Nigel C. Benson is an award-winning, international best-selling author, illustrator and psychologist, published in 33 languages. His books are on the Recommended Reading Lists of universities, colleges, schools and other institutions, including government departments, throughout the world.
ψ International Best-Selling
Nigel Benson’s most popular book is Introducing Psychology (2007), originally published as Psychology For Beginners (1998) by Icon Books. As well as writing the contents he illustrated and typeset this book, and designed the original cover (final artwork digitised by Nomad Graphique UK). Available in Paperback and Kindle.

Other books written by Nigel Benson published in the same Icon Books series are Introducing Psychotherapy and Introducing Psychiatry.


Nigel Benson has written many articles on mental health, for example published by The Reader’s Digest. Some of these were published in separate Hardback books in the Reader’s Digest Brain Power Series: The Conscious and Unconscious Brain, A Good Memory and The Healing Brain (all published in 2002). These articles were also published in a single Hardback book collection called Making The Most Of Your Brain (2004).

ψ Award-Winning
The Psychology Book (2012), published by DK (Dorling Kindersley in the Penguin Group), won the “2012 Book Of The Year Award” by The British Psychological Society for “excellence in psychological literature”. Nigel Benson is one of the contributors to “The Psychology Book” who received this highly prestigious BPS award.
The Psychology Book by Nigel C. Benson, et al (2012) available in Hardback and Kindle.
***** The Psychology Book by Benson, Nigel, et al (2012), was in the “Top 10 Best Selling eBooks Sold In The USA”, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2017.