'Hugely entertaining' Guardian 'Fascinating' Mail on Sunday In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a... Zobraziť viac
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrists. She treats serial killers, arsonists, stalkers, gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled 'monsters'... Zobraziť viac
Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON ' .. Zobraziť viac
Explains the vast array of different conditions that hide behind the two labels, autism and Asperger syndrome... Zobraziť viac
Even the tragic and negative aspects of life, such as unavoidable suffering, can be turned into a human achievement by the attitude which a man adopts toward his predicament... to transform despair into triumph.'Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is ... Zobraziť viac
A successful first-generation Chinese immigrant musician who suffers from sexual dysfunction; a young woman who was abandoned by her father with her younger brother and sister in an isolated cottage in the middle of winter; a glamorous workaholic whose mo Zobraziť viac
Drawing on over 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: ... Zobraziť viac
'Wise, timely and eloquent... A joy to read.' GuardianWhat does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective - something of the mind? In this profound collection of clinical stories, eminent psychiatrist Dr... Zobraziť viac
