Psychology book summaries
Clear explanations of attention, emotion, decisions, identity, behavior change, and the limits of human judgment.
The strongest psychology reading makes hidden assumptions visible: why people notice one signal, ignore another, repeat a behavior, or misread their own motives. This collection puts practical models beside books that question how confidently those models should be applied.
This is general-interest psychology reading — behavior, emotion, judgment and attention — not textbook or clinical coverage.
Start with a focused list
This page is the complete psychology catalog. If you already know which question you are answering, these shorter selections narrow it down first.
- Brain books for different levels of wonder — Neuroscience from plasticity and clinical cases through to how emotion and consciousness are constructed.
- Decision-making books by judgment failure — Faulty intuition, badly designed options and noisy feedback each need a different book.
- Social psychology books, one mechanism at a time — Self-justification, influence, moral intuition, misread strangers and giving: how other people shape what one person thinks.
- Self-Help Books: Choose the Question Before the Method — Habits, learning, priorities, independence, and boundaries are different problems. Choose one useful book without collecting five competing systems.
- Persuasion Books: Attention, Influence, and Negotiation — A message can fail before it is heard, while it is understood, or when agreement becomes a negotiation. Match the book to the conversation.
- Mathematics Books: Patterns, Chaos, and Chance — Three books offer different entrances into mathematical thinking: formal patterns, nonlinear systems, and the everyday consequences of probability.
- Education Books: The Child, the Classroom, and the System — Learning advice changes when the unit is a child, a classroom, a school system, or a digital environment. These books make those differences visible.
- Sex and Intimacy: Reading Mating in Captivity — Esther Perel asks why security and erotic desire do not always move together. This focused reading guide examines the argument and its limits.
- Self-Esteem Books: Worth, Confidence, and Perfectionism — Feeling worthy, trusting a skill, accepting imperfection, and risking vulnerability are neighboring questions. They do not require the same book.
- Mindfulness and Happiness Books: Five Different Questions — Predicting happiness, becoming absorbed, examining a life, and attending to the present are related interests—not one interchangeable method.
Books in this collection
10 Days to Faster Reading
How can you read faster while preserving understanding? Abby Marks-Beale presents reading as a skill shaped by purpose, attention, practice, and prior knowledge. This summary explains pacing, previewing, selective reading, critical judgment, and review, showing how to choose an appropriate approach for everyday information and demanding material.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
How much of the life we experience is shaped by inherited beliefs, emotional habits, and the stories we tell ourselves? This summary follows a practical philosophy of observing thought, processing pain, building routines, thinking independently, relating honestly, and choosing meaningful action in the present.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
How can people face hardship without being ruled by self-pity, fear, resentment, or the demand for certainty? Amy Morin presents mental strength as a trainable way to manage thoughts, emotions, and behavior, then examines habits that undermine agency, values, relationships, and persistence. The framework turns those patterns into practices for clearer, more deliberate action.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
A Mind for Numbers
A Mind for Numbers asks whether mathematical and scientific ability is fixed or learnable. Barbara Oakley pairs her own retraining story with a practical account of focused and diffuse thinking, chunking, memory, practice, procrastination, and testing. The framework shows how to build durable understanding and more reliable recall through deliberate study.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
ADHD 2.0
ADHD 2.0 asks how a brain marked by inconsistent attention, impulsivity, and intense focus can also generate creativity, energy, and insight. It distinguishes ADHD from culturally induced attention problems, then examines brain regulation, connection, strengths, environment, exercise, and medication to help readers build a workable personal fit.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
ADHD an A-Z
How can people with ADHD build lives that work with their attention, emotions, and energy? Leanne Maskell combines lived experience with practical approaches to diagnosis, treatment, organization, relationships, and work, showing how self-understanding and tailored support can reduce shame and make everyday demands more manageable.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Why can a child feel alone despite being cared for, and why do those early adaptations persist into adult relationships? This summary explains emotional immaturity, the roles and coping styles it elicits, and a practical path toward self-trust, protective boundaries, and reciprocal connection.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
How can adult daughters of narcissistic mothers develop trust in their own feelings, needs, and choices? Stephanie M. Kriesberg examines the family patterns behind self-doubt and offers practices for handling painful thoughts, working through shame and grief, setting boundaries, and building more self-directed relationships.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
What justifies our expectations about events we have never observed? Hume examines how experience, habit, and imagination shape belief, then tests their reach in questions of freedom, miracles, and religion. His enquiry offers ways to assess evidence, clarify difficult concepts, and practise skepticism without abandoning ordinary life.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Anxiety at Work
How can leaders reduce the anxiety that everyday work creates? Anxiety at Work examines uncertainty, overload, stalled growth, perfectionism, silence, and exclusion. It offers practical ways to clarify expectations, shape manageable work, support development, encourage constructive disagreement, and build belonging and confidence while respecting the limits of a manager’s role.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Areté
Areté asks how a person can close the gap between potential and daily conduct. Brian C. Johnson joins virtue ethics and positive psychology with practical methods for building confidence, shaping habits, sustaining energy, and serving others—offering a framework for turning ideals into repeatable choices.
19 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Atlas of the Heart
Atlas of the Heart asks how naming and distinguishing emotions changes the way we understand ourselves and connect with others. It maps experiences from anxiety, comparison, and grief to shame, belonging, love, joy, anger, and humility, offering language for wiser choices, boundaries, compassion, and repair.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits explains how tiny repeated behaviors can produce outsized long-term results, while goals alone do not create progress. It asks how identity, environment, social context, friction, rewards, and review can be arranged so good habits become easier to repeat and bad habits easier to interrupt.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Attached
Attached explains how adult attachment shapes romantic expectations, pursuit, withdrawal, and conflict. It asks how people can recognize their own and a partner’s needs, distinguish security from emotional volatility, communicate directly, and decide whether to repair, renegotiate, or leave a relationship. Its value is a practical framework for clearer choices and more secure bonds.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Attention Span
Why is attention so hard to manage in digital life? Gloria Mark examines how cognitive limits, platform design, social expectations, and personal rhythms shape distraction. Her account offers practical ways to regain agency, balance demanding work with recovery, and make well-being a goal of technology use.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Authentic Happiness
Authentic Happiness asks what makes well-being durable rather than momentary. It follows positive psychology’s expansion beyond illness toward the study of strengths, then examines gratitude, optimism, pleasure, flow, love, work, and parenting. Its practical value is a framework for using personal strengths in ordinary life and connecting them to meaning beyond the self.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Awaken the Giant Within
Awaken the Giant Within asks how people can change the patterns that shape their emotions, choices, and destiny. It links decisions, pain-and-pleasure associations, beliefs, language, values, identity, and conditioning to practical work in health, relationships, money, time, and contribution, offering a framework for turning insight into repeated action.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Awaken Your Genius
Awaken Your Genius examines how inherited identities, social conditioning, distracted attention, and borrowed certainty narrow a person’s choices. It asks how to recover independent judgment and distinctive creativity, then turn curiosity into purposeful action while adapting to uncertainty. The result is a practical framework for thinking, experimenting, creating, and changing course.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Aware
How can awareness create more room for choice, connection, and meaning? Daniel J. Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness brings together attention training, compassion, and an embodied, relational view of mind. Explore its practical exercises, clinical stories, and speculative models of consciousness while distinguishing reported benefits from proposed explanations.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier examines why therapy, diagnosis, medication, and school programs have become prominent in children’s lives while reported distress remains high. She asks when care may become counterproductive, then weighs evidence and considers how parents can combine boundaries and support with relationships and age-appropriate independence.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers follows Easy Company from citizen-soldier training and airborne qualification through Normandy, Holland, and Bastogne. Its central question is how discipline, leadership, and comradeship become combat capability—and where they fail against chance, attrition, coordination problems, and strategic error. The value is a grounded study of combat psychology, tactics, and memory.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Be Seen
Be Seen asks how people can become visible without performing a version of themselves built for approval. Jen Gottlieb combines practices for rebuilding confidence and imagining a chosen future with methods for handling rejection, asking for help, telling memorable stories, and sharing useful work.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Be Your Future Self Now
How can the person you want to become guide the choices you make today? Benjamin Hardy explores future identity, hope, and the effects of present decisions. This summary follows his methods for choosing priorities, shaping supportive environments, practicing difficult skills, and turning intentions into scheduled, completed work.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Becoming Supernatural
How does Joe Dispenza connect meditation with changes in identity, health, and experience? This summary explains his practices for attention, emotional rehearsal, visualization, and everyday behavior, then follows their extension into mystical and collective claims, distinguishing practical procedures from workshop findings, personal testimony, and speculative explanations.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Behave
Why do humans act as they do? Robert M. Sapolsky follows behavior from neural circuits and hormones through development, genes, culture, evolution, group identity, morality, and history. The central lesson is that conduct is multicausal and context-sensitive, clarifying both cruelty and cooperation while leaving room for change.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness asks how consciousness can be free while embodied, situated, temporal, and exposed to other people. It distinguishes being-in-itself from the for-itself, then follows nothingness through bad faith, desire, action, responsibility, possession, and the unfinished problem of ethics.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Being You
Being You asks how conscious experience and the self arise from the living brain. It develops a predictive account of perception, measures of conscious level, and layered models of bodily, narrative, social, animal, and artificial minds. Its value is a mechanistic way to think about altered states, agency, and the limits of inferring experience.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Better Than Before
Better Than Before examines how people build and sustain habits by matching strategies to individual tendencies, values, environments, and relationships. It asks why the same routine helps one person but fails another, and shows how self-knowledge can become practical, repeatable change.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil asks what lies beneath philosophy’s claims to truth and morality. Nietzsche traces how instincts, religion, discipline, scholarship, social identity, and rank shape values, offering a demanding lens for testing inherited judgments and imagining freer forms of thought before a Dionysian closing meditation on transformation.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Beyond Order
Beyond Order asks how to live when order makes action possible but can harden into rigidity, while chaos, suffering, and malevolence remain unavoidable. It connects social participation, chosen aims, truthful memory, beauty, romance, responsibility, and gratitude into a practical account of turning potential into responsible action.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Big Mistakes
Why do capable investors make costly mistakes, and what can those failures teach when uncertainty makes error unavoidable? Through cases including Benjamin Graham, Jesse Livermore, Warren Buffett, and others, Michael Batnick examines overconfidence, risk, attachment, luck, and regret, then draws practical lessons for choosing a method, controlling exposure, and learning from losses.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Biohack Your Brain
Biohack Your Brain by Kristen Willeumier asks how everyday choices can influence a brain that remains adaptable across life. It connects nutrition, movement, sleep, hydration, stress regulation, cognitive challenge, supplements, and measurement into an individualized program. Its practical value is a framework for choosing small changes, tracking results, and recognizing evidence and safety limits.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Bittersweet
Bittersweet asks what sadness, longing, grief, and mortality can teach us when we stop treating them as defects. Susan Cain connects difficult emotion to compassion, creativity, love, and meaning, then examines forced positivity in American life and work. The book offers ways to carry loss without denying joy, using attention, connection, and purposeful action.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Blink
Blink asks when a first impression is wiser than prolonged analysis. It explores how unconscious minds extract patterns from brief encounters, why expertise can sharpen or bias those reactions, and how stress, stereotypes, and decision settings can distort them—then shows how training and better-designed systems can make judgment more reliable.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Buddha’s Brain
Buddha’s Brain brings neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative practice together to ask how the mind can reduce avoidable suffering and cultivate well-being. It explains how attention, emotional regulation, compassion, and insight may change habitual responses, and offers practices for developing them while acknowledging scientific uncertainty and individual limits.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Build for Tomorrow
Build for Tomorrow asks how people can respond to unavoidable change without letting panic, nostalgia, or fixed identities dictate what comes next. It explains how to spot possible gains, make decisions under uncertainty, learn from setbacks, carry purpose into new roles, and use each transition to prepare for further change.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Build the Life You Want
Build the Life You Want asks how people can become happier without waiting for circumstances to improve. It links emotional self-management with family, friendship, meaningful work, and spiritual practice, offering a framework for turning difficult feelings and imperfect relationships into choices that support purpose, connection, and service.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Built to Last
Built to Last examines why some companies remain exceptional across generations while comparable organizations fade. Its central question is how an institution can preserve authentic values and purpose without becoming rigid. The answer links enduring identity to bold goals, experimentation, leadership development, continuous improvement, and aligned systems—useful for understanding and designing resilient organizations.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Burn the Boats
Burn the Boats asks how to pursue a meaningful ambition when certainty is scarce, fear is strong, and conventional paths encourage retreat. Matt Higgins argues for combining instinct with evidence, managing criticism and anxiety, responding to crises, and adapting stalled ventures. The book also examines how teams expand individual capacity and how success can become a life of continuing growth and service.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Burnout
Burnout asks why caring, striving, and helping can leave people depleted even after an immediate problem ends. It distinguishes external stressors from the body’s unfinished stress response, then links recovery to flexible persistence, meaning, structural awareness, body acceptance, reciprocal connection, rest, and self-compassion.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Caste
Caste examines how an inherited hierarchy hides beneath American racial categories, how slavery, law, segregation, and social habits made it durable, and why it survives formal change. It asks how rank shapes everyday treatment, health, politics, and memory—and what truth, empathy, solidarity, and institutional action could do to dismantle it.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Catch Me If You Can
Frank Abagnale’s memoir traces a teenager’s first check fraud into years of impersonating pilots and other professionals, exploiting institutional trust, and evading capture. It asks how performance, opportunity, and self-deception sustain a criminal identity, then follows the consequences of imprisonment and the redirection of those abilities into fraud prevention.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life
Bob Proctor’s book asks how inherited beliefs and habits shape behavior, ambition, and income—and how a person can change that inner program. It explains his model of paradigms and offers practices in goal setting, visualization, repetition, study, and discipline, applying them to purpose, confidence, money, time, and creative work.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Chatter
