Biographies About
Mind-Boggling Psychologists

Get inside the heads and hearts of pioneers in mental health
and experts at unraveling the mysteries of human behavior.

An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no formal training in psychology - and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond....

With wisdom and humor, Lori Gottlieb shares how seeing a therapist helped her grow as a person—and as a therapist. Brittany Pressley narrates, impeccably.

Ivan Pavlov: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Russian Psychologist examines the experiments that made Pavlov one of the 20th century’s most famous psychologists. Along with stories of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Pavlov like never before....

Best-selling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoir....

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the "Father of Psychoanalysis", and for good reason. If anything, Freud's first patient was himself....

The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience....

A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada's leading mental health hospitals....

When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery. Today, thanks in large part to Seligman's Positive Psychology movement, it is ever more focused not on what cripples life, but on what makes life worth living....

This is the true story, a psychology memoir, of a 29-year-old lifelong perfectionist who struggled with the mental health disorders of skin picking, nail biting, and hair pulling....

From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator....

Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it....

This book documents the life of one man over a 60-year span. Significant elements of important relationships, from childhood on, that influence him in positive and negative ways are identified....

True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best....

Dr. Judith Orloff tells her remarkable life story and teaches you how to recognize and trust your own intuitive gifts to improve your life - and the lives of those around you....

Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis", Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious....