Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. It encompasses the biological influences, social pressures, and environmental factors that affect the way people think, act, and feel. Gaining a richer and deeper understanding of psychology can help people better understand their own emotions and those of others.
And the more you know about social psychology and human behavior, the better. Reading good psychology books gives you a jump start on your education by absorbing what researchers, professors and authors have spent years gathering.
That's why our selection offers 31 psychological books divided into various categories: cognitive psychology, personal development psychology, self-awareness psychology and self-esteem psychology.
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It is primarily a meditation journal in which you learn to sow the seeds of gratitude to cultivate your joy of living. This journal will guide you in your personal practice by allowing you to record your daily reflections. In this journal you will find relevant guide elements and charts to complete. These charts will be filled in by yourself according to your perception of your day, transforming the negative aspects into positive ones and opportunities.
The author's words are illustrated with Alexis Nouailhat's images. The illustrations serve to break the monotony of reading and make the author's studies lighter and easier for readers to understand. The book highlights that every time an individual hides what is really going on in him to buy recognition will end up harming him sooner or later. This attitude is harmful because it tends to put the self on one side and value the other.
This book helps you to assert yourself in society, to get out of your addiction, to overcome your daily stress, to cure a phobia, etc. The exercises are based on proven and recognized scientific methods and they offer effective solutions to quickly change habits and behaviors that spoil your life. Positive psychology techniques such as "how to see the good side of life" or "how to live better with others by learning to have the right reactions in every situation" are therefore mentioned in this book.
This book discusses persuasion techniques and how they relate to psychology. The tips and principles developed are used in everyday life as well as in personal life. Easy-to-understand examples reflect the logic of this art of persuasion and influence and encourage rational analysis.
This is a book for those who want to start a new beginning in their lives. Reach a new achievable goal in a short time with this book. It helps you identify what you really want and challenge yourself to become a better version of yourself.
Emotions are a key element in achieving our goals and dreams. On the other hand, they are the key to a more fulfilling social relationship. However, it is clear that they are far from being easy to tame. Elisabeth Silberstein demonstrates once again the richness of emotional intelligence and how to exploit it.
Pleasant to read, this book is embellished with playful and unusual cases told through characters with unusual characters and practices that Olivier Sacks met during his years of practice as a neurologist. The goal is to understand these unusual behaviors. Among these illustrations, a man takes his wife's head for a hat.
The author confronts two states of mind. On the one hand, anxiety, stress, anger, despair are an integral part of the human being. On the other hand, joy, peace, tranquility, serenity are also feelings in their own right and are measured against the first emotions mentioned above. Each of them guides our daily behavior, but also our reflection and consideration of the world. Discover your moods in all their splendor.
No one is immune to workplace bullying. As devastating as it can be, it can be remedied. Hence the unprecedented success of this book by Marie-France Hirigoyen. It takes on a dangerous terrain by putting forward the sensitive subject of emotional and professional abuse, through testimonies and cases aimed at understanding the psychological profile of the protagonists concerned.
For parents who are at a loss when it comes to the emotional needs of their children, this book is a nugget. It shows another way to understand these little ones in order to give them a healthy and evolving psychological state. It adds to this the efforts to focus on the emotional and intellectual from a loving relationship without succumbing to complacency. Every childhood experience leaves a mark on the brain of a child, but also of an adolescent.
For parents who are at a loss when it comes to the emotional needs of their children, this book is a nugget. It shows another way to understand these little ones in order to give them a healthy and evolving psychological state. It adds to this the efforts to focus on the emotional and intellectual from a loving relationship without succumbing to complacency. Every childhood experience leaves a mark on the brain of a child, but also of an adolescent.
Every teenager knows his or her extremes before growing up. It's hard for parents to find their way around. Especially since all cases are not very similar. In any case, managing teenage crises is never an easy task. Isabelle Filliozat shows how to overcome these periods of door slamming by putting words on the psychological transformation that young people undergo.
Within our brain there are two systems that the author has simply called system 1 and system 2. If the first is fast, emotional, intuitive, the second is slow, logical and reflective. Both have very specific roles in relation to what appears on the surface. Both of them lead to devastating thoughts on the first or second degree in many areas of life, personal, but especially professional.
Fear undermines the ability to cope with a difficulty or a project. It is at the origin of many abandonments. It is often the culprit when one does not dare to leave a comfort zone. It deprives us of our freedom. The Psychology of Fear teaches how to tame it by understanding its mechanism. Therapy sessions based on real life experience, told through this book.
