15 Best psychology books like That Was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy by Jonathan Shedler

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That Was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy

By: Jonathan Shedler

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1. The Ego and the Id

By: Sigmund Freud

3.82

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is t… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
"Ben her şeyden önce bedenseldir, sadece yüzeyden oluşan bir varlık değil aynı zamanda bir yüzeyin yansımasıdır."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

"The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

"Ben ile O arasındaki ayrım da çok katı olarak ele alınmamalı; unutmayalım ki Ben, O’nun özel bir biçimde ayrımlaşmış bir kısmıdır."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

"Das Ich sei zuallererst ein körperliches und werde durchzogen von Triebkräften, die entlang von körperlichen Vorgängen ihre Organisation erfahren."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

Cover of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert  Whitaker

2. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

By: Robert Whitaker

4.17

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker in… read more

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  • medicine
  • psychology
"...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)"

-Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

"If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medication…"

-Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

"And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer from any known "chemical imbalance". Howev…"

-Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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3. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

By: Alice Miller , None

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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4. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

By: Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky , Connie Burk

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often… read more

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  • psychology
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5. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

By: Hannah Green , Joanne Greenberg

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality int… read more

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  • psychology
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6. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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7. Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

By: Robert A. Johnson

4.29

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

A noted author and Jungian analyst teaches how to use dreams and inner exercises to achieve persona… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
"You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience."

-Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

"People were startled to hear that if we don’t go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time."

-Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

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8. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more

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  • psychology
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9. 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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  • psychology
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10. The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.68

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more

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  • psychology
"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

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11. The Marriage Plot

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

3.32

Format: 224 pages,

With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Euge… read more

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12. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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13. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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14. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more

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15. Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change

By: Stephen Rollnick , William R. Miller

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivat… read more

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16. Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

By: Deborah Anna Luepnitz

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy… read more

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17. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

By: Nancy McWilliams

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

This is the first text to come along in many years that makes psychoanalytic personality theory and… read more

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18. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

By: Nancy McWilliams

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Addressing the art and science of psychodynamic treatment, Nancy McWilliams distills the essential … read more

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19. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

By: John Gray

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together bec… read more

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20. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sunis a profoundly encouragin… read more

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21. The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

By: R.D. Laing

3.78

Format: None pages,

In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person wi… read more

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22. Freud and Man's Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory

By: Bruno Bettelheim

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Argues that mistranslation has distorted Freud's work in English and led students to see a system i… read more

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23. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

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"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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24. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

By: Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more

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  • psychology
Cover of Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione by Jonathan Haidt

25. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • psychology
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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26. Sometimes Therapy is Awkward

By: Nicole Arzt

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Sometimes therapy is awkward. And sometimes it's also painful, messy, and downright confusing. In i… read more

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  • psychology
Cover of Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

27. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • psychology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Cover of Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss

28. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

By: Mike Reiss

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and produce… read more

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"There were three great comedians in my formative years—Bill Cosby, Bill Murray, and Richard Pryor—and they wrecked comedy for a generation. How? By never saying anything funny. You can quote a Steve …"

-Mike Reiss, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

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29. The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy

By: Daryl Chow

4.19

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Many clients take the first step to see a psychotherapist and do not return after the first session… read more

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  • psychology
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30. That Was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy

By: Jonathan Shedler

4.52

Format: None pages, None

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  • psychoanalysis
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