This page is dedicated to recommended readings in the field of psychology, which is to say, to life.
All year 'round I'm an avid reader, but summers are always the time I lay aside the cares of the world and inhabit another, often more real world that I find between the covers of a book. I never know what I'll discover, despite the cover and title; I have, however, come to trust that I bump into the books I need to make acquaintance with at the time and under the circumstances that are just right. Perhaps this has happened to you?
In this section, I simply list the books in hopes that you might find one that serves your needs when you need it - like a friend should. I won't review these books just yet, for that would be somewhat like reviewing my friends. I like them all without having to agree with them on every point; and if you want to see why I like them, you'll just have to make their acquaintance too.
Summer Reading List, 2004
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Joseph Campbell
Knots, R.D. Laing
Looking for Spinoza, Antonio Damasio
The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas Szasz
Ceremonial Chemistry, Thomas Szasz
Addiction is a Choice, Jeffrey Schaler
Love’s Body, Norman O. Brown
The Happiness Project, Ron Leifer
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Louis Cozolino
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Oliver Sacks
Schrödinger’s Cat, Robert Anton Wilson
Solitude: A Return to the Self, Anthony Storr
Science and Human Behavior, B.F. Skinner
The Exception to the Rulers, Amy Goodman
Envy, Helmut Schoeck
An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
Dry, Augusten Borroughs
Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett
Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett
The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time, Mark Haddon
Running With Scissors, Augusten Borroughs
Wisdom and The Senses, Joan Erikson
Goat, Brad Land
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer
To Love and Be Loved, Sam Keen
La Quinta Montaña, Paulo Coehlo
The Force of Character, James Hillman
Current Reading:
The Meaning of Anxiety, Rollo May
A History of the Mind, Nicholas Humphries
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
The Courage to Create, Rollo May
Healing Fiction, James Hillman
Love's Executioner, Irwin Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept, Irwin Yalom
