Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

The Nature & Nurture of Love

From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

by Marga Vicedo ...

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists—anything from the fear of romantic commitment to serial killing—stem from their troubled relationships with their mothers during childhood. How did we come to hold these views about the ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists—anything from the fear of romantic commitment to serial killing—stem from their troubled relationships with their mothers during childhood. How did we come to hold these views about the
... Read more
Intelligent Love

The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother

by Marga Vicedo ...

Winner of the History of Science Society's 2022 Davis PrizeHow one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parentsIn the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

Winner of the History of Science Society's 2022 Davis PrizeHow one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parentsIn the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Audiobook

Intelligent Love

The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother

by Marga Vicedo ...

Narrated by Amara Jasper ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

Winner of the History of Science Society's 2022 Davis PrizeHow one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parentsIn the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of ... Read more

$20.00 USD

Also available as: eBook

Winner of the History of Science Society's 2022 Davis PrizeHow one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parentsIn the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Shrinks

The Untold Story of Psychiatry

by Jeffrey A. Lieberman ...

The inspiration for the PBS series Mysterious of Mental Illness, Shrinks brilliantly tells the groundbreaking story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption.Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public.But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

The inspiration for the PBS series Mysterious of Mental Illness, Shrinks brilliantly tells the groundbreaking story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption.Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public.But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Walking Your Blues Away

How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being

by Thom Hartmann ...

A new approach to using walking to heal emotional trauma and bring forth optimal mental functioning• Explores why and how we carry emotional wounds, and how they can be healed and resolved• Shows how walking stimulates both sides of the brain to promote and restore mental health• Provides simple, yet potent, mental exercises to use while walkingOur bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness, ... Read more

$5.99 USD

A new approach to using walking to heal emotional trauma and bring forth optimal mental functioning• Explores why and how we carry emotional wounds, and how they can be healed and resolved• Shows how walking stimulates both sides of the brain to promote and restore mental health• Provides simple, yet potent, mental exercises to use while walkingOur bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness,
... Read more
Nobody's Normal

How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

by Roy Richard Grinker ...

A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

$13.69 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Heads Up Psychology

by Marcus Weeks ...

Series series DK Heads UP
"What is insanity?" "Can we trust our memories?" "Who needs parents, anyway?" The answers to these and many other burning questions lie in the world of psychology. It is all around us, influencing advertising, politics, and product development, and Heads Up Psychology explains it all.Using engaging graphics, this book explores the big ideas from all areas of psychology, including psychoanalysis, ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

"What is insanity?" "Can we trust our memories?" "Who needs parents, anyway?" The answers to these and many other burning questions lie in the world of psychology. It is all around us, influencing advertising, politics, and product development, and Heads Up Psychology explains it all.Using engaging graphics, this book explores the big ideas from all areas of psychology, including psychoanalysis,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fifth Edition

A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner

by J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP ...

Gain Clinical Clarity and Confidence for Complex Loss.About This TextThe gold-standard resource on the tasks of mourning and evidence-based interventions, connecting theory to practice across settings, cultures, and the lifespan.*"In the fields of death education, research, and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant. ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to [him]. ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Gain Clinical Clarity and Confidence for Complex Loss.About This TextThe gold-standard resource on the tasks of mourning and evidence-based interventions, connecting theory to practice across settings, cultures, and the lifespan.*"In the fields of death education, research, and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant. ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to [him].
... Read more
The Illusion of Conscious Will

by Daniel M. Wegner ...

A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism.Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will ... Read more

$22.99 USD

A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism.Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will
... Read more
Of Two Minds

An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

by T. M. Luhrmann ...

In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals ... Read more

$9.99 USD

In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals
... Read more
Unstrange Minds

Remapping the World of Autism

by Roy Richard Grinker ...

A father's inspiring portrait of his daughter informs this classic reassessment of the "epidemic" of autism.When Isabel Grinker was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 3 of every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed. Some scientists reported rates as high as 1 in 150. The media had declared autism an epidemic.Unstrange Minds documents the global quest of ... Read more

$11.99 USD

A father's inspiring portrait of his daughter informs this classic reassessment of the "epidemic" of autism.When Isabel Grinker was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 3 of every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed. Some scientists reported rates as high as 1 in 150. The media had declared autism an epidemic.Unstrange Minds documents the global quest of
... Read more
Suspicious Minds

How Culture Shapes Madness

by Joel Gold, Ian Gold ...

A “clear, witty, and engaging” (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An “intellectual landmark” (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada).The current view of delusions—the strange beliefs held by people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses—is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In ... Read more

$14.99 USD

A “clear, witty, and engaging” (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An “intellectual landmark” (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada).The current view of delusions—the strange beliefs held by people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses—is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“marga vicedo”

The Nature & Nurture of Love

Intelligent Love

Intelligent Love

People who read these also enjoyed

Shrinks

Walking Your Blues Away

Nobody's Normal

Heads Up Psychology

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fifth Edition

The Illusion of Conscious Will

Of Two Minds

Unstrange Minds

Suspicious Minds

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“marga vicedo”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed