Books like On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
12 books with a reading profile close to On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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Personality Types
by Daryl Sharp
Also inward-looking · theoretical, accessible
Daryl Sharp details the mechanics of C.G.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Also inward-looking and contemplative · theoretical, accessible
Oliver Sacks chronicles twenty-four case studies of individuals living with significant neurological deviations.
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, psychology
Susan Cain argues that the bittersweet state of mind—characterized by a tendency toward melancholy, longing, and an acