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How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where does language come from? With the use of images, quotations from all the major thinkers... | Susan Cain Our lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose, and whether... |
Ivan Ward; Oscar Zarate INTRODUCING guide to the history and theory of still controversial 'speaking cure'. | Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zarate Demystifies the facts of Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis. This book tells the story of Freud's life and ideas from his upbringing in 19th-century Vienna, his early medical career and his... |
Maggie Hyde; Michael McGuiness Carl Gustav Jung was a controversial disciple of Sigmund Freud. This title explains the theories that led Jung to break away from Freud and describes his own near psychotic breakdown... | Richard Topol; Bernard Walliser The result of the first European Conference on Cognitive Economics, this book gives an overview of recent achievements of cognitive economics and aims to better define its motivations and its... |
Lionel Stapley How do we explain the factors that led to the murder by Muslim immigrants of Theo van Gogh in Holland? This book tracks the development and progress of Globalization with... | |
Joshua Foer Can anyone get a perfect memory? The author used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt art of memory training, discovering mnemonic... | Douglas R. Hofstadter 'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art... |
Anthony Storr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psycho-analysis into a general psychology, which became widely... | Sigmund Freud Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. |
Adam Phillips Demonstrates that there might in fact be much to be said for the unlived life. This title suggests that in missing out on one experience we always open ourselves to... | Anthony Stevens Explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. This book also discusses... |
Dylan Evans Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possible to build... | Sigmund Freud Presents a study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. |