Personality

Who am I? How do I fit in the world around me? This revealing and innovative book demonstrates that each of us discovers what is true and meaningful, in our lives and in ourselves, through the creation of personal myths. Challenging the traditional view...

Learn to embrace the power inside you in a world geared towards extroverts in this introvert book written by psychologist and fellow introvert, Laurie Helgoe.Introverts gain energy and power through reflection and solitude. Our culture, however, tends to...

Most of us crave new experiences and sensations. Whether it's our attraction to that new burger place or the latest gadget, newness tugs at us. But what about those who can't seem to get enough? They jump out of planes, climb skyscrapers, and will eat...

Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic and socio-political changes globally - the chaos in the world banking system and the financial crisis and recessions that it presaged; the Arab Spring and the...

A source of hope, expert advice, and guidance for people with borderline personality disorder and those who love them Do you experience frightening, often violent mood swings that make you fear for your sanity? Are you often depressed? Do you engage in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618004157Author Don Richard RisoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 24mm

This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure...

'Identity' is a central organizing feature of our social world. Across the social sciences and humanities, it is increasingly treated as something that is actively and publicly accomplished in discourse. This book defines identity in its broadest sense,...

What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others?This new edition of The Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research into the nature of happiness. Major research developments have occurred since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630517205Author Murray SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one's real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern...

`[This book's] fundamental thesis is a rather challenging one - the idea that the unified, singular "self", which we all take for granted we possess, does not exist... fascinating and important... I will certainly revisit the book... when...

With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061492204Author Jordan SmollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954357075Author Ludwig KlagesFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Rogue Scholar PressPublisher Rogue Scholar PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This handbook introduces the reader to the thought-provoking research on the neural foundations of human intelligence. Written for undergraduate or graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and related...

Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746605Author Chantel PratFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the social sciences and humanities. In an accessible and concise format, the book ranges from classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593236826Author Marilyn VancilFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471296447Author WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Narcissism is truly one of the most important concepts of our time - ceaselessly discussed in the media, the subject of millions of online search queries, and at the center of serious social and political debates. But what does it really mean? In The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939754073Author Kacie BerghoefFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm *...

This collection of papers, written over the last six years by Robert Caper, focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development.Robert Caper demonstrates the importance this psychological disentanglement plays in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838030230Author Suzanne SelvesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hope & Plum Book PublishingPublisher Hope & Plum Book Publishing

Author AJ Sherrill still remembers the moment when his life was forever changed by a word he didn't even understand at the time: Enneagram. A personality theory that includes nine different "types," the Enneagram has become a popular tool for...

A do-it-yourself psychoanalysis quiz book utilizes visualization to answer questions about a wide range of topics and offers a revealing look at what these answers mean in terms of one's personality.Book InformationISBN 9780684871486Author Tadahiko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514001165Author Suzanne StabileFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm)...

A revised edition of a landmark work of psychology; the author uses the ancient myth of Amor and Psyche as the springboard for a brilliant, perceptive exploration of how one becomes a mature and complete woman.About the AuthorRobert A. Johnson, a noted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464144189Author Elliot AronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Macmillan Learning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497864Author Marshall GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CurrencyPublisher CurrencyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 20mm

One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization "These impassioned pages require and reward very close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425183403Author Steven ReissFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death--actually the core of human existence. Rank's book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in...

Feeling Unreal is the first book to reveal what depersonalization disorder is all about. This important volume explores not only depersonalization, but the philosophical and literary implications of selflessness as well, while providing the latest...

In this book a leading psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician presents his thoughts on the latest psychodynamic developments and insights related to treatment of severe personality disorders. Dividing his discussions into two sections, one on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630518509Author Murray SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent...

Written in straightforward language, and accessible to the average reader, Discover Attachment Theory is the first of a series of short books which will show how Attachment Theory can be relevant to everybody. Thirty years ago, Joan Woodward coined the...

A humorous handbook that'll teach you how to seize power and keep it, from Survivor Australia's most cunning mastermind, King George. This motivational guidebook will teach you how to emulate the cunning, dastardly qualities of Australia's favourite...