Tag: Psychology

Book: The Science of Stress

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Book Title:

Time Special Edition: The Science of Stress.

Author(s): The Editors of TIME.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Time.

Type(s): Magazine and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Stress is a modern mental bogeyman, keeping nearly half of Americans up at night. It also takes a profound physical toll.

Research has found it linked to higher risks of heart attacks, strokes and many major chronic conditions.

Yet, many Americans say they do not do anything to meaningfully combat stress.

This special edition can help. First, you will examine the sources of your stress, including just how smartphones and other digital distractions rewire the brain for stress. Then, consider what you can do to increase calm and improve your health.

Learn about the science-backed research that shows that self-care and relaxation can help alleviate stress in real and measurable ways.

Find the latest proven ways to dampen the stress response, including mindfulness techniques, exercise, walking in nature and even washing the dishes. Get valuable tips on how to relax fast, in any situation. Or, if that’s just not possible, let this special edition make the case for embracing stress and teach you how to harness it to make yourself stronger, more positive and more resilient.

Stress is a powerful response to an increasingly challenging world. Let this special edition help you make sure you are in control of it!

Book: The Science of Addiction

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Book Title:

Time Special Edition: The Science of Addiction.

Author(s): The Editors of TIME.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Time.

Type(s): Magazine and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The US is a nation of addictions, large and small.

Close to 40 million Americans smoke; nearly 1 of every 8 adults is addicted to alcohol; and the sudden and spiralling epidemic of opioid addiction took 47,000 American lives in 2017 alone.

People are hooked on gambling, video games, sex, shopping, smartphones, food and Tinder. Once considered a moral failing, addiction today is largely acknowledged as a disease.

Now, this new special edition examines how science is seeking to curb the cravings and help Americans kick the habit.

  • Explore the neuroscience of pleasure to better understand just what’s happening when we feel great;
  • Learn how addiction disrupts pathways and processes that underlie desire, learning, emotional regulation, and cognition;
  • Consider how brain vulnerabilities caused by genetics, trauma and stress can increase the risk of becoming addicted; and
  • Examine promising new therapies, including under-the-skin implants for recovering alcoholics and treating cocaine addicts with electromagnetic pulses to the brain.

Understanding and moderating pleasure is at the heart of being healthy and happy and never has it been more urgent or challenging a time to do so.

Book: The Power of Habits

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Book Title:

Time Special Edition: The Power of Habits.

Author(s): The Editors of TIME.

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Time.

Type(s): Magazine and Kindle.

Synopsis:

New Year’s resolutions always collapse by February? Find it impossible to not snack while watching TV? Wish exercising was as automatic as brushing your teeth? The key is habit formation.

Fortunately, the editors of TIME have created this new special edition, The Power of Habits. This accessible, comprehensive guide takes you through the burgeoning science of just how the mind creates or quits habits.

Learn How to Tame the Wild Inside You, reconsider Embracing Family Habits, establish why habits are so important for kids, and how they influence romantic relationships. The Power of Habits also takes a powerful look at Bad Habits, explores the complex debate about habit and addiction and the implications for change and cure.

Get a peek at Habits of the Rich and Famous, Habits Around the World, and even 30 Personal Finance Habits Everyone Should Follow. Over time, habits become routines, then powerful rituals, and even traditions that span generations. And yet so many of our habits – healthy ones and not – were formed early in our lives when we had little to say about them. But you can rewrite the code!

Let The Power of Habits help you establish new healthy behaviours or finally rid yourself of unhealthy ones and totally transform who you are and who you will become.

Book: This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

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Book Title:

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health.

Author(s): Nathan Filer.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Faber & Faber, Main Edition.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

A journey into the heartland of psychiatry.

This book debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mentally ill.

And what it means to be human.

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health was previously published in 2019 in hardback under the title The Heartland.

Book: Stress Management for Dummies

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Book Title:

Stress Management for Dummies.

Author(s): Allen elkin.

Year: 2013.

Edition: Second (2nd).

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life? Easy. It’s impossible to get through life without encountering stress.

And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it.

Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact.

Whether it’s love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red zone, this updated edition of Stress Management For Dummies will help you identify the stress triggers in your life and cut them down to size all without losing your cool. * Shows you how to use stress in a positive, motivational way instead of letting it negatively affect your life * Teaches you to retrain your body and mind to react positively to stress * Helps you overcome common stresses faced in modern life If you want to manage stress and get back to living a normal life, Stress Management For Dummies has you covered.

