Psychology & Mental Health

In Embrace the Chaos, Special Forces veteran Jason Fox sets out a revolutionary programme of personal challenges designed to help you reboot, disrupt your thinking and grow your capabilities. Across 52 short chapters of practical advice - battle-tested on elite military operations and extreme expeditions - Foxy mentors you through a series of tasks that will enhance your life. Exercises range from micro-adventures and small habit changes to addressing your routine, cleansing your relationships, setting personal goals and learning new skills.

Something depressing is happen to humanity, and possibly even you. Our brains are degenerating and – in parallel – we’re seeing a worrying increase in mental illness across the world. Rates of anxiety, depression, dementia, ADHD and autism are all increasing at an alarming rate across the globe. According to the World Health Organisation, our declining brain health is the greatest threat we face. In Upgrade Your Brain, bestselling author Patrick Holford will draw on his 40 years’ of expertise – as well as countless experts from around the world – to teach us all how to reverse the tide.

We all want the power and motivation to create change in our lives. But how to get that in a stumbling dance of one step forward and two steps back? Negative emotions run rampant in many people's lives today; a reality that feels like a shrink wrap of suffering. Popular fallback solutions of performance-based goals and tools focus on extrinsic rewards like fame, wealth, or winning. But overuse of those rewards doesn't work for the long term and in fact weakens our confidence and motivation over time, leaving us vulnerable to failure and shame.

In this landmark book, Brazilian psychoanalyst, Norberto Keppe, offers a scientific study of the link between possession and psychopathology. Keppe's contention is that the disastrous idea perpetuated in both medicine and religion that strange manifestations in the human being are completely physical, and only occasionally spiritual is allowing malignant spirits free rein in their spurious influence over human beings. Keppe's innovative therapeutic perspective is that this mistake must be corrected for humankind to have any chance of returning to a normal peaceful and abundant life.

It is important to approach this topic of Ritalin with caution. Ritalin is not a cure-all solution for every challenge students, parents, and teachers face. Its impact on society must be analyzed through a multifaceted lens. One concern is the potential for misuse and abuse. As students, parents, and educators become increasingly reliant on Ritalin, there is a risk of overmedication and the normalization of drug dependence.

Are you stuck in toxic relationship patterns? Do you seem to attract narcissists or other disordered people? Are you ready to learn how to love yourself and others? Based on the acclaimed podcast of the same name, follow Brian's transformative journey from codependency and despair to joyful, fulfilling and sustaining relationships. Gain guidance into examining your own life and crafting a personalized pathway to heal from codependency and trauma.

We often think the answer to our problems lie outside of us, but many of the answers were looking for can only be found within. The inner work means working with your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, body, and breath so you can transform a life of stress into a life of purpose, connection, and joy. Doing the inner work allows you to heal, see different perspectives, and change old patterns.

Parenting is not always fun, but the dynamism of life gives us excitement, discovery, and pleasure. This book is a record of my experiences of parenting and practices of Zen. I owe them all to my children. They are gifts from God, irreplaceable treasures. The more serious I was with parenting, the deeper it became. When I faced parenting with a passion like a flame and at other times with calmness like ice, my attention became as sharp as a blade, and I could see some essence. That was a moment when a fire in my heart became a flame.

This book is like a powerful toolbox crafted with a holistic approach, combining neuroscience, positive psychology, Modern Medicine, and the wisdom of ancient yoga and meditation....

In this candid, humorous, and insightful book, author, political science lecturer, and “Dudeist Priest” Arch Grieve provides listeners with a first-hand account of the many lessons he has learned (often the hard way) as a person living with bipolar disorder. This guidebook is a must-listen for anyone who has recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder or knows someone who has.

Finding love can be hard. Being single can feel even harder. In Love Life, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author Matthew Hussey provides a practical roadmap for letting go of past relationships, overcoming the fear of getting left behind, and finding the love we want. Sometimes it feels like life and love are working against us. Just finding someone we like can be a struggle. Even when we do, we often find they’re not ready, or they want different things.

