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Canto Classics eBook Series

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  • Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

    How Memory Shapes our Past

    Series series Canto Classics
    Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as déjà-vu, near death experiences and the effect of severe trauma on memory recall, as well as human perceptions ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

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  • The Mind's Eye

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “the poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) and the author of the classic The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding rich new forms of perception.“Elaborate and gorgeously detailed.... Again and again, Sacks invites readers to imagine their ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Inkblots

    Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

    by Damion Searls ...
    The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot testNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Post • Sunday Times (UK) • Irish IndependentIn 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Recollections

    An Autobiography

    Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of "the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Anthropologist on Mars

    Seven Paradoxical Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.Here are seven detailed narratives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Living, Thinking, Looking

    Essays

    by Siri Hustvedt ...
    "One of our finest novelists has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind" as seen in this collection of essays (Oliver Sacks, New York Times– bestselling author of Awakenings ) .The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting ( Mysteries of t... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The River of Consciousness

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience."Curious, avid and thrillingly fluent." —The New York Times Book Review**In the pieces that comprise The River of Consciousness, Dr. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Madness:A Brief History

    A Brief History

    by Roy Porter ...
    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.The origins of current debates about how we define ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Freud on Coke

    by David Cohen ...
    The story of Freud's involvement with cocaine and how it affected research long after he died... The book tells of a number of drug related tragedies Freud was involved in including the death of Ernest Fleischl and that of the less well known Otto Gross who was a good analyst, a cocaine addict and has advanced ideas about sex which led him to founding an orgiastic commune in Italy. Freud devotees ... Read more

    $5.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ancestor Syndrome

    Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the Hidden Links in the Family Tree

    Translated by Anne Trager ...
    In The Ancestor Syndrome Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger explains and provides clinical examples of her unique psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime.The book includes fascinating case studies and examples of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Freud

    The Making of an Illusion

    From the master of Freud debunkers, a critical biography that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator.Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Solitude a Return to the Self

    by Anthony Storr ...
    Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr's bestselling meditation on the creative individual's need for solitude has become a classic.A pre-eminent work in self-help and popular psychology literature, Solitude was seminal in challenging the psychological paradigm that “interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness.” Indeed, most self ... Read more

    $14.99 USD