Psychology

Tom acquired a traumatic brain injury aged 22 and took his own life 20 years later. In telling Tom's story, the author- a professional who works with suicidal clients, and Tom's sister- identifies the multiple suicide risk factors, the lack of understanding and inadequate service provision for people with complex needs following TBI.

In this ground-breaking and inspiring guide, a renowned Harvard psychologist demonstrates how turning everyday habits into rituals can improve our work, our relationships and our lives.

At a time where there is an enormous amount of noise around the benefits of psychedelics, this book contains the knowledge you need to know about a drug that is about to go mainstream, free from the hot air, direct from the expert. Are you ready to change your mind?

A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. Memory is a process that shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behaviour and feeding our imagination.

An Irish physician explores the ways in which society has lost the ability to deal with death.

In this hymn to walking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and minds.In Praise of Walking celebrates this miraculous ability.

A book of 100 new quotes and exercises to help you build a positive mindfulness habit.

Practical mindfulness techniques and advice for the worried to the seriously stressed.

Feel in control, more patient and happier as you go about daily life with these easy mindfulness techniques

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. This book takes us on a journey into the very real world of psychosomatic illness, in which the author finds the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves.

A gripping investigation into an extraordinary medical phenomenon from the prize-winning author of It's Not All In Your Head.

From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia, O'Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking the question: who gets to define what is and what isn't an illness?Reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry Marsh, The Sleeping Beauties is a moving and unforgettable scientific investigation with a very human face.