Psychology

Apr192020 by Free eBookNo Comments

One Little Mistake by Emma Curtis eBook Download

One Little Mistake by Emma Curtis eBook Download Vicky Seagrave has blessed: three beautiful children, a successful, doting husband, great friends and a job she loves. She should be perfectly happy. When she risks everything she holds dear on a whim, there's the only person she trusts enough to turn to. But Vicky is about to learn that one mistake is all it takes; that if you're careless with those you love, you don't deserve to keep them . . . 'A tense and utterly engrossing story' Tammy Cohen, author of WHEN SHE WAS BAD and THE BROKEN 'A compelling page-turner which kept me reading well into the night. This book will make any woman look at her best friend with more than a touch of suspicion . . .' Jane Corry, author of MY HUSBAND'S WIFE 'A page-turner that explores how fr...

Apr172020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Business, Economics, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Sociology, Technology

Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz eBook Download Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions. By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are—the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the h...

Apr172020 by Free eBookNo Comments

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach

Autobiography, Biography, Health, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach eBook Download A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that her loved ones were not safe. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after th...

Apr122020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker

Business, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Self Help

Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker eBook Download Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution • The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going • How to find work...

Apr82020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Irresistible by Adam Alter

Business, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Technology

Irresistible by Adam Alter eBook Download Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans. In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. Though these miraculous products melt ...

Apr52020 by Free eBookNo Comments

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda

Autobiography, Biography, Language, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda eBook Download Alan Alda, the award-winning actor and bestselling author, tells us the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor. Alan Alda has been on a decades-long journey to discover new ways to help people communicate and relate to one another more effectively. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the warm, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda found inspiration in everything from cutting-edge science to classic acting methods. His search began when he was host of PBS's Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed thousands o...

Apr52020 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

Health, Horror, Nonfiction, Psychology

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn eBook Download Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy... their doctors. "It was the dog who found me." Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of a bright career, attempts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics prescribed to treat her bipolar disorder. Upon being discovered, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can provide valid reasons for her actions if someone would only listen. Treated as a criminal, heavily medicated, and st...

Apr12020 by Free eBookNo Comments

No One Cares About Crazy People by Ron Powers

Autobiography, Health, History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology

No One Cares About Crazy People by Ron Powers eBook Download New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted. Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers's beloved son Kevin--spirited, endearing, and gifted--who triumphed even while suffering from schizoph...

Mar272020 by Free eBookNo Comments

This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin

Autobiography, Biography, Health, Nonfiction, Psychology

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression eBook Download A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release! This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a ...

Mar272020 by Free eBookNo Comments

What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan

Adult, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Sports and Games

What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan eBook Download *Instant New York Times Bestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting...