Sciences sociales et psychologues

Je crois que cette expérience ne peut se comprendre que lorsqu'on la vit. Je me sens tellement moins seule !

Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK.

A primer on how human connection forms the bedrock of our resilience, The Friendship Bench gives listeners the tools to facilitate transformative healing by reaching out to those who are struggling and isolated from the world around them.

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making...

A biography of the late spiritual pioneer Dr. David R. Hawkins, or "Doc" as he was known to many of his devotees. "This is more than a biography; it’s a heartfelt journey, an invitation to experience his life and witness the extraordinary legacy he left behind." Dr. David R. Hawkins, a man...

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time...

A major new biography of Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century genius What are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick’s, the decisive moment came in 1951, when he first met James Watson. Their ensuing discovery of the...

Rien ne prédisposait Julie Ewa à vivre une telle expérience. Et pourtant. Un matin, un étrange phénomène se produit : elle sort de son corps. Cette expérience la bouleverse. Que signifie-t-elle ? Est-elle réelle ou le fruit de son imagination ? Loin d'être un épisode isolé, l'évènement se répète.

A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada's leading mental health hospitals....

Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism....