Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

S. Nassir Ghaemi · 340 pages

An investigation into the surprisingly deep correlation between mental illness and successful leadership, as seen through some of history's greatest politicians, generals, and businesspeople. "A First-Rate Madness," Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandh

The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America

John D. Gartner · 368 pages

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · 362 pages

Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation.

A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein

John Kerr · 656 pages

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee · 290 pages

"Frost and Steketee were the first scientists to study hoarding when they began their work. With vivid portraits that show us the traits by which you can identify a hoarder, the authors explain the causes and outline the often ineffective treatments for the disorder while illuminating the pull that possessions exert on all of us." "What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever c

Freud for Beginners

Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate · 174 pages

Introducing Jung

Maggie Hyde, Michael McGuinness · 176 pages

Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey · 122 pages

Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case

Debbie Nathan · 297 pages

The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality case.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Robert Wright · 496 pages

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell · 320 pages

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

Jack El-Hai · 281 pages

Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials.

Mastery

Robert Greene · 336 pages

Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman · 544 pages

What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprisin

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes · 486 pages

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, o

Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

Deborah Blum · 336 pages

Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting research-sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible-on the primates in his University of Wisco

The Story of Psychology

Morton Hunt · 896 pages

"Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries - the search for the true causes of our behavior." -- Back cover.

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl · 165 pages

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known a

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker · 802 pages

From Goodreads: Selected by *The New York Times Book Review* as a Notable Book of the Year The author of *The New York Times* bestseller *The Stuff* of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as *New York Times* bestselling author Steven Pin

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay · 410 pages

In the Freud Archives

Janet Malcolm · 165 pages

This book is a lively narrative about the efforts of a couple of young scholars to gain access to the private letters and archives of Sigmund Freud, being protected by his daughter Anna Freud.

Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton · 306 pages

This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. We care about our status for a simple reason: because most people tend to be nice to us according to the amount of status we have (it is no coincidence that the f

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

Lauren Slater · 281 pages

Through nine experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns--free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these experiments have never before been narrated as stories, full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Peter Vronsky · 422 pages