The Selfish Society is a good follow-up to Sue Gerhardt’s ealier work, Why Love Matters.  It reveals the vital importance of understanding our early emotional lives, showing that by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we Read More …

Marie de Hennezel is a gifted psychologist who works as part of a remarkable team of doctors and nurses in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris.  The men and women who attend the facility, some alone with no Read More …

Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is considered one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound Read More …

The discovery of neuroplasticity, that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains, even into old age, is the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in probably four hundred years.   The science is Read More …

In the vein of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, ‘The Dreamseller – The Calling’ is an inspirational fable about a mysterious man who calls himself The Dreamseller.  Wherever he goes, he enchants people and inspires them to search for Read More …

In ‘The God Delusion’ Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins’ understanding of what science can do is in fact old-fashioned and founded on a number of false ideas/concepts.   ‘The science delusion’ Read More …

In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his ‘spiritual mirror’, the whirling dervish known Read More …

Florence Scovel Shinn (September 24, 1871, Camden, New Jersey – October 17, 1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years. In New Thought circles and more Read More …

Dr Fuhrman is often described as the father of nutritarian eating.  He is an advocate of diets rich in a vast array of plant micronutrients, and believes that obesity is the gateway to many of our modern-day diseases. Hence, his Read More …

    Antidepressants are supposed to be the magic bullet for curing depression. But are they? I used to think so. As a clinical psychologist, I used to refer depressed clients to psychiatric colleagues to have them prescribed. But over Read More …