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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein
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Debbie Nathan · 297 pages
The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality case.
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 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.
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
Deborah Blum · 384 pages
What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into unexplainable incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their
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.
Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
Claudia Kalb · 320 pages
"Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? In this surprising and inventive look at the evolution of mental health, respected journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into biographical narratives that are deeply embedded in our culture. From Marilyn Monroe's bord
Mastery
Robert Greene · 336 pages
Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey · 122 pages
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.
Freud for Beginners
Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate · 174 pages
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
Lisa Appignanesi · 584 pages
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
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
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay · 410 pages
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Robert Jay Lifton · 561 pages
The Third Man Factor: The Secret To Survival In Extreme Environments
John Geiger · 290 pages
The third man factor is a riveting scientific and historical analysis of an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, sense an incorporeal being beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive.
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
Introducing Jung
Maggie Hyde, Michael McGuinness · 176 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.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L Trump · 240 pages
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright · 496 pages
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Alex Kershaw · 440 pages
On 10 July 1943, Felix Sparks arrived with the Allied forces in Italy, a captain in the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Division - nicknamed the Thunderbirds. Just twenty-five years old, Sparks soon proved a leader of immense fortitude and stamina, participating in four amphibious invasions and leading his men through the mountains of Italy and France before enduring intense winter combat agai