Psychology & Psychiatry

What Is Gaslighting?
The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life
by Robin Stern, Ph.D.
Gaslighting is an insidious form of emotional abuse and manipulation that is difficult to recognize and even harder to break free from. That's because it plays into one of our worst fears - of being abandoned - and many of our deepest needs

Understanding The Basics
The Definitive Book of Body Language
by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
Everyone knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and within minutes give an accurate description about the relationships between those people and what they are feeling. The ability to read a person's attitudes and thoughts by their behavior

The Skinny On ADD
Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
Most people who have ADD don't read books all the way through. It's not because they don't want to; it's because reading entire books is very difficult-sort of like singing an entire song in just one breath.

The Body Lies: Female-To-Male Transsexuals
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
by Amy Bloom
What would you go through not to have to live the life of Kafka's Gregor Samsa? Not to realize, early in childhood, that other people perceive a slight, unmistakable bugginess about you, which you find horrifying but they claim to find unremarkable?

Why Women Are More Perceptive
The Definitive Book of Body Language
by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
When we say someone is 'perceptive' or 'intuitive' about people, we are unknowingly referring to their ability to read another person's body language and to compare these cues with verbal signals. In other words, when we say that we have a 'hunch'

Our Anxious Culture: Triggers for Anxiety
Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber : Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture
by Richard M. Restak, M.D.
Unfortunately, our brain isn't very proficient at probability estimation. Take an airplane phobia, for instance. Untold numbers of people suffer from a fear of flying, an anxiety condition that can range from the mildly discomfiting to the totally

Anxiety: Friend or Foe?
Beyond Shyness : How to Conquer Social Anxieties
by Jonathan Berent, A.C.S.W., Amy Lemley
Shyness. We've heard this word a lot. At one time or another, all of us have probably thought of ourselves as shy. Indeed, research shows that 93 percent of all people have experienced shyness. What does it mean to be 'shy'?

Introduction
Bridges to Recovery
by Jo-Ann Krestan
This book really began in the early nineties, on an icy, rain-soaked January day. I had been invited to the Roberto Clemente Guidance Center, in New York City, to teach a seminar on the family systems model of treatment first elaborated

The Many Faces of Trauma and Recovery
Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal
by Belleruth Naparstek
A wide range of situations can catalyze post-traumatic stress, and there are many avenues-seemingly different, but very much related-to recovery. Here are some personal stories from trauma survivors that provide a sampling of traumatic situations

Two Ways of Looking at Life
Learned Optimism : How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (Vintage)
by Martin E. Seligman, Ph.D.
The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past twenty-five years. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do.

The Personal Unconscious
Secrets of the Soul : A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
by Eli Zaretsky, Ph.D.
In the modern West there have been two episodes of genuine, widespread introspection: Calvinism and Freudianism. In both cases the turn inward accompanied a great social revolution: the rise of capitalism in the first, and its transformation into

The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
One of my favorite stories comes from the Sufi tradition of mystical Islam. It is a tale that tells us exactly what we will have to face if we endeavor to walk the path of desire.

Twenty Questions To Get You Started
Am I Okay?
by Michael B First, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D.
When you go to a doctor for a routine physical checkup, part of the examination will include what is called a 'review of systems.' The doctor asks you a comprehensive series of questions covering everything about your health from head to toe in order

Incapable of Being Indifferent
Exuberance: The Passion for Life
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
It is a curious request to make of God. Shield your joyous ones, asks the Anglican prayer: Shield your joyous ones. God more usually is asked to watch over those who are ill or in despair, as indeed the rest of the prayer makes clear.

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
by Dr. Sigmund Freud
The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

The Secret Life
Anatomy of a Secret Life
by Gail Saltz, M.D.
We all have secrets; we live and breathe them every day. We may not know what one another's secrets are, but we know they're there. They're always there, invisible presences in everyone's lives, the subtext beneath the text, the almost uttered

The Syllogism and the Tao
The Geography of Thought
by Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D.
More than a billion people in the world today claim intellectual inheritance from ancient Greece. More than two billion are the heirs of ancient Chinese traditions of thought.

Let Me Tell You a Secret That Will Change Your Life
Positive Energy : 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
It's about energy, creativity, the rhythms of existence - how their compelling interconnection gives birth to an inner voice so sophisticated it'll teach you to harness the positive and dispel negativity.

The Invisible Electric Fence: Anxiety
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Here's the fine print on comfort: It comes with an invisible electric fence. Keep well away from pushing your own limits and you will be cheerfully oblivious to the walled platform you have created.

Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us!