(Part 2) Best psychologist biographies according to redditors

Citations:

Stephen Hawking's ex-wife writes tell-all

Hawking's nurse reveals why she is not surprised his marriage is over

*Music to Move the Stars: A Life with Stephen Hawking by Jane Hawking

E io sono d'accordo, ma allo stesso tempo faccio fatica a capire come si possa negare che Salvini mostra un sacco di tendenze che vanno in quella direzione, dato che:

• Assume spesso toni derisori, arroganti e di aperto disprezzo verso chi non la pensa come lui;
  
• Sottolinea ripetutamente come lui sia espressione diretta della volontà popolare; nei suoi discorsi si trovano spesso richiami al fatto che lui lavora per sessanta milioni di italiani, e se non è proprio quello tanto lontani non siamo. Il messaggio neanche troppo implicito è che chi si oppone a lui non ha a cuore l'interesse degli italiani, e, a voler portare il discorso agli estremi, è praticamente un traditore;
  
• Assieme a di Maio, non si fa problemi ad assumere atteggiamenti minacciosi verso quei funzionari che esprimono pareri contrari a quelle che sono le sue promesse, vedi Tito Boeri o lo stesso Tria;
  
• Afferma di porsi sopra al dibattito destra-sinistra. Ricordiamo che il fascismo, quello originale, affermava a sua volta di porsi al di sopra del conflitto di classe;
  
• Assume posizioni che vanno palesemente a favorire gli imprenditori (flat tax), non dimenticando però di strizzare l'occhio alle fasce più deboli (quota 100). Se non è chiaro il riferimento, il corporativismo fascista andava praticamente a tutto vantaggio degli industriali (al punto da essere visto con un certo favore in America), ma allo stesso tempo si attuò anche la riforma agraria;
  
• Forte richiamo a valori di società tradizionale (es. alle "radici giudaico-cristiane" della cultura europea, il suo appoggio al Congresso della Famiglia di Verona, la prefazione al libro di Fontana);
  
• È uno degli uomini di punta del sovranismo, che a me onestamente sembra un nazionalismo in chiave ventunesimo secolo;
  
• Mostra una simpatia neanche troppo nascosta sia per governi europei autoritari (Orban in particolare) che per movimenti dell'estrema destra neofascista italiana (CP, Veneto Fronte Skinhead).
  
• Aggiungiamoci un distacco neanche troppo sottile da quella che è la tradizione antifascista italiana.
  
  Con questo voglio dire che è un fascista fatto e finito? Che fra due anni ce lo troviamo che marcia su Roma e istituisce la MVSN? Ma certo che no, anche perché non siamo più nel 1920 e lo scenario politico è molto diverso, l'uso della violenza come arma politica universalmente ripudiato e le istituzioni democratiche molto più forti di quanto erano allora.
  
  Però, insomma. Magari non è che uno deve aspettare di vedere le camicie nere per strada prima di iniziare a preoccuparsi.

Stephen Hawking's ex-wife apparently did describe their sex life in her book.

• Salon: Stephen Hawking's ex-wife writes tell-all
  
• Jane Hawking: Music to Move the Stars: A Life with Stephen Hawking
  
  Further googling reveals more.

If you read Jon Ronson’s excellent book Them: Adventures With Extremists, in which he hangs out with various extremists of all kinds, written when AJ was still just a kook on the radio, you will see he is very much the same way he’s always been. He even snuck into Bohemian Gove like a damn commando, hiding in the bushes and paranoid as fuck, while Ronson just walked right in and joined in the festivities. That chapter is hilarious.

ETA the link.

EATA: I also recommend Will Storr’s The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science which is less America-focused, more British and European, but he hangs out with Creationists, people at a Morgellons convention (I never hear about that anymore), people who believe the 7/7 attacks in London are a hoax, and, of curse, Holocaust Deniers. He even goes undercover on a multi-day group tour to several concentration camps hosted by David Irving himself. Irving being the colossal shithead Holocaust Denier who lost his libel case against Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, which he brought against her and her publisher for calling him a Holocaust Denier.

Both writers have their own voices and approaches, and subjects, but I loved the explorations of extreme beliefs and the people who hold them. I wish Storr wrote more books; Ronson’s more prolific; they both write for other media too. Im probably going to go reread everything now.