Chatter examines why the mind talks to itself, when useful inner speech turns into repetitive distress, and how that spiral affects attention, performance, relationships, health, and well-being. It maps practical ways to regain perspective through self-distancing, better support, nature, expectations, rituals, and a flexible personal toolkit.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Closer to Love
How can love deepen without losing your sense of self? Vex King explores how past wounds, attraction, expectations, and everyday choices shape relationships. His practical and spiritual approach connects self-understanding with communication, trust, boundaries, and the difficult distinction between loving someone and sustaining a healthy partnership.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Confessions
Confessions follows Augustine from restless childhood, sexual and intellectual error, and attachment to mortal goods toward conversion, self-examination, and dependence on grace. It asks what makes a life truly happy and how a divided will returns to truth. Its intellectual value lies in joining autobiography to memory, time, creation, interpretation, and rest.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Contagious
Why do some products, ideas, and behaviors spread while similar ones disappear? Jonah Berger’s Contagious presents six principles—social currency, triggers, emotion, public visibility, practical value, and stories—and shows how they shape word of mouth, sustained attention, imitation, and useful action. The framework also clarifies why visibility, usefulness, or virality can misfire.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Conversations Worth Having
Conversations Worth Having examines how everyday dialogue shapes relationships, organizations, and change. It asks how people can address difficult realities without getting trapped in blame, then offers an Appreciative Inquiry approach—tuning in, listening, asking generative questions, reframing problems, and turning shared strengths into action.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Crucial Conversations
Crucial Conversations asks how people can speak honestly and listen well when stakes are high, opinions differ, and emotions run strong. It explains how to restore safety, question the stories shaping our reactions, create shared meaning, make sound decisions, and turn difficult dialogue into accountable action.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead asks what makes courage usable in workplaces shaped by fear, shame, uncertainty, and competing priorities. Brené Brown’s framework links vulnerability, values, trust, empathy, curiosity, feedback, and recovery to practices for leading with clarity, accountability, and human connection.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Daring Greatly
This summary asks how people can risk being seen without letting shame, perfectionism, or scarcity govern their lives. It follows Brown’s argument that vulnerability enables courage and connection, then applies Wholehearted practices to relationships, institutions, leadership, and parenting.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
David and Goliath
David and Goliath asks why apparent advantages can conceal vulnerabilities, and when disadvantages become strategic freedom. Through sport, education, medicine, civil rights, policing, punishment, and forgiveness, it examines how relative position, productive difficulty, legitimacy, and unconventional action shape what people and institutions can achieve.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Decisive
Decisive examines why people make poor choices: they narrow the frame, seek confirming evidence, react to short-term emotion, and overestimate the future. It presents WRAP—widen options, reality-test assumptions, attain distance, and prepare to be wrong—as a practical process for making clearer choices under uncertainty.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Deep Work
Cal Newport’s Deep Work asks how people can learn difficult skills and produce valuable results when constant connectivity fragments attention. It argues for distraction-free concentration as both an economic advantage and a source of meaning, then develops practical systems for routines, attention training, tool selection, leisure, scheduling, and communication boundaries.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Deeper Dating
Ken Page’s Deeper Dating asks how people can find lasting love while honoring sensitive qualities they may hide. It offers a practical framework for recognizing Core Gifts, distinguishing nourishing attraction from painful repetition, and practicing the skills of choosing, building, and sustaining reciprocal intimacy.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness traces Tony Hsieh’s path from childhood experiments and LinkExchange to Zappos, asking how profits, passion, purpose, and happiness can reinforce one another. It follows the company’s survival, customer service, culture, values, relationships, talent, and Amazon partnership, then distills three frameworks for applying happiness to work and life.
21 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Descartes’ Error
Why can someone retain intelligence yet lose the ability to choose wisely? Antonio Damasio examines neurological cases and experiments to explain how emotion, bodily signals, and reasoning work together. His account offers a framework for understanding judgment, intuition, selfhood, and the human consequences of separating mind from body.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Difficult Conversations
Difficult Conversations explains why important disputes turn into arguments about facts, intentions, feelings, identity, and blame. It asks how people can listen and speak honestly without forcing agreement, then use shared understanding to make decisions, repair relationships, or choose workable limits.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Do Hard Things
Do Hard Things asks what genuine toughness looks like when fear, fatigue, pain, and uncertainty are real. It replaces stoicism and brute-force persistence with accurate appraisal, emotional awareness, flexible choice, supportive conditions, and meaning—helping readers decide when to persist, adapt, or stop.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Why do ordinary frustrations become consuming, and how can a change in attention and response restore calm? Richard Carlson’s lessons examine perspective, patience, acceptance, listening, gratitude, kindness, and mortality. Together they offer a practical account of loosening perfectionism and ego so daily problems become more manageable and relationships more humane.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Joseph Nguyen asks whether psychological suffering comes from life events or from the meanings and thinking layered onto them. The book presents non-thinking—allowing thoughts to pass without attachment—as a way to recover peace, clarity, and intuition, then applies the idea to goals, love, work, environments, and habits.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Dopamine Nation
Dopamine Nation asks why abundance and easy pleasure so often produce compulsion, anxiety, and pain. It connects addiction neuroscience to clinical stories and offers a practical path—abstinence, self-binding, measured discomfort, radical honesty, and supportive belonging—to recover a fuller capacity for ordinary life.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Drive
Drive examines human motivation beyond biological drives and external rewards, asking what helps people learn, create, persist, and contribute. It contrasts control-based Motivation 2.0 with a Type I alternative organized around autonomy, mastery, and purpose, then applies that framework to work, compensation, education, exercise, and personal practice.
19 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety
How can food support mental health alongside clinical care? Drew Ramsey connects nutrients, inflammation, brain plasticity, and the gut microbiome to mood, weighs evidence and its limits, and offers a flexible six-week progression for adding nourishing foods and building lasting habits.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday examines how ego distorts ambition, achievement, and adversity: when does confidence become self-deception, and how can people keep doing meaningful work? The book’s answer joins humility with disciplined action, continual learning, purpose, internal standards, and letting go of praise, blame, and resentment.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Eight Dates
Eight Dates treats lasting love as a continuing practice of protected conversation, curious listening, and repeated attention. It asks how couples can stay close as trust, conflict, sex, work and money, family, play, personal growth, and future dreams change. Its guided dates turn those questions into concrete discussions, requests, and shared rituals.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Elevate your Team
Glazer argues that sustainable organizational growth depends on developing people as company demands expand. The book asks how leaders can build that capacity, connecting values and strengths, learning and feedback, physical well-being, emotional resilience, and talent decisions about role fit and succession. It offers practical methods for helping people grow while meeting organizational needs.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence asks why intellectual ability alone does not determine how people think, relate, work, or recover. Daniel Goleman traces emotional intelligence from brain circuitry through self-awareness, regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill, then examines how family life, trauma, health, and schools shape these capacities and how they can be strengthened.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Emotional Intelligence Habits
Emotional Intelligence Habits asks how people can notice feelings, choose responses, and build stronger relationships at home and work. Travis Bradberry presents emotional intelligence as four connected, learnable skills, then applies them to stress, confidence, judgment, communication, leadership, and sustainable performance. The book offers practical ways to turn emotional awareness into everyday habits.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Every Brain Needs Music
Lawrence Sherman asks how sound becomes music and why people make, learn, perform, and seek it. He traces the brain processes behind musical creation and listening, then connects them to practical approaches to learning and performance. The account also weighs music’s social and emotional roles against evidence that remains uncertain or varies across listeners.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Everything Is F*cked
Everything Is F*cked examines why material progress can coexist with despair, and how emotion, identity, faith, pain, technology, and social institutions shape what people hope for. It asks whether a meaningful life requires hope at all, then develops a reality-based ethic of maturity, dignity, commitment, and chosen struggle.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Everything is Figureoutable
How can you move forward when a goal feels impossible? Marie Forleo connects beliefs, resourcefulness, and action in a practical approach to solving problems. This summary explores how to clarify a meaningful goal, work through fear, learn from setbacks, and seek support while recognizing real limits.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Factfulness
Factfulness asks why people misunderstand global conditions and how to replace dramatic, binary intuitions with a calmer, evidence-tested worldview. It links ten recurring instincts to practical habits: compare distributions, check trends and rates, put risks in proportion, update categories, question single causes, and act on serious problems with systems-aware judgment.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Failing Forward
How can setbacks become useful without turning into judgments about personal worth? John C. Maxwell explores how people respond to failure through responsibility, learning, purposeful risk, and persistence. This summary explains his practical methods for examining mistakes, changing ineffective approaches, and directing achievement toward helping others.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Faster Than Normal
Peter Shankman asks how an ADHD brain’s speed and appetite for stimulation can be used without letting distraction, impulsivity, or overload take over. Through personal examples, he explores routines, trigger management, work tools, and relationship practices for building self-management suited to the individual.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Feel-Good Productivity
Feel-Good Productivity asks how people can accomplish meaningful work without relying on relentless effort. Ali Abdaal argues that positive emotion, agency, and social connection can energize action, and offers methods for overcoming avoidance, recovering energy, and aligning everyday work with personal values.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway asks why fear becomes paralysis and how people can move through it without waiting to feel ready. Jeffers links self-trust, responsibility, positive inner dialogue, no-lose decisions, supportive relationships, a fuller life, generosity, and spiritual practice into a framework for handling uncertainty, loss, and change.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Finance for the People
Paco de Leon explores how emotion, identity, culture, and unequal circumstances shape money decisions, then offers practical ways to plan spending, earn, save, manage debt, invest, build wealth, and protect assets. The book asks how people can gain agency with money while recognizing the limits of individual action.
16 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Finding your element
How can you discover work and activities that unite what you do well with what you love? Ken Robinson explores how abilities develop, how communities and mentors reveal possibilities, and how people can pursue meaningful lives across different ages and circumstances. His argument also challenges education to cultivate a wider range of human talents.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
First, Break All the Rules
First, Break All the Rules examines how managers turn individual talent into performance. It asks what to select for, which outcomes to define, how to build on strengths, and how to find a fitting role. The book offers the Four Keys and twelve workplace questions as tools for understanding engagement, performance, and career choices.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Flow
Flow examines how people can improve the quality of life when circumstances cannot guarantee happiness. It asks how attention, challenge, skill, work, relationships, adversity, and purpose can organize consciousness into meaningful experience, while showing why flow's same power can become addictive or harmful. Its value is a framework for self-directed living.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics asks how incentives, information gaps, and delayed causes shape cheating, crime, parenting, names, markets, and social behavior. Its intellectual value is a disciplined way to question conventional wisdom: compare stated beliefs with observed behavior, test correlation against causation, and separate empirical explanation from moral approval.
17 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Free to Learn
Free to Learn asks why children’s freedom to play, explore, and direct their learning has narrowed, and what that loss means for motivation, well-being, and responsibility. Drawing on hunter-gatherer childhoods, psychological research, Sudbury Valley, age mixing, and parenting examples, it considers how communities might restore self-directed education.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry’s memoir asks how addiction can persist through fame, money, love, treatment, and near-death—and what recovery means when relapse remains possible. It traces childhood abandonment, performance, Friends-era success, medical catastrophe, relationships, faith, and service, showing the gradual work of building a life beyond substances and approval.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Future Tense
What if anxiety carries information worth hearing? Tracy Dennis-Tiwary explores how this future-focused emotion can support preparation, creativity, and connection—and how avoidance can undermine those benefits. The book offers ways to distinguish useful signals from unhelpful spirals, support anxious children, and turn uncertainty into purposeful action.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Games People Play
Games People Play examines how ordinary social exchanges become recurring games with hidden motives and payoffs. It asks what people gain from these patterns, how ego states and transactions sustain them across relationships, and whether awareness, spontaneity, and intimacy can help people recognize and move beyond inherited social programming.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Genome
Genome follows the human genome from the chemistry of heredity through evolution, disease, behavior, ageing, biotechnology, and reproductive choice. It asks what genes can explain, where environment and history intervene, and how genetic knowledge should inform medicine and our understanding of freedom.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Get Better at Anything
Get Better at Anything asks how people build skills when knowledge is difficult to explain and experience alone can mislead. Scott H. Young examines learning from examples, adaptive practice, feedback, transfer, creativity, and uncertainty, offering methods for choosing challenges and improving performance in the settings where skills must work.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Get Out of Your Own Way
Dave Hollis examines how beliefs about success, failure, love, and control can keep people stuck. How can those beliefs be questioned and replaced with deliberate action? Through personal stories and practical exercises, the book explores identity beyond work, emotional honesty, adaptable relationships, and habits that support continued growth.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix asks why romantic attraction can become painful conflict and how partners might change that pattern. He links mate choice and recurring hurt to childhood relationships, then explains practices for listening accurately, making specific caring requests, and expressing anger safely. The framework treats marriage as shared work in growth and healing.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Getting to Neutral
How can people act effectively when optimism feels unconvincing and circumstances remain uncertain? Trevor Moawad’s neutral thinking starts with facts and the next controllable action. Through examples from sports, illness, and everyday life, the book connects that approach to values, habits, preparation, supportive relationships, and coaching.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis examines the self-defeating stories people absorb about happiness, worth, relationships, motherhood, ambition, bodies, trauma, and identity. The book asks how to replace those lies with responsibility, honest self-knowledge, support, and persistent action, offering a practical framework for moving forward without requiring perfection.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Give and Take
Give and Take asks whether success is shaped by how people give, take, or exchange fairly. It follows generosity through networks, creative work, communication, and volunteering, then examines the boundaries and social practices that make giving sustainable. The result is a framework for understanding when helping others expands impact—and when it becomes costly.
