(Part 2) Best psychoanalysis books according to redditors
We found 388 Reddit comments discussing the best psychoanalysis books. We ranked the 120 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
30. Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture
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>I think the coolest thing I’ve found is the evolutionary reason why people reject evolution. I haven’t published it yet but, when it comes out, its probably going to cause a minor shit storm.
Please post to reddit when it's published.
In case anyone wants to check out the above mentioned books:
Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal
The Paleolithic Prescription by Boyd and Eaton
Exiles from Eden by Glantz and Pearce
Primates in the Classroom by Gary Bernhard
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Miller and Kanzawa
Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan
Peterson is unique because he is trying to get rid of that division. His goal is to liberate people from the social psychology of these ideologies. As far as I can tell, he is promoting Carl Jung's process of individuation. If you read The Undiscovered Self, Peterson's work appears to be exactly what Jung is calling for. Although in this essay, Jung doesn't seem particularly optimistic about such an undertaking.
I recommend this book on the subject: “The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness”:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Sun-Darkness-Analytical-Psychology/dp/160344078X
Read this book years ago; pretty eye-opening.
"The ASSAULT ON TRUTH: FREUD'S SUPPRESSION OF THE SEDUCTION THEORY"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0671025716/ref=cm_cr_srp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8#
Peterson is missing the elephant in the room, IMO. The real enemy is not neo-marxism, it is neo-calvinism. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote about this to some extent, and I think it is culturally in America's collective blindspot. Here I am defining neocalvinism as the idea that "work will set you free," or similarly "work will get you to heaven." JBP pushes this as "sort yourself out."
Notice that JBP never talks about Wilhelm Reich or his ideas. Adam Curtis covered this issue in the century of the self. Reich wrote a book The Mass Psychology of Fascism which, in a nutshell, talks about how fascism/authoritarianism is a fear-driven attack on sexuality. Notice how in US politics, since the cultural/sexual changes in America driven by them damn librul hippies on the left, the right has gone increasingly more insane, fanatical, disconnected from reality, authoritarian, and violent.
JBP's solutions to psychological troubles are usually about establishing more order through willful action and understanding. This is one version of "work will set you free." Notice the nazis had "arbeit macht frei" (the same phrase in German) at the gates of Auschwitz. Thanks to folks like Peter Levine,Lowen,Perls,etc., the psychotherapy world is now understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of the phrase "lose your mind and come to your senses." JBP once stated that catharsis does not heal old wounds, coming to understand what happened is what heals. That is the basis for his self authoring suite. The problem there is that the catharsis piece is necessary, as that brings memory fragments from the hippocampus into consciousness in the frontal cortex. See Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score.
The point of all this is that JBP seems to be politically and ideologically on the right, as are his followers. Notice how he attracts Trump supporters, far right types, nazis, etc. He disowns the nazis but doesn't seem to try to understand why this happens. The nature of his work is repressive of vulnerability, of existential terror of mortality, of sexuality and spontaneity.
Notice how the right believes so much in rugged individualism, "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," "I'm not responsible for my fellow americans because everyone should be personally responsible for themselves." Humans don't work that way, humans are social, our nervous systems respond to other people's pain whether we are conscious of that or blocking it, we need social contact. "Sorting oneself out" requires a positive relationship with another person (see Carl Rogers, object-relations theory, Allen Schore, etc) yet JBP and his followers seem to think they can think their way out of this by themselves, and that any particular "truth" is more important than getting along with others. Using "the truth" as a cudgel to attack/berate others is a particular pattern that Freud would have recognized, and seems common among JBP and his followers.
Titus Burckhardt - Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Jung - Psychology and Alchemy
Jung - Alchemical Studies
Samael Aun Weor - The Perfect Matrimony: The Door to Enter into Initiation, Tantra and Sexual Alchemy Unveiled (don't take this guy too seriously because he's a bit of a nutter, but he is certainly worth a read)
Though it's not a book, also check out this album of images, particularly this image and this one
As for all the symbols, I highly recommend getting a dictionary of symbols and reading it straight through, from A to Z. My favorites are The Herder Dictionary of Symbols and The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols.
