Psychology & Psychiatry
67 Articles & Excerpts
The Emotional Economy
 Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
by Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide.
Why Worry About a Quarterlife Crisis?
 Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
The whirlwind of new responsibilities, new liberties, and new choices can be entirely overwhelming for someone who has just emerged from the shelter of twenty years of schooling.
Psychology and Spirituality: The Bridge
 Connecting to God
by Rabbi Abner Weiss, Ph.D.
A century of clinical psychology has made therapy a household concept in the Western world. More people than ever before have experienced psychotherapy. More methods for achieving psychological well-being are available.
A Radical Geography of Love
 The Birth of Pleasure
by Carol Gilligan
For years, without knowing why, I have been drawn to maps of the desert, drawn by descriptions of the winds and the wadi - dry watercourses that suddenly fill with rain. I began following an ancient story about love told in North Africa
The Man in the Black Mercedes
 The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Are you up for a fight? Because I'm telling you, right up front, it's a fight to get from where you are to what you want. That battle is with yourself. We are the rocks we are pushing uphill - if and when we choose to make the push.
Spirituality of The Deep
 Dark Nights of the Soul
by Thomas Moore, Ph.D.
The language of psychology may not say enough about the darkness and therefore may not get you through. With its therapeutic goals, psychology reduces experience too far. Its mission is to relieve you of your suffering.
Contradiction or connection?
 The Geography of Thought
by Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D.
The greatest of all Greek scientific discoveries was the discovery - or rather, as philosopher Geoffrey Lloyd put it, the invention - of nature itself. The Greeks defined nature as the universe minus human beings and their culture.
How Do You Recognize a Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
While at its heart the quarterlife crisis is an identity crisis, it causes twentysomethings' conflicting emotions to show up in different ways. Sometimes they reach a state of panic sparked by a feeling of loss and uncertainty.
What Do You Do About the Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
Hopefully, this book will help to change that perception. This book won't solve the quarterlife crisis, just as the hundreds of books on the midlife crisis won't make anybody any younger.
Repetition, Reflection, and the Search for Meaning
 Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough NOT Becoming Conscious In An Unconscious World
by Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
Throughout this book, I have tried to convey a sense of the process of healing the soul-the inward journey of self-discovery and self-actualization-as I have experienced it in the psychotherapeutic process.
Spend and Acquire, Rapid Social Change and Information Overload
 The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power
by Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D.
Today, some three hundred years into the industrial (and now postindustrial) economy, the old adage that 'money can't buy happiness' still gets lip service, but the Thinking Mind doesn't seem to be paying attention.
Stuck
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
'I'm stuck,' said the shiny man sitting across from me. His hair, product-tamed and light-reflecting, matches a remarkable pair of gleaming loafers. I get a first impression of a glossy hardback novel squashed between classy bookends.
The Power of Love: Hugs and Cuddles Have Long-Term Effects
by National Institute of Health
How often do you hug? Do you like to sit close and hold each other's hands? Recent research shows it's good for your health. Between loving partners, between parents and children, or even between close friends, physical affection can help the brain
Introduction
 Choosing Truth
by Harriette Cole
Choosing Truth is a book devoted to supporting the search for the deepest understanding of Truth that we can find: The answer to the age-old question, Who am I? It is a subject that I have held close to my heart for my entire life, even when I wasn't sure
Preface
 Entangled Minds
by Dean Radin, Ph. D.
One of the most surprising discoveries of modern physics is that objects aren't as separate as they may seem. When you drill down into the core of even the most solid-looking material, separateness dissolves.
The Tyranny of the Thinking Mind
The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power
by Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D.
The Bible opens with an account of a perfect garden at the beginning of time, where mankind would have dominion, and would be free to partake of everything except the fruit of one particular tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Longevity
 The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
by James Hillman, Ph.D.
The Force of Character follows an enriching journey through the three stages of aging - lasting, the deepening that comes with longevity; leaving, the preparation for departure; and left, the special legacy we each bestow on our survivors.
Trapped in Time
The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power
by Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D.
If you objectively observe your thoughts while you are driving, working, playing with your children, or eating dinner, you'll likely be amazed at how much of your mental life involves thoughts about the future.
Introduction
 Adult Psychopathology, Second Edition
by Francis J. Turner, Ph.D.
The term psychiatric social work, a term once highly status laden, is now rarely seen or heard in the profession's lexicon. In its heyday the concept was seen as denoting some form of higher-level position and practice than 'just' social work.
The Harp That Came Back: My Journey Begins
 Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind
by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.
In December of 1991, my daughter's harp was stolen; we got it back. But it came back in a way that irrevocably changed my familiar world of science and rational thinking. It changed the way I go about living in that world.
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