Psychology & Psychiatry:

Your Many Faces
The First Step to Being Loved
Written by Virginia Satir

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $11.99

Each one of us has a medley of "faces" that composes our individual personality: intelligence, anger, love, jealousy, helplessness, courage, and many more. We're often quick to judge these characteristics as either positive or negative, without recognizing that we need each of them in order to become fuller, more balanced human... Read more >

The Open-Focus Brain
Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
Written by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2008
Price: $18.95

This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of... Read more >

The Open-Focus Brain
Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
Written by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $22.95

This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of... Read more >

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber
Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture
Written by Richard Restak, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $12.00

In Poe’s Heart and the Mountain Climber, neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak takes an in-depth look at the science of anxiety, offering a fresh perspective and a straightforward approach to exploring and understanding our anxiety before it paralyzes us. In clear, accessible language, Restak addresses such pivotal questions as:

• How... Read more >

Panic
Origins, Insight, and Treatment
Edited by Brooke Warner and Leonard Schmidt
Foreword by Peter Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2002
Price: $19.95

Panic is not a single state with only one set of feelings and predictable emotions. The essays and articles in this book span various disciplines—psychology, medicine, literature, and history—tied together by the common thread of panic, including how it is manifested in culture, tradition, and experience, and its differing treatments. Included... Read more >

Where Is the Mango Princess?
A Journey Back From Brain Injury
Written by Cathy Crimmins

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.00

Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family.

When her husband Alan is injured in a speedboat accident, Cathy Crimmins reluctantly assumes the role of caregiver... Read more >