Títulos em Psicológico

Internationally best-selling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Baruch Spinoza, the Jewish 17th-century secular philosopher, and of Alfred Rosenberg, outspoken Nazi ideologue, faithful servant of Hitler, the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich, and a godless mass murderer....

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Lya Luft é generosa: em tempos de literatura ensimesmada, a escritora–criadora radical–mais uma vez convida o ouvinte a ter lugar em sua intimidade.

Quando lançado, em 1969, O complexo de Portnoy se tornou best-seller e foi saudado como a consagração definitiva do talento de Philip Roth. A crítica, porém, teve certa dificuldade em classificá-lo. Seria "literatura séria" ou apenas humor? Não era a primeira vez na história do romance que um livro engraçadíssimo parecia uma obra importante; mas havia ao menos dois elementos que causavam estranheza. Em primeiro lugar, o traço caricatural na construção dos personagens lembrava o humor dos grandes comediantes judeus da época, como Lenny Bruce e Woody Allen, que se apresentavam em boates.

Após ganhar um gatinho de presente do pai, Mati—dona de Celina e sua melhor amiga—fica tão fascinada que acaba esquecendo a boneca, que é a sua favorita. Deixada para trás na areia deserta e sem saber como voltar para casa, Celina vai enfrentar uma noite interminável, cheia de sustos e surpresas, além da companhia indesejada de um salva-vidas cruel e seu terrível ancinho. À luz das chamas de uma fogueira, a noite transforma-se numa aventura fantástica e assustadora que só termina ao nascer do sol.

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past whom he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this award-nominated tale about love, life, and baseball. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths.

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Apesar de sua absoluta beleza, O lustre talvez seja, entre as excepcionais obras de Clarice Lispector, a menos comentada.

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.

Amigas de infância, Erika e Clementine não poderiam ser mais diferentes. Erika é obsessiva-compulsiva. Ela e o marido são contadores e não têm filhos. Já a completamente desorganizada Clementine é violoncelista, casada e mãe de duas adoráveis meninas. Certo dia, as duas famílias são inesperadamente convidadas para um churrasco de domingo na casa dos vizinhos de Erika, que são ricos e extravagantes.

Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA, until one reckless night threatens to drive her out of the city. And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her. Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.

With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret.

Em 2000, Vanessa Wye é uma estudante solitária de ensino médio. Talentosa e com o sonho de ser escritora, Vanessa diz não se importar em ficar sozinha, principalmente quando seu professor de inglês, Jacob Strane, um homem de 42 anos, começa a prestar atenção nela, elogiando seu cabelo, suas roupas e lhe emprestando alguns de seus livros favoritos—como Lolita, de Nabokov. Antes que Vanessa perceba, os dois embarcam em uma relação e a jovem acredita que o professor a ama e a considera especial.

Um retrato vertiginoso e emocionante do luto e da depressão. Ao descrever um episódio aterrador que transformará em definitivo a vida das pessoas ao seu redor, o narrador deste livro investiga as ambivalências dos laços afetivos, equilibrados entre a beleza e a fragilidade.

No estilo impetuoso e desbocado de Philip Roth, Pastoral americana narra os esforços de Seymour Levov para manter de pé um paraíso feito de enganos. Filho de imigrantes judeus que deram duro para subir na vida, Seymour tenta em vão comunicar um legado moral à terceira geração da família Levov. Esmagado entre duas épocas que não se entendem e desejam destruir-se mutuamente, Seymour se apega até o fim a crenças que se mostram cada vez mais irreais. A força de sua obstinação em defesa de uma causa perdida lhe confere um caráter ao mesmo tempo de heroísmo e desatino.

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.

Celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon's shocking death in his favorite place on earth, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage, his (messy, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon's three wives, his children, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell.

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband - and of the man obsessed with uncovering her motive.... Famous artist Alicia Berenson shoots her husband in the head five times and then never speaks again. Five years later, forensic psychotherapist Theo Faber must find a way to get Alicia to talk if he wants to treat her. Only then can he unravel the shocking events of that tragic night five years before....