Psychology genre books (288)
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Hidden Valley Road : Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR PEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New York Post, and Amazon The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mi... continue
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How Do You Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room by Jacob Burak EN
CyprusDescription:
Why do people without a sense of humor persist in telling jokes that aren't funny?Does playing classical music to babies really aid their development?Why do thin and tall people earn more?Is it possible to move a table by mind power?Why are more newborns boys?Why is one of the guns in a firing squad loaded with blanks?How much is the author's corpse worth? And the corpses' of his readers'?Writing in the personal and witty style we have come to associate with the author of Do Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement and his other best-sellers, Jacob Burak addresses all of these questions in his new book... continue
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How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year "Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." —Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice. Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing G... continue
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How To Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Rai... continue
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun EN
NorwayDescription:
A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.” Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. For more than seventy years, Penguin... continue
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun DE
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Ein junger Mann irrt durch eine Stadt, ohne Ziel und Daseinszweck, körperlich ausgezehrt, doch «vom fröhlichen Wahnsinn des Hungers gepackt». Das ist es, was ihn aufrecht hält: ein irrlichternder Geist, ein seismografisches Empfinden, eine fantastische Erfindungs- und Einbildungskraft. Den Kapriolen seiner halluzinatorischen Zustände verdankt der weltberühmte Roman jene ungeheure Komik, die schon Astrid Lindgren begeisterte. Nicht, was in ihm geschildert wird – nämlich die manischen Ausgeburten von «Hirnfieber» bei Nahrungsentzug &nda... continue
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Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
A novel that explores the deep-seated trauma and the suppressed memories of a middle-class Haitian family when their eldest son Alexandre must return to the family hearth after his mental institution closes in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti
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I Have Some Questions for You : A Novel by Rebecca Makkai EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more “A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People "Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review "[An] irresistible literary page-turner." —The Boston Globe The riveting new novel — "part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age" (San Francisco Chronicle) — from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers A successful film... continue
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I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist by Baek Sehee EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur*AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*'Starkly raw and vulnerable' Glamour When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people, especially young people, with her reflections. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki became a runaway bestseller in South Korea, Japan, China and Indonesia, and reached a community of r... continue
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I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLERTRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' RedPSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feeli... continue