Robin Skynner was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who flew the Mosquito twin-engined bomber, and was also a psychiatric pioneer and innovator in the field of treating mental illness. Trained in Group An…
Author of Emotional Intelligence and psychologist Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. The Wall Street Journal rank…
Erich Fromm, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Heidelberg, 1922) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German …
Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
Pete Walker is a "general practitioner" who has a private practice in Berkeley, California, in the serene Claremont Hotel neighborhood. He has been working as a counselor, lecturer, writer and group l…
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
Dr. Gordon Neufeld is a Vancouver-based developmental psychologist who consults with parents and professionals regarding children and their problems. He brings to us his unique synthesis of the develo…
She holds a Masters degree in German and Philosophy and attended the Berliner Journalistenschule, a highly selective professional academy for journalists. During this…
Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026) was a Croatian journalist, novelist and essayist whose works on feminism, communism and post-communism have been translated into many languages.
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he w…
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias…
Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is a New York Times bestselling author and licensed clinical psychologist with over thirty years of experience. She holds degrees from Central Michigan University and the …
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder ab…
Irena Svetek (1975) je doktorirala na Oddelku za primerjalno književnost in literarno teorijo na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Za prvi roman Od blizu je leta 2004 prejela nagrado Slovenskega knjiž…
Stefanie Stahl ist es gelungen, sich im Dschungel der psychologischen Ratgeber Literatur einen Namen zu machen. Sie begeistert durch ihren unterhaltsamen und verständlichen Stil und die vielen Aha-Erl…
Dr Gabor Maté (CM) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder…
Ο Κώστας Καρακάσης γεννήθηκε στην Αίγυπτο από Έλληνες γονείς. Η οικογένεια του πατέρα του ήταν από την Κωνσταντινούπολη και της μητέρας του από την Κεφαλλονιά. Μετά τον πόλεμο εγκαταστάθηκε στην Αθήνα…
David Marquet imagines a world where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity, a place where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work–a…
Lorenzo Marone è uno scrittore italiano. Laureato in Giurisprudenza, ha esercitato per quasi dieci anni la professione di avvocato. Ha pubblicato La tentazione di essere felici (Longanesi, 2015), La t…
Η Χάρις Κατάκη γεννήθηκε στην Καβάλα, σπούδασε Ψυχολογία στη Γερμανία και στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, ειδικεύτηκε στην Ψυχοθεραπεία, στο Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο Μελέτης του Ανθρώπου, και πήρε το διδακτορικό της …
Rumena Bužarovska is a fiction writer, literary translator, and social commentator born in 1981 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Her book My Husband has received critical acclaim in Europe…