Based on her experience of more than 30 years in pediatrics, Dr Catherine Gueguen shows through several examples the attitudes to adopt when faced with an angry child, in crisis. The approach is to put oneself in the child's place, to see the world in his or her own way in order to establish a relationship based on understanding and empathy. A true source of inspiration for the education of one's offspring.
How to find happiness? We have all asked this question at some point in our lives, at least once. The answers are in this book and are not very complicated. Presenting a new way of life, it leads to self-fulfillment, self-acceptance and inner harmony. A must-read among the classics of psychology.
A monk, a psychiatrist and a philosopher come together to write this book rich in wisdom to deliver answers to our deepest questions about life, social interaction, unhappiness, freedom. They share their experiences and life lessons with readers.
Reading this book is very liberating. We discover our emotional state whether it is positive or negative. The author asks some essential questions about our feelings: skin, anger, misunderstanding, hesitation, dependence... This book teaches us to live in peace and harmony with our spirit.
It's hard to take the step towards the rest of your life. Blocked by negative feelings, many waste time waiting for the right moment. Like Magic is a book that helps unlock all the doors to a more fulfilled personal life, a fulfilled career, a peaceful love, family or social relationship, a life full of creativity and excitement.
This book is a real gold mine of practical advice and explanations that allow a deep questioning of oneself and that pose a real reflection on the origins, the effects and the solutions to the lack of self-esteem. Some chapters may even be difficult to read if the lack of self-esteem has its source in distant events dating back to adolescence or even childhood (death of a loved one, physical or mental abuse, witnessing or being a victim of a traumatic event...).
Here, the author reconciles with himself, he merges with the past, to assume the present. It is an initiatory journey through the alleys of his own memory, a work of introspection aiming at resituating himself in time and space to better accept himself. The narrator seems to open up spontaneously to the outside world by recounting the itinerary taken from his origins to the present day. The approaches are both scientific and literary, as if to support the importance of the duty to remember.
The book focuses on the communication problems we experience every day. It highlights that one person is rarely solely responsible for poor communication. Indeed, the author demonstrates that each individual is constantly interacting with another individual and his environment. The author has therefore put together a book that focuses on mediation and conflict resolution, as well as on non-violent communication.
This exercise wants to show that your way of seeing things is more important than the things themselves. To do this, it wants to transform negative thoughts into positive ones in order to give well-being to the people concerned. The exercises in this book are therefore necessary to break the spiral of anxiety and depression, treat phobias, eating disorders, anxiety, OCD, addictions, etc.
Because it is clear that not all "high potentials" are the same, two psychologists and a neuroscientist propose, for the first time, to identify the essential characteristics that go with such and such a high profile. They rely on clinical research, but also on neuroscience. This is what the authors want to share in this book. They want to draw the readers' attention to the fact that they have to go and meet themselves to discover their full potential.
This book is as interesting for learning the basics of psychology as it is for introducing the most well-known areas of this discipline. The author develops a relationship with productivity based on the functioning of the Psyche. A very useful book for achieving one's goals and improving one's lifestyle.
Another book on self-confidence very easy to read with concrete examples. The approach is adapted to the general public and allows a serious work on oneself. The author asks interesting questions and proposes solutions in adequacy with the question.
Annika Ebenstein uses positive thinking to present effective ways of dealing with crisis situations. The book emphasizes the effect of strategies inspired by this system on physical, emotional and mental health. A book full of tips that will be of interest to readers who are stuck and want to push back certain psychological limits.
Beyond the definition of psychology, this book teaches how the human brain works, deciphers behaviors and analyzes the functioning of the nervous system. The author abandons incomprehensible jargon in favor of terms accessible to the masses to share the study of the human brain from childhood to adulthood.
This book is great, inspiring and educational. It will make a great read to take to the beach, to relax while learning things. Carl Rogers was able to explain the beautiful things about human relationships well. His work is very inspiring and filled with humanity. In addition, he is particularly interested in forms of helping relationships (therapeutic, pedagogical), promoting a better appreciation of the latent resources of the individual.
The two authors wanted to make this manual an essential tool for all professionals who wish to learn about cognitive and emotional behavioral therapies (CBT). The structure of the book follows the historical logic of CBT and guides the reader through the different stages of learning. The book is therefore a kind of card (150) that offers a complete and accessible synthesis of CBT, the indications of which are becoming increasingly broad.
It is a book written by a group of great authors who have designed an 8-session program integrating mindfulness with the cognitive approach. Through numerous exercises, the person in difficulty learns to change his or her relationship to thoughts, feelings and body sensations and to avoid the spiral that will lead him or her back into depression. This is the most precise and detailed manual for using Mindfulness with depressed patients.
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