Well, I'll be the one that gets downvoted then.
I used to read a lot of Osho and did a lot of research on him including reading several biographies by his closest people. I'm probably the only one who can claim this who wasn't one of his followers. I even tried to do a senior thesis on precisely his philosophy but found it was too large of a project or there just wasn't enough there.
I'm still a bit ambivalent about his legacy. If you go the positive route, you could argue that Osho intentionally created a religion and then let it completely go nuts and horrible as a teaching lesson. When questioned why he gathered so much wealth, he responded that Americans will only pay attention to those who are wealthy. And it's interesting to note that he would give away all his fancy gifts seemingly randomly. One week, his followers gave him pens, the next it was cars.
In his early talks, he repeatedly says you should never follow or join a religion. That if he ever created a religion, it would only be a reflection of his own truth and by secondhand for others. His defenders always point out that Sheela, his right hand woman who took over leadership, was the root of all the terrorist plots and he was kept in the dark.
But if you wanted to go the other direction, you could just as easily say that Osho was a master at hypnosis. That he had delusions of grandeur, maybe even a mental illness. That he had the biggest ego and destroyed countless lives. This book kind of goes over it:
http://www.amazon.com/Feet-Clay-Anthony-Storr/dp/0684834952
However, either way you look at it, I think he definitely did attain some higher level of consciousness. Even his ex-followers who don't like him say they got something special out of it and don't deny his higher consciousness. However "enlightenment" or whatever you want to call it doesn't necessarily preclude the possibility of doing stupid, immoral things. His books/talks reflect truth although there are some generous twists he makes on source material.
Finally, Osho like almost all spiritual teachers wouldn't qualify as what most people today call philosophy. And there are countless, arguably much better teachers with less shady pasts than this guy. The Osho foundation that exists today I think is purely a money making company.
Here are some books that helped me starting out:
https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-101-Modern-Psychotherapy-Techniques/dp/1572245689/ref=nodl_
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Counseling-Techniques-Beginning-Therapists/dp/1403383278
https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Every-Counselor-Should-Know/dp/0134694899/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_2/140-3603070-6736458?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0134694899&pd_rd_r=6244c735-a8ca-477d-b6da-c7479d997978&pd_rd_w=ApuBS&pd_rd_wg=P7EIR&pf_rd_p=1c5a26b5-ed76-40f7-b20c-b5d5bd4bc6be&pf_rd_r=CB0QXMR53WBGJ8149ZZ5&psc=1&refRID=CB0QXMR53WBGJ8149ZZ5
https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Therapy-Generation-Therapists-Patients/dp/0061719617/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_3/140-3603070-6736458_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061719617&pd_rd_r=87c54203-1b24-4fc2-a300-c79a7561e18c&pd_rd_w=F5pJ4&pd_rd_wg=m066p&pf_rd_p=6e6afc8a-fbbd-4649-97cf-4e08f5113612&pf_rd_r=DXCB9181CMTWCT0EEPTM&psc=1&refRID=DXCB9181CMTWCT0EEPTM
As I know Carl Jung's ideas are known to be compatible with magickal theory. This selection of writings from Jung is good for beginners imo because some of the selections are somewhat related to magickal philosophy:
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Jung-C-G/dp/0691029350
Until more recently, it wasn't common to find books/articles on "how to do" psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The knowledge of how to perform the therapy came from the therapist's training analysis, which, going back to Freud, used to be the only requirement for becoming a psychoanalyst (cf. The question of Lay Analysis by Freud). However, there are now some "psychodynamic" therapies that provide a "how to" look at therapy using psychoanalytic principles. Two that I am familiar with are Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy or ISTDP and Brief Dynamic Therapywhich is a little better in my opinion. Glen Gabbard, who I like a lot, has also written a text that lays out some of the basics of psychotherapy from an analytic perspective.
Speaking of Gabbard, I highly recommend his text Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. It provides an overview of some of the major psychoanalytic theories (drive, ego, object, self). Unfortunately he doesn't cover Lacan, and briefly touches on intersubjectivity. Another book in this vein (without the diagnostic applications) is Freud and Beyond by Stephen Mitchell and Margaret Black. Not to diminish Dr. Black, but Stephen Mitchell is really great. I recommend anything by him, especially Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis and Relationality.
