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US psychologist Abraham Maslow’s A Theory of Human Motivation is a classic of psychological research that helped change the field for good. Like many field-changing thinkers, Maslow was not just a talented researcher, he was also a creative thinker - able to see things from a new perspective and show them in a different light. He studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people.

Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the acts of selfcare or therapy in which we find respite; and the days we finally reclaim a sense of stability. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments - whether it's a relationship breakdown, a career setback or anxiety around the everyday - and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.

Do you feel overwhelmed, drained, or disconnected from what truly matters? Life can move so fast that purpose, peace, and balance start to feel out of reach. You may want to slow down, build better habits, and feel more focused, but constant pressure can make personal growth feel overwhelming. Many people believe a better life requires dramatic change, strict routines, or complete reinvention. In reality, lasting growth often begins with small, mindful steps. Through the timeless Japanese philosophies of Ikigai, Kaizen, and Hansei, you can begin creating a life with clarity, calm, and meaning.

In this extraordinary best seller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices.

Abraham H. Maslow was one of the foremost spokespersons of humanistic psychology. In The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, an extension of his classic Toward a Psychology of Being, Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a wide-ranging synthesis of Maslow's inspiring and influential ideas.

You wake up every morning convinced that someone is home. There is a self in there, you assume, a small steady captain at the wheel, the same one who went to sleep the night before, the same one who will sign your name and remember your childhood and answer when called. Gilles Deleuze, one of the strangest and most exhilarating philosophers of the twentieth century, spent his life quietly dismantling that captain. He suspected the wheel turns whether or not anyone is holding it. This book is a guided tour through that suspicion.

A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life. When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The inspiring guide to letting go of competition, reducing stress, and living a happier, more authentic life – from the 15-million-copy bestselling author of the Japanese self-help phenomenon, The Courage to Be Disliked Are you exhausted from trying to be...

This 2025 audiobook, The Human Condition, by biologist Jeremy Griffith is one of his three most important presentations on the human condition, serving as a powerful short-in-length bridge between the other two — his very short introduction in THE Interview and his comprehensive presentation in FREEDOM. It also takes his human-race-saving insights to a new depth of clarity — so it is a MUST LISTEN!

Discover the art of masterful conversations with this powerful guide! Have you always struggled with making small talk and want to stop feeling awkward? Do you wish to be able to tell stories where your listeners hang on to your every word? Do you wish you had the courage, the confidence, and the charisma to meet new people and make friends with them? If you’ve answered "yes", this is the audiobook for you! The sections in this audiobook cover everything you need to know to fully embrace your true self and become the most enthralling conversationalist in any room!

Why are we so often in conflict – arguing with ourselves and with others, uncertain over who we are and what we want? For thousands of years, writers, thinkers and philosophers have seen life as a battle between the guiding power of reason and a disruptive animal within. In a world where...

Take a deep dive into the importance of discovering your true self and how you can achieve greater personal happiness and professional success by aligning your life journey around your core beliefs, true values and real perspective. Many people go through life afraid to be themselves. The tragedy of this reality is that many people walk around powerless because your greatest power lies in being yourself. You’ll learn how to embrace yourself from inside out and celebrate who you are.

How would you feel, if after all hard work and striving for many precious years, you realize that you wasted your entire life? To avoid such repentence, the ancient yet effective philosophy of stoicism is the way to live the modern life.

As Erich Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity. The alternatives of having and being are basic orientations of our character and determine our behavior. The mostly unpublished and unknown texts featured in The Essential Fromm encapsulate the psychologist's views on the fulfilling life. 

The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: Modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his “humanistic psychoanalysis.”

Was wäre, wenn deine stärksten emotionalen Reaktionen keine Schwäche wären—sondern ein uraltes Überlebenssystem, das nie gelernt hat, wann die Gefahr vorbei ist? Wut. Angst. Grübeln. Impulsivität. Stress. Überreaktionen. Noch bevor dein rationaler Verstand versteht, was passiert, kann dein limbisches System bereits Alarm schlagen. Herzschlag, Muskelspannung und Aufmerksamkeit verändern sich—und plötzlich übernimmt die limbische Bestie. Doch die Bestie ist nicht dein Feind. Du musst lernen, sie zu führen.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller “This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving—which is to say, all of us. Good Inside is not only a wise and practical guide to raising...

In Man for Himself, Erich Fromm examines the confusion of modern women and men who, because they lack faith in any principle by which life ought to be guided, become the helpless prey forces both within and without. From the broad, interdisciplinary perspective that marks Fromm's distinguished oeuvre, he shows that psychology cannot divorce itself from the problems of philosophy and ethics, and that human nature cannot be understood without understanding the values and moral conflicts that confront us all.

A Meditative Journey into the Mystery of BeingWhat is consciousness?Who are we beneath our thoughts, memories, and identities?What is awareness itself?And could consciousness exist beyond the human mind?"Consciousness" explores these questions through philosophy, spirituality, personal inquiry...

The definitive overview of this transformative breathwork. In the second edition of this classic text, Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof describe their groundbreaking form of self-exploration and psychotherapy: holotropic breathwork. Holotropic means "moving toward wholeness," from the Greek...