 | Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Professor Jonathan Glover
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.93 A most profound book from a very competent researcher weaving threads from history, philosophy and psychology in and attempt to account for atrocity. The only book on my list that's a must-read.
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 | Creating Mental Illness (Culture Trails) by Allan V. Horwitz
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $14.98 Important contribution to the political philosophy of psychiatry - and not as anti-realist as one might expect from the title
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 | The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz
Buy new: $24.34 / Used from: $15.49 Another vital read on mental health politics
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 | Madness Explained by Richard P. Bentall
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $10.84 An impressive critique of 20th century psychiatric taxonomy and its culmination in our current diagnostic system.
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 | Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience by Arthur Kleinman
Buy new: $16.34 / Used from: $5.69 An earlier humanistic re-think
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.72 A couter-balance to the strong social constructionists
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 | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.73 Contemplative rather than critical, but one of my favourite 20th century thinkers.
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 | An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.75 A psychiatrist's impressive personal account of life with bipolar affective disorder
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 | Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.49 |
 | The Therapy of Desire by Martha C. Nussbaum
Buy used from: $17.98 Hellenic ethics - the chapter on Lucretius and death is worth the book.
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 | On Suicide (Penguin Classics) by Émile Durkheim
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $9.00 A classic of sociology and an important (adjuvant?) perspective.
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 | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.28 An incredible book on what Frankl came to feel was the core human need - meaningfulness. All the more amazing for being born in the horror of Auschwitz.
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 | Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy new: $47.09 / Used from: $33.75 Moving forwards from Frankl
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 | Learning Act: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists (Context / Nhp Context / Nhp) by Jason B. Luoma
Buy new: $29.67 / Used from: $18.12 A cognitive therapy I like, also tipping a hat to Frankl and paying heed to personal meaningfulness.
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 | On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.33 A foundational text on the therapeutic relationship - theory aside.
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 | Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.42 A classic, touching and accessible introduction to psychotherapy with children
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 | Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics (Hodder Arnold Publication) by David H. Malan
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $27.25 Believe it or not, a book you can read cover-to-cover on psychodynamic theory.
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 | Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays by Frederick Crews
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.87 A collection of Crews most famous papers, sparkling with critical virtuosity. Includes some (in)famous publications from the New York Review of Books.
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 | The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute by Frederick C. Crews
Buy used from: $19.96 An erudite and incisive critique of repressed memory and the dynamic unconscious
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 | Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind by Peter D. Kramer
Buy new: $18.76 / Used from: $2.51 Interesting read from a experienced but critical psychotherapist
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 | House of Cards by Robyn Dawes
Buy new: $13.88 / Used from: $6.56 Research shows that psychotherapy works - but being clever about your theory is probably not much more than snobbery.
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 | Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally by Robyn Dawes
Buy new: $34.00 / Used from: $9.18 Another great read from a rigorous psychologist who likes to show us that we not so clever as we think.
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 | Let Them Eat Prozac by David Healy
Buy used from: $8.56 The drug companies really are that bad
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 | Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition by Peter D. Kramer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 Against pharmacological Calvinism
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 | Pragmatism - A Series of Lectures by William James, 1906-1907 by William James
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.50 A flagstone of 20th century American philosophy, and a good introduction to James' other work if you want to read him first-hand.
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 | The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $14.96 Classic, readable and still very relevant
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 | The Intentional Stance (Bradford Books) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $26.27 / Used from: $15.02 Can philosophical behaviourism actually explain the mind?
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 | Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind by Paul M. Churchland
Buy new: $15.48 / Used from: $2.75 The philosophy of mind landscape
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 | Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change by Andy Clark
Buy used from: $11.04 Philosophy of connectionist cognitive science
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 | Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $8.59 An impressive philosophical argument drawn from a classic deficit study in neuropsychology
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 | The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph Ledoux
Buy used from: $9.09 Emotions in the cognitive economy
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 | Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon by Antti Revonsuo
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $27.97 A recent naturalistic theory of consciousness
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 | Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.99 ...in a kind of psychological way
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.48 A long view on our culture and environment
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 | Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill? by Jonathan H. Pincus
Buy new: $12.78 / Used from: $8.94 Pincus is a clinician who can practice, think and write. This one's on psychopaths.
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 | Deliver Us from Evil
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $3.00 A paedophile priest and his victims. You decide if he's also a psychopath.
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