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No matter who you’re talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you communicate. Jefferson Fisher, trial lawyer and one of the leading voices on real-world communication, offers a tried-and-true framework that will show you how to transform your life and your relationships by improving your next conversation.

New motherhood is often seen as a joyful moment in a woman's life; for some women, it is also their lowest moment. For much of the twentieth century, popular and medical voices blamed women who had emotional and mental distress after childbirth for their own suffering. By the end of the century, though, women with postpartum mental illnesses sought to take charge of this narrative. In Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America, Rachel Louise Moran explores the history of the naming and mainstreaming of postpartum depression.

A deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life.

A new way to consider patterns of personality, with the combined application of neurobiology and traditional wisdom, Personality and Wholeness in Psychotherapy applies the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to a traditional wisdom framework widely known as the Enneagram of Personality. This framework describes a lifespan developmental personality model of nine distinct, key strategies that people use to make sense of and cope with their experiences and interactions with the world. These strategies can be understood as nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways, or PDPs.

Based on groundbreaking research and expert opinions, What Your Body Knows About Happiness will teach you: how to use your body to spark creativity; how to find joy through your senses; how changing your environment can improve your mood; the unexpected powers of diet, exercise, and sex; the ways your brain can resolve bodily pain; and how to create optimism through your body. Janice Kaplan explores the evidence showing that our feeling bodies are often smarter than our thinking minds.

Is love conditional? How do you navigate a relationship where someone’s best efforts are hurting you? When should you step away? These are some of the questions therapists and TikTok sensation KC Davis explores in Who Deserves Your Love. In writing that is both plainspoken and powerful, she explains how vulnerability, trauma, and personal history can be both the cause of and the solution to relationship struggles.

“You were dead, Sarah, you were dead.” In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza’s crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother.

On ne présente plus le Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens, le livre de référence incontournable, traduit dans une quinzaine de langues et best-seller aux 4 millions de lecteurs. Cette nouvelle édition comporte 16 nouvelles techniques qui nous éclairent sur les apports scientifiques les plus récents. Madame O. (le personnage principal de l'ouvrage), femme de caractère, vit des aventures qui sont aussi les nôtres en cette première moitié de XXIe siècle.

La neurociencia y la psicología nos explican que, en la fase inicial del amor, nuestro cerebro se inunda de dopamina, llevándonos a una euforia similar a la de una droga. Sin embargo, diversos estudios demuestran que esta «fiebre romántica» es tan adictiva como efímera. Pero ese amor pasional puede transformarse, podemos encontrar esa «persona milagro» con quien compartir la vida de manera significativa y profunda, pero eso requiere de un enfoque consciente y renovado.

Mieux se connaître grâce aux neurosciences. Pourquoi croyons-nous souvent avoir raison lorsque nous avons tort ? Pourquoi sommes-nous terrorisés par une toute petite araignée inoffensive ? Pourquoi avons-nous peur de parler en public alors qu'aucun danger ne nous guette ? Pourquoi nous laissons-nous avoir par les infox? Face à un réel multiple et complexe, nous sommes sujets à l'approximation, à l'illusion et à l'erreur. Ces mécanismes cérébraux nous permettent de construire une vision cohérente du monde.

Vom Labyrinth menschlicher Gefühle. Ob es uns gefällt oder nicht: Wir Menschen sind verletzlich, vor allem in unseren Gefühlen. Sie zu verstehen und anzuerkennen, fällt niemandem leicht. Doch nur, wer sich selbst nah ist, kann auch anderen nah sein und ein erfülltes Leben führen. Zugewandt und Mut machend erzählt Sandra Konrad von der Kunst des Verzeihens, der Kraft des Loslassens und den Missverständnissen der Liebe.

Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s―and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Science is now revealing how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain, and more and more, we are learning that it’s possible to strengthen positive brain states.

What makes us peek at a car wreck or binge-watch true crime shows late into the night? Why are some of us drawn to horror movies while others shudder at the thought? In Morbidly Curious, scientist Coltan Scrivner takes listeners on a thrilling journey into the psychology of morbid curiosity, uncovering why we can’t resist the macabre. From grisly serial killers to spine-chilling paranormal stories, Scrivner reveals the psychological forces that compel us to explore our darkest fears—and explains how this proclivity is more than just a quirk.

The topic of attachment theory has never been hotter. The hashtag #attachmentstyle has appeared more than a billion times on social media—but going beyond simple types to uncover how you developed your unique attachment patterns and why you relate to others as you do is where the deepest insights can be revealed. In this empathic and practical guide, therapist Jessica Baum sheds light on the unprocessed attachment wounds that cause us to live in survival mode—and offers a roadmap for building safe relationships that can become the foundation for true healing.

In Part I, this book develops the Cognitive Amplifier Loop, which allows humans to use AI to build on their cognitive and emotional strengths and manage their limitations. Kosslyn discusses ways to employ this loop to offload tasks to AI and to utilize it to train us effectively and efficiently, as well as how to use it to both learn and engage in critical thinking and creative problem-solving—and manage cognitive and emotional constraints. Part II establishes how to draw on the Cognitive Amplifier Loop to help us improve our human relationships.

As humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work, our brains and the ways in which we tell stories must be attuned to each other. But how exactly does this happen? Tapping into the essence of thinking in stories, Fritz Breithaupt draws on the latest scientific research, including a retelling study (comparable to the telephone game) with more than 12,000 participants, and experiments in which ChatGPT functions as storyteller.

Nein zu sagen, ist der erste Schritt zur Freiheit. Wir reden mehr als je zuvor über Bedürfnisse und persönliche Grenzen – in unserer Konfliktkultur ist davon jedoch nichts zu spüren: Die einen suchen ständig Streit, die anderen vermeiden jede offene Aussprache. Kommunikationsexpertin Dana Buchzik plädiert für eine neue Art des Neinsagens und erklärt, wie wir aus den Extremen des Totschweigens und der eskalierenden Diskussionen ausbrechen können. Grenzen sind unser aller Lebensthema. Manche können wir leichter setzen, andere schwerer.

Working under California's Sexually Violent Predator Law, Samantha Stein, PsyD, faces such offenders alone, one by one, in a prison interview room. As a forensic psychologist, her high-stakes decisions can determine the difference between a life lived back in society or one condemned to indefinite incarceration.

Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including dementia and her professional specialty, schizophrenia. Lipska's family and associates were alarmed by the changes in her behavior, which she failed to acknowledge herself.

Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the 'normal' brain as a product of intensified capitalism.