These books are all part of the “Psychology that helps you” series. Some are clinical, some are personal, some are both simultaneously, which is roughly how the mind works in practice. Find the one that fits where you are right now. The full catalogue is available at all major online booksellers.
Non-fiction
Understanding AuDHD (4th edition) Completely rewritten. The science moved, the community moved, and the book moved with them. Fifteen chapters and six appendices built from the ground up on current research, emerging neurodivergent voices, and the things the earlier editions didn’t go far enough on. The core argument is sharper: AuDHD is an emergent neurological profile, not two conditions in a trench coat. The DSM still disagrees. The DSM is welcome to catch up.
Best read if the third edition helped you recognise yourself and you’re ready for the version that fights your corner with better evidence.
The Convenient Monster Most public outrage focuses on villains. Monsters are easy to recognise and satisfying to condemn. Systems are slower, messier, and often implicate the people who benefit from them. So the monster becomes the explanation, and the system continues quietly doing its work.
Best read if you suspect some social problems survive because the story we tell about them is more comforting than the truth.
Harder Than It Should Be Post-2020 life quietly dismantled the invisible support systems most of us were running on: the commute that processed the day, the office that externalised memory, the ambient contact of other bodies. When the scaffolding collapsed, the deficit showed up as a mysterious personal failing. It wasn’t.
Best read if you keep waiting to feel like yourself again and are starting to wonder if that’s still coming.
The Collapse of Knowledge More information than ever, less confidence in what to trust. A book for people who feel intelligent but increasingly unsure, and want a way to think clearly without borrowing certainty from louder voices.
Best read if you’re tired of hot takes and would like a calmer relationship with what counts as true.
It’s the Circumstances Sometimes the problem isn’t resilience, insight, or childhood. It’s the situation you’re trying to survive. A grounded, slightly heretical take on depression that treats context as real and causal, not a footnote.
Best read if you suspect you’re reacting normally to an abnormal set of demands.
Misdiagnosed When psychiatry mistakes neurodivergence for mental illness. Not a putdown of psychiatrists: most are doing their best with what they have. But the diagnostic tools haven’t kept pace with what’s actually known.
Best read if your psychiatrist is frustrated that you’re not responding to treatment the way the DSM expects.
The Augmented Psychologist Technology doesn’t replace the human parts of psychology. It pressurises them. For clinicians and thoughtful clients who want to work with AI without outsourcing judgement, ethics, or responsibility.
Best read if you’re curious about AI, but you’d like to stay human on purpose.
You’re Not Imagining It, It IS This Weird If modern life feels subtly hostile to your nervous system, you’re not alone and you’re not weak. A grounded companion for people tired of being told to optimise themselves out of exhaustion.
Best read if you feel like a functional adult on paper but privately exhausted by the whole arrangement.
Embracing Neurodiversity For people who have spent years adapting, masking, and self-correcting without knowing why it costs so much. Relief from deficit thinking and the exhausting assumption that the problem is always you, not the environment built around you.
Best read if you’re tired of being treated like a problem to be fixed.
Living with Bipolar II Bipolar II is often mistaken for temperament, personality, or poor self-control. Clear, steady guidance for recognising patterns early and building stability without flattening your inner life.
Best read if your mood shifts are disruptive but subtle enough that people dismiss them, including you.
Finding Your Way Back Trauma recovery served without clinical distance or motivational poster energy. A map for people who have been through something, know it changed them, and want an honest account of what the path back actually looks like.
Best read if you’ve been waiting for someone to describe your experience accurately before offering to help with it.
How to Build Successful Relationships Relationships don’t collapse because people don’t care. They collapse under unspoken pressure, mismatched wiring, and the accumulated weight of things nobody quite managed to say. Practical psychology for real relationships, especially when stress, culture, and fatigue are already in the room.
Best read if you want closeness that survives real life, not just holidays and good intentions.
The Expat Psychologist novels
These novels follow the mental unravelling of a sixty-something Australian expat psychologist living in Đà Lạt. They trace what happens when professional insight meets nervous system collapse, memory fracture, and the slow erosion of certainty. Any resemblance to lived experience is, of course, entirely coincidental.
Fracture Fracture is what happens before anyone admits something is broken. A psychological novel about slow collapse, professional identity, and the moment insight proves powerless against a body that has reached its limit.
Best read if you prefer your breakdowns gradual, believable, and quietly terrifying.
Memory After collapse, memory stops behaving politely. It loops, intrudes, vanishes at the wrong time, and returns without permission. A psychological novel about what survives after rupture, and how the past keeps rewriting the present.
Best read if you’re drawn to stories where the real antagonist is the mind trying to protect itself.
Tremor Professor Whitaker has built six months of careful stability in Đà Lạt. Then his hand starts shaking. Keys appear in the refrigerator with no memory of how they got there. The third novel follows a man expert at diagnosing others who cannot see what is beginning to happen to him.
Best read if you know what it is to construct a careful life and feel it start to slip at the edges.
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