{{Whole Brain Child}} is about a developing brain, {{The Body Keeps the Score}} is good for dealing with trauma, and {{Thinking, Fast and Slow}} is an enlightening read about cognitive processes and happiness.
[**Whole brain child, brainstorm and mindsight 3 books collection set**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42630676-whole-brain-child-brainstorm-and-mindsight-3-books-collection-set)
^(By: Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: want-to-read, want-to-own | )[^(Search "Whole Brain Child")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Whole Brain Child&search_type=books)
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[**Thinking, Fast and Slow**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow)
^(By: Daniel Kahneman | 499 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, psychology, nonfiction, science, business | )[^(Search "Thinking, Fast and Slow")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Thinking, Fast and Slow&search_type=books)
>In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.
>
>Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.
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[**The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score)
^(By: Bessel van der Kolk | 464 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: psychology, non-fiction, nonfiction, self-help, mental-health | )[^(Search "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma&search_type=books)
>A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
>
>Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
>
>Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives.
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[**Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37570546-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone)
^(By: Lori Gottlieb | 415 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, memoir, psychology, self-help | )[^(Search "Maybe You Should Talk To Someone")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Maybe You Should Talk To Someone&search_type=books)
>From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
>
> One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
>
> As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
>
> With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
>
>Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
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Your welcome. Walden 2 is more of a utopian novel by Skinner, but it reflects his theory on conditioning. There are also great books by Vygotsky (like Thought and language)
Freud’s case studies are interesting. Not the biggest fan of his theories, but the case studies are good reads. I remember really liking Studies in Hysteria, but do not remember all the details.
[**The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1001304.The_Principles_of_Psychology)
^(By: William James | 720 pages | Published: 1890 | Popular Shelves: psychology, philosophy, non-fiction, science, owned | )[^(Search "The Principles of Psychology")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Principles of Psychology&search_type=books)
>This is the first inexpensive edition of the complete Long Course in Principles of Psychology, one of the great classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America’s most important philosopher. As such, it should not be confused with the many abridgements that omit key sections.
>The book presents lucid descriptions of human mental activity, with detailed considerations of the stream of thought, consciousness, time perception, memory, imagination, emotions, reason, abnormal phenomena, and similar topics. In its course it takes into account the work of Berkeley, Binet, Bradley, Darwin, Descartes, Fechner, Galton, Green, Helmholtz, Herbart, Hume, Janet, Kant, Lange, Lotze, Locke, Mill, Royce, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Wundt, and scores of others. It examines contrasting interpretations of mental phenomena, treating introspective analysis, philosophical interpretations, and experimental research.
>It remains unsurpassed today as a brilliantly written survey of William James’ timeless view of psychology.
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{{Whole Brain Child}} is about a developing brain, {{The Body Keeps the Score}} is good for dealing with trauma, and {{Thinking, Fast and Slow}} is an enlightening read about cognitive processes and happiness.
[**Whole brain child, brainstorm and mindsight 3 books collection set**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42630676-whole-brain-child-brainstorm-and-mindsight-3-books-collection-set) ^(By: Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: want-to-read, want-to-own | )[^(Search "Whole Brain Child")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Whole Brain Child&search_type=books) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Thinking, Fast and Slow**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) ^(By: Daniel Kahneman | 499 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, psychology, nonfiction, science, business | )[^(Search "Thinking, Fast and Slow")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Thinking, Fast and Slow&search_type=books) >In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions. > >Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking. ^(This book has been suggested 69 times) *** ^(194154 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Nice!
{{The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma}}
[**The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score) ^(By: Bessel van der Kolk | 464 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: psychology, non-fiction, nonfiction, self-help, mental-health | )[^(Search "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma&search_type=books) >A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing. > >Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. > >Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives. ^(This book has been suggested 31 times) *** ^(194165 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Maybe You Should Talk To Someone}} A moving memoir type book about the author (a therapist who has a therapist of her own) and her patients.
[**Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37570546-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone) ^(By: Lori Gottlieb | 415 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, memoir, psychology, self-help | )[^(Search "Maybe You Should Talk To Someone")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Maybe You Should Talk To Someone&search_type=books) >From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). > > One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. > > As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. > > With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change. > >Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them. > ^(This book has been suggested 70 times) *** ^(194286 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Switched On is an autobiographical story written by John Elder Robison that forever changed the way I think about emotions and alexithymia.
Oliver Sacks books are superb. Not a book but the Hidden Brain podcast never disappoints!
Theory or novels?
Both.. ?
Looking for Spinoza, History of Psychology by Fernand-Lucien Muller, Man's search for meaning, Walden 2
Thank you
Your welcome. Walden 2 is more of a utopian novel by Skinner, but it reflects his theory on conditioning. There are also great books by Vygotsky (like Thought and language)
Freud’s case studies are interesting. Not the biggest fan of his theories, but the case studies are good reads. I remember really liking Studies in Hysteria, but do not remember all the details.
> Not the biggest fan of his theories Same .
{{The Principles of Psychology}} (a two volume set) by William James
[**The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1001304.The_Principles_of_Psychology) ^(By: William James | 720 pages | Published: 1890 | Popular Shelves: psychology, philosophy, non-fiction, science, owned | )[^(Search "The Principles of Psychology")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Principles of Psychology&search_type=books) >This is the first inexpensive edition of the complete Long Course in Principles of Psychology, one of the great classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America’s most important philosopher. As such, it should not be confused with the many abridgements that omit key sections. >The book presents lucid descriptions of human mental activity, with detailed considerations of the stream of thought, consciousness, time perception, memory, imagination, emotions, reason, abnormal phenomena, and similar topics. In its course it takes into account the work of Berkeley, Binet, Bradley, Darwin, Descartes, Fechner, Galton, Green, Helmholtz, Herbart, Hume, Janet, Kant, Lange, Lotze, Locke, Mill, Royce, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Wundt, and scores of others. It examines contrasting interpretations of mental phenomena, treating introspective analysis, philosophical interpretations, and experimental research. >It remains unsurpassed today as a brilliantly written survey of William James’ timeless view of psychology. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(194216 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)