[Opinion] What has been the most insightful psychology book you’ve read?

[koskos]

Title says book but it can really be any type of text/video.

Im curious on hearing your personal experiences.

 

[Aeternus]

Title says book but it can really be any type of text/video.

Im curious on hearing your personal experiences.

I read a lot of psychology books. If I have to mention some of them that were really profound, I can say: Overcoming Depression: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques by Paul Gilbert, You Can Change your Life by Tim Laurence, The Art of Reading Minds: How to Understand and Influence Others Without Them Noticing by Henrik Fexeus.

The Hoffman process described by Tim Laurence had a lot of occult things related to it in my opinion, and it really helped me overcome mental blockages and find the necessary peace I needed within myself. The book is really insightful.

Paul Gilbert's book about overcoming depression is a great one as well. The techniques described are really cool and they helped me overcome some of the most depressive blockages I had in the past.

For the third one by Henrik Fexeus, I can say that it is good and it can give insights into how the human mind works.

 

[ܡܪܓܢܝܬ݂ܐ]

I reckon that there is an important dichotomy to be established between the archaic understanding of psychology (i.e. the science of the soul and the relations it possesses) in opposition to its usage in vernacular

With that aside Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth by Henry Corbin.

 

[nunaphael]

Capitalism & Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and The Thousand Plateaus, by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, was a pretty inspirational book to me. I'd say that, and Jung's Red Book, are the first big influencers that come to my mind in the realm of psychology. After that, I found a lot of deep insights studying the work of John Bowlby, who came up with Attachment Theory, as well as Jacque Lacan's "Seminars" on his own form of psychoanalysis that builds on Freud's school of thought and takes it into some very interesting places.