Psychology

What is happening to the world? For decades, we were promised a better future. We were encouraged to study, to educate ourselves, to cooperate, to respect others, and to trust in knowledge as a tool for advancing as a society. We were taught to...

On her recovery journey, Brittany discovered emerging science that explains how and why trauma lives in our bodies, not in the story of what happened to us. Trauma overwhelms our nervous system, which operates through feelings, sensations, and emotions, not through words and thoughts....

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most importantly, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli:...

The purpose of this work is to contribute to reflection on what it entails to be an adequate parent and, simultaneously, to offer professionals a tool for assessing the degree of adequacy required to ensure the healthy development of children. Being a parent is...

Drawing upon the model of consciousness and the interpretation of dreams — enriched with examples from his clinical practice — Frankl succeeds in persuading the reader, through empirical means, that a religiosity underlies the human being, one that implies "the ignored presence of God."...

You are much more than your personality type. The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self is an invitation to see ourselves as more than we believe we are, to learn and engage in practices that liberate us from automatic patterns. “This is a great...

Ours is the only species that lives in tribes: groups glued together by their distinctive cultures that can grow to a scale far beyond clans and bands. Morris argues that our psychology is wired by evolution in three distinctive ways. First, the peer instinct...

An introduction to the philosophy of family constellations and their fundamental principles, designed to inspire and empower you to take responsibility for your own life. Family constellations are based on the premise that the dynamics of suffering we experience did not begin with us....

An innovative and clear guide that reveals the main ways trauma blocks joy and hope, and offers concrete strategies for healing. Joy does not appear only in moments when everything is going well. In fact, its brightest, tiniest, and most important fragments can only...

Published in 1846, Psyche is one of the most profound and least known works of German Romanticism. In it, Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) — physician, painter, naturalist, and visionary thinker — proposes an organic and symbolic understanding of the soul that anticipates, with astonishing...

The foundations of psychoanalysis transmitted to us by our teachers will become our own foundations only on the condition that we conquer them and make them our own. In this work, Juan David Nasio defines the seven fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis: castration, the phallus,...

Adolescence is a stage of intense emotional transformation. The awakening of love, the need to feel seen and accepted, or the gradual distancing from one’s family can be experienced with an overwhelming intensity — one that, in many cases, reactivates deep wounds rooted in...

Winnicott demonstrates how, in the playful encounter between the child and the caregiver, a transitional space is created — an intermediate area where reality and fantasy intertwine, facilitating the passage from non-integration toward healthy psychic integration. This seminal work of 20th-century psychology illuminates the...

Jacques Lacan, considered the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, remains an enigmatic figure for many. Consequently, in this book, Bruce Fink seeks to elucidate his key theoretical concepts and demonstrate that, despite the complexity of Lacanian language, many of his innovations can be...

Relational networks pose an inescapable challenge for professionals and institutions involved in addressing human suffering, for they constitute the arena where distress takes shape — but also where change can be catalyzed. In this book, social networks — far removed from the trivialization to...

Among the various forms of panic attacks associated with the fear of dying, the most common is the sensation of running out of breath — to the point of near-total asphyxiation. Both mechanisms — that of breathing and that of fear — mutually influence...

From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing;...

The neuroscience of how we navigate reality, memory, or the future… A fleeing shrew, a planning jay, a dreaming human: they all share the same ancient neural GPS that connects survival, memory, and consciousness; the system that guided the first organisms through primitive oceans...

In The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma, bestselling author Arielle Schwartz offers a compassionate, body-centered approach to healing from trauma, whether it stems from a single event or repeated experiences. Drawing on polyvagal theory and the science of the nervous system, the book provides...

The brain is a fascinating organ, capable of incredible feats and myriad complex tasks, but it is not designed for happiness. Evolution cares very little that we are happy, as long as it manages to keep us alive. Fortunately for us, one of the...