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The Psychology of Self-Esteem
– Nathaniel Branden

“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.” Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as  important as the one you make about yourself. The  difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. Now, one of  America’s foremost psychologists and a pioneer in self-esteem development […]

The Emotional Life of your Brain
– Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley

“recent research has shown that when we empathize, the brain activates many of the same networks as when we ourselves experience pain, physical or otherwise.” What is your emotional fingerprint? Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people […]

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
– David D. Burns

“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”  The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, […]

Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
– Dan Hurley

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter? Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in […]

On Becoming a Person – Carl Rogers

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”  The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of “client-centered therapy.” His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious […]

The Language and Thought of the Child (Part 2) – Jean Piaget

[ READ The Language and Thought of the Child (Part 1) – Jean Piaget HERE ] Different thinking, different worlds Piaget borrowed a distinction from psychoanalysis about two types of thought: Directed or intelligent thought is that which has an aim, adapts that aim to reality, and can communicate it in language. This thinking is based on […]

The Language and Thought of the Child (Part 1) – Jean Piaget

“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.”  This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how a child develops language, thought, and knowledge. Before this classic appeared, little was known of the way children think. In 1923, however, Jean Piaget, the most important developmental psychologist of the twentieth century, […]

Phantoms in the Brain
– V. S. Ramachandran

“Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”  Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his […]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
– Oliver Sacks

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”  In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of […]

Stumbling on Happiness
– Daniel Gilbert

“My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.”  Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than […]

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