Finally, any recommendation on contemporary American psychoanalytic writing would be incomplete without mentioning Thomas Ogden, especially The Matrix of the Mind and The Primitive Edge of Experience. His more recent works are great as well, but a little more nebulous and might be less applicable to beginning psychoanalytic work.
Oh, and I can't help but recommend this little book by Owen Renik Practical Psychoanalysis. Renik is great, and I really enjoy is work, especially his thinking on "getting real in psychoanalysis." Though he is far from the traditional views of analytic neutrality and abstinence.
I remembered some studies in the 70's that showed that psychoanalytic therapy is not more effective that not therapy at all when comparing the group of patients under therapy versus control group. Both groups improved significantly around the four year. Apparently the people suffering from a neurosis learns how reduce anxiety and get functional by themselves. Those studies are suggestive because many therapists report an amelioration in their patients conditions after the four year of therapy.
Some of those studies are listed in:
http://www.amazon.com/Freudian-Fraud-Malignant-American-Thought/dp/1929636008
It was an undergrad paper...gimme a break. ;)
E: It was and always shall be conjecture. I admit this explicitly.
E2: Actually, I do need to say that there is a difference between a "diagnosis" and study in the field of Psychology of Religion. There is literature aplenty on the peculiarities of prophetic types. While making a historical diagnosis is stretching the bounds of reason, I have stated earlier that the historical burden of proof is quite different. I am assuming that you are a biblical scholar. I am not, more of a historian and religious philosophy person. Stating that Loyola had bipolar symptoms is not a stretch at all, neither is it a stretch to say that similar symptoms can be seen in Saint Theresa's ecstasy...ad infinitum.
Here is a source that I could find on my bookshelf. Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay. I disagree with his conclusion that these symptoms are problematic to their message (is Van Gogh bad art? Hemingway?) but it is still a discussable topic. I had other works in mind, but they are lost to memory.
https://www.amazon.com/Freud-Beyond-History-Psychoanalytic-Thought/dp/0465014054
https://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Human-Science-Daniel-Burston/dp/0820703788
Yeah. With their stupid ass Tavistock Institute, Lucis Trust, National Training Lab, and other moronic forces of dipshittery, they are really in the dim corner of the novice room.
Para-psychology and crowd control are merely concepts in the beginning stages of development. Wilhelm Reich was all alone in the scholarly world with ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'' when he wrote it in the early 40s.
I think that OWS needs more bongo drums, personally.
I took my PhD in a part of the country that was characteristically conservative politically and religiously. Mention of evolution was quite often more trouble than it was worth, which is an absolute shame. We didn't even mention Darwin (who seemed to be quite confident that natural selection would be applied to psychology "In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." C. R. Darwin On the Origin of Species, 1859 p.488) who gave us the single strongest theory in the history of science because people don't like it.
Because they don't like it.
I would recommend Exiles from Eden and Evolutionary Psychiatry for the clinical application.
I would also say that EP does not claim that humans are genetic automatons. We have a range of behaviors that helped us navigate our world, but, that world has changed quite a lot in the last few centuries/millennia, far too fast for the brain to have caught of with it.
If you approach treatments from the EP perspective you might try not so much to "fix" the problem as to put a person in a situation that is closer to their comfort zone.
Of course I'm overgeneralizing here. For one I really can't give you an overview of the whole field in 150 words. And second, I'm not a clinician or therapist. Take a look at those books, I suspect it will help.
There's some sources underneath the YouTube video:
"For more information on this topic, here are some sources to support the content in this video:
https://www.amazon.com/ASSAULT-TRUTH-FREUDS-SUPPRESSION-SEDUCTION/dp/0671025716
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/freud-secret-documents-reveal-years-of-strife.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1984/08/16/assault-on-truth/ "
I am just beginning to read up myself.
Introduction to Jungian Psychology: notes on his 1925 seminar has been a great intro personally
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Jungian-Psychology-Analytical-Bollingen/dp/0691152055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504464478&sr=8-1&keywords=introduction+to+jungian+psychology
'Demian' by Herman Hesse is a great novel that has a lot of influence from Jung. It's a quick read if Jungian fiction interests you at all.
