The Myth of Psychotherapy
By: Thomas Szasz
3.93
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
s/t: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric & Repression
Want to Read $ 10.44"This is Freud's most characteristic tactic. We can watch it unfold throughout his life and writings: he belittles, demeans, and attacks others - only to claim that he is belittled, demeaned, and attacked by them. His patients, dominated and exploited by his demands for "free association", are "resistant"; his colleagues, pressed into the service of his "cause", are "disloyal";(...)"-Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy
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1. El Psicoanálisis ¡vaya timo!
By: None , None , CARLOS SANTAMARIA Y ASCENSION FUMERO , Ascensión Fumero Carlos Santamaría
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
El psicoanálisis está repleto de afirmaciones extraordinarias. Freud nos dice cosas como que los be… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
By: Kevin Dutton
3.75
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the… read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back."-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, is…"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact o…"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
4. The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
By: Viktor E. Frankl
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From the author of Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential works of psychiatric liter… read more
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- health
- psychiatry
- psychology
- philosophy
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- self help
"It goes without saying that meaning and purpose in life cannot be prescribed like a drug. It is not the job of a doctor to give meaning to the patient’s life. But it may well be his task, through an …"-Viktor E. Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
"By [anticipatory anxiety] I mean that the patient reacts to an event with a fearful expectation of its recurrence. However, fear tends to make happen precisely that which one fears, and so does antic…"-Viktor E. Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
5. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
By: Jerry B. Jenkins , George J. Thompson
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Improve communication, resolve conflicts, and avoid the most common conversational disasters throug… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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6. 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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- self help
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- mental health
7. The Everlasting Man
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.16
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
8. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
By: Michael E. Gerber
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small busine… read more
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- self help
9. Darwin on Trial
By: Phillip E. Johnson
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The controversial book that rocked the scientific establishment! Why? It shows that the theory of e… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. The Art of Seduction
By: Robert Greene , Робърт Грийн
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," s… read more
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- philosophy
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11. Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
By: Steven Kotler , Jamie Wheal
4.13
Format: 260 pages, ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2017 "A mind-blowing tour a… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
12. Frank: The Voice
By: James Kaplan
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
14. The Art of Loving
By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more
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- philosophy
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15. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
16. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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17. The Unseen Realm
By: Michael S. Heiser
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The Unseen Realm, Dr. Michael Heiser examines the ancient context of Scripture, explaining how i… read more
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18. Cosmos
By: Carl Sagan
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
19. The Course of Love
By: Alain de Botton
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"An engrossing tale that provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this p… read more
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20. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
21. The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment
By: Robert Biswas-Diener , Todd Kashdan
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In The Upside of Your Dark Side,two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that whi… read more
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22. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
By: Paul Bloom
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of other… read more
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23. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
By: Cal Newport
3.36
Format: 96 pages, ebook
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more
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24. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
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25. 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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26. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
By: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
4.45
Format: 270 pages, ebook
The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked… read more
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27. It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity
By: Michael Foster
4.30
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
“Men were made to rule. They always have and always will. Nothing can change that. Nothing will. It… read more
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- audiobook
28. Letter to the American Church
By: Eric Metaxas
4.28
Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition
In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy … read more
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- audiobook
29. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
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"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
30. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
31. The Myth of Psychotherapy
By: Thomas Szasz
3.93
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
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"This is Freud's most characteristic tactic. We can watch it unfold throughout his life and writings: he belittles, demeans, and attacks others - only to claim that he is belittled, demeaned, and atta…"-Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy
