5 must-read counselling books like Active Listening by Carl R. Rogers

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Active Listening

By: Carl R. Rogers

3.98

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical R…

"A person`s listening ability is limited by his ability to listen to himself."

-Carl R. Rogers, Active Listening

If you liked the counselling plot in Active Listening by Carl R. Rogers , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Understanding Life

By: Alfred Adler

3.86

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

An inspiring work that offers direction and wise counsel for increasing awareness of self, one's mo… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human fai…"

-Alfred Adler, Understanding Life

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2. Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

By: Michael Matthews

4.22

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

If you want to be muscular, lean, and strong as quickly as possible without steroids, good genetics… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction

By: Gary Wilson , Anthony Jack

4.22

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

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5. Terminal Lance: The White Donkey

By: Maximilian Uriarte

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The surreal journey of a United States Marine to and from Iraq. Written and Illustrated by Terminal… read more

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6. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

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  • communication
  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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7. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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8. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

9. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

By: Scott Adams

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you've ever met or anyone you've even hear… read more

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10. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

By: William B. Irvine

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more

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11. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

By: David D. Burns

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black… read more

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12. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

13. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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14. Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Wanted to Know about Bipolar But Were Too Freaked Out to Ask

By: Hilary T. Smith

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Bipolar is one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions among teens and twenty-somethi… read more

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15. Understanding Human Nature

By: Alfred Adler

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1927 this book attempts to acquaint the general public with the fundamental… read more

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16. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

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17. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

By: Kate Murphy

4.08

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more

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  • communication
  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You’re not listening!"

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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18. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

By: Frans de Waal

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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19. Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

By: Viktor E. Frankl

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his internati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"A human being should never become a means to an end."

-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

"It is the nature of love that makes us see our loved one in their uniqueness and individuality."

-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

"To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances."

-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

"We also do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains."

-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

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20. Active Listening

By: Carl R. Rogers

3.98

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical R… read more

Similar categories in Carl R. Rogers's Active Listening book and Carl R. Rogers's Active Listening

  • communication
  • relationships
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"A person`s listening ability is limited by his ability to listen to himself."

-Carl R. Rogers, Active Listening

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21. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist's Guide (Practical Therapist)

By: Albert Ellis

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Updated resource for practicing therapists from the father of rational therapy. Modern cognitive-be… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

14 best-selling nonfiction books like Active Listening by Carl R. Rogers

Transform Your Habits

Understanding Life

Alfred Adler

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

Michael Matthews

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction

Gary Wilson , Anthony Jack

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

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16 must-read nonfiction books like Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Arun Gandhi

Transform Your Habits

The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

Leonard Scheff , Susan Edmiston

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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