4 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Good Inside
Good Inside asks how parents can meet difficult behavior without sacrificing either authority or connection. Its framework treats behavior as a window into feelings and unmet needs, separates a child’s goodness from conduct, and offers ways to validate, set limits, repair ruptures, and build resilience in family life.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Great Leaders Have No Rules
How can leaders give people more freedom while maintaining accountability? Kevin Kruse examines how rules, constant availability, and approval seeking can undermine leadership. His alternatives connect clear expectations with focused attention, individual development, transparency, and care, offering practical ways to strengthen judgment and trust at work and beyond.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Grit
Grit asks why some people persist toward difficult goals through setbacks—and how that persistence can develop. Duckworth defines grit as sustained passion and perseverance, then traces its growth through interest, deliberate practice, purpose, hope, relationships, and culture, while placing it among other virtues and distinguishing wise persistence from stubbornly pursuing every goal.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Hold Me Tight
Hold Me Tight explains romantic distress through attachment: what happens when partners fear disconnection, and how can they regain safety? Sue Johnson presents conversations for recognizing destructive cycles, naming vulnerable needs, repairing injuries, reconnecting through sex and touch, and sustaining a bond that can support healing and care beyond the couple.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Hold on to Your Kids
Hold on to Your Kids argues that children rely on attachment to caring adults for direction, learning, and maturation, and that peer orientation can displace this guidance. It explains how attachment shapes parental authority, vulnerability, behavior, and schooling, then offers ways to reconnect, discipline without rupture, and build a wider circle of responsible adults.
16 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Hooked
Hooked explains how products turn recurring emotional discomfort into repeat behavior through triggers, easy actions, variable rewards, and user investment. It asks when behavior design helps people do what they value—and when it becomes manipulation—then offers a Bible app case study and a behavior-based method for testing habits and finding opportunities.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How Children Learn
How Children Learn examines how children build understanding through curiosity, play, language, reading, hands-on work, and imagination. Its central question is whether education should direct them toward fixed skills or protect their own investigations. The book offers a way to observe learners, reduce fear, and support independent judgment.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How Emotions Are Made
How Emotions Are Made asks whether emotions are universal biological reactions or predictions constructed from bodily signals, concepts, learning, and context. It traces the consequences for emotional regulation, illness, law, and animal behavior, giving listeners a more careful way to interpret feelings, evidence, and responsibility.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How Highly Effective People Speak
How do speakers make ideas memorable, credible, and persuasive? Peter Andrei explores how cognitive biases shape audience judgment. His methods connect storytelling, comparisons, delivery, and evidence with practical persuasion, while exposing a tension between communicating truth and exploiting the shortcuts that make claims feel true.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How Minds Change
How Minds Change asks why the same evidence can change one person and harden another. David McRaney traces belief revision from predictive perception and disequilibrium through identity, group belonging, reasoning, and conversation, then explains how individual shifts spread through social networks. It offers a grounded way to approach disagreement with humility and care.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Be a People Magnet
What makes people feel comfortable, valued, and willing to build a relationship? Leil Lowndes explores social confidence, attentive communication, friendship, romance, and reciprocal support. Practical exercises and personal stories show how everyday encounters can develop into lasting connections, while highlighting differences in how people express and receive care.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Be an Adult in Relationships
How can adults build intimate relationships without asking a partner to repair every childhood wound? David Richo presents mindful love through five practices—attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing—and applies them to partner choice, romance, conflict, fear, ego, endings, commitment, grief, and compassion beyond the couple.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Be Your Own Therapist
Owen O’Kane links present distress to learned patterns and earlier experience, then asks how people can choose change and care for their mental wellbeing. He offers a practical route through reflection, action, and short daily routines, while recognizing when professional support is needed.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Begin
How do you turn an ambition into a goal worth pursuing? Michael Bungay Stanier explains how to choose work that is thrilling, important, and daunting, weigh its rewards and sacrifices, and begin through small experiments. His framework connects personal growth with contribution, supported by deliberate practice and thoughtfully chosen companions.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Change
How to Change asks why good intentions so often fail and argues that behavior shifts when the obstacle is diagnosed and the environment is redesigned around it. It examines fresh starts, temptation, procrastination, forgetting, inertia, confidence, and social influence, showing how cues, commitments, habits, expectations, and norms can support durable change.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Know a Person
How to Know a Person asks what it takes to perceive another person beyond labels, roles, and first impressions. It connects attention, conversation, empathy, suffering, personality, culture, and wisdom, offering a practical and moral framework for listening better, understanding a person's history and viewpoint, and helping others feel genuinely seen.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Meet Your Self
Nicole LePera’s workbook asks how early conditioning, bodily stress, and learned emotional patterns shape a person’s sense of self—and how those patterns can change. It offers practices for noticing habits, responding to body and emotional needs, setting boundaries, and making daily choices aligned with values and an envisioned future self.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Stay Sane
Philippa Perry asks how people can stay stable without becoming rigid or ruled by emotion. She links self-observation to bodily awareness, relationships, manageable challenge, and the stories that shape identity. The book offers practices for noticing patterns, testing responses, and adjusting them in daily life.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
How can Stoic philosophy shape a life under pressure? Donald Robertson follows Marcus Aurelius from imperial formation through desire, pain, fear, anger, and death, pairing ancient practices with cognitive therapy. The book shows how judgments, clarified values, and daily exercises can support resilient, ethical action.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How to Think More Effectively
How to Think More Effectively asks how ordinary people can turn scattered impressions into clearer judgment and better action. It examines the environments, habits, relationships, and mental disciplines that protect thought from distraction, vagueness, conformity, defensiveness, and overconfidence, while showing how precision, imagination, empathy, and skepticism can improve everyday decisions.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
How We Heal
Alexandra Elle presents healing as an ongoing practice of meeting fear and old stories with honesty, self-compassion, and useful action. Through journaling, boundaries, rest, trusted connection, gratitude, and small rituals of release, the book asks how we can make room for change and joy without demanding perfect or final recovery.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Humankind
Why do we so often expect the worst of one another? Rutger Bregman examines cooperation, cruelty, and the circumstances that encourage each. Through historical cases and contested research, Humankind explores what trust, shared responsibility, and meaningful contact can teach us about work, education, justice, and everyday life.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Humor, Seriously
Humor, Seriously asks why levity recedes from adult work and how humor can coexist with serious responsibilities. It traces proposed effects on trust, creativity, and resilience; teaches readers to notice and shape funny moments; and applies the ideas to communication, teams, leadership, culture, and repairing misfires.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Hyperfocus
Hyperfocus asks how to direct scarce attention in a world of interruptions. Chris Bailey presents deliberate concentration on one meaningful task alongside intentional mind wandering, then connects both modes to distraction-aware environments, restorative breaks, valuable information, creativity, and daily energy. The practical value is a framework for choosing, protecting, and renewing attention.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
I Know What to Do So Why Don't I Do It?
This book asks why people fail to act on goals they already understand. Nick Hall examines procrastination as emotion management, then traces how fear, habits, beliefs, values, perception, relationships, time, energy, and health influence follow-through. It offers methods for reshaping routines, testing beliefs, choosing goals, and adapting support to individual circumstances.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
Justin Gregg asks whether human intelligence is a clear evolutionary advantage or a costly mix of powers. Comparing human causal reasoning, deception, death awareness, morality, consciousness and foresight with animal capacities, the book tests intelligence by the pleasure and suffering it enables and offers a basis for thinking about animal welfare.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Imaginable
How can we prepare for futures we cannot predict? Jane McGonigal presents imagination as a practical skill: exploring signals of change, rehearsing unfamiliar situations, and learning from other people’s perspectives. Games and social simulations connect personal readiness with collective action on crises, inequality, and environmental change.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
In Search of Excellence
Why do some large companies keep innovating and performing when rational plans, controls, and scale alone fall short? In Search of Excellence identifies eight connected practices and explains how they turn ordinary work into adaptive, sustained performance.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Why do people return to behaviors that harm them, and what can make change possible? Gabor Maté connects addiction with pain, brain development, learned patterns, relationships, and social conditions, then considers compassionate care, harm reduction, and recovery practices. The book offers a framework for understanding compulsion while preserving responsibility and hope.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Incognito
Incognito asks how much of thought, perception, choice, and identity is authored outside awareness. It connects constructed experience, unconscious learning, competing neural systems, biology, and law to show why the self feels more sovereign than it is—and how that shift reframes responsibility and self-understanding.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Indistractable
Indistractable asks why attention slips from chosen goals and how people can reclaim it. It explains the roles of internal discomfort, timeboxed values, external cues, and precommitments, then applies the framework to workplace culture, parenting, and intimate relationships—offering a practical way to protect attention in social settings.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Influence
Influence examines why people say yes, how six psychological shortcuts turn favors, commitments, crowds, liking, authority, and scarcity into compliance, and when those shortcuts fail. Its value is a practical way to recognize manipulation while preserving the cooperation and efficient judgment these social rules normally support.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
It's Not You
How do harmful narcissistic relationships undermine self-trust, and what helps people recover? Ramani Durvasula explains patterns of manipulation, attachment, and self-blame, then explores acceptance, grief, boundaries, and rebuilding identity. The focus is on practical recovery, including when family, work, or other constraints make continued contact necessary.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy follows Bryan Stevenson’s work with condemned people, children, women, and others caught in America’s punitive justice system. It asks how race, poverty, trauma, and fear turn vulnerability into guilt, and what proximity, legal advocacy, mercy, and hope can do to restore dignity when formal justice fails.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Know Yourself, Know Your Money
Money habits take shape through childhood experience, temperament, fear, and the motives behind spending, saving, and giving. The book asks how self-knowledge can become financial change, then offers ways to set boundaries, clarify meaningful goals, practice generosity, and turn intentions into a monthly plan.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Lateral Thinking for Every Day
How can you find fresh solutions when familiar thinking runs out? Paul Sloane explores how questioning assumptions, reversing conventions, borrowing ideas, and experimenting can expand your options. Historical cases and practical exercises show how to apply lateral thinking at work, in groups, and in everyday life.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Lead Like a Coach
Lead Like a Coach asks how leaders can support strong work today while helping people become more capable and independent. Karen Morley shows how to assess coaching habits, build trust, ask useful questions, give developmental feedback, and make coaching part of everyday team life.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Leaders Eat Last
Why do some teams cooperate under pressure while others turn inward? Simon Sinek explores how leadership shapes trust, safety, and responsibility. Through workplace and military examples, the book connects human motivation with practical choices about incentives, authority, relationships, and the long-term care of an organization.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Learn Like a Pro
Learn Like a Pro asks how learners can replace guesswork and raw effort with methods that make studying more effective. It explains how to manage attention, overcome being stuck, strengthen memory, and build fluent skill through retrieval and varied practice. It then applies these ideas to motivation, reading, testing, and lifelong learning.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Level Up
Why do good intentions so often fail to become action? Rob Dial explores how fear, identity, and unclear goals keep people stuck, then offers practical ways to shape attention, build habits, and reward progress. The central aim is to make consistent action easier without waiting for confidence or constant motivation.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Life Is Hard
Kieran Setiya asks how to live well amid infirmity, loneliness, grief, failure, injustice, and the absurdity of existence. The book explores what philosophy can offer through honest attention to suffering, sustaining relationships, valuing ongoing activity, collective action, and hope grounded in real possibilities.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Lighter
Lighter asks how people can become less ruled by pain, conditioning, and ego—and how inner healing might reshape relationships and society. Yung Pueblo connects personal history, meditation, emotional maturity, and practical compassion to show how honest self-observation and sustainable action can create more freedom and less harm.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Living Untethered
Living Untethered asks whether lasting peace depends on changing circumstances or changing our relationship to experience. Michael A. Singer presents awareness as the observing self and traces how preferences and stored impressions shape thought, emotion, and love. He offers practices for releasing reactivity, meeting daily events, and acting with greater openness.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Lord of the Flies
William Golding’s novel follows stranded boys whose attempts at self-government give way to fear, rivalry, and violence. This summary explores how shared rules lose authority, how belonging can enable cruelty, and why rescue leaves the meaning of civilization unsettled.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
How can self-love become a daily practice? Kamal Ravikant draws on his recovery from a personal crisis to explore repeated thought, meditation, and gentler responses to fear. His account offers practical exercises for changing habitual self-talk, examining inherited beliefs, and bringing greater care to everyday choices.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Made to Stick
Made to Stick asks why some ideas survive communication while others vanish, and whether truthful messages can be designed to be understood, remembered, believed, and acted on. It presents six complementary tools—simplicity, surprise, concreteness, credibility, emotion, and stories—while diagnosing the Curse of Knowledge that makes experts hard to understand.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Magic Words
Magic Words examines how small choices in grammar, confidence, questions, specificity, emotion, and similarity change how people act, connect, and judge credibility. It asks when ordinary wording becomes influential—and what language reveals about its users and institutions—offering a context-sensitive framework for communicating more effectively and reading language more critically.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Make It Stick
Make It Stick asks why rereading, cramming, and other fluent-feeling habits produce fragile learning, and how retrieval, spacing, varied practice, reflection, feedback, and calibrated self-testing build durable knowledge. It connects memory research to classrooms, professional training, and everyday mastery, giving learners a framework for knowledge that transfers.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl combines a witness account of concentration-camp life with an introduction to logotherapy. The book asks what can remain meaningful when freedom, identity, and security are stripped away, and shows how purpose, love, responsibility, and one’s attitude toward unavoidable suffering can guide action without denying chance, loss, or human limits.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mastering Communication at Work
How can workplace messages earn trust and lead to action across different listeners and situations? This book explains ways to adapt information order, credibility, motivation, framing, validation, and vocal delivery, then applies them to defensiveness, meetings, hiring, delegation, criticism, presentations, and organizational communication.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mating in Captivity
Mating in Captivity examines why affection, security, and domestic closeness can coexist with—and sometimes dampen—erotic desire. It asks how committed partners can preserve autonomy, mystery, play, and pleasure without abandoning trust, offering a framework for understanding intimacy, parenthood, fantasy, power, and fidelity.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb asks how people change, using her own therapy after a breakup and stories of patients facing grief, illness, addiction, family conflict, and mortality. The book argues that honest relationship, self-understanding, responsibility, and openness to uncertainty can loosen defensive patterns and help people live meaningfully with what cannot be undone.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Meditation
Osho frames meditation as relaxed witnessing: how can attention move beyond identification with thought and sensation while life continues? The book compares routes through breath, movement, emotion, sound, stillness, and relationship, offering practices and criteria for using them without mistaking effort, catharsis, or special experiences for meditation itself.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Carl Jung’s autobiographical account asks how a life becomes whole when dreams, religious experience, clinical work, culture, and mortality exceed the ego’s explanations. Its value lies in showing how inner conflict can become material for self-knowledge while symbolic experience remains meaningful without becoming scientific proof.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
This relationship guide asks why partners who love each other can still feel misunderstood. Its Mars–Venus framework contrasts their values, stress responses, and emotional needs, then turns those differences into practices for listening, requesting support, repairing conflict, processing hurt, and sustaining intimacy.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Metahuman
Metahuman asks whether the everyday self is the whole of who we are. Chopra argues that perception and identity are constructed, and that noticing the awareness beneath them can loosen conditioned limits. He develops this claim through examples from creativity, science, and a month of reflective exercises.
