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How to Be Human

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by Ruby Wax


  Louis Cozolino: The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

  Louis Cozolino: The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom

  Matthew Crawford: The World beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction

  Susan David: Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life

  Joe Dispenza: Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

  Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks

  Robin Dunbar: The Human Story

  Mark Epstein: Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective

  Charles Fernyhough: The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves

  Piero Ferrucci: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

  Luc Ferry: A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

  Elaine Fox: Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism

  Barbara L. Fredrickson: Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

  Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar: Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

  Eugene T. Gendlin: Focusing: How to Gain Direct Access to Your Body’s Knowledge

  Sue Gerhardt: Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain

  Paul Gilbert: The Compassionate Mind (Compassion Focused Therapy)

  Paul Gilbert and Choden: Mindful Compassion

  Linda Graham: Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-being

  Rohan Gunatillake: This is Happening: Redesigning Mindfulness for Our Very Modern Lives

  Rick Hanson: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom

  Rick Hanson: Hardwiring Happiness: How to Reshape Your Brain and Your Life

  Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

  Sam Harris: Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality without Religion

  Bruce Hood: The Self Illusion: Why There is No ‘You’ Inside Your Head

  Fred Hoyle: The Intelligent Universe: A New View of Creation and Evolution

  Laura A. Jana: The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today That Will Shape Your Child’s Tomorrow

  Steven Johnson: Mind Wide Open: Why You are What You Think

  Sue Johnson: Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships

  Jon Kabat-Zinn: Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation

  Jack Kornfield: A Path with Heart

  Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon: A General Theory of Love

  Beau Lotto: Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

  Dr Shanida Nataraja: The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof of the Power of Meditation

  Kristin Neff: Self-compassion

  Wes Nisker: You Are Not Your Fault and Other Revelations: The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker

  Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor: On Kindness

  Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh: The Path: A New Way to Think about Everything

  Marshall B. Rosenberg: Living Non-violent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation

  Tamara Russell: Mindfulness in Motion: Healthier Life through Body-centred Meditation

  Sharon Salzberg: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

  Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell: Parenting from the Inside Out

  Daniel J. Siegel and Dr Tina Payne Bryson: The Whole-brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

  Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz (eds.): Compassion: Bridging Practice and Science

  Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky: How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

  Shawn T. Smith: The User’s Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It

  L. S. Vygotsky: Thought and Language

  Peter C. Whybrow: American Mania: When More is Not Enough

  Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

  D. W. Winnicott: The Child, the Family and the Outside World

  Anthony Wolf: I’d Listen to My Parents if They’d Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say When Parenting Teens

  Lewis Wolpert: Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression

  And a special mention to Andrew Dellis, postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town.

  And to all the many many other experts I milked for information for this book who shall remain nameless, mainly because I forgot their names, but thank you anyway.

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  First published 2018

  Copyright © Ruby Wax, 2018

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  Cover artwork by Russell Cobb

  ISBN: 978-0-241-29474-1

 

 

 


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