Meet six people who transformed their struggles with bipolar disorder, depression, PTSD, and more... through their strength, perseverance and by finding humor in their challenges. This poignant, funny and refreshing book lets us know we are not alone by sharing challenges, and heartbreak along with the ridiculous moments of life with mental illness.

Mental health is a term that encompasses our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. It affects how we think, feel, and act in our daily lives. Just like physical health, mental health is important for our overall well-being and quality of life. Good mental health allows us to cope with the stresses of life, work productively, form meaningful relationships, and make positive contributions to society.

Struggling with overwhelm? Exhaustion? Close to burnout? Learn small, actionable steps to find energy, fulfillment and thrive as a teacher. If you are an overwhelmed, drained teacher, Teach, Flourish, Thrive offers strategies, tools and research based evidence to enable teachers to move from survival to thriving. Rowena Hicks, an experienced teacher, trainer and leader offers practical, tried and tested keys that will teach you exactly how to rebuild your confidence, creativity and your love for your teaching role.

Life is full of challenges and obstacles. Each individual has faced their own set of struggles as they make the journey on the pathway of life. Many have turned to therapy to release the pain and anguish that have entered into their world. Therapy isn’t just an option to consider when you are experiencing difficult times (which we all do). In essence, therapy is about enhancing the quality of our lives. The truth is that all of us face issues in one way or the other. If left unchecked, these issues can culminate into a condition which may be exceedingly difficult to address later on.

Votre sexualité peut-elle contribuer à votre épanouissement personnel et affectif ? Oui, répond le sexologue Iv Psalti, qui dévoile à travers ce livre ses recettes simples et efficaces pour y parvenir. La sexualité positive prône le mieux-être sexuel (savoir donner, recevoir et prendre du plaisir).

The brain's power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not always be working for us. Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own. She illustrates the brain's tendency toward self-delusion as she explores how the mind defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions.

The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath. The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves.

Why do we do the things we do, think the thoughts we think, and feel the ways that we feel? Dr. Andrea Bonior has spent more than 15 years in the field of psychology helping people discover "what makes them tick". In her clinical practice, as well as various mental health agencies and counseling centers, she draws upon sound psychological principles to address anxiety disorders and depression, relationship issues, grief and loss, and other issues. As a mental health columnist and public speaker, Dr. Bonior encourages people to fuel their energy by connecting with themselves and cultivating the relationships around them. 

Savez-vous détecter un mensonge ? Cet ouvrage vous aide à mieux comprendre les comportements humains pour mieux communiquer, convaincre et évaluer les motivations de vos interlocuteurs. En 20 leçons clés, découvrez les secrets des leaders d'opinion et apprenez à décrypter les principaux modes de comportement qui déterminent la façon dont nous agissons et communiquons.

Découvrez les bienfaits d'un amour vrai et d'une sexualité accomplie, pour vivre mieux et plus longtemps. On dit avec justesse que pour rester en bonne santé, il convient d'adopter un mode de vie sain, de manger bio et équilibré, de faire du sport et de se garder du stress, mais on parle rarement des bienfaits d'un amour vrai et d'une sexualité accomplie.

When Henry Nicholls was 21, he was diagnosed with narcolepsy: a medical disorder causing him to fall asleep with no warning. For the healthy but overworked majority, this might sound like an enviable condition, but for Henry, the inability to stay awake is profoundly disabling, especially as it is accompanied by mysterious collapses called cataplexy, poor nighttime sleep, hallucinations and sleep paralysis. A writer and biologist, Nicholls explores the science of disordered sleep, discovering that around half of us will experience some kind of sleep dysfunction in our lives.

Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our best attempts to embrace rational thought and reject superstition, we often find ourselves appealing to unseen forces that guide our destiny, wondering who might be watching us as we go about our lives, and imagining what might come after death. In this lively and masterfully argued new book, Jesse Bering unveils the psychological underpinnings of why we believe.

Face aux changements de paradigmes (sociétal, écologique), ce livre audio propose une nouvelle manière d'appréhender notre relation à l'animal : adopter la perspective de l'animal, oser prendre en compte son point de vue grâce à l'éthologie et défendre la cause animale avec une démarche scientifique. Pour bâtir une nouvelle solidarité du vivant.