16 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Millionaire Teacher
How can ordinary earners build lasting financial independence without a high salary or a talent for picking winning stocks? Andrew Hallam links purposeful spending and early, regular investing to low-cost diversified index funds, a suitable stock-and-bond mix, and discipline through market swings. The book also offers safeguards for evaluating advisers, financial promises, and limited stock picking.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mindhunter
Mindhunter examines how investigators can infer an unknown offender’s behavior from crime scenes, victim patterns, and interviews. Its cases show how a profile can shape searches and questioning while remaining a hypothesis to test against evidence. The narrative also traces the personal and institutional costs of the work.
19 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mindreader
Mindreader asks how language, attention, emotion, and behavior disclose what people may believe, fear, hide, or value. It offers a pattern-based way to assess sincerity, deception, relationships, personality, and distress—while stressing context, repeated evidence, and responsible judgment. The value is clearer interpretation, firmer boundaries, and safer responses.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mindset
Mindset asks how beliefs about whether abilities can change shape the way people learn, handle failure, work, lead, love, and teach. It presents fixed and growth mindsets as changeable tendencies, while showing that development requires effort, strategies, support, and honest feedback rather than unlimited promise.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Misbehaving
Misbehaving asks what happens when economic models replace psychologically limited Humans with perfectly optimizing Econs. It follows Thaler from early anomalies through mental accounting, self-control, fairness, financial markets, behavioral policy, and nudges, showing how observed behavior can improve theory and decision design.
16 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Why do people defend bad decisions, distort memories, and resist evidence? This summary follows self-justification from personal choices through prejudice, clinical judgment, criminal justice, relationships, and national conflict, then shows how humility, independent checks, and honest responsibility can turn error into learning.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals asks how incentives can change behavior while sending messages about what people value. It explains how rewards can support goals or distort them, and shows how to read and design incentives across workplaces, habit change, community practices, and negotiation.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Models
Models examines how men can approach romantic attraction without making approval or memorized routines the center of their identity. It asks how honest desire, vulnerability, compatible contexts, communication, and repeated action change dating, and offers a framework for treating rejection as information while building mutual intimacy.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Money
Rob Moore’s Money asks how people can change their relationship with money and build wealth that supports a chosen life. It links beliefs and emotions to practical methods for creating value, using time and leverage, selling useful solutions, managing financial risk, and contributing to others.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer investigates whether memory can be deliberately improved and what training reveals about expertise. He explains methods that turn information into vivid images and ordered routes, then tests their limits in poetry, education, competition, and daily life. The book also asks how forgetting and external records shape knowledge and identity.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Move!
Move! asks how a body evolved for movement can support a mind living in a sedentary world. Caroline Williams examines walking, strength, dance, posture, stretching, breathing, and rest as routes to cognition, emotion, resilience, and connection, while distinguishing promising evidence from established knowledge. The result is a framework for everyday movement.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Mr Unavailable & the Fallback Girl
Why do people keep choosing partners who resist intimacy, and how can they change the pattern? Natalie Lue connects inconsistent relationships with the fears, beliefs, and familiar roles that keep them going, then offers practical ways to set boundaries, test compatibility, and build a more reciprocal life.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Multipliers
Multipliers asks why some leaders leave people sharper and more capable while others suppress the intelligence around them. Liz Wiseman’s five-discipline framework shows how to attract and grow talent, create space, issue meaningful challenges, debate consequential choices, and invest in ownership—turning leadership into a practice of multiplying capability.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Myths of Strategy
Jérôme Barthélemy examines familiar claims about business strategy through research and company cases, asking when planning, talent, purpose, innovation, cost cutting, and management tools improve performance. The book shows how context, experimentation, competition, and organizational behavior shape results, giving listeners ways to question assumptions and adapt choices.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules
How can deliberate thought become effective action and fair dealing? Napoleon Hill connects definite aims, self-suggestion, habits, memory, and persuasion with cooperation and the Golden Rule. His practical exercises and illustrative stories offer a system for personal development while revealing tensions between constructive influence, manipulation, and claims of universal mental laws.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Negotiation Genius
Negotiation Genius asks how people can prepare for better agreements without relying on intuition alone. It teaches ways to assess alternatives, claim and create value, and uncover hidden interests, then examines bias, influence, deception, ethics, difficult counterparts, and when walking away is wiser. The result is a framework for more deliberate negotiation.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies
Neuro-linguistic programming asks how personal maps—shaped by sensory attention, language, memory, beliefs, and values—guide what people notice and how they act. This summary explains practical models for setting outcomes, reading communication, changing learned responses, and adapting those methods with care.
18 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Neurodiversity at Work
Neurodiversity at Work asks how organizations can value different ways of thinking without reducing people to diagnoses or stereotypes. It traces the path from uneven cognitive profiles to fair hiring, individualized support, workplace belonging, and broader change, offering practical ways to remove barriers while recognizing that needs vary.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Never Split the Difference
Never Split the Difference asks how emotion, perception, and hidden motives shape negotiation. It presents an FBI-derived approach built on attentive listening, labeling, calibrated questions, strategic No, implementation checks, adaptive bargaining, and preparation—tools for reaching workable outcomes without mistaking politeness for commitment.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
No More Mr. Nice Guy!
Why can trying to please everyone leave a person resentful and disconnected? Robert A. Glover examines approval-seeking, hidden expectations, and the fear of being known. His practical framework connects self-acceptance, direct requests, and boundaries with changes in friendship, intimate relationships, sexuality, and work.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
No Rules Rules
No Rules Rules examines how Netflix built a workplace around exceptional talent, candid feedback, transparency, and decentralized judgment. Its central question is when removing rules improves adaptation and innovation—and when freedom becomes chaos. The book’s practical value is a conditional framework for matching context, accountability, and cultural adaptation to the work.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
No Self, No Problem
How does the mind turn thoughts into a seemingly solid self? Chris Niebauer connects neuroscience with Eastern philosophy to explore identity, interpretation, and mental suffering. Everyday examples and awareness practices invite a less rigid relationship with inner speech, while raising questions about consciousness and the limits of explanation.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Noise
Noise examines why competent people can disagree about the same case—and why the same person can vary across occasions. It separates bias from unwanted variability, shows how judgment lotteries distort justice and prediction, and presents audits and decision-hygiene practices for making consequential decisions more consistent without erasing necessary discretion.
16 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication asks how people lose touch with compassion and how language can restore connection. It presents a four-part practice—observations, feelings, needs, and requests—and applies it to empathy, conflict, self-judgment, protective force, counseling, and appreciation, offering a framework for clearer, more humane action.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Nothing Changes Until You Do
How can changing your relationship with yourself change everyday life? Mike Robbins explores self-worth, compassion, vulnerability, and personal responsibility through experiences of work, family, loss, and financial stress. His practical reflections show how to ask for support, face difficult conversations, and pursue change without making achievement the measure of your value.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Why do people and organizations spend so much effort repairing weaknesses instead of developing distinctive talents? Now, Discover Your Strengths explains how talents combine with knowledge and skills to form strengths, how StrengthsFinder surfaces recurring themes, and how those themes can inform self-understanding, careers, management, and organizational design.
18 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Nudge
Nudge examines how defaults, framing, feedback, incentives, and social context shape decisions made by fallible people. It asks how governments and private institutions can improve saving, health, education, markets, and public life while preserving freedom of choice—and offers practical criteria for responsible influence.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Originals
Originals asks how people can challenge defaults, develop ideas that are both novel and useful, and persuade others to adopt them. It connects creativity with risk management, timing, coalition-building, family influence, organizational dissent, and emotional regulation, offering a practical framework for turning unconventional thinking into durable change.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Othello
William Shakespeare’s Othello asks how a respected commander comes to mistake staged appearances for proof of his wife’s betrayal. This summary follows Iago’s revenge from Venice to Cyprus, tracing how trust, racial insecurity, reputation, gendered expectations, and a misused handkerchief feed jealousy—and how testimony exposes the fraud only after Othello has killed Desdemona.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Other Minds
Other Minds asks how subjective experience emerged from living matter and what cephalopods reveal about minds built along a separate evolutionary path. It traces sensing, nervous systems, embodiment, consciousness, communication, language, aging, and social ecology, offering a comparative way to understand intelligence without assuming one human-like design.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Outliers
Outliers asks why exceptional success is rarely self-made. Moving from Roseto and hockey birth dates to musicians, lawyers, pilots, mathematicians, KIPP students, and a Jamaican family history, it traces how practice, timing, culture, institutions, and inherited opportunity shape achievement—and why redesigning those conditions can widen who gets to flourish.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars asks how humans can remain alive, capable, and psychologically intact beyond Earth. Mary Roach follows astronaut selection, confinement, weightlessness, motion sickness, impact survival, chronic bodily changes, reproduction, escape, toilets, and food to show that spaceflight is the redesign of ordinary needs under extreme constraints.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Peak
Peak asks how people develop abilities that seem like natural gifts. Anders Ericsson argues that focused, feedback-rich practice can expand performance by changing capacity and building domain-specific mental representations. The book applies this account to work, learning, and personal goals, while examining how age, biology, coaching, motivation, and social expectations shape results.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Pensées
How can people hunger for truth and happiness yet remain restless, divided, and unable to secure either? Pascal’s unfinished Pensées examines the limits of reason, the distortions of self-love and society, and the Christian answer in Christ, grace, Scripture, and the Church—clarifying how doubt, faith, and moral transformation fit together.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Plays Well with Others
Why are relationships central to well-being yet difficult to understand? Barker examines how bias distorts judgment, how people build friendships and sustain romantic love, and why loneliness persists despite social contact. Research and vivid cases offer ways to judge carefully, invest in close ties, and recover a sense of belonging.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Poor Charlie’s Almanack distills Charles T. Munger’s thinking on rationality, investing, psychology, incentives, ethics, and lifelong learning. It asks how people can make sound decisions in complex human systems, then offers practical value through mental models, checklists, inversion, disciplined avoidance, and patient action when favorable opportunities appear.
