David Bowie guarded his privacy carefully, crafting his public image. Although he spoke in occasional interviews about his fear of madness and of the ‘nuttiness’ of his family, very few people know the truth of that complex backdrop to his creativity. In this new book psychologist Oliver James, bestselling author of They F*** You Up, […]

Using a mixture of famous and ordinary people, Oliver James drills deep down into the childhood causes of our individuality, revealing why our upbringing, not our genes, plays such an important role in our wellbeing and success. The implications are huge: as adults we can change, we can clutch our fates from predetermined destiny, as […]

‘Love Bombing’ is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier trajectory. It is simple to do, easily explained and works for both severe and mild problems from aged three to early teenage. Many, if not most, parents feel that their children […]

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family’s expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first […]