Psychology

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Time

    £16.99

    Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems. Over the course of a year, they all make progress. But Gottlieb is not just a therapist – she’s also a patient who’s on a journey of her own. Interspersed with the stories of her clients are her own therapy sessions, as she goes in search of the hidden roots of a devastating and life-changing event.

  • By the Sea: The therapeutic benefits of being in, on and by the water

    £14.99

    In this book, intuition and instinct meet modern science as the therapeutic benefits of being in, on or by the sea are explained and explored, and how, if we look after the oceans they will, in turn, look after us. There is something about the vastness of the oceans, which are significantly larger than the continents combined, that has drawn humans in a significant way since the beginning of coastal communities. Throughout history, people have gravitated to live near the sea, it is part of the survival instinct. Water also has huge cultural and spiritual significance for people through the ages and for centuries we looked to the sand and surf as a fully-stocked medicine cabinet. Despite the widespread intuitive feeling that being by the water makes us happier and healthier, there hasn’t been much scientific evidence to quantify this connection. Until now.

  • Pure TV TIE

    £8.99

    Now a major Channel 4 series: the true story of Rose’s ten-year struggle with ‘Pure O’, which causes her to experience intense and intrusive sexual thoughts

  • Only Girl In The World

    £9.99

    For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

  • Language Of Kindness

    £8.99

    Christie Watson was a nurse for 20 years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, this book is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient’s agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive. In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is with us. She is a guide, mentor and friend. And in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand.

  • Lost Connections

    £12.99

    What really causes depression and anxiety – and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true – and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions – ones that work.

  • I Am I Am I Am

    I Am I Am I Am

    £9.99

    ‘I Am, I Am, I Am’ is Sunday Times bestseller and Costa Novel-Award winner Maggie O’Farrell’s electric and shocking memoir of the near death experiences that have punctuated her life. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose?

  • How Children Thrive

    £13.99

    While many parenting books mount more pressure on parents, developmental pediatrician Mark Bertin’s new book does the opposite. It empowers parents to listen to themselves and their child and tune out popular trends that are not evidence-based-encouraging a more relaxed and no-nonsense approach to parenting that helps children thrive

  • Language Of Kindness

    £14.99

    Christie Watson was a nurse for 20 years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, this book is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient’s agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive. In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is with us. She is a guide, mentor and friend. And in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand.

  • Only Girl In The World

    £14.99

    For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

  • Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir

    £20.00

    ‘I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the First World War. Home was the inner city of Washington – a small apartment atop my parents’ grocery store on First and Seaton Street. During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor, black neighbourhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge and, twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies’. Irvin Yalom is a gifted and lyrical writer whose memoir traces his life, from the apartment above his parents’ grocery store to a world stage via the intimacy of his consulting room. The memoir includes his self-analysis and is interwoven with vignettes from patients whose stories have played such a central role in his life.

  • Unplugged Parenting: A Mindful Approach to Raising Children in the Digital Age

    £14.99

    This is the book that every parent with a child under the age of 11 (in the latency stage of brain development) needs in order to navigate the tricky pathway of how much screen time to allow on a daily basis. Play has gone from a physical, creative experience using toys and imagination to something that now involves sitting down alone for hours at a time. Parents are dealing with children who don’t listen to them, who are unable to concentrate for very long, who refuse to do homework and who constantly battle against them for more screen time.

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