24 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Positioning explains how brands and organizations compete for limited space in the prospect’s mind. It asks how a product can become first, distinctive, or memorable amid communication overload, then examines names, competition, line extensions, services, institutions, countries, and careers. Its practical value is a disciplined way to choose and sustain an ownable position.
18 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Pre-Suasion
Pre-Suasion examines how attention, timing, associations, identity, and shared action shape receptivity before a message arrives. It asks why the same request can succeed or fail depending on what comes first, and maps ways to design, resist, and ethically sustain influence.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational examines why people repeatedly misjudge value, choice, effort, risk, experience, and honesty. It asks how comparisons, prices, emotions, expectations, ownership, and social signals redirect behavior, then considers how awareness, precommitment, technology, and choice architecture can bring decisions closer to our goals.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Principles
Principles asks how people can turn ambition, failure, disagreement, and uncertainty into reusable rules for living and working. It follows the movement from personal learning to better decisions and idea-meritocratic organizations, offering a framework for truth-seeking, accountability, adaptation, and self-authored judgment.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Psychological Types
Why do people take different paths through thought, feeling, sensation, and intuition, and what happens when one path becomes a rule for everyone? Jung develops a theory of psychological orientation through history, literature, religion, art, psychiatry, and philosophy, then asks how unconscious compensation and symbolic imagination can mediate one-sidedness and help us understand disagreement.
18 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Quiet
Quiet examines how the modern Extrovert Ideal shapes work, leadership, education, relationships, and faith. It asks what introversion actually is, whether temperament limits us, and how quiet strengths can be protected and used. The value is a more flexible account of personality, collaboration, courage, and human potential.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance asks how meeting present experience without self-condemnation can loosen unworthiness, fear, and reactivity. This summary follows the practice from mindful pauses and body awareness through desire, compassion, forgiveness, and relationships, showing ways to apply it while retaining responsibility, boundaries, and support.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Raising Good Humans
How can parents respond with care when stress pushes them toward anger? Hunter Clarke-Fields connects mindfulness and emotional awareness with practical communication skills. Learn how to recognize triggers, listen to children, express needs, resolve conflicts, and build household habits that support cooperation while preserving boundaries.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Raising Securely Attached Kids
Eli Harwood presents secure attachment as a reliable source of comfort and a base from which children can explore. The book asks how parents can build that bond in daily life, offering ways to respond to feelings, set limits, repair conflict, discuss difficult topics, and support independence while examining how caregivers’ own histories shape their reactions.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Range
Range asks whether excellence is best built through an early, narrow head start or through broad exploration followed by focused practice. Drawing on sport, learning, careers, forecasting, science, and innovation, it shows when specialization helps, when it creates blind spots, and how adaptable thinking transfers across unfamiliar problems.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Read People Like a Book
Read People Like a Book asks how behavior can reveal another person’s motives and feelings, while stressing that interpretations remain provisional and depend on context. It brings together motivational models, facial and bodily cues, personality frameworks, conversational lie-detection methods, and everyday observation and questions to help readers form and revise more careful judgments.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Reclaim Your Brain
Reclaim Your Brain asks how an overactive or poorly regulated brain can shape attention, mood, habits, and relationships, and what people can do to regain steadier control. Annibali connects brain function with thought patterns, mindfulness, relationship dynamics, and treatment, while urging readers to consider individual differences and possible medical contributors when problems persist.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Remember
Why do some experiences stay with us while names, intentions, and everyday details disappear? Lisa Genova explains how memory forms, changes, and fails, offering practical ways to learn and remember while distinguishing ordinary forgetting from Alzheimer’s and questioning the ideal of perfect recall.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Rewire
Rewire explores how experience and repeated thoughts shape habits, emotional responses, and personal narratives, then asks how those patterns can change through neuroplasticity and deliberate practice. It connects stress, emotion, and grief with practical approaches to attention, cues, repetition, movement, sleep, and keeping commitments.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Right Kind of Wrong
Right Kind of Wrong asks how people can learn from setbacks without excusing preventable harm. Amy Edmondson distinguishes intelligent, basic, and complex failures, then examines how experimentation, error reporting, self-reflection, situation awareness, and systems thinking help people decide what to prevent, learn from, or redesign.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Rising Strong
Rising Strong asks what happens when vulnerability, courage, and wholehearted engagement lead to hurt. It offers a three-part practice—reckoning with emotion, testing the stories we make up, and integrating the learning into action—and applies it to relationships, work, family, and community.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Sales EQ
How can salespeople help buyers make decisions when facts, features, and price are not enough? Sales EQ connects emotional self-control with buyer psychology, disciplined qualification, and stakeholder understanding. Its practical methods show how to listen, personalize recommendations, earn commitments, and address objections while building trust.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Same as Ever
Same as Ever asks what remains reliable when technology, markets, and politics change. Morgan Housel argues that recurring human motives, uncertainty, incentives, expectations, and compounding matter more than precise forecasts. This audio-first summary turns those ideas into practical ways to prepare, endure, adapt, and think clearly.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
Why do people seek experiences that make them afraid? Margee Kerr explores how bodily threat, memory, culture, mortality, and company shape fear, from roller coasters and haunted attractions to confinement and real danger. The book helps readers understand the value and limits of chosen fear, and how consent, context, and support shape a challenge.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Seculosity
Seculosity asks why secular pursuits can take on the demands of religion. David Zahl traces how busyness, romance, parenting, technology, work, leisure, food, and politics promise worth or rescue yet intensify anxiety when made ultimate. The book considers Christian grace as a way to receive enoughness without earning it.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Simple Habits for Complex Times
When familiar solutions stop working, how can leaders move forward without pretending to know what comes next? Jennifer Garvey Berger explores how to read complex systems, ask better questions, exchange feedback, set direction with honest uncertainty, and build organizations where people learn through bounded experiments and grow their capacity to adapt.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Smarter Faster Better
Smarter Faster Better asks how people and organizations can achieve meaningful results without equating productivity with busyness or sacrifice. Through cases in motivation, teamwork, focus, goals, management, decisions, innovation, and data use, it shows how choice, mental models, trust, uncertainty, creative recombination, and active learning shape better work and life.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Start with Why
Start with Why asks why some leaders, companies, and movements inspire voluntary loyalty while others depend on short-term manipulation. It introduces the Golden Circle—WHY, HOW, and WHAT—and shows how purpose becomes a practical filter for trust, culture, innovation, communication, succession, and lasting success.
16 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday examines stillness as a trainable condition of clear attention, moral steadiness, and embodied balance. How can a person remain calm and effective amid noise, pressure, desire, and uncertainty? The answer connects mental discipline, spiritual practice, relationships, routines, rest, courageous action, and mortality.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Stop Overthinking
Why does thinking through a problem sometimes become a source of distress? Nick Trenton explores how anxiety, interpretation, and habits sustain overthinking. This summary explains practical ways to identify stressors, organize demands, calm the body, test anxious beliefs, and choose actions without letting every thought or feeling dictate behavior.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella follows Gabriel Utterson as he investigates the disturbing connection between respected Dr. Jekyll and violent Mr. Hyde. Through witness accounts, documents, and Jekyll’s confession, it examines divided desire, secrecy, habit, and responsibility. The summary traces how shifting evidence turns the mystery into a study of self-command and self-knowledge.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Strangers in Their Own Land
Why do people living with poverty, pollution, and dependence on government sometimes oppose regulation and public programs? Through Louisiana interviews, industrial disasters, and national evidence, Hochschild traces the emotions, histories, faith, and status fears behind this political paradox, then asks how empathy and issue-specific cooperation might reopen democratic conversation.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Stumbling on Happiness
Why do people so often choose futures that fail to make them happy? This book examines how imagination, present emotion, comparison, memory, adaptation, and social beliefs distort forecasts, then considers why another person’s current experience can sometimes predict our own better than private speculation. It clarifies the limits of foresight when choices matter.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Super Attractor
Gabrielle Bernstein explores how spiritual trust, emotional habits, and purposeful action shape the pursuit of desires. How can people seek change without becoming consumed by control? Her framework offers practices for reframing fear, loosening comparison, receiving guidance, and cultivating appreciation while remaining engaged in everyday life.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Supercommunicators
Supercommunicators asks why some conversations create trust and understanding while others produce advice, defensiveness, or division. It presents communication as a learnable practice of matching practical, emotional, and social needs, then applies questions, listening, vulnerability, negotiation, conflict skills, and identity awareness to everyday and high-stakes dialogue.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Surrounded by Idiots
Surrounded by Idiots asks why differences in pace, sociability, caution, and directness are so easily mistaken for incompetence. It presents a four-color DISC framework for recognizing behavioral patterns, adapting communication, and understanding how strengths become liabilities—while preserving room for context, mixed profiles, and the model’s limits.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Switch
Switch explains why people and organizations struggle to change and asks how direction, emotion, and environment can work together. Its Rider–Elephant–Path framework turns that question into practical choices: find what works, make progress visible, redesign routines, and sustain new behavior through identity and social support.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Talking to Strangers
Talking to Strangers examines why people and institutions misread unfamiliar others. Through deception, diplomacy, sexual consent, interrogation, suicide, crime, and Sandra Bland’s traffic stop, it asks how truth-default, assumptions about visible emotion, and neglected context distort judgment—and how humility, restraint, and safeguards can reduce the damage.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Teams That Work
Teams That Work explains how capability, cooperation, coordination, communication, shared cognition, conditions, and coaching combine to shape team effectiveness. It asks how a team can sustain performance through changing demands and offers research-grounded ways to diagnose problems, strengthen collaboration, and adapt practices to the team’s actual work.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
That Little Voice in Your Head
How can we work with the inner voice that shapes our experience? Mo Gawdat uses an engineering framework to examine habitual thoughts, emotional reactions, and attention. His practical approach combines questioning beliefs, feeling emotions, solving problems, cultivating presence and flow, and giving to others.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
Timothy R. Clark’s framework asks how people move from belonging, to learning, to contributing, to challenging established practice. This summary explains the permissions and responsibilities behind each stage, shows how responses to mistakes and dissent shape participation, and offers ways to build candor while preserving accountability.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The 48 Laws of Power
The book treats power as a social game beneath civilized appearances. This summary asks how influence is gained, protected, and read through hierarchy, reputation, concealment, dependence, emotional leverage, timing, and adaptation—and gives listeners a compact framework for recognizing the recurring mechanisms and tensions behind human relationships.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The 5 Resets
How can stress become manageable without making self-care another demand? Aditi Nerurkar’s five resets connect stress biology with practical changes in attention, sleep, movement, relationships, and daily routines. Meaningful goals and gradual practice offer a way to build resilience while acknowledging difficult circumstances and the limits of self-help.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The 5 Second Rule
The 5 Second Rule asks how to act before hesitation becomes excuses, fear, or avoidance. Mel Robbins presents a backward five-count followed by movement as a repeatable cue for changing habits, managing worry, practicing everyday courage, and pursuing more honest, purposeful action.
