This Is Me, Is That You?
Encounters with Schizophrenia
ISBN: HB: 9780300276541,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A psychoanalyst's sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients.
In the spring of 1994, psychoanalyst-in-training Steven Poser arrived for his clinical internship at one of the last remaining nineteent...
HB:
20.00 GBP
QTY:
Little History of Psychology
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300282627,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
288 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature.
Psychology is the science devoted to understanding human nature. Its practitioners have long sought to understand behaviour, feelings and thoughts. In her f...
PB:
10.99 GBP
QTY:
Narrative Brain
The Stories Our Neurons Tell
ISBN: HB: 9780300273809,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 black&white illus.
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 black&white illus.
An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell.
As humans, we think in stories – stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon...
HB:
25.00 GBP
QTY:
Dark Persuasion
A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
ISBN: PB: 9780300271034,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported b...
PB:
14.99 GBP
QTY:
Anatomy of Grief
How the Brain, Heart, and Body Can Heal after Loss
ISBN: PB: 9780300264760,
Yale University Press,
August 2022
328 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 11 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 11 black&white illus.
An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved.
Grief happens to everyone. Universal and enveloping, grief cannot be ignored or denied.
This original new book by psychologist Dorothy...
PB:
12.99 GBP
QTY:
Dignity
Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300261424,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
248 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
248 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction – in families, in communities, in the business world, and in relationships at the international level. When dignity is violated, the response is l...
PB:
13.99 GBP
QTY:
Anger
The Conflicted History of an Emotion
ISBN: HB: 9780300221428,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
224 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 13 colour illus.
224 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 13 colour illus.
All of us think we know when we are angry, and we are sure we can recognize anger in others as well. But this is only superficially true. We see anger through lenses colored by what we know, experience, and learn.
Barbara H. Rosenwein traces our man...
HB:
22.50 GBP
QTY:
Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
ISBN: PB: 9780300251852,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather t...
PB:
12.99 GBP
QTY:
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
ISBN: PB: 9780300248548,
Yale University Press,
February 2020
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.
Integrating recent in...
PB:
14.99 GBP
QTY:
Master and His Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
ISBN: PB: 9780300245929,
Yale University Press,
February 2019
616 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
616 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...
PB:
17.99 GBP
QTY: