Book Reviews

This book explores the psychological games we play in our relationships with family, friends, work colleagues and loved ones.  Every interaction or social intercourse with another person is an opportunity to unconsciously play one or more of the many games,

This book is an essential guide for parents, teachers, health professionals, therapists and anyone working or caring for children. Levine and Kline provide valuable information and tools to help recognise, prevent and heal childhood trauma from infancy to adolescence.  Trauma

This book unravels unhealthy love relationships. It addresses why there are some people who always fall in love and seem to attract those who do not love them back. In this book Mellody explores needy and co-dependent personalities, commitment phobic

This book explores how trauma develops when we are overwhelmed by a potentially life-threatening event we are unable to deal with effectively. Peter Levine claims that traumatic symptoms are rooted in the residual energy created by the freeze response. Left

This book explores the root causes of mistrust and the journey we take when we are betrayed or hurt by another. It explains why we don’t see the world clearly when we feel deceived and how we fall into a

This is an empowering book about having the courage to handle difficult conversations with honesty and compassion. It offers insights and techniques to help you develop qualities of leadership with sincerity and communicate truthfully with others. It describes the fears

This book is about how people process information, what motivates them and how they make decisions. Shelle Rose Charvet explores how language and behaviour patterns manifest unconsciously, how we can identify it in ourselves and others, and how we can

This book, originally published in 1992, has become an international bestseller. It explores the differences between men and women, and how we can have better relationships through building better communication, understanding and acceptance. We live in a world where women

This book is about dealing with toxic shame that drives addiction. We tend to see addiction in the context of alcohol, drugs, cigarettes or sex and pay little attention to our compulsion to super-achieve, being a workaholic or drawn to