Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia A. DeYoung's cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it deserves, integrating new brain science with an inclusive tradition of relational psychotherapy. She looks behind the myriad symptoms of shame to its relational essence. As DeYoung describes how chronic shame is wired into the brain and developed in...

A southern woman is tormented by murders she herself might be committing in this psychological thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

In the dark shadows of a sultry southern town, a serial killer strikes. It's an act of sinister precision that has happened many times before—because every victim is an offering to a hunger that can never be sated. When Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes up covered in blood,...

A novel on the homeless in Chicago so desperate for a ray of hope they are willing to believe in miracles, this one being the Virgin's apparition. The novel features a gallery of characters, among them a former opera singer who has become an alcoholic.

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist—a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life. She was on...

Lifestyle editor and columnist for Savoy magazine, Tracie Howard is an expert on the New York City social scene, focusing on stories that highlight young upwardly mobile urban socialites surrounded by love, lust, betrayal, and greed. Brooke Parrish has finally met the man of her dreams-irresistibly handsome investment banker Taylor Hudson. But when Brooke learns Taylor is stuck in a loveless marriage to greedy interior designer Kiernan Malloy, their...

This television adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's classic comic play Henry IV aired in 1949, A fall from a horse leaves a modern aristocrat convinced he is actually Henry IV of medieval Germany. The man's family caters to his fantasy for 20 years, until a doctor comes to cure him of it.

The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist

Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own

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Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. Narrated by her unnamed, ungendered therapist, who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods, My Friend Natalia offers a gripping examination of the power dynamics always present but rarely ever spoken about in therapy. "Something flared within me," the therapist notes. "And it wasn't exclusively sympathy.?.?.?.? It was more like a sudden experience of harmony, wholly inappropriate given...