Psychology

Psychopath? takes you on a journey through the world of fictional villains and antiheroes - the lying, the cheating and the murder. Are they psychopaths in the true sense? Guided by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, this book examines whether a fictional forensic psychologist might come to that very conclusion.

What if we told you ...that dishonesty in children is a positive trait that arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role model and that if you praise your children you risk making them fail ...and it was all true? This book explores logic-defying insights into child development that have far-reaching relevance for us all.

Transformational experiences are as unique as they are profound, yet each portrays universal truths of human nature. In The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience, Ralph Metzner, PhD, unveils common dynamics and archetypes of the transformative experience, offering seekers and those in the throes of personal or societal transformation a reliable guide.

A fun and accessible user's guide to your personality, assessing all the evidence and competing theories.

A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? Walter Mischel's 'marshmallow test,' one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology, proved that the ability to delay gratification is critical to living a successful life. This book deals with this topic.

From an award-winning medic and scientist, the game-changing case that genetic females have greater resilience, immunity, endurance and more, compared with males 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain

An incisive analysis and fascinating history of modern medicine's flawed relationship with diagnosis, and a clarion call to our medical establishment to do better.

Offers an insight into typical dilemmas faced by people who are already successful and plots a 'way through the maze' when difficult life issues need to be confronted. This book offers profound insights into a coaching process.