The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do
10 best books like The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do (John M. Oldham): Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram, Revised and Expanded, Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors, Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings, Personality Disorders in Modern Life, The Informed Heart, The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, Sex in Human Loving
Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram, Revised and Expanded
The leading experts in the field, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have set the standard for determining personality type using the enneagram. Their studies of this ancient symbol and their progress in determining type with increasing accuracy are known, taught, and emulated worldwide. Discovering...
| Author | James Hollis |
| ISBN | 0919123805 |
This is my fourth Hollis book. Am I addicted? Possibly. The truth is, I have never found Jungian ideas so accessible or so relevant - that is until I read Hollis. I'm finding the framework of Jungian analysis such an enlightening tool to use when thinking about self and others. This book is a slim book but...
| Author | Pat Harvey |
| ISBN | 1572246499 |
Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from 0 to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional and...
| Author | Chris McManus |
| ISBN | 0674009533 |
A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos, to explore the place of handedness in nature and culture. Chris McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics,...
| Author | Charles T. Tart |
| ISBN | 0471845604 |
Dr Charles T. Tart (b. '37) is known for work on the nature of consciousness & altered states, as a founder of transpersonal psychology & for research in scientific parapsychology. His Altered States of Consciousness ('69) & Transpersonal Psychologies ('75), are widely used texts instrumental...
Personality Disorders in Modern Life
| Author | Theodore Millon |
| ISBN | 0471237345 |
A revision of the leading textbook on personality disorders by renowned expert Theodore Millon "Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives."
-Theodore Millon
Exploring...
| Author | Bruno Bettelheim |
| ISBN | 0140137165 |
This is an incredibly difficult book to rate and review. Bruno Bettelheim was another one of those crazy-Austrian-pyschologist-types like Siggy Freud, but Bettelheim's focus was primarily on child psychology. There's a lot of debate about his early theories on autism - his belief was that autism...
The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience
| Author | Daniel Goleman |
| ISBN | 0874778336 |
From the New York Times Bestselling author, a classic interpretation of all varieties of meditation.
"Goleman's wide-ranging meditative experience imbues the volume with an authority and authenticity . . . and continues to make his writings some of the liveliest available on meditation."--Publisher's...
Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy
| Author | Stanislav Grof |
| ISBN | 0873958993 |
Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs and by other means, Grof concludes that our present scientific world view is as inadequate...
| Author | Eric Berne |
| ISBN | 0140036571 |
I read this ultra-obscure tome (9 goodreads reviews??) based on a handful of sudden motivations. I spied the book stashed away in a drawer at a friend's house, for just long enough to notice that it was written by Eric Berne, who had written Games People Play, a book I once stole from my father's bookshelf...
The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Anxiety and Worry
| Author | Lisa M. Schab |
| ISBN | 1572246030 |
If you feel anxious most of the time, you're not alone. There is no one in the world who doesn't feel anxious at some time. And it is even more common to feel anxious during adolescence, because so many changes are taking place in your body, your mind, and your emotions. The good news is that there are a lot...
| Author | Karen Horney |
| ISBN | 0393310809 |
In this collection of papers, many previously unavailable in English, she brings to the subject of femininity her acute clinical observations and a rigorous testing of both her own hypotheses and those formulated by Freud. The topics she discusses include frigidity, the problem of the monogamous...
Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse
| Author | Steven R. Tracy |
| ISBN | 0310259711 |
Biblically grounded and psychologically informed, Mending the Soul is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive approach to understanding and treating every form of abuse for: * Pastoral and ministry staff * Small group leaders and youth workers * Educators and seminary students * Pastoral and clinical...
Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety and Phobia
| Author | Barbara G. Markway |
| ISBN | 1879237237 |
Americans struggle with anxiety. Among the disorder’s most common forms is social phobia, a persistent fear of scrutiny and evaluation by others. Social phobia cripples the lives of some 15 to 20 percent of the US population. This distressing social anxiety includes the fear of public speaking...
When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism
| Author | Martin M. Antony |
| ISBN | 1572241241 |
Perfectionism is not always what you think. Sometimes if someone struggles with perfectionism, they might avoid doing something at all in fear of their inability to do it perfectly. For example someone who doesn't keep a clean house or make an effort to make themselves look more attractive may actually...
What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder
We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but for the 15 million Americans with social anxiety disorder, the fear of being scrutinized and criticized can reach disabling proportions. Such was the case for Emily Ford, who shares her firsthand experiences in these pages....
| Author | Michalina Wisłocka |
| ISBN | 8388875949 |
"Sztuka kochania" jest przeznaczona przede wszystkim dla kobiet, ale i mężczyzna powinien ją przeczytać, żeby wiedzieć, kim jest kobieta. Michalina Wisłocka "Sztuka kochania" po licznych perypetiach ukazała się w 1976. Była pierwszym z prawdziwego zdarzenia poradnikiem seksuologii...
Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness
| Author | Gillian Butler |
| ISBN | 1854877038 |
Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness is a self-help manual for this common problem, which explains why it happens and sets out practical methods of resolving it. Everyone sometimes feels foolish, embarrassed, judged or criticised, but this becomes a problem when it undermines their confidence...
For more than a quarter of a century, Murphy's Law has provided the last word on things going wrong. Positive thinking is all very fine when the world is treating you right, but when things go awry, it's Murphy's Law that comes up with the goods-the pithy revelations and undeniable truths that document...
Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
| Author | Edmund J. Bourne |
| ISBN | 1572243201 |
As someone who struggles with anxiety far more frequently than I'd like to admit, I actually thought this was quite good. Bourne and Garano take a holistic approach to dealing with worry that is intuitive and helpful in large part because it is so rooted in common sense. Its effectiveness presumably...
Telling Yourself the Truth
| Author | William Backus |
| ISBN | 0764223259 |
This book changed my life. There is always a copy around, me. Even if you aren't into the spiritual/Christian point of view, you can still take away a lot from this book. You will have a new set of emotional tools. This book helped me to grow in so many ways that I would recommend it to anyone, with out hesitation....
| Author | Amy Rachel Thompson |
Regan Edison has just moved from California, to enter her first year at Georgia Liberty College, the place where jacked up Chevy trucks and hunting are a way of life. Regan hopes to start a new life for herself and she thinks that Georgia is just the place to do it. That is until she meets an unexpected stranger.
Colter...
Mr. Nabokov tells us in "The Waltz Invention" that our salvation today rests on a perfect understanding of the human heart.
"The Waltz Invention," written when only a handful of scientists were concerned with atomic possibilities, could have been read as a puzzling, incredible fantasy in those...
