Hey, psychology book lovers! What’s your favorite psychology book?
Hey, psychology book lovers! What’s your favorite psychology book?
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Hey, psychology book lovers! What’s your favorite psychology book?
The Help by Karen Stockett
I’ve never heard of it. What kind of psychology is it?
How is The Help a psychology book..?
Good question. My AP psych teacher recommended it in high school. More sociology based i.m.o. but still good
Lol
Haha. I was confused too. Are you talking about recommendations for psychological thrillers @Melissa?
Very good but I don’t think it is psychology. It’s actually an amazing book, and the movie just as good! I love it.
I mean psychology books like “How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less”, “The Psychology of Persuasion”, “What Every Body is Saying”, “The Power of Body Language” Those are some awesome books but I’m wondering what other ones are put there.
Ohh okay. Oops, haha. I’m not sure if I’ve read any honestly.. but I have some on my “to-read” shelf on Goodreads. You can add me if you feel like it. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/50933764-haley-yoesting-x1f33b
I’ll probably be adding more soon ?
@Melissa Haha. He might have left himself logged in on his Goodreads?
I don’t think he has that app and we have totally diff phones. . . . So weird. . . .
@Melissa That is really strange. I suppose just log him out.. and then log in as yourself? Haha.
I tried logging him out but i didnt see a place to do that. =(
I clicked “edit this” and it doesn’t seem to give me the option to log in as me. . . .
I figured it out. Looks like a cool app! =O
I’m so glad you got it figured out. You definitely won’t regret becoming a part of Goodreads ?
Oh, I can tell I won’t. It looks likr an awesome app!
There’s so many great things about it. If you get on the website version, you can see even more things you can do.
False Memory by Dean Koontz is a psychological thriller.
It’s not so much psychology, but The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is fascinating.
I have this on my Goodreads ☺️
It is endlessly fascinating. It’s amazing what the brain can do when it’s not functioning properly
@Alex I’ve always been interested in psychology, then I worked on a psych unit, and some recent medical happenings have only furthered my fascination with it.
No true psychology fans here? =( I’m so obsessed for some reason.
I love psychology(it’s my chosen field) but most of the stuff I read are abnormal psych or neurological issues as those are absolutely fascinating. Anything by Oliver Sachs is great.
Modern Romance by Azis Azari, its very informative and pretty funny, especially the audio book
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne
The Interpretation of Dreams By Freud
Ooh! I love dream interpretations!
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Thinking Fast and Slow
Predictably Irrational
Oh I forgot The Tell Tale Brain!
What’s that one about?
Man’s Search for Meaning
My fantasy fiction novel, Outside Ascension, was used as a required text for a PSY 201 class. Does that count?
I guess so. Lol
Population One — Tyler McNamer
What’s that one about?
Written by a 19 year-old with Autism. It’s many helpful chapters offer great support and understanding.
I’am ok your so so.
Hero with a thousand faces.
Three by Ted Dekker. I actually wrote a psychology paper around the book.
Dr. Brian Weiss books on hypno-therapy
I have been looking for this book for years and can’t remember what it’s called but it’s about a psychologist who helps a young women with coming to terms with her past about having satanic cultist abusive family. it was such a good book and I have tried for years to remember the name but it eludes me
Is it Michelle remembers?
let me do a google and see i thought it had to do with dark and light in the name
no that’s not it . this girls mind would shield her and send her “into the light” which she believed to be god but was just her brain coping.
Would that book be Hell Minus One by Anne Johnson Davis??
On becoming a person and A way of being
The Drama of the Gifted Child will give anyone a whole new take on their childhood and children’s psychology in general
I love this one. https://www.amazon.com/Development-Through-Life-Psychosocial-Developmental/dp/1111344663/
History and Systems of Psychology (gives you a well rounded approach that at least guides you in the direction you’re looking for), 40 Studies that Changed Psychology (talks about 40 studies whose experiment or the outcomes had a lasting impact on science), there’s another that talks about deviance which is really good to. If I can find it, I’ll circle back and drop the title.
Ohh… I’m writing these down!! I love these type of books but never know which ones are good.
Any of the Malcolm Gladwell books.
The optimustic creed i never read it but i wich to have a copie
The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog
The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck
The book that made me love psychological thrillers was See Jane Run
This is perhaps, in my opinion, the best book that gives you everything about psychology.
I own that. =)
Its the only informational book that I have that I actually love dearly! The info is so well put and quite intriguing!
It is good. =)
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls fucked me up and one of my fave psychological books
I want to read that
@Amy and she has a new book out called bad girls with perfect faces
I’m a Psychology major ?
Not a psychology book per se but A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel featuring a type of behavioral modification to combat antisocial behavior.
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Would love to see a list of them..
“How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less”, “The Psychology of Persuasion”, “What Every Body is Saying”, “The Power of Body Language” those are somw of my favorites so far!
If you’re looking for highly psychological novels try the Boom writers of the 1960’s-70’s in Latinamerica, such as Jose Donoso, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes etc,maybe some short stories… also try to look for the genre of “fantastic” literature.
You might also like Shirley Jackson novels, they tend to be short and have highly psychological content.