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And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuffs. No radio. Only the man across the desk and me. He looks more petrified than I do. HMP Graymoor. One of the UK’s most notorious prisons. Home to nearly 800...

How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David Goldbloom as he treats patients, communicates with families, and trains staff at CAMH, the largest psychiatric facility in Canada. This highly listenable and touching behind-the-scenes account of his daily encounters with a wide range of psychiatric concerns - from his own patients and their families to Emergency Department arrivals - puts a human face on an often misunderstood area of medical expertise.

A real-life "Indiana Jones", Donald P. Ryan, PhD, offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Fans of The Lost City of Z will thrill to the exploits of this "unconventional archaeologist" as he retrieves the remains of Egypt's past - including his breakthrough discovery in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt's famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut.

Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five very different men. Ira Aldridge: nineteenth century actor and playwright. Matthew Henson: polar explorer. Frantz Fanon: psychiatrist and political philosopher. Malcolm X: activist leader. Justin Fashanu: million-pound footballer. Each a trailblazer in his field. Each haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each reaching for a better future. Ekow Eshun tells their stories with breathtaking lyricism and empathy, capturing both the hostility and the beauty they experienced in the world.

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the 20th century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna, his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of "the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy", known as logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials in four concentration camps during the War; and reflects on the celebrity brought by Man's Search for Meaning in 1945.

From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and...

From one of the world’s leading memory researchers, a provocative exploration of an existential question: Can we trust our own memories? Most of us think memories are like a tidy archive of high-definition video footage, a faithful recording of our most meaningful experiences. Our memories, we...

The gripping, unforgettable, and deeply affecting story of a young clinical psychologist learning how she can best help her patients, The Skeleton Cupboard is a riveting and revealing memoir that offers fascinating insight into the human mind. In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron...

Allison DuBois, inspiration for the hit TV show Medium, shares fascinating stories of encounters with the dead and adventures as a criminal profiler. Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people. She can predict future events and read your mind. When she...

戦争、移民、家族と食。朝鮮半島にルーツをもつ母娘の記憶から、現代社会の論点が浮き彫りになる。2021年全米図書賞ノンフィクション部門最終候補となった、コリア系アメリカ人社会学者が紡ぐ、珠玉の回想録。

It's the beginning of the twentieth century, and members of the Wednesday Circle hurry through Vienna's darkening streets. In this entertaining history, psychologist Steve Ayan introduces the twentieth-century visionaries who ignited a revolution of the mind. It is a story of breakthroughs in the treatment of mental illness, but also of dubious dream interpretations, affairs with patients, and feuding factions.

سلسلة نجوم ساطعة.. شخصيات عالمية تقدم هذه السلسلة مجموعة من القصص التعليمية للأطفال بأسلوب لطيف وسهل.. شخصيات مبدعة برعت في شتى مجالات الحياة، تركوا آثار للعالم بأسره. نتمنى لكم رحلة استماع ممتعة

A bold new history of psychology that uncovers the lost legacies of the women who shaped our understanding of what it is to be human If asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget. But what of Mary Whiton Calkins, who has...

Is violence normal? Aren't they all evil? Does trauma cause violence? And can we change violent minds? For Dr. Gwen Adshead, these are the most common questions she is asked about her work as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in secure hospitals and prisons. Dr. Adshead pays attention to an aspect of humanity we often find hard to comprehend and invites us to do the same as she considers the motivations, the risk factors, the social roots of violence as well as the rehabilitation of offenders. 

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.

Wounded Healing: The Art and Soul of Surthriving by Jorja Jamison, PhD, LP is a powerful and deeply personal memoir that blends professional insight with lived experience to explore addiction, trauma, and recovery. The book interweaves Wounded chapters of her own story with Healing chapters outlining how she has learned to help others in their own healing journey.

In Healed Enough, Chelsey Valeri shares her personal journey through trauma recovery with clarity, compassion, and candor. As both a complex trauma survivor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker trained in trauma therapy, she weaves together lived experience and professional understanding to illuminate what healing can actually look like. This book does not promise perfect healing. Instead, it offers something far more honest.

You wake up at 3 AM, heart racing, replaying the same toxic thoughts that have haunted you for years. You whisper to yourself, "Tomorrow will be different"—but tomorrow comes, and there you are again: same shame, same fear, same crushing belief that you're not enough and never will be. Here's what nobody tells you: The prison isn't your circumstances. It's your mind. And every self-help book, every sermon, every therapy session that focuses on changing your behavior while ignoring your mindset is just rearranging furniture in a burning house.

"Gefangen im Schmerz – Heilung trotz Verlust" erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Rafael, der mit nur 20 Jahren plötzlich aus dem Leben gerissen wurde, und von einer Familie, die in der Tiefe ihrer Trauer einen neuen Weg finden musste. Offen und berührend beschreibt Nadia Christeler-Weber die Phasen des Verlustes, die schockierenden Momente danach und den Weg zurück zur Lebenskraft. Dieses Buch gibt Hoffnung in Zeiten der Dunkelheit und zeigt: Niemand muss im Schmerz gefangen bleiben. Das Leben darf wieder leicht werden.

Heinrich Hoffmann war ein deutscher Psychiater, Lyriker und Kinderbuchautor. Er ist der Verfasser des Struwwelpeter. Er verwendete auch die Pseudonyme Heulalius von Heulenburg, Reimerich Kinderlieb, Peter Struwwel sowie Polycarpus Gastfenger.