Remember your friend from high school who cleared his throat loudly every ten seconds? You may have thought he was doing it on purpose; maybe it seemed like he was looking for attention. Chances are that his endless coughing was... Read More

Daniel Eckstein knows relationships. As a licensed psychologist and counselor, he has worked with couples for more than thirty years, and he has published popular books and academic articles on relationship issues for nearly as long. In... Read More

Psychologists and psychiatrists work intimately with patients to conquer their private demons, not to cure society’s ills. But after thirty years of practicing psychoanalytical therapy, Dr. Charles C. DeLong is convinced there is a... Read More

Through the 1950s and 1960s, hypnotherapist Dr. Zora O. Young treated a troubled woman named Bernice whom he diagnosed with what he calls “multiple personalities.” "Bernice and Her Multiple Personalities" tracks Young’s experiences... Read More

If judged solely as a work of history, Marge Rieder’s biography of the seventeenth-century Swedish Queen Christina easily merits four stars. However, the author’s use of past-life regression hypnosis upon a thirty-two-year-old... Read More

People’s personality traits can be discovered in their faces, according to Naomi Tickle, a renowned expert in physiognomy, which the author calls “personology,” also known as face reading. In What Makes People Tick & Why: The... Read More

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a human event of such enormous repercussions that it envelops both mind and body. According to Susan Pease Banitt, in her book The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD From the Inside Out, “PTSD is a... Read More

Plato argued that inherited knowledge determines human behavior, while Aristotle believed that people come into the world with minds as blank slates. In 1874, Francis Galton, whose cousin was Charles Darwin, used the words “nature”... Read More