The language of psychology offers clear descriptions and explanations for all sort of phenomena, including many of these more modern conditions. Knowing more about how these conditions manifest themselves and how they can be treated can help people to feel happier, and better able to identify and realize their full potential.

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator

Why do we travel? Are holidays good for our health? What are the social and psychological factors that drive us to move?.

Jon Ronson's screamingly funny and deeply disturbing classic exploration of psychopathy.

Why do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book.

Six ideas that reveal how to see through lies, deceptions and empty rhetoric, and a warning that we currently misunderstand both intelligence and education.

Aiming to inform and empower, this book approaches trauma from a social and political psychological perspective. It is written for those directly affected by trauma and those supporting them, as well as researchers and practitioners in social, political, and clinical psychology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Describes research that looks at the beliefs that people hold about the type of evidence that counts in scientific reasoning and also examines how those beliefs change with age.

`I want to change, but not if it means changing,' a patient once said to me in complete innocenceWhat do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour?

An informative, introductory text which brings together psychological and sociological perspectives of human development. It highlights the connection between the internal, intimate concerns of individuals and the external social, economic and political orders that govern our lives, highlighting key stages and themes throughout the life course.

An original and witty guide to the world of smart-thinking that uses pictures to show where it goes right and wrong, by the creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less.

This text aims to help students think psychologically, encouraging them to think creatively, analytically and critically, to show them how to be an active learner, to help them understand and question the assumptions psychologists make about the world and the kind of knowledge we can have about it.

Walks the thin line between the apologists who deify difference and the zealots and bigots who vilify the different, to argue that to create a fairer world, we need to enhance our capacities for discrimination, not stifle them.

The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis

The author builds on time-tested techniques of psychotherapy and reveals how regression to past lifetimes may provide the necessary breakthrough to healing mind, body and soul.

This book presents a theory of interaction in adult life when the dynamics of careseeking and caregiving are elicited. It sets out a framework for thinking about the way adults interact with one another, particularly when they are anxious, under stress or frightened.