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Amazon Kindle Audiobook Torrent

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin Audiobook Torrent

A Darkness at Noon Arthur Koesteler Amazon Kindle Audiobook Torrent

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy Eds. Nalo Hopkinson, Uppinder Mehan, and Samuel R. Delany Amazon Kindle

The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson Amazon Kindle

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf Ntozake Shange Amazon Kindle

The Human Stain Philip Roth Amazon Kindle

The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence

Three Day Road Joseph Boyden Amazon Kindle

The Sun Also Rises Hemingway (As a primer on shitlordlery) Amazon Kindle ebook Torrent Audiobook Torrent

Black Like Me John Howard Griffin

Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya Amazon Kindle

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Audiobook Torrent- Warning, no seeders

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets David Simon Amazon Kindle

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood David Simon

Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor Sudhir Venkatesh Amazon Kindle

Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh Amazon Kindle

Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich Amazon Kindle

The Soviet Century Moshe Lewin

Griftopia Matt Taibbi Amazon Kindle Torrent

Where the Girls Are Susan J. Douglas

The Body Project Joan Jacobs Brumberg Amazon Kindle

Why School? Mike Rose Amazon Kindle

Killing Hope William Blum

Bad Samaritans, Kicking Away The Ladder and 23 Things They Don't Tell you about Capitalism Ha-Joong Chang

How Rich Countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor Erik Reinert Amazon Kindle

Whipping Girl Julia Serano Amazon Kindle

Republic.com 2.0 Cass Sunstein Amazon Kindle

Men in the Off Hours or Autobiography of Red Anne Carson

Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks

Sister Outsider Audre Lorde Amazon Kindle

Getting Mother's Body Suzan Lori-Parks Amzon Kindle

The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir Amazon Kindle

Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson

Bayou Jeremy Love

A Light in August Faulkner Amazon Kindle Audiobook Torrent

Authors, generally:

Margaret Atwood Amazon Kindle eBook Collection Torrent

Kate Chopin Collected Works Amazon Kindle

Oscar Wilde Amazon Kindle

Salman Rushdie Amazon Kindle eBook Torrent

Zadie Smith Amazon Kindle

Toni Morrison Amazon Kindle eBook and Audiobook Torrents

Chinua Achebe Amazon Kindle Things Fall Apart eBook Torrent

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (everything by him seems to be in Spanish) Amazon Kindle Torrents

Haruki Murakami [Amazon Kindle(http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3AMurakami&keywords=Murakami&ie=UTF8) eBook and Audiobook Torrents

Sherman Alexie Amazon Kindle

Ha Jin Amazon Kindle


Please note that I do not endorse stealing from authors, and if you are financially able, I would encourage you to support authors that writ books that you read. That being said, I totally understand that not everyone is able to afford to buy books at will. What you do with these links is between you and your conscious.

This is very informative, but mostly, highly entertaining.

I'm reading this book now: Lethal Inheritance, A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness.

I find it fascinating. It might be up your alley.

There's a subcommunity of urban explorers who share info with each other.

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Cities-Travels-Metropolises-Exploration/dp/1585429341

https://www.amazon.com/How-Can-Help-Week-Psychiatrist/dp/1476706794/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

This book is really neat and insightful for anyone, but I found it especially comforting for those with their own mental distresses.

I'm talking about now, not "from a historical perspective." Aristotle believed that women were inferior to men ("a deformity," he called them) partly because he claimed that they have fewer teeth than men. Those claims are obviously absurd, but are we expected to give them more respect today simply because they made sense "in relation to the time he was living in" or because someone might find them interesting "from a historical perspective?" Of course not.

Were I teaching a "History of Psychology" course, I'd probably cover Freud, because of his historical significance, in much the same way that the Titanic was historically significant for maritime travel. But, if I'm teaching an intro course or any other science-focused course, I'm mostly avoiding his dreck because his ideas "from a modern perspective" are absurd and tantamount to pseudoscience. I teach science, not pseudoscience.

I'm not aware of any modern interpretations/explanations of his theories that aren't entirely bunk. Maybe they're out there but, if one has to reinterpret his theories in order for them to not be bunk, or the best defense of them is that they "aren't entirely bunk," then that should tell you something about the validity of his ideas in the first place.

Fred Crews wrote a blistering expose on Freud, that I highly recommend to anyone who thinks Freud's critics have been uncharitable: https://www.amazon.com/Freud-Making-Illusion-Frederick-Crews/dp/1250183626/r

Great article here: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/freud-was-a-fraud-a-triumph-of-pseudoscience/

Another one here on why his ideas survive (like cockroaches, I suppose) despite that fact that (much like Aristotle) he was wrong on pretty much everything: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/why-freud-survives

For a bit of lighter reading

https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887308910

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-M-Mitchell-Waldrop/dp/1732265119

I love almost anything by Oliver Sacks, but The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is fascinating. If you have any interest in neurology and neurological disorders, this is a great starting point.

Some classic young there. Loved this part:

>"But what we have outgrown are only word-ghosts, not the psychic facts which were responsible for the birth of the gods."