4 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The 6 Types of Working Genius
The book asks why capable people can feel drained by ordinary work and how teams can arrange responsibilities so different strengths carry ideas through completion. It explains six kinds of work, distinguishes energizing strengths from manageable or draining tasks, and shows ways to reshape projects, roles, hiring, meetings, and relationships.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The ADHD Advantage
The ADHD Advantage asks when traits often treated as impairments—such as restlessness, novelty seeking, and intense focus—can support a person’s life, and what conditions help. Dale Archer combines personal accounts with ways to adapt learning, work, exercise, treatment, and relationships while recognizing genuine difficulties.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Anatomy of Anxiety
Ellen Vora asks when anxiety is a bodily stress response and when it signals a deeper problem. She traces how sleep, technology, food, inflammation, hormones, medication, work, and relationships shape distress, then considers practical ways to regulate the body, listen inward, reconnect, and face uncertainty.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Anxious Generation
Why did adolescent anxiety, depression, self-harm, and disconnection rise as childhood moved from free play toward smartphones? Jonathan Haidt examines the developmental tradeoffs behind that shift, distinguishes girls’ and boys’ pathways, and proposes coordinated ways for families, schools, governments, and technology companies to restore play, independence, community, and healthier digital boundaries.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Argument Hangover
Why can a disagreement end while the hurt continues? Jocelyn and Aaron Freeman examine the emotional aftermath of couple conflict and offer ways to recognize triggers, prepare for difficult conversations, listen with greater clarity, and repair connection while respecting differences.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Art of Clear Thinking
Hasard Lee examines how to make decisions when information is incomplete and pressure is high. He develops a cycle of assessing, choosing, acting, and adapting, then shows how nonlinear effects, practice, forecasting, creativity, stress management, and prioritization shape judgment. The examples connect fighter-pilot experience to choices in other fields.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Art of Conscious Conversations
The Art of Conscious Conversations asks how people can speak, listen, and make agreements without being ruled by untested stories. Chuck Wisner maps four modes—storytelling, collaborative, creative, and commitment conversations—and offers practices for separating facts from interpretations, listening with curiosity, exploring possibilities, clarifying promises, and repairing trust.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Art of Letting Go
The book asks how to release unhelpful thoughts, expectations, and resentment while still acting where action is possible. It offers practices for sorting controllable choices from uncertain outcomes, changing self-talk, navigating change, setting boundaries, and using forgiveness and perspective-taking to support healing without excusing harm or requiring reconciliation.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Art of Rest
Claudia Hammond asks what makes rest restorative, why it matters, and how people can find forms that fit their needs. Drawing on the Rest Test and research, she examines mindfulness, television, daydreaming, bathing, walking, pauses, music, solitude, nature, and reading, weighing how each may help and where its effects vary.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why has violence fallen across homicide, war, genocide, terrorism, and everyday life? Pinker combines historical records, quantitative comparisons, moral psychology, and institutional analysis to explain the decline, its reversals, and the fragile forces—law, commerce, empathy, reason, and expanding rights—that make peace possible.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Biology of Trauma
The Biology of Trauma asks how overwhelming experiences become lasting bodily patterns, and what helps the body recover. Aimie Apigian connects protective responses with nervous-system states, cellular and organ-system changes, attachment, and chronic symptoms, then offers a paced path through safety, support, and expansion.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate asks whether human beings are formed entirely by culture or possess an evolved, flexible mental nature. Pinker connects genes, brains, learning, and culture, then tests what that view means for equality, morality, politics, violence, family life, and art—offering a way to defend humane values without denying human limits.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score examines how overwhelming experience can remain active in the brain, body, memory, relationships, and development long after danger ends. It asks what trauma does to a person—and what helps restore safety, agency, connection, and a livable present through language, embodied practice, therapy, and community.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
Philippa Perry’s relational guide to parenting asks how our own childhoods shape the way we respond to children, and how attention, emotional honesty, repair, boundaries, play, and respect can build security from pregnancy through adulthood. Its value lies in replacing perfectionism with practical ways to understand and reconnect.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Brain That Changes Itself
The Brain That Changes Itself asks whether the adult brain is fixed or continually remade by experience. Through cases of sensory substitution, learning, addiction, injury, pain, therapy, aging, and culture, it shows how practice can restore or redirect function—and how the same plasticity can entrench harmful habits and uneven trade-offs.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Cactus and Snowflake at Work
The Cactus and Snowflake framework asks how different preferences shape judgment, communication, and collaboration at work and at home. Devora Zack presents a continuum rather than fixed types, then offers practical ways to question assumptions, adapt language and behavior, respond under stress, give feedback, and coordinate across different needs.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Charisma Myth
Can charisma be learned without changing your personality? Olivia Fox Cabane explains it through presence, power, and warmth. This summary explores methods for managing discomfort, developing attentive communication, and adapting influence to conversations, presentations, and conflict, while examining the responsibilities that come with being persuasive.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind asks how well-intentioned protection can weaken resilience, distort judgment, and narrow inquiry. It traces the authors’ three Great Untruths from childhood and mental health through campus conflict, then considers practical ways to restore freer play, viewpoint diversity, and productive disagreement.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
Vishen Lakhiani’s framework asks how much of an ordinary life is inherited from culture—and how deliberately it can be redesigned. It moves from questioning social rules and rewriting beliefs and habits to cultivating present happiness, choosing meaningful goals, becoming resilient to judgment, and directing growth toward a personal quest.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Comfort Zone
Kristen Butler reframes the comfort zone as an individual base of safety and self-trust that can support purposeful growth. How can comfort make change sustainable? The book offers a staged process and exercises for clarifying needs, shaping a desired identity, and expanding through manageable steps.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Confidence Code
The Confidence Code asks why capable women still hesitate, underrate themselves, or opt out—and whether confidence is inherited, socially shaped, or learnable. It connects biology, gender expectations, perfectionism, action, failure, and mentorship into a practical account of building self-belief without confusing bravado with strength.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Confidence Game
The Confidence Game examines how con artists turn ordinary needs for trust, meaning, and hope into staged deception. It traces how a target is selected, emotionally engaged, persuaded, and kept committed, then considers why victims may stay silent. Psychological research and detailed cases explain these mechanisms and the limits of practical defenses.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Confidence Gap
Russ Harris reframes confidence as the capacity to act on what matters while fear and self-doubt are present. The book shows how to unhook from discouraging thoughts, make room for difficult feelings, clarify values, build relevant skills, and learn from setbacks—so action and self-trust need not wait for certainty.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Connected Child
The Connected Child explores how early neglect, trauma, and developmental challenges can shape behavior and relationships. It asks how caregivers can build safety and attachment while guiding difficult behavior toward learning. Its practical tools include observation, routines, communication, discipline, play, sensory support, and caregiver reflection.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Courage to Be Disliked
An audio-first guide to Adlerian psychology’s answer to a central question: how can people become free and happy without controlling others or living for approval? It follows the move from past-determined stories to chosen action, respectful education, community, friendship, work, and deliberate love.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle asks how groups turn individual talent into collective performance. The book traces three linked practices—building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose—and shows how leaders can use repeated cues, candid feedback, shared routines, and clear behavioral rules to support dependable execution and creative work.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Danish Way of Parenting
How can everyday parenting help children grow more resilient, empathetic, and self-reliant? The book introduces PARENT—play, authenticity, reframing, empathy, no ultimatums, and togetherness—and traces how these practices shape children's learning, relationships, and family life.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Data Detective
Tim Harford’s The Data Detective asks how to judge numerical claims without falling into gullibility or blanket distrust. Through cases in medicine, polling, research, algorithms, public statistics, and charts, it shows how measurement choices, missing evidence, incentives, and prior beliefs shape what data seem to say—and offers practical habits for checking a claim.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Defining Decade
The Defining Decade asks why the twenties matter when adulthood is delayed and uncertain. It connects work, relationships, brain development, personality, fertility, and time perception, showing how informed commitments and concrete action build options while drift can quietly narrow them.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett's book asks how people can build greatness that survives changing strategies. It connects self-mastery, learning, belief change, habits, health, attention, experimentation, time, delegation, culture, and leadership into a practical account of how durable progress is created—and how to keep correcting course.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Drunkard's Walk
Why do streaks, success, and apparent patterns feel earned or inevitable when chance may be doing much of the work? The book uses probability and statistics to separate skill, evidence, and cause from random variation—and to support more careful decisions, persistence, and adaptation under uncertainty.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Extended Mind
Annie Murphy Paul asks why thinking should be treated as brainbound when bodily signals, movement, natural and built spaces, external representations, and other people can participate in cognition. The book offers a practical framework for improving judgment, attention, learning, creativity, expertise, and collective problem-solving by designing these extensions deliberately.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Female Brain
How does changing biology shape women’s experiences across life? Louann Brizendine connects hormones and brain development with emotion, relationships, sexuality, caregiving, and aging. This summary explores her explanations, their qualifications, and their implications for communication, support, and informed choices.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Fifth Agreement
The Fifth Agreement asks how people can tell truth from interpretations built through words, beliefs, and other people’s opinions. It presents five practices for changing self-talk, releasing personal offense, questioning assumptions, adapting effort to one’s capacity, and listening skeptically. Ruiz then traces how these practices can support self-acceptance, respect, and deliberate change.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Fifth Discipline
Peter Senge’s argument asks how organizations can create desired futures instead of reacting to events and repeating inherited failures. It connects systems thinking with personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning, then extends those ideas to leadership, organizational change, sustainability, and collective responsibility.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Four Agreements
The book presents human suffering as the result of inherited agreements—fearful beliefs, judgments, and assumptions—that shape a personal dream. It asks how language and daily behavior can loosen that conditioning, and offers four practices for reclaiming self-trust, clearer relationships, emotional freedom, and a more loving way to inhabit life.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Gap and the Gain
The Gap and the Gain asks why achievement often fails to produce lasting happiness. It contrasts measuring yourself against moving ideals and future outcomes with measuring backward from your own progress, then shows how wanting, daily wins, gratitude, and transformed setbacks can support agency and continued growth.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Gift of Fear
The Gift of Fear asks how people can recognize danger before violence erupts, and why they sometimes dismiss early unease. It presents intuition as fast, context-sensitive judgment, then develops ways to assess threats, pursuit, and violence at work, at home, among young people, and around public figures—while distinguishing useful fear from worry.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown examines how to live wholeheartedly when shame, perfectionism, comparison, and fear encourage hiding, overwork, and disconnection. The book asks whether worthiness can be claimed before achievement, then maps practices of vulnerability, compassion, gratitude, creativity, rest, meaningful work, and joyful expression that make authentic connection more possible.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Good Enough Job
The Good Enough Job asks how work can matter without becoming a person’s whole identity. Simone Stolzoff examines how calling, achievement, workplace belonging, long hours, and status shape that relationship, then considers personal, workplace, and policy choices that make room for a life beyond work.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Greatness Mindset
The Greatness Mindset asks how people can turn ambition into meaningful contribution when fear, old pain, and self-doubt get in the way. Lewis Howes connects a personally chosen mission with healing, identity, and action, then offers practices for clarifying goals, building support, and valuing progress without making achievement the measure of worth.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Hacking of the American Mind
Robert Lustig examines how modern life confuses short-lived pleasure with durable happiness. He follows that confusion through dopamine, serotonin, stress, food, technology, markets, and policy, then asks how connection, contribution, coping, and cooking might restore contentment and agency.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Happiness Hypothesis
The Happiness Hypothesis asks how ancient wisdom and modern psychology can explain a good life. It follows the divided mind from emotion and reason through self-control, relationships, adversity, virtue, sacred experience, work, and meaning, then weighs how inner cultivation and external conditions combine to shape flourishing.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Happiness Project
How can a person become happier without abandoning an ordinary life? Gretchen Rubin records a year of experiments that turn self-observation into concrete resolutions involving energy, relationships, work, family, play, money, attention, and contentment. The value is a flexible method: choose practices that fit your nature, track them, and resume after failure.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz’s account of building Netscape, Loudcloud, and Opsware asks what leaders should do when no option is good: how can they face fear, preserve trust, build capable organizations, decide under uncertainty, and recognize when persistence should yield to a sale? Its value lies in turning hard-won experience into usable questions, not formulas.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell compares myths from many cultures to ask whether heroic stories share a recurring pattern of departure, transformation, and return. He reads that pattern as a symbolic map of psychological change, spiritual insight, social renewal, and the modern search for a living mythology.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The High 5 Habit
The High 5 Habit asks how a tiny mirror ritual might shift self-validation, attention, and action when self-criticism, fear, jealousy, guilt, or setbacks take over. This summary traces Robbins's argument from the practice's proposed mechanism to its limits, applications, and a repeatable morning routine.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Highly Sensitive Person
How can highly sensitive people participate fully in life without becoming overwhelmed? Elaine Aron connects sensitivity, overstimulation, and self-understanding, offering ways to reinterpret childhood experiences, regulate daily demands, navigate work and relationships, and approach healing and meaning while respecting individual differences.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The How of Happiness
The How of Happiness asks what part of well-being lies within deliberate control. It connects research on genes, circumstances, adaptation, relationships, attention, goals, body and spiritual practices, and habit formation into an individualized program, while explaining why resilience is not denial and self-help is not a substitute for depression treatment.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Ideal Team Player
The Ideal Team Player asks what makes someone reliable in a team and how an organization can find and develop that capacity. It defines humility, hunger, and people smarts, then shows how to hire, assess, coach, and reinforce those qualities as everyday team practices.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Inner Game of Tennis
Why do technically trained players tighten up, overthink, and lose access to their best strokes? The book’s answer is an inner game of attention: quiet evaluative judgment, trust bodily learning, and stay with present facts. Its framework connects tennis practice with habit change, concentration, motivation, competition, and self-knowledge.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Inner Work
The Inner Work explores how inherited beliefs, emotional habits, and attachment shape the search for happiness. How can people respond differently when life unsettles them? Its spiritual framework connects self-observation and practical reflection with a progression toward acceptance, unconditional love, and freedom within everyday life.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Intelligent Investor
How can an ordinary person invest without mistaking market excitement for knowledge? Graham’s framework separates investing from speculation, relates price to business value, and builds decisions around diversification, margin of safety, costs, and behavior. The summary follows those principles through portfolio policy, security analysis, and corporate case histories.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud asks what dreams mean and whether their baffling images are random. He treats them as disguised wish-fulfilments, tracing recent impressions, childhood memories, bodily sensations, and wordplay through censorship and dream-work. The result is a method for reading dreams as evidence about unconscious conflict and mental life.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Joy of Movement
Why can movement make life feel more rewarding, connected, and meaningful? Kelly McGonigal explores how sustained effort, shared rhythms, music, physical challenges, and nature influence emotion and belonging. The summary explains these mechanisms and offers ways to find personally meaningful movement, build confidence, and draw on support during hardship.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Joy of Work
The Joy of Work asks how work can remain humane and effective amid pressure, distraction, and demands for creativity. It links personal recovery and focused attention with belonging, purpose, and psychologically safe teams, then develops practical changes to boundaries, breaks, meetings, management, and creative routines.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Languages of Leadership
The Languages of Leadership asks how leaders can shape influence when they cannot control other people. Wendy Born presents six ways of acting—courage, strength, engineering situations, sharing power, building trust, and showing vulnerability—and explains how reflection and situational balance can improve collaboration, accountability, and relationships.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Law of Success
How can ambition become sustained, useful achievement? Napoleon Hill connects definite purpose with disciplined habits, imaginative planning, cooperation, and ethical service. This summary explains his practical exercises and business examples while distinguishing actionable methods from speculative claims about thought, influence, and success.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Laws of Human Nature
Why do people react irrationally, envy one another, follow groups, misuse power, and mistake their own motives? Robert Greene’s study maps recurring forces from narcissism and desire to aggression, purpose, generational influence, and death, offering a framework for reading behavior, cultivating self-command, and acting with greater perspective.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Leader Lab
How can managers turn everyday interactions into better leadership? Tania Luna and LeeAnn Renninger present small, learnable behaviors and practical frameworks for coaching, feedback, productivity, engagement, decisions, and change. Their approach makes the workplace a laboratory for developing both people and managerial judgment through practice and reflection.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias
Pamela Fuller and Mark Murphy, with Anne Chow, examine how unconscious bias shapes judgment, belonging, and workplace opportunity. The book asks how leaders can notice assumptions and respond constructively, offering individual practices and changes to hiring, engagement, and advancement.
