The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Di...
Amanda RipleyIt lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization. Today, nine out of ten...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind...
Bessel A. van der KolkA pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in fiv...
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, H...
Galit AtlasDr. Galit Atlas, an internationally known psychoanalyst, draws on the emotional power of her patients' stories and her own life experiences to shed light on the extraordinary ways in which inherited family trauma affects our lives...
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, an...
Stacy HornToday it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asy...
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How...
Philip G. ZimbardoWhat makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and...