Pathological Psychology category: 903 books

There are people in YOUR life right now camouflaged around you who have no conscience. They are undercover sociopaths who rarely do anything illegal, but who take great secret pleasure in hurting or inconveniencing you. The Type 1 Sociopath in Your life could be: • The person bullying...

Bridge deals most centrally with the question of suicide, issues of violence, and mental illness. In 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), 38,364 suicides were reported in the U.S., making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans (The Centers for Disease Control and...

The essential feature of Schizotypal Disorder is a "pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort and a reduced capacity for intimate relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior with inclination to create illogical theories...

This is a book of fifteen original poems about cutting. These poems may be disturbing to some readers but cutting is a silent epidemic. It is estimated that more than one million people in the United States cut their self or self abuse their self each day. Most are teens and some are adults. Almost...

A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral...

This book was primarily intended for the use of students of medicine, as an introduction to the study of insanity, to give them a general notion of the subject without going into much detail, and incidentally to be of use to them in examinations. It was not intended as an advanced book for those who make a special study of insanity.

"Psicopatología de la vida cotidiana" es una obra de Sigmund Freud de 1901, en la que se analiza lo que desde entonces se conoce como acto fallido (lapsus linguae o lapsus freudiano).   Sigmund Freud (Príbor, 6 de mayo de 1856-Londres, 23 de septiembre de 1939) fue un médico neurólogo...

“What the hell is happening to me? I feel possessed. I’m talking gibberish in the mirror and somebody else’s voice is coming out of my mouth.”Cameron West was in his thirties, a successful businessman, happily married and the father of a young son when he spoke these words. The “voice”...

The world is always forcing its propaganda on you. Everyone is "selling" you something. At the very least, they're selling you their story, their version of events, their view of the world, the way they want things to be. You're at it too, of course. Facebook and Twitter are not social networking...

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...

Humane Helping is a comprehensive, practical guide that helps clinicians shift their practice from the mental disorder-and-chemical fix and expert-talk models to a more humane, helpful model that increases their ability to help clients meet life’s challenges and reduce emotional distress. Chapters...

Case files include: Columbine and Virginia Tech When kids suffer abuse at home from parents and siblings, they often then go to school and suffer bullying from peers and an endless series of dictates from teachers. They begin to feel trapped as they can't avoid abuse no matter where they are....

The Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder could be described as a compulsive personality with affectation. These individuals express an irritable mood and acid; aggression is often grumpy and whiny. They are often depressed or gloomy and feel a perverse pleasure in spoiling the party at all - even...

Meet Megan - a young girl who has an anxiety disorder. Megan invites readers to learn about anxiety from her perspective, helping them to understand why she sometimes feels anxious and how this affects her thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Megan talks about techniques she has learnt to help manage...