States of Consciousness

We have puzzled over dreams for centuries. From ancient societies, believing dreams to be messages from the gods, Freud's theory of dreams revealin...

In which a scientist searches for an empirical explanation for phenomenal experience, spurred by his instinctual belief that life is meaningful.Wha...

A comprehensive, straightforward and accessible guide to over 12,000 dream symbols and their meanings from Ian Wallace - a psychologist with a sci...

Can problems be solved by setting them aside or by sleeping on them? Incubation, the process of stopping conscious work on problems for a set perio...

'My sleep angels!' Izzy Judd'These women are a lifeline to shattered parents everywhere' Rachaele Hambleton, Part Time Working MummyCalm & Brig...

Sleepily Ever After: Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups is a gorgeous little anthology of upbeat, touching, funny and inspiring stories that will help y...

Decode your dreams and heal your life. 'The essential book to fix your life from the inside.' Richard Moriarty, North West D...

A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy “Consciousness is what makes the mind-body pr...

Bad sleep sucks. Sleep deficiency defies our biology and sabotages our days. Yet more than a third of us struggle to get to sleep or stay asleep at...

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spaw...

Cutting-edge sleep advice and a 10-day reset plan from a renowned functional medicine physician and co-founder of the popular sleep co...

‘An original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights’ Mike Jay, auth...

‘Intense, intricate and packed with intrigue...a thrilling and addictive read.’ B.A. ParisIt seems too good to be true…When struggling writer Sebas...

With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new develo...

What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and ...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds‘One of the most important books yet published this century’ Sp...

We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, ex...

'An excellent book' - Ted Honderich, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UCL) Introducing Consciousnes...

‘Passionate and urgent.’ Guardian, Book of the Week ‘A must-read for all.’ Stylist, best new books for 2020 ‘Cogently argued and intensely persuasi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which...

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual...