The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: 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
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
$27.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of DopesickAs heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and wh ...Show more
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: 15
'A really important book . . . Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY Part of the experience of being alive in the twenty-first century is the feeling that your attention span is collapsing, along with those of everyone around you including your children. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What ar ...Show more
Supercommunicators: The Power of Conversation and the Hidden Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
How is it that we find it easy to talk to some people and struggle to do so with others? Why does the effectiveness of a message rely so strongly on who the messenger is? And what is the secret of having a successful difficult conversation?Charles Duhigg has the answer to all these questions and many mo ...Show more
Ten Trips: The Reality of Psychedelics by Andrew Mitchell; Andy Mitchell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings, puncturing the hype while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'break ...Show more
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
$28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: very good
A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complic ...Show more
101 Things I Learned® in Psychology School by Tim Bono; Matthew Frederick (As told to)
$36.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Series: 101 Things I Learned Ser.
Why do we think, feel, and act the way we do?A professor and expert consultant on psychological health ponders these questions and more in this thought-provoking, illustrated guide.Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors. It provides an orienting point for many professional careers, i ...Show more
ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction - from Childhood through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
$32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
'An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain... If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope'. Michael Thompson, PhD, New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising CainWorld-renowned authors Dr Edward M. Hallowell and Dr John ...Show more
ADHD Go-To Guide: Facts and Strategies for Parents and Teachers by Desiree Silva, Michele Toner
$34.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common mental-health condition in children and is present in most countries around the world. Although there is an abundance of literature on ADHD with plenty of scientific information, this condition remains controversial and often under diagn ...Show more
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deborah Dana
$38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Discover your body's neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation, a spat with a partner, or even an obnoxious tweet--these situations aren't life-or-death, yet we often react as if they are. That's because our bodies treat most perceived threats the same way. Yet one ap ...Show more
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Discover why learning is good for us and how to develop a 'Beginner's Mindset'. 'Beginners belongs on the list of books that have changed the way I understand my own limitations.' - Malcolm Gladwell For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which revere ...Show more
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening What makes them powerful The reason ...Show more