14 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Let Them Theory
The Let Them Theory asks how to stop losing energy to other people’s choices, opinions, and emotions. Mel Robbins pairs acceptance with deliberate self-direction, then applies the framework to stress, comparison, friendship, influence, healing, dating, and love so readers can make clearer boundaries and choices.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Love Prescription
How can couples stay connected when daily demands crowd out their relationship? John and Julie Gottman describe how small, repeated acts of attention, curiosity, appreciation, clear asking, and affectionate touch build closeness. Their practical exercises help partners understand each other, communicate needs, and protect time together.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Lucifer Effect
Why do ordinary people sometimes participate in cruelty, and what helps them resist? Zimbardo uses the Stanford Prison Experiment, research on conformity and obedience, and the abuses at Abu Ghraib to examine how personal choices interact with roles, social settings, and institutions. The framework offers tools for understanding responsibility, prevention, and everyday heroism.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Magic of Thinking Big
The Magic of Thinking Big asks how belief can become success rather than wishful thinking. It traces a practical sequence from replacing excuses and fear to enlarging possibilities, managing environments, acting, learning from defeat, setting goals, and leading through perspective, service, and respect. Its value lies in turning ambition into deliberate habits.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Mamba Mentality
The Mamba Mentality examines how Kobe Bryant turns love of basketball into a disciplined, adaptive practice of preparation, technical study, and opponent-specific decision-making. It asks what sustained excellence demands, and traces how competitive standards can become teamwork, resilience, and teaching.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Mental Toughness Handbook
The Mental Toughness Handbook asks how people can stay constructive and goal-directed when fear, frustration, setbacks, or temptation make action difficult. Zahariades presents toughness as a learnable practice of emotional regulation, recovery, habits, and disciplined follow-through, with exercises for applying and maintaining it across daily life.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Mind of the Leader
The Mind of the Leader asks how leaders can meet people’s needs for meaning, connection, and contribution while sustaining performance. It presents mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion as trainable practices, tracing their effects from self-management through relationships and trust to organizational culture.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Mindful Body
Ellen J. Langer asks how attention, expectation, and context shape bodily experience and health. The book connects this question to rules, risk, decisions, symptom variability, and clinical care, offering ways to notice change and reframe assumptions while stressing that many proposed health effects remain uncertain.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Mindful Way Through Depression
Why can trying to think your way out of low mood deepen it? This summary explains how rumination, bodily tension, and withdrawal reinforce depression, and how mindfulness changes those patterns. It follows practical exercises in attention, emotional awareness, and deliberate action, preserving the book’s cautions about clinical depression and individual differences.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Molecule of More
The book asks why humans keep pursuing what is absent, novel, or not yet possessed—even after getting what they wanted. It presents dopamine as a future-oriented engine of desire, control, creativity, and progress, then examines how attention, relationships, and embodied presence can restore satisfaction and balance.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Mountain Is You
Why do people repeat patterns they consciously want to change? The book frames self-sabotage as protection for hidden needs, familiar identities, and unprocessed emotion, then connects emotional awareness, restored safety, self-concept, and repeated practice to building a more deliberate life.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Myth of Normal
The Myth of Normal asks how a culture can make illness, disconnection, and self-suppression appear ordinary. Gabor Maté links trauma, development, relationships, social power, and bodymind health, then explores authenticity, agency, compassion, and collective reform as paths toward healing.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Neuroscience of You
The Neuroscience of You asks why people can experience the same world differently. It traces how brain structure, chemistry, timing, learning, attention, memory, curiosity, and social modeling interact with experience. Its value is a non-ranking framework for understanding tradeoffs, behavior, and connection.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The New Trading for a Living
The book asks how traders can read uncertain markets without being ruled by emotion or undone by risk. Elder connects crowd psychology and chart analysis with indicators, multi-timeframe systems, instrument choice, position sizing, stops, and review practices, offering a framework for making, managing, and learning from trades.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Next Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley uses millionaire surveys and household stories to ask why some people turn earnings into lasting wealth while others with high incomes do not. The book examines family habits, spending, careers, business ownership, and investing, offering practical ways to pursue financial independence while clarifying the limits of its evidence.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday’s practical synthesis of Stoic ideas asks how an obstacle can become a route forward rather than a dead end. It explains how clear perception, deliberate action, and resilient acceptance help people find leverage, learn from setbacks, and keep serving a larger purpose under pressure.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The One Thing
The One Thing asks how extraordinary results are built when time, attention, and energy are limited. It proposes identifying the highest-leverage priority, asking a focusing question, and protecting the next action. The method connects purpose, priority, productivity, and counterbalancing to practical action at work and in life.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz examines why the expansion of choice—from shopping and education to medicine and relationships—can increase autonomy yet also create overload, regret, comparison, and dissatisfaction. The book asks when more freedom stops helping and shows how satisficing, commitments, limits, and selective delegation can protect attention and well-being.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Parenting Map
How can parents guide children without making them extensions of their own fears and expectations? Dr. Shefali’s conscious parenting framework connects parental self-awareness with practical ways to understand behavior, respond to emotions, negotiate boundaries, and support children’s growing autonomy.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Why can the urge to excel energize one person yet turn into control and self-punishment? Katherine Morgan Schafler maps five fluid perfectionist styles and shows how their strengths can be reclaimed through self-compassion, restorative habits, and gradual self-trust, helping readers pursue meaningful standards while making room to enjoy life.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The novel asks what happens when Dorian Gray tries to keep his beauty while a portrait bears the signs of age and wrongdoing. Through Lord Henry’s influence, Sibyl Vane’s theatrical love, and Dorian’s escalating concealments, it examines how art, desire, conscience, and self-deception shape a life.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Porn Trap
How can someone tell when pornography has become a harmful pattern, and what can recovery require? The book examines porn as a potentially compelling sexual outlet, traces costs to self-respect and intimacy, and presents approaches to changing habits, preventing relapse, supporting partners, rebuilding trust, and developing more connected sexuality.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Power of Habit
Why do ordinary actions become automatic, and how can they be changed? The book follows cue–routine–reward loops through craving, willpower, workplaces, markets, social movements, and compulsions, offering a framework for recognizing patterns, testing replacements, and understanding how belief, context, and community make change durable.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Power of Now
The book examines how identification with compulsive thought, emotional pain, and psychological time creates suffering, and asks whether present-moment awareness can restore access to peace and Being. It connects this diagnosis to practices of observation, body awareness, relationship, and surrender.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Power of Vulnerability
The book asks how people can live wholeheartedly when a culture of “never enough” makes worth, belonging, and adequacy feel conditional. Brown links vulnerability with shame resilience, empathy, trust, authenticity, creativity, rest, meaningful work, and play, offering a framework for courageous participation without treating wholeheartedness as a finished state.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Procrastination Cure
The Procrastination Cure asks why people postpone tasks they still mean to complete and how to interrupt that habit. It connects immediate-reward seeking with fear, overwhelm, boredom, distraction, and indecision, then offers practical ways to start smaller, structure work, use accountability, and distinguish harmful delay from strategic postponement.
6 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Psychology of Money
Why do people make money choices that seem irrational, and how can they build wealth without risking what matters most? Morgan Housel examines personal history, luck, compounding, saving, time autonomy, uncertainty, changing goals, and economic expectations, then turns those ideas into a framework for durable financial behavior.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson follows a cryptic book into questions about psychopathy, psychiatric diagnosis, and the institutions that label or reward troubling behavior. Through cases of prison treatment, corporate leadership, conspiracy, profiling, and childhood diagnosis, he asks what checklists reveal, what they miss, and how their use can shape a person’s life.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind examines why moral judgments arrive quickly, why cultures and political camps treat different concerns as morally significant, and how humans cooperate through groups, rituals, and religion. Haidt connects intuition, moral foundations, and political identity to a practical question: how can disagreement become more informed, humane, and constructive?
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler examines how action and adventure athletes use flow to learn, improvise, and perform under pressure. The book asks what enables this state, how its triggers can be cultivated in everyday and group settings, and how its benefits coexist with danger and unsettled science.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Road Less Traveled
An audio-first account of how M. Scott Peck links psychological and spiritual growth to disciplined engagement with pain, reality, love, inherited worldviews, and grace. It asks what helps people mature, and how responsibility, separateness, skepticism, and openness to mystery can turn suffering into wiser action.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The School of Life
The School of Life asks how people can learn emotional skills that formal education often leaves to chance. Drawing on psychotherapy, philosophy, art, and relationship advice, it explores self-knowledge, love, and work, offering ways to understand feelings, communicate with care, and find consolation without expecting people or life to become flawless.
15 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Science of Getting Started
Why do we postpone tasks we intend to finish? Patrick King explores the emotional, impulsive, and practical forces behind procrastination. Learn to identify your avoidance patterns, start before motivation arrives, and use clearer priorities, concrete plans, rewards, and energy management to make progress easier.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition
Peter Hollins’s guide asks how to turn a chosen goal into a skill through deliberate work. It explains how to break a skill into high-impact parts, practice with recall and spaced variation, check understanding and mistakes, and arrange social and physical conditions that support continued effort.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Science of Self-Discipline
How can self-discipline become more dependable when motivation fades? Peter Hollins examines the roles of attention, discomfort, temptation, relationships, and habits. Practical methods for clarifying goals, reshaping surroundings, and weighing future consequences show how daily choices can support longer-term aims.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Science of Storytelling
Why do some stories hold our attention and change how we see people? Will Storr connects storytelling to perception, curiosity, identity, and social emotion. His character-centered approach shows how flawed beliefs generate conflict, how language builds imagined worlds, and how writers can turn psychological insight into narrative choices.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Self-Driven Child
Why do capable children lose motivation, struggle under pressure, or resist help—and how can parents support them without taking over? Stixrud and Johnson argue that a child’s sense of control shapes stress, learning, and independence. The book offers practical ways to share decisions, reduce pressure, support motivation and rest, and prepare for school, technology, tests, and adulthood.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene asks how evolution can produce selfishness, altruism, cooperation, and culture when selection favors replicators. Dawkins follows that question from early self-copying molecules through genes, survival machines, kin and sexual conflict, reciprocal cooperation, memes, and effects beyond the body—offering a framework for separating evolutionary explanation from moral instruction.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
What keeps a marriage connected when conflict, unequal needs, and enduring differences cannot be eliminated? This summary presents Gottman’s research-based framework of friendship, positive regard, shared influence, repair, respectful acceptance, and shared meaning, then distills practical ways couples can understand and strengthen their relationship.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Shallows
A source-grounded outline for an audio-first summary of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: how media technologies, especially the Internet, reshape attention, memory, reading, and judgment—and how to preserve depth while gaining digital efficiency.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
How do people become confident in their ability to think, cope, and pursue happiness—and why does that confidence sometimes collapse? This summary presents Branden’s six practices for building self-esteem, then traces their implications for parenting, education, work, therapy, culture, and daily self-direction.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Sociopath Next Door
The Sociopath Next Door asks why people who experience conscience can miss its absence in others. Martha Stout presents conscience as an emotionally rooted bond, traces how manipulation and authority can exploit ordinary trust, and offers practical warning patterns. The book also considers how connection, cooperation, and care give moral life value.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Storytelling Edge
The Storytelling Edge asks why some stories hold attention, build trust, and move people to act—and how organizations can use those effects without reducing storytelling to promotion. It connects narrative craft with practical frameworks for writing, audience development, data-informed content, and the organizational habits needed to sustain them.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Success Myth
Emma Gannon examines why career status, constant output, wealth, fame and conventional milestones can fail to create lasting contentment. The book asks how inherited expectations and unequal starting points shape ambition, then offers ways to define success through wellbeing, time, relationships, boundaries and ordinary pleasures while pursuing goals that feel genuinely one’s own.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
How can injuries and illness change perception, memory, emotion, or identity, and what do those changes reveal about the mind? Through historical cases and neurological investigations, Sam Kean traces how brain systems communicate, adapt, and fail, showing both the explanatory power and the limits of learning from individual patients.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Tell-Tale Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain presents the brain as a plastic, networked interpreter whose unusual failures reveal ordinary perception, body ownership, social understanding, language, art, and selfhood. Its central question is how ape-derived neural systems became capable of human culture and consciousness; its value is a mechanism-based map of both evidence and uncertainty.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Telomere Effect
The Telomere Effect asks how chromosome-end maintenance connects stress, daily habits, relationships, and life conditions to cellular aging and healthspan. It explains telomeres and telomerase, weighs the limits of current evidence, and offers practical approaches spanning emotional resilience, exercise, sleep, food, supportive care, and community environments.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Tipping Point
Why do fashions, diseases, crimes, and habits sometimes surge or collapse after a small change? Malcolm Gladwell’s framework explains social epidemics through influential people, memorable messages, and immediate context, using cases from Hush Puppies to smoking to show how small, targeted changes can redirect collective behavior.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Tools
The Tools presents five repeatable practices for meeting pain, anger, self-consciousness, negative thinking, and resistance. It asks how people can move from insight to action when familiar habits take over. Its step-by-step exercises offer a way to work with recurring problems, while the authors connect personal change to an experiential spiritual and social vision.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Turn of the Screw
A governess’s manuscript reaches readers through Douglas and a later transcriber. At Bly, she cares for two orphaned children and reports seeing their dead former servants; the children and Mrs. Grose do not always confirm her perceptions. What can a caretaker responsibly conclude when her sightings are disputed?