Looking forward to hearing more suggestions.
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
>Trust your hunches, for intuition does have an underlying rationale, according to this accessible account from a German scientist of human cognition. Permeated with everyday scenarios, such as picking stocks, schools, or spouses, the book adopts an evolutionary perspective of how people act on the basis of incomplete information (usually successfully). He sets the table with an example of a baseball player pursuing a fly ball, who relies not on conscious calculation but on an evolved "gaze heuristic" to make the catch. Definitions of such rules of thumb dot the text, which Gigerenzer embeds amid his presentations of studies that indicate, for example, that financial analysts don't predict markets any better than partially informed amateurs. Explaining this as an outcome of a "recognition heuristic," Gigerenzer argues that knowing a little rather than everything about something is sufficient to take action on it. He forges on into medicine, law, and moral behavior, succeeding in the process in converting a specialized topic into a conduit for greater self-awareness among his readers. Taylor, Gilbert
It is a fact that people use their emotions that are fixed by life experience to make decisions. If one is going to deal with life factually that fact is one to take into account.
A large reason the right is so successful is that they do not cry about people being this way, ("If only people would learn to trust logic over feelings.") They use it. If the left is not willing to use it out of some sense of moral/intellectual superiority it will be stomped into the ground.
No matter how much education you pour into people in the end they will still be people and still act like people -- especially in herds.
Edit: spelling
A couple of suggestions: search the Jung concordance on ARAS for references to dream interpretation in Jung's work, here. And a compilation from his collected works on dreaming simply called Dreams is helpful. Maybe also look at the essay on dream interpretation in The Undiscovered Self?
There's no 'dictionary of dreams' with Jung, the point being to come to understand our own dream language and establish a personal dialogue with the unconscious. But Jung's take on an approach to meaning through the symbols that appear in dreams is orienting.
I can't really add too much, but I'm assuming you have heard of Carl Jung. He approaches this stuff from the viewpoint of psychological symbolism and is super interesting. Here is a website with a little bit of his writings on the subject
Here is an expensive book on the subject
Allow me to elaborate. First, I don't think you're crazy. Second, /u/mukatona missed it, mine was an abuse of superlatives, not hyperbole, and I will roll back on it (slightly) right here...
When I defend my interest in JBP to people like my friend who is a tenured professor of philosophy—and no fool, believe me—I tell him that what he sees as obscurantism, I see as a kind of faulty grandiloquent style. You can be sure this wins me little more than a fluttery eye-roll. Regardless, that's how I tend to take it. I have, after all, gone very deep with Mr. Dr. P. and know that he is both unfairly maligned and does not come off well in excerpt. I found him in 2016 and have since clocked the majority of his vids. Let that serve as non-troll bona-fides.
It's worth wondering, however, why someone who likes to think of himself as being "very careful with his words" (remember the bitter tone with which that statement was made.) Finds it necessary to over-state every claim he makes. It is, much like my original post, a tactic for getting attention, more than it is a means to illuminate. Why, for example, has he found it necessary to proclaim this radical us/them divide? It simply can't be the case that there is a unified cabal of bloody neo-marxist postmodernist goons over-running academia. There are a hundred ways to discuss the truth contained within his observation without calling for war, as he did when he floated the idea of making a list of offending professors. I mean, how Stalinist can you get? It's just a good thing he's got some friends who talked him down from that insane idea.
There is a pattern that he is falling into that deserves to be noticed. That is the pattern of the charismatic guru. (Frankly, this sub reinforces that pattern all too often with sycophantic defensiveness and political shibboleths) To anyone interested in what this pattern looks like, I highly recommend the book Feet of Clay, by Anthony Storr. (He also wrote a book about Jung, so you might have other reasons to be interested in Storr.
https://www.amazon.com/Feet-Clay-Anthony-Storr/dp/0684834952/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Now, one thing that JBP does not do is claim to be the unique pathway to salvation, thank goodness, but he does use exaggeration to make prosaic common sense sound like profound wisdom and that is what I am criticizing here.
