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  • NeuroTribes

    The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

    **This New York Times–bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.“Beautifully told, humanizing, important.”—The New York Times Book Review“Breathtaking.”—The Boston Globe“Epic and often shocking.”—Chicago TribuneWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • On Being Human

    Why Mind Matters

    by Jerome Kagan ...
    In this thought-provoking book, psychologist Jerome Kagan urges readers to sally forth from their usual comfort zones. He ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically he presents an elegant argument for functions of mind that cannot be replaced with sentences about brains while acknowledging that mind emerges from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Weariness of the Self

    Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

    Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Girls and Their Monsters

    The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

    For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an “intimate and compassionate portrait” (Grace M. Cho) of the Genain quadruplets, the harrowing violence they experienced, and its psychological and political consequences.In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old identical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Melanie Klein

    Translated by Ross Guberman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882–1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosis and autism. Along the way, she successfully introduced a new approach to the theory of the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Simply Psychology

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Simply
    Grasping complex psychological ideas has never been easier.Transforming complicated ideas into easy-to-understand graphics supported by accessible text, Simply Psychology is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short on time but hungry for knowledge.Covering the key psychological theories from moral development to cognitive behavioral therapy, each easy-to-read, single-page ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Being Wrong

    Adventures in the Margin of Error

    “Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”—Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetIn the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Adventures in the Orgasmatron

    How the Sexual Revolution Came to America

    One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Administrations of Lunacy

    Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

    by Mab Segrest ...
    **"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullersA scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Modern Psychology

    by Per Saugstad ...
    A History of Modern Psychology provides students with an engaging, comprehensive, and global history of psychological science, from the birth of the field to the present. It examines the attempts to establish psychology as a science in several countries and epochs. The text expertly draws on a vast knowledge of the field in the United States, England, Germany, France, Russia, and Scandinavia, as ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

    by Julian Jaynes ...
    National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus DispatchAt the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by Joyce Crick ...
    Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Psychology from An Empirical Standpoint

    Series series Routledge Classics
    Franz Brentano is one of the founding fathers of twentieth century philosophy, celebrated for introducing the concept of intentionality to philosophy as well as making significant contributions to ethics and logic. His work exerted great influence on major philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, but also philosophers travelling in the opposite direction, such Gottlob Frege. He counted Sigmund Freud ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Desperate Remedies

    Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

    by Andrew Scull ...
    A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable WorkA Times Book of the YearA Hughes Award Finalist“An indisputable masterpiece…comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.”—Wall Street Journal“Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting f... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • For The Ferryman

    A Personal History

    Dr. Charles Silverstein has made a habit of breaking down barriers. He successfully persuaded the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973. With Edmund White, he co-authored the landmark publication The Joy of Gay Sex in 1977. He was awarded a Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Practice of Psychology in 2011.In his stunning memoir, For The ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • The New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica

    A History of Old Main

    Known as "Old Main," the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica opened in 1843 as the first institution of its kind to treat madness as a medical illness, not a curse. A series of groundbreaking administrators sought to save mentally ill New Yorkers from lives of confinement in sordid conditions and create a safe haven. A sense of normalcy was established for patients through Old Main's Asylum ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wrong

    Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, high-powered consultants, health officials and more

    Our investments are devastated, obesity is epidemic, test scores are in decline, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Psychopath Test

    A Journey Through the Madness Industry

    by Jon Ronson ...
    In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    by Jon Ronson ...
    Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.*'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'*For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Complete Sigmund Freud

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    The Complete works of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychology, with a linking table of content for easy access through this HUGE collection of articles and books on psychology. ... Read more

    $2.00 USD

  • The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

    Once a top-secret training manual for CIA field agents in the early Cold War Era of the 1950s, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to the general public. An amazing historical artifact, this eye-opening handbook offered step-by-step instructions to covert intelligence operatives in all manner of sleight of hand and trickery designed to thwart the Communist enemy. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Becoming Cliterate

    Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It

    We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm—clitoral stimulation—from how we feel we should orgasm—penetration. As a result, we’ve ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Interpretation Of Dreams (3rd Edition) (Mobi Classics)

    The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes". Excerpted from Wikipedia, the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence

    The fascinating—and eerily timely—tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who launched the modern science of childhood development.“Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ scores, added together, totaled just 81. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs of the times, Skeels ... Read more

    $18.99 USD