The Psychology Book

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It is characterized by an excessive increase in impulsivity and hyperactivity and difficulty in maintaining attention for a continuous period. Feeling anxiety is a natural part of being a human being, but for some people it can cause terrible mental and physical anguish and prevents them from leading happy and fulfilling lives.

In this book, Haidt takes the ancient wisdom, or “Great Ideas”, of historical thinkers — like Buddha, Plato, and even Jesus — and reveals their applications in light of contemporary psychological findings.Chris Paley, author of Unthink and Beyond Bad, recommends five of the best evolutionary psychology books—and explains how experimental data might finally get to the bottom of the question of free will. Published in October 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Taylor’s book about the importance of psychology in curbing the spread of deadly pandemics — stating that, at the time, the next pandemic could be soon — turned out to be frighteningly prophetic.

Our TV screens may be full of news about war and crime, but this masks a fall in historical terms in the number of violent deaths that’s nothing short of astonishing, says Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. The theory is elegantly termed “self-domestication” — a remarkable propensity to coordinate and communicate with others.Here he recommends five key books that led him to his own understanding of consciousness, and explores why it is that what is likely an illusion can be so utterly convincing. A mental health problem becomes a mental illness when the symptoms and signs remain, causing stress to the patient and preventing them from functioning normally. This is, of course, a hotly debated topic, with many people believing that to reduce the brain to only physicality would be reductive. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

There’s a lot that will surprise you about the way we process emotions, says the neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett. At the turn of the year, many of us take the opportunity to think about our lives—how they are going, and how we hope to live them in future. Learn about everyone who's contributed to the big ideas in psychology, incorporating the ideas of today's scientists as well those of the ancient philosophers and pioneers. From its philosophical roots through behaviorism, psychotherapy, and developmental psychology, The Psychology Book looks at all the greats from Pavlov and Skinner to Freud and Jung, and is an essential reference for students and anyone with an interest in how the mind works. It might sound abstract now, but once you’ve been taken through these types in Rapport, you’ll understand why they’re so praised.Environmental psychology investigates aspects ranging from the effect of different environmental variables to the development of sustainable and environmentally friendly cities.

Many of us spend over a decade in school and, regardless of academic success, emerge feeling like something is missing. Haig’s reflections are built on what he’s learned in hard times, with the hope that they can get you through similar situations. Josh Cohen, psychoanalyst and author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop, discusses the symptoms and causes of burnout—and why relentless activity is at the source.Heath shows how to step up and bolster your defenses against such problems by using real-life cases of individual thinkers, businesses, and even whole institutions that overcame their own. If you’ve stepped inside a school recently, you’ve probably heard teachers talking about the importance of a ‘growth mindset. Fortunately, you can find these tools (and analyses of the crippling effects of irrationality) presented clearly and with good humor in Rationality! The Psychology of Pandemics explains psychology’s role in nonadherence to vaccination and hygiene programs and in mental health as people cope with the threat and loss of life.