The guys over at Rebel Wisdom had a chat about this and give a more sympathetic complaint about the some of the same issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0AY8pyzWAE
Peterson would do well, in my opinion, to cool it down and make some explicit arguments in the tempered fashion of an academic rather than the rabble rousing temperament of a cult leader.
John Berger's Ways of Seeing (absolutely brilliant)
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
Critical Theory Today
Wilhelm Reich-The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Amy Bloom-Normal
Tom Stoppard-Arcadia
Sara Marcus-Girls to the Front
Looks like I'll be starting with Jung! I have Modern Man In Search of A Soul and The Essential Jung - picked that one up randomly so I hope it's valuable.
As much as I'd love the guide that it seems MoM gives (I'm considering going back to school for philosophy, despite the risk, and would love some extra encouragement to "aim properly"), I can put it aside for now. If tackling Jung and Hegel gives me a critical eye to MoM, all the more reason to hold off.
I respect Peterson a lot, and I'm a big fan, but I always want to be able to look at ideas critically and judge them on their full merits.
Is your knowledge of Hegel and Jung self-taught? I'm currently reading Mortimer Adler's How To Read A Book in order to prepare myself to tackle these texts.
Interesting quote you pulled from the Philosophy subreddit. My interest in Hegel stems from my Christian background. I can't help but feel that Hegel, Jung, and (by extension) Peterson, are touching on a way to bring Christianity into the 21st Century.
I really like your thinking and would like to subscribe to your future thoughts. Have you looked into the subject of psychoanalysis? In particular, Lacanian psychoanalysis discusses schizophrenia as a disorder in the mental structure of metaphor and language, which may be related to your musings (for example, see http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00664/full).
Two books I recommend: A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce Fink (https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Introduction-Lacanian-Psychoanalysis-Technique/dp/0674135369) and Lacan by Lionel Bailly (https://www.amazon.com/Lacan-Beginners-Guide-Lionel-Bailly/dp/1851686371).
This is great.
I'd like to buy the book, could you help me locate the book, please? Is it taken from this book?
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Jungian-Psychology-Analytical-Foundation/dp/0691152055/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=jungian+basics+1925+seminar&qid=1554943665&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkmr0
I personally found this one, one of the best introductions to the key arguments itself: https://www.amazon.de/How-Read-Lacan-Slavoj-Zizek/dp/1862078947/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1491763225&sr=1-1&keywords=lacan+zizek
The graphic novel was quite broad and seemed to focused on the variety of his topics of interest
[Therapy 101: A Brief Look at Modern Psychotherapy Techniques and How They Can Help]
(http://www.amazon.com/Therapy-101-Modern-Psychotherapy-Techniques/dp/1572245689/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331621571&sr=1-3&tag=bookforyoudm-20)
I love this book, The Essential Jung. It's a collection of Jung's work. I'm reading it for the second time now.
There's a disconnect between what women SAY they like, and what actually gets the panties wet. This is backed up by clinicians and theoreticians (even the feminists). See references:
https://www.amazon.com/Lacanian-Subject-Bruce-Fink/dp/0691015899
https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Sexual-Difference-Luce-Irigaray/dp/0801481457/
Despite all these factors you say, maybe it's something small that actually turns you on. Say, the impertinent, unblinking way a certain guy looks at other girls.
Everything else comes into play when you're selecting a long-term mate, but I'm just talking about that visceral attraction.
I'm assuming that you have the revised version of Psychological Types from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (Volume 6). Myers' quotes in Gifts Differing are from the original English translated publication in 1923.
Here are the CW6 version's page and paragraph numbers: Pg 340, Par 575 & Pg Pg 387, Par 637.
The Anthony Stevens diagram can be found in:
http://www.amazon.com/Jung-Short-Introduction-Anthony-Stevens/dp/0192854585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457802826&sr=8-1
or
http://www.amazon.com/Jung-Anthony-Stevens/dp/069101048X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457802890&sr=8-1
To see the excerpt from the latter, go here:
http://personalitycafe.com/cognitive-functions/431786-jungian-analysts-take-jungs-functions.html
(if you don't have an account, the pic in that forum post is the same in my reddit post above.)
