Highly reviewed psychic health books

New York columnist James Surowiecki discusses a deceptively basic theory with vast consequences in this endlessly interesting book: large masses of people are smarter than most leaders, no matter how clever they are to solve issues faster, promote creativity, make wise choices, and forecast the future. Surowiecki reaches through subjects as varied as culture, sociology, behavioral economy, artificial intelligence, military history and politics to illustrate the ways this concept apply in real life. Surowiecki introduces them in a beautifully entertaining manner, given the strength of his claims. The Wisdom of Crowds is a genius yet open biography of an idea, one with valuable lessons in living our lives, choosing our leaders, running our business, and talking about our environment.

To the average clinician, the most difficult, often insoluble cases are always those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This book is the definitive overview of systematic, structured approach to treating adults with BPD through dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), Marsha M. Linehans. DBT was the first psychotherapy which was found to be effective for BPD. Since then, it has been adapted and tested for a wide range of other emotional dysregulation disorders that are difficult to treat.

Is progress really at fault in our world, are we doomed ? Social psychologist and public intellectual Steven Pinker encourages us to step away from the gory headlines and prophecies of destruction that reflect our emotional prejudice. Pinker reveals in seventy-five jaw-dropping charts that life, education, wealth, security, harmony, awareness, and satisfaction are growing, all around the world. This advancement was not the result of any divine energy. This is a legacy of the Enlightenment: the idea that science and knowledge in general had improved human wellbeing. The Enlightenment dream is struggling against the tides of authoritarianism, demonization, irrational thinking, all used by demagogues to manipulate the opinion. The consequence is a corrosive fatalism and a desire to destroy democracy and international cooperation. Enlightenment Now makes the case for logic, science, and humanism; values we need to pursue our global progress.

A modern theory of how the brain produces emotions that can revolutionize neuroscience, health care, the justice system, and our human mind comprehension. Today the science of emotion is in the middle of a revolution on par with the discovery of biology of relativity in physics and natural selection, and this paradigm shift has far-reaching consequences for all of humanity. Psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett is leadingthis revolution, whose philosophy of feeling enables a deeper view of mind and brain and shines new light on what it means to be alive. Her research overturns the common assumption that thoughts are located in separate areas of the brain and are universally realized and recognized. Alternatively, she has demonstrated that empathy is developed spontaneously, by core mechanisms that communicate in the entire brain. The new idea suggests you’re playing a much larger role than you ever felt in your emotional life. How Emotions Are Made addresses these and even more questions, showing the newest findings and fascinating functional implications of the modern science of emotion and mind.

You can feel a wide variety of feelings, such as anxiety, rage, terror, and depression, when you have undergone a traumatic incident. The reality is that there is no right or wrong way to respond to trauma; but there are ways you can learn from your experience and discover your own strength, development, and healing potential. Overcoming Trauma and PTSD provides validated beneficial therapies based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you resolve both psychological and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) physical and mental effects. The book will help you seek comfort from traumatic nightmares, sleeplessness, and any signs that you may suffer. Workshops, checklists and drills are all provided to help you continue to feel good and launch your journey on the road to recovery. The book will help you control your anxiety, deal with traumatic experiences and hallucinations, and help you decide if you need to see a psychiatrist.

The digital revolution drowns us in an unparalleled deluge of information and data. On a everyday basis more choices and judments are expected to be taken than ever before. Yet some people get very good at handling this flow of data. Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the recent brain research in The Organized Mind to demonstrate how these people succeed and how you could use their strategies to get a sense of control over time and never stopping solicitations. Levitin shows that modern insights into the behavioral psychology of attention and memory can be extended to our everyday lives with informative, engaging chapters on everything from kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow. The Organized Mind reveals how to tackle the churning stream of knowledge in the twenty-first century.

Influence, the seminal book on persuasion, discusses why people say yes and how such understandings can be implemented. The leading specialist in the exponentially developing field of influence and persuasion is Dr. Robert Cialdini. In this acclaimed book you’ll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a expert persuader and how to defend yourself against them. Ideal for individuals from all social classes, Influence principles will drive you to meaningful positive transformation and serve as a driving force for your success.

We believe we make good, moral choices when it comes to making decisions in our lives. Dan Ariely refutes the common belief that we are behaving in inherently rationnal ways in this recently updated and extended version of the New York Times bestseller.

The Willpower Instinct was the first book to describe the emerging psychology of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, wellbeing, and efficiency, based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigals. The Willpower Instinct, which is guided by the new findings and incorporates cutting-edge concepts from psychology, sociology, neuroscience and medicine, discusses precisely what willpower is, how it functions, and how it matters. The Willpower Instinct incorporates life-changing prescriptive guidance with practical workouts in the ground-breaking tradition of Getting Things Done to empower writers achieve resolutions ranging from weight loss to more compassionate discipline, less procrastination, better fitness, and greater job efficiency.

Can we define psychological traits related to Conservative or Liberal political beliefs? r/K theory explores the propensity for all societies to follow one of two psychologies as a way of adapting their actions to the actual availability of ressources The two approaches, called r and K, correspond well with each other’s liberalism and conservatism psychologies. The r-strategy, imbues those conditioned to be averse to rivalry, encourages promiscuity, embraces single parenting, and promotes early initiation of adolescent sexual behavior. It, of course, reflects the Liberal ideology of aversion to human Darwinian contests such as democracy and gun self-defense, as well as collective competitions such as fighting. Similarly, Liberalism is tolerant of promiscuity, supportive of single parents, and more likely to accept children’s early sex education. Designed to leverage an abundance of resources, one will also see this r-type tactic represented within prey animals, where predation has reduced the population, thereby raising the resources available to their individuals. The other strategy, called the K-strategy, imbues those who follow it with extreme competition, as well as abstinence tendencies until monogamy, parenting two parents, and delaying sexual activity until later in life. This, of course, represents Conservatisms’ tolerance of all kinds of capitalist political systems, from free-market economics to war, to people possessing and keeping private arms for self-defense. Conservatives often appear to support abstinence before monogamy, two parents and focus in social traditions, and kids are protected before later in life from all sexualized triggers. This technique is most often seen in animals that lack predation, and whose populations have expanded to the point that individuals have to compete with each other for the scarce natural resources they are running out of rapidly. Substantiated extensively with the current findings in fields ranging from neurobiology to human behavioral evolution, this study provides an insightful understanding into not just what drives our political fights, but also how such battles emerged in the first place inside our community.