why you're here? Need to make peace with the past and get re-energised about the future? In this fascinating and original book gay psychologist Peter Quarry skilfully deconstructs his own life, showing how you can unpack and ...Show more
Calm: The Harmony and Serenity we Crave (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Nowadays almost all of us wish we could be calmer; it is one of the distinctive longings of the modern age. Across history people have sought adventure and excitement, however a new priority for many of us is a desire to be more tranquil. This is a book designed to support us in our endeavours to remain ...Show more
Relationships: Learning to love (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
On Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing - in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of sha ...Show more
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind--and healing the many parts that make you who you are.Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices that don't match the ideal of who ...Show more
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven PinkerWhy can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory- because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then pa ...Show more
Every Family Has A Story: How we inherit love and loss by Julia Samuel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
'Essential, clever and kind' Alain de Botton'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work' Elizabeth Day______________________Why do some families thrive in adversity while others fragment? How can families weather difficult transitions together? Why do our families drive us mad? And how can even small changes g ...Show more
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$37.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
From the author of the bestselling international phenomenon How To Be an Antiracist, a deeply considered and ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the futureHow do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How ar ...Show more
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist Erving Goffman examines how society treats those who it considers abnormal. Forced to adjust their social identities from situation to situation, Goffman analyses the variety of strategies that stigmatised individuals deploy to deal with the rejection o ...Show more
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman ...Show more