Jung's diagram was taken from:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Jungian-Psychology-Analytical-Bollingen/dp/0691152055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457803325&sr=8-1
Pg 137
You should know some Freud. Seminar XI is not that hard compared to other seminars, but it is Lacan we are talking about, so it is never that simple.
I would just start reading it, and maybe read Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject. You might also want to read Reading Seminar XI.
https://www.amazon.com/Freudian-Fraud-Malignant-American-Thought/dp/1929636008
The Undiscovered Self. It's a good read.
This guy would like to have a chat with you.
"Intuitions" are useful heuristics we've adapted to function in the world. They are not universally correct - in fact, they're often wrong.
"God" as an intuition is more an argument against its existence in my mind.
Edit: Fascinating book on the subject. Highly recommended for anyone.
I wasn't very impressed by that podcast on Lacan. They spent a lot of time discussing things they clearly didn't understand. (Their conversation on the drives was particularly hard to listen to.) I don't mean that as an insult to them--they're obviously not trained Lacanians--but simply that I think one would be better served to, without a proper cartel, read something like Fink's Lacanian Subject.
I think Memories, Dreams, Reflections is the best one to start with. Jung's writing is so dense that getting to know him and his thinking first is helpful and the auto-biographical form facilitates that. As far as his scholarly works The Archetypes and the Collective Unconsciousness or Psychological Types are excellent places to start to get some idea of the basic outlays of his thinking. My problem as i progressed through some of the other works is i read them "out of order." Reading the collected works straight through isn't necessary but some of the works require you to have read previous works (I'm thinking here mostly of his alchemical works (I tried to read Alchemical Studies without having first read Mysterium Coniunctionis or Psychology and Alchemy...not recommended))
No problem and thank you for the compliment. Overall, I love experiential and psychodynamic theories but I try to approach any theory as a means to an end. Any clinician that becomes too dogmatic risks missing the point (that is, helping the client and not serving your own ends). I like playing between affect and behavior with clients and attachment theory is behind it all for me.
In any case, why don't you ask an easier question? Haha. There is so much material out there for each modality that I could recommend plenty.
Strengths-focused
Experiential
Attachment
Psychodynamic
Hope that helps! Feel free to PM me too. I wonder if /u/evilqueenoftherealm would have any suggestions too.
It isn't retarded. Do some background research.
http://youtu.be/KCInjQ4omlA
http://youtu.be/bX8D0yU0pMc
http://youtu.be/C_L-k7KCPPM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1451683405
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1862078947
Edinger's Anatomy of the Psyche may be a good read for you :)
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http://www.amazon.com/Primates-Classroom-Evolutionary-Perspective-Childrens/dp/0870236113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261589323&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Exiles-Eden-Psychotherapy-Evolutionary-Perspective/dp/0393700739/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261589294&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Paleolithic-Prescription-Program-Exercise-Design/dp/0060916354/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261589224&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Chimpanzee-Politics-Power-among-Apes/dp/0801886562/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261589183&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441788386/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258348123&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Plate-Diet-Great-Healthy/dp/1885167717/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266199288&sr=1-13
http://www.amazon.com/Religion-War-Scott-Adams/dp/0740747886/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_9
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Plate-Diet-Great-Healthy/dp/1885167717/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266199288&sr=1-13
http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640/
http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Years-Hanna-Schissler/dp/0691058202
http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/039332169X/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
http://www.amazon.com/Andromeda-Strain-Michael-Crichton/dp/006170315X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225932164&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Manifesto-Against-Christianity-Judaism/dp/1559708204
http://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Family-Health-Book/dp/1603200770/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267299889&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Sculpting-Bible-Men-Revised/dp/1578262380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298573232&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Mens-Health-Big-Book-Exercises/dp/1605295507
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594866279/ref=asc_df_15948662791442125?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=pg-1583-01-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=1594866279
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http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Runners-Handbook-13-Week-Walk-Run/dp/1553650875/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298575384&sr=8-1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574581891694514228.html
