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Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case by Debbie Nathan Publisher Comments Sybil: a name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward—about a woman named Sybil with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life by James Hollis Publisher Comments The celebrated author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path. Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison Publisher Comments Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits — an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca Publisher Comments Praise for annoying "Remarkable: a charming and insightful book that explains how studying what annoys you can make you both less annoyed and less annoying. I feel better already!"—Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and Free "Who would have... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bollingen Series #20: Four Archetypes.: From Vol. 9i Collected Works by C G Jung Publisher Comments Extracted from Volume 9, Part I. Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," "Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Healing Mind: Healing Through Self-Hypnosis & Therapeutic Regression by Joe Keeton Publisher Comments Most of us understand how hypnosis can successfully treat emotional and psychological disorders. What is less easy to understand is how it can relieve physical conditions. Yet a variety of skin complaints respond easily to hypnosis, and blood conditions... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi Publisher Comments This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story from the days when the mad were considered possessed to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human by Susan Blackmore Publisher Comments "Human brains are just the most complicated thing that's yet evolved, and we're trying to understand them using our brains," notes philosopher Daniel Dennett. "We're trying to reverse engineer ourselves, to understand what kind of a machine we are." In... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy by Irvin Yalom Publisher Comments The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love’s Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated—the first book to share the dual... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler Publisher Comments Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former FDA commissioner known for his crusade against the tobacco industry, is taking on another business thats making Americans sick: the food industry. In The End of Overeating, Dr. Kessler shows us... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry by William Glasser Publisher Comments Chapter 1 Jerry ." . . it is what you choose to do in a relationship, not what others choose to do, that is the heart of reality therapy." In the movie "As Good As It Gets," the lead character, Melvin Udall, portrayed by Jack Nicholson, is a textbook... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee Staff Pick Who knew stuff was so important? My God, read this book and you will never look at your own stuff the same way again. It's really very chilling to see how life can become so complicated by something so seemingly innocuous. Frost and Steketee do an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nightmares by Alex Lukeman Publisher Comments Lukeman delves into nightmares, examining causes such as illness, medications, stress, and trauma, and presents simple, practical processes for dealing with terrifying dreams.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter by Matt Paxton Publisher Comments On the front lines with extreme hoarders The Secret Lives of Hoarders is much more than harrowing tales of attacking the ugliest, dirtiest, and most shocking hoarding cases in the country. It is a behind-the-scenes look at this hidden epidemic- what it... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Psychology and the Human Dilemma by Rollo May Publisher Comments Whether reflecting on war, psychology, or the ideas of existentialist thinkers such as Sartre and Kierkegaard, Dr. May everywhere enlarges our outlook on how people can develop creatively within the human predicament.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy and the Buddha Within by Robert Langan Synopsis Minding What Matters could be considered part of a new genre, the literary self-help” book. Echoing the style of Kundera and the insights of Jung, with dashes of The God of Small Things and Thoughts Without a Thinker, this timely book... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bollingen Series #20: The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung: Revised R.F.C. Hull Translation by C G Jung Publisher Comments In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C. G. Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind by Barbara Strauch Publisher Comments A leading science writer examines how our brains improve in middle age. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Barbara Strauch explores the latest findings that demonstrate how the middle-aged brain is more flexible and capable than previously thought. In... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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