Book: 8 Keys to Stress Management

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Book Title:

8 Keys to Stress Management.

Author(s): Elizabeth Anne Scott.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First Edition (1st).

Publisher: W.W. Norton Company.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

According to many measures, people today are dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on our collective wellness.

The book outlines strategies to identifying stressors, offers techniques in reversing the response, and discusses the effects of stress.

Book: Self-Esteem for Dummies

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Book Title:

Self-Esteem for Dummies.

Author(s): S. Renee Smith and Vivian Harte.

Year: 2015.

Edition: Fourth (4th), Revised Edition.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Boost your self-esteem and truly believe that you are perfectly awesome Looking to get your hands on some more self-esteem? You’re not alone.

Thankfully, Self-Esteem For Dummies presents clear, innovative, and compassionate methods that help you identify the causes of low self-esteem as well the lowdown on the consequences.

Packed with trusted, hands-on advice to help you improve your overall self-worth, Self-Esteem For Dummies arms you with the proven tools and techniques for learning how to think and behave with more self-assurance at work, in social situations, and even in relationships.

Self-esteem is shaped by your thoughts, relationships, and experiences. When you were growing up, your successes, failures, and how you were treated by your family, teachers, coaches, religious authorities, and peers determined how you feel about yourself.

But you can shift your thinking and reclaim your self-worth with the help of Self-Esteem For Dummies.

  • Helps you understand the ranges of self-esteem and the benefits of promoting self-esteem.
  • Arms you with the tools to learn how to think and behave with more self-assurance.
  • Covers the importance of mental well-being, assertiveness, resilience, and more.
  • Shows you how to improve your self-image, increase personal power, and feel better about yourself.

If you are looking to boost your sense of self-worth, Self-Esteem For Dummies sets you on the path to a more confident, awesome you.

Book: The Science of Positivity

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Book Title:

The Science of Positivity: Stop Negative Thought Patterns by Changing Your Brain Chemistry.

Author(s): Loretta Graziano Breuning.

Year: 2016.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Sometimes it is easiest to look for the worst in every situation – our brains have evolved to scan for problems in order to help avoid them. But you can transcend this natural negativity – if you know how.

The Science of Positivity teaches you how cynical thought habits are formed, and how you can rewire yourself to go beyond them. Neurochemical expert Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD, empowers you to transcend negativity by creating new thought habits.

You will learn simple, practical actions you can take to shift your thinking to a way that causes your brain to reward optimism with the release of happy chemicals. You can even permanently replace cynical thought patterns with realistic and optimistic thoughts.

In just minutes a day for six weeks, you will build new pathways to see the world in new ways. Frustration is an inevitable part of life, but rather than using cynicism to manage frustration, you can rewire your brain to get beyond it.

Book: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being

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Book Title:

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being.

Author(s): Guy Fletcher (editor).

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Routledge.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists, psychologists and economists. Yet little is actually known about well-being and it is an idea that is often poorly articulated.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being provides a comprehensive, outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject.

Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts:

  • Well-being in the history of philosophy.
  • Current theories of well-being, including hedonism and perfectionism.
  • Examples of well-being and its opposites, including friendship and virtue and pain and death.
  • Theoretical issues, such as well-being and value, harm, identity and well-being and children.
  • Well-being in moral and political philosophy.
  • Well-being and related subjects, including law, economics and medicine..

Essential reading for students and researchers in ethics and political philosophy, it is also an invaluable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology, politics and sociology.

Book: The Rough Guide to Psychology

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Book Title:

The Rough Guide to Psychology: An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind.

Author(s): Dr. Christian Jarrett.

Year: 2011.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Rough Guides.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The Rough Guide to Psychology looks at the question psychologists have been asking for over a hundred years – why are we the way we are? It starts with you, your mind and brain, broadening out to look at your friends and other relationships, then finally on to crowds, mobs and religion.

It explores the latest research relevant to crime, schooling, sport, politics, shopping and health, and what happens when the mind goes wrong, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and more unusual conditions.

The Rough Guide to Psychology includes fascinating information on real-life psychology, testing your memory, intelligence, personality and much more, with advice on everything from chat-up lines to developing your creativity.

The Rough Guide to Psychology is your ultimate guide to this fascinating subject.