http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Wild-Plants-Foods-Adventure/dp/1423601505
http://www.amazon.com/Shoppers-Guide-Organic-Food/dp/1857028406/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308213453&sr=1-16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness_writing
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/08/30/all-time-100-best-nonfiction-books/#fast-food-nation-by-eric-schlosser
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441788386/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258348123&sr=8-1
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/continuous-positive-airway-pressure-cpap-for-obstructive-sleep-apnea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
http://www.amazon.com/Catch-22-Joseph-Heller/dp/0684833395
http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp/0976805421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253993543&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Aero-Speed-Hyperformance-Jump-Rope/dp/B00017XHO8
http://www.invisibleshoe.com/#ecwid:category=135066&mode=product&product=278983
http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe621670756c0575741d&m=fe7215707561047d7315&ls=fde817797d6d037977177974&l=fe9215717260007a70&s=fe2d13707d600478751c72&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe2e167375640d75711576&r=0
http://www.amazon.com/Element-Surprise-Navy-Seals-Vietnam/dp/0804105812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304634342&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivor-Eyewitness-Account-Operation/dp/0316067598
http://www.amazon.com/Diving-Bell-Butterfly-Memoir-Death/dp/0375701214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312848167&sr=8-1
Political
Iraq Research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Tawhid_Wal-Jihad
http://www.ontheissues.org/Drugs.htm#Barack_Obama
Congress Related
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/r110query.html
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_110_1.htm
http://www.usdoj.gov/
http://www.issuedictionary.com/Barack_Obama.cgi
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r110:75:./temp/~r110y7HfAa::
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists
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http://allafrica.com/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/??
Health & Exercise
Green Tea
http://www.teatrekker.com/store/tea/green/green+-+japan.php
http://www.o-cha.com/brew.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_2080066_steep-loose-leaf-tea.html
http://cooksshophere.com/products/tea/green_tea.htm
http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=146
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea
http://blackdragonteabar.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html
http://blackdragonteabar.blogspot.com/
https://www.itoen.com/leaf/index.cfm
http://www.maiko.ne.jp/english/
http://www.mellowmonk.com/buyGreenTea.htm
http://www.o-cha.com/home.php
http://www.denstea.com/
http://www.theteaavenue.com/chgrtea.html
http://www.teafrog.com/teas/finum-tea-brewing-basket.html
I recommend reading Carl Jung and either DT Suzuki or S. Suzuki.
Most of what you’ll find elsewhere are just bullshit artist Gurus looking manipulate their power over you for self-aggrandizing purposes.
It’s been my experience that “occult” should be understood more from a psychological/numinous point of view rather than a supernatural. That is, personal experience that you are the source of, rather than someone else, person, thing or diety, which most lays claim as being the source of what your experience may be. Thus disempowering/stunting your path for development.
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691006768/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_naI0Cb30YZNGJ
Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691097720/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9hI0CbHSVC6E5
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802130550/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AiI0CbSSEKFGX
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice https://www.amazon.com/dp/1590308492/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_6iI0CbMYD0STX
Recommended reading on the symbolism of the black sun.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Sun-Darkness-Analytical-Psychology/dp/160344078X
No no, don't run away. I'm a reasonable person, if you have something I can read, I'll give it a chance.
Please send me links, videos, or books backing what you say. Mine consist mainly on the following sources:
Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&t=300s ),
Jordan Peterson's book Maps of Meaning: https://www.amazon.com/Maps-Meaning-Architecture-Jordan-Peterson/dp/0415922216/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1574861748&sr=8-1
I don't remember the exact text from Freud but I have this book ( https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Psychopathology-Everyday-Interpretation-Contributions/dp/067960166X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=freud&qid=1574861681&sr=8-3 )
I also went over the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
I don't really have the energy nor the time to link each element of my comments to what I read, that would take me some rereading, but if you read some fragments of what I am sourcing, you'll find I am not an original thinker, I am just repeating what other very informed and intelligent individual have stated. Steven Pinker is also mentioned in the Wikipedia page.
Please send me the links or some lead to the sources of your opinions, whenever I have the time, I will gladly read them.
https://www.amazon.com/Lacan-Beginners-Guide-Lionel-Bailly/dp/1851686371
I found that book helpful when studying lucan. He is able to explain lacans theories without over simplifying them