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
Schopenhauer pairs an inquiry into whether human willing is free with a search for the basis of moral worth. He traces action through motives and character, challenges Kantian duty as an explanation of moral conduct, and develops compassion, justice, and loving-kindness as ethical foundations.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art asks why people resist meaningful creative work, how fear disguises itself as procrastination and self-sabotage, and what changes when a person turns professional. It offers a disciplined, spiritually open framework for beginning, sustaining, and giving one’s work to the world.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Watchman's Rattle
Why do societies become stuck when their problems grow more complex than people can manage? Costa traces how cognitive overload can make belief-driven habits block solutions, from opposition and scapegoating to false causal stories, institutional silos, and profit-first thinking. She then explores coordinated action and ways to make room for insight.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Way of Excellence
Brad Stulberg defines excellence as developing competence in a pursuit that matters and asks how to sustain that work without confusing it with perfection, pleasure, or constant optimization. He connects values, practice, attention, recovery, relationships, and joy into methods for choosing aims and continuing through setbacks.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Willpower Instinct
Why do we act against our own goals, and can self-control be trained? The Willpower Instinct maps the competing systems behind restraint, desire, stress, reward, time, and social influence, then turns that map into experiments for noticing impulses, designing better conditions, and choosing actions that serve longer-term aims.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Wisdom of Life
In The Wisdom of Life, Arthur Schopenhauer asks what makes a life happy when fortune and public approval are unstable. He weighs personal constitution, possessions, and social esteem, then examines how health, desire, honor, and fame shape contentment. The essays offer practical counsel, qualified by the author’s darker account of human existence.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Woman in Me
Britney Spears’s memoir traces how a child who found freedom in singing became a pop star and mother before being placed under a conservatorship. It asks what happens when family, media, and institutions claim authority over an artist’s body and voice—and how testimony, creativity, faith, and ordinary choices can rebuild self-determination.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
The Worry-Free Mind
The Worry-Free Mind asks why ordinary uncertainty can become persistent worry and how attention, arousal, beliefs, and emotional habits sustain that cycle. Kershaw and Wade present practices for interrupting rumination, widening perspective, imagining useful futures, reconnecting with needs, and cultivating calm or flow, illustrated through cases and exercises.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Things No One Else Can Teach Us
Humble the Poet examines how lived experience teaches what advice cannot, tracing lessons from impermanence, ambition, heartbreak, and conflict. The book asks how to meet change without being ruled by fear, comparison, or regret. Its stories offer ways to choose meaningful effort, learn from setbacks, and respond to others with greater understanding.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Think Again
Think Again examines how to question beliefs, loosen identity’s grip on being right, and revise decisions as circumstances change. Its central question is how to rethink alone and together—through productive disagreement, listening, education, and learning cultures—and pursue meaning without confusing persistence with wisdom.
7 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich asks how a dominant desire becomes achievement. Hill’s answer combines a definite aim, faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, planning, decision, persistence, cooperative power, emotional discipline, and freedom from fear. The outline preserves that progression while distinguishing practical advice from the book’s metaphysical claims.
19 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Thinking 101
Thinking 101 examines how mental shortcuts shape confidence, belief, causal judgment, decisions, communication, and self-control. It asks when these shortcuts help and when they mislead, then offers ways to test beliefs, weigh examples, plan for obstacles, reframe choices, and understand others—while showing why awareness alone does not guarantee fair or accurate judgment.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Why do quick impressions feel convincing, why do losses loom larger than gains, and why can memory misrepresent experience? Kahneman’s account traces the shortcuts, statistical errors, reference points, frames, and competing selves that shape judgment, then considers how measurement, deliberate checking, and institutional design can improve decisions.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Thinking in Bets
Thinking in Bets asks how to make sound decisions when luck, incomplete information, and bias obscure what is true. Annie Duke uses poker as a model for probabilistic thinking, then develops practices for calibrated beliefs, learning from outcomes, constructive dissent, precommitment, and planning across possible futures.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Tiny Habits
How can lasting behavior change become easier than relying on willpower? Tiny Habits treats change as a design problem: choose a behavior that fits real life, attach it to an existing routine, celebrate success, and iterate. The framework also explains how to loosen unwanted habits and coordinate change with other people.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Together
Why can people feel lonely even when surrounded by others? Vivek Murthy explores the biological, cultural, and everyday roots of disconnection, then shows how self-compassion, dependable friendships, service, and more inclusive schools, workplaces, and communities can strengthen belonging.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Toward a Psychology of Being
What does psychological health involve beyond the absence of illness? Abraham Maslow explores growth, creativity, love, and peak experiences as expressions of human potential. His account offers a framework for understanding the tensions between safety and development, personal fulfillment and responsibility, while questioning how education, work, and science can support fuller human lives.
11 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Ultralearning
Ultralearning asks how people can acquire difficult skills through intense, self-directed projects rather than passive study alone. It examines how to map a goal, focus attention, practice in context, retrieve and retain knowledge, build intuition, use feedback, and experiment—then shows how to evaluate, maintain, or extend what a project teaches.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Unlimited Memory
How can information become easier to recall and use? Kevin Horsley presents memory as a trainable skill, combining focused attention, vivid imagery, familiar locations, and repeated retrieval. This summary explains how those methods apply to names, numbers, studying, and presentations, and why lasting recall requires practice.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Unlimited Power
Unlimited Power asks how personal power becomes usable: can people learn to direct states, beliefs, physiology, strategies, and communication toward chosen results? It traces a practical arc from modeling and precise goals to rapport, values, persuasion, and contribution, emphasizing feedback, flexibility, and responsible action.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Unlocking Creativity
Why do organizations praise creativity yet reject unfamiliar ideas? Michael A. Roberto explains six mindsets that constrain innovation and shows how iterative design, distinctive strategy, supportive team conditions, constructive dissent, and curious leadership can help people explore, test, and improve ideas.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Unlocking Parental Intelligence
Laurie Hollman presents parental intelligence as a way to look beneath a child’s behavior, examine how a parent’s own history shapes interpretation, and use a flexible five-step process to understand development and solve problems. Family stories show how this approach can support communication, autonomy, and repair.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Up the Organization
Up the Organization examines how leaders can replace control, status, and bureaucracy with trust, accountability, direct communication, and shared ownership. Its central question is how organizations can release human capability without losing performance. The practical value is a framework for diagnosing obstacles and redesigning work around people.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin asks how people who think in pictures, patterns, and words differ, and how schools and workplaces can recognize those differences. Through examples from education, engineering, collaboration, safety, and animal behavior, she shows how varied minds can reveal overlooked abilities and help people solve concrete problems.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
We Need to Talk
Celeste Headlee argues that conversation is a learnable survival and social skill, yet modern habits can replace attentive exchange with controlled contact. The book asks what helps people hear one another across differences and offers practical ways to prepare, listen, ask, disagree, speak clearly, and know when to pause.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
What Happened to You?
How do stress and relationships shape our responses to everyday life? This summary explores how adversity affects regulation, why connectedness matters, and how calming the body and establishing connection can make reasoning and learning more accessible. It offers a framework for understanding reactions in the context of experience.
4 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
When They Win, You Win
How can managers improve employee engagement while delivering results? Russ Laraway’s answer centers on Direction, Coaching, and Career. The book explains how to align daily work, give useful feedback, and connect employees’ aspirations to practical development steps.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
How do you rebuild a life when familiar relationships, identities, or plans no longer fit? Brianna Wiest explores healing through emotional understanding, self-trust, and the gradual release of attachments. Her reflections connect these inner changes to practical choices about relationships, meaningful work, and everyday habits.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Who Moved My Cheese?
Who Moved My Cheese? uses a fable about four characters in a maze to ask how people respond when a source of happiness or security changes. It distinguishes noticing signals, managing fear, and moving toward new possibilities from denial and attachment, then applies those lessons to work and personal life.
5 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Julie Smith’s practical guide asks how we can respond to low mood, anxiety, stress, grief, self-doubt, and difficult relationships without demanding constant happiness. It explains how body, thoughts, attention, habits, and context shape experience, then offers compassionate, values-based practices for steadier choices and a meaningful life.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work examines why incentives and pressure can produce short-term compliance while undermining sustainable effort. It introduces six motivational outlooks and the needs for choice, connection, and competence, then explains how leaders can use mindfulness, meaningful goals, feedback, trust, and self-reflection to support higher-quality motivation at work.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Why We Remember
Why We Remember asks how memory guides us despite forgetting and distortion. Charan Ranganath explains how attention, context, schemas, emotion, curiosity, and social storytelling shape what we remember, then shows how retrieval, spacing, and sleep can support learning and help us use memory more deliberately.
12 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Wild
Wild follows Cheryl Strayed’s solo walk from the Mojave Desert toward the Bridge of the Gods after her mother’s death, heroin use, and divorce. It asks how a scattered life can be inhabited again, tracing wilderness, bodily endurance, strangers, memory, and writing as imperfect routes through grief toward renewed belonging.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Wild Problems
How do you choose when a decision may change who you become? In Wild Problems, Russ Roberts examines marriage, careers, relationships, and moral choices to explain the limits of calculation. He explores how flourishing, principles, commitment, and experimentation can guide decisions whose deepest consequences cannot be known in advance.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Will
Will Smith’s memoir asks how a fearful child who learned to survive through performance became a global entertainer—and why achievement failed to settle the fears beneath that identity. It traces family, hip-hop, Hollywood, collapse, fatherhood, therapy, surrender, and love as changing answers to that question.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Willpower Doesn't Work
Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy asks why lasting change is difficult when good intentions meet familiar surroundings. Hardy argues that physical, social, and informational contexts shape behavior and identity, then examines how deliberate redesign, recovery, commitment, and collaboration can make meaningful goals easier to pursue.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Wired for Love
How does love shape the brain, and what happens when connection is strained or lost? Stephanie Cacioppo combines social neuroscience with her experience of marriage and bereavement to explore attraction, shared identity, loneliness, and grief, offering ways to cultivate connection while distinguishing scientific findings from personal experience.
9 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
You Are a Badass
You Are a Badass examines how inherited beliefs, fear, self-judgment, and other people’s expectations can narrow a life, then asks how deliberate choice, self-love, purposeful action, spiritual faith, and surrender might widen it. Its practical value is a framework for turning vague desire into experiments, commitments, and resilient behavior.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
You Can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse
This book asks how someone can recover from a relationship shaped by narcissistic abuse when explanation, empathy, or attempts to change the other person have not brought safety. Melanie Tonia Evans proposes a ten-step, inward-focused process for working with trauma, boundaries, self-acceptance, and recurring triggers, and considers how recovery can affect parenting and family patterns.
10 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
You Coach You
This book asks how people can steer an unpredictable career when expert coaching is not always available. It teaches a repeatable self-coaching practice of reflection, listening, useful questions, and action, then applies it to resilience, time, self-belief, relationships, progression, and purpose while keeping other people’s support in the picture.
8 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
Your Brain on Art
Your Brain on Art asks how artistic and aesthetic experiences shape the brain, body, and everyday life. It connects sensory processing and plasticity with practices in well-being, mental health, physical care, learning, flourishing, and community. Readers gain a framework for understanding varied responses and choosing creative, sensory, and environmental practices for particular needs.
13 chapters in Wiseley’s psychology catalog.
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