Society / psychology based books - let's have your suggestions

[floridaorange]

Re: Society / psychology based books - let's have your suggestions

By Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought, How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate.

read this, this book is ok, but your going to have to really appreciate the subject of communications... I think there are far more interesting books than this one...imho

[Micko]

Re: Society / psychology based books - let's have your suggestions

anything from this guy especially
The Art of Loving

This is a little gem

imo, another essential read

I'm a big fan of Irvin Yalom's writing. One of my all time favourite books is the classic, Existential Psychotherapy

Described as "Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four “ultimate concerns of life”—death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness—the book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifested in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them.
Drawing from clinical experience, empirical research , philosophy, and great literature, Yalom has written a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatibility of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and it opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that will suprise and enlighten all readers."