While definitely introductory, Patrick Harpur's Daimonic Reality picks up on all these themes via Jung in a really fascinating way.

Really, there is so much to Jung's work that I'm not sure what else I could suggest. You seem to be on a good reading-track. Are you familiar with Jung's lesser-known, and published late-in-life book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky? That's another good one along the same vein of Daimonic Reality.

You might be interested in Jung's essay on Wotan, and the psychology/archetypal force of this god on the German people precipitating WWII. An interesting, arguably archetypal interpretation of events that happened: Wotan

Lastly, Gary Lachman, a consciousness scholar and researcher, wrote a great biography on Jung that seems up your ally (and many readers here at /r/Psychonaut): Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings.

OK I'll stop pulling books out of my library now. Maybe this was useful. :-)

I only found a Polish version.

The advice I always give to people getting into Zizek is that you absolutely must have a basic understanding of Lacan. He is a Lananian first and foremost, and he makes liberal use of Lacanian terminology that cannot be easily understood from the context (for example the Real doesn't mean what everyone assumes when they hear "the Real").

This is a good primer. It's still quite difficult but stick with it and you should get the general concepts. This book should be easier to read, but it's much more surface level than the other introduction I linked.

I expect that someone's writing one.

Edit: There seem to be several. Here ya go:

Jordan Peterson: A Biography by Michael David - Gawd! Only 26 pages

Jordan Peterson: A Biography by Michael Roberts - Not much better: 52 pages

An Unauthorized Biography of Jordan B. Peterson by Richard West - 55 Pages [sigh]

It looks like we will have to wait for something more substantial.

Game theory is all just a load of fables anyways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

https://www.amazon.fr/Birthing-Nation-Strategies-Palestinian-Anthropology

https://www.amazon.fr/Out-Place-Edward-W-Said/dp/1862073708

Robert Fisk : The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Golda-Meir/dp/0399116699

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CR706PM

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Ana then interviewed Erika Christensen about her experience with later abortion. They discussed what it meant to take such a private moment and make it public, as well as the real life implications of policy decisions surrounding a women’s right to choose. Follow the links to hear more about Erika’s Story.

>Only the products that work sell, because they work.

How does one know they don't work until they are already sold? I realize defenders of capitalism, such as yourself, have such a low standard of quality. If it's shiny it works for me! Both Brian and Dave know that they can both exploit the customers, so the choice is really which product looks like it will last longer and looks like it will do what it claims.


>You should have the freedom to choose your purchases, ignorance is not a valid excuse.


How about the truth being manipulated by the seller? And the not-so-independent reviewers? I'm sure you think you are above these things, but how would you know?


>There is no debating that competition drives innovation.


First, it's not the best or only way. Second it leads to false innovation: things that are not needed or wanted until the consumer is manipulated by commercialism, and things that don't solve the problem they claim to. Kinda of changes the rate in communism's favor, I'd say.



>And the fact of the matter is the system IS working for me,


You don't sound like a person who feels good about himself, just my perception.


> I've seen first hand how the free market expands the middle class more than socialism ever can, and how socialist policies mixed with a free market economy keep the poor on the bottom.


I'm not familiar with any of these circumstances. Has the free market ever existed? Where has socialism existed long enough(before being suppressed by those capitalists) to gather any data? And I am not advocating "socialist policies", that is a misnomer.


> You completely skipped over my comment about the Clinton era leading to the house bubble.




If you think anything any US president has ever done has anything to do with communism or socialism, you should educate yourself what these things are.


>You can not compete with the World economy under communism. You can not save the poor under socialism. You can not multiply, by division.
We will never evolve to your ideal because it is an impossible one.



These are opinions, not backed by anything but old scare tactics to keep you feeding the 1%.



>Then one day, everyone's house was getting foreclosed.


That's a capitalist problem, with cooperation from a government owned by these same capitalists. Why do you think this has anything to do with communism?


> As I looked further into why, it was apparent I was being fed bull shit my entire life,...


What the hell did FOX tell you?







I hope you are reading other posts in this subreddit and can get your misconceptions cleared up. Here's a thin book that can help you understand, as well.



Good wishes!

What makes you believe Freud is better than these women? He may have contributed to psychology, but a lot of it based on archaic oppressive bullshit. You can take what you want from pop-psychology, if it helps people understand their minds, feelings, thoughts and behaviours then what's wrong with that?

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I highly recommend reading these. I still stand with my stance on fuck Freud.

1. Freud: The Making of an Illusion
   
   
2. 7 disturbing facts about Sigmund Freud
   
   
3. Freud Was a Fraud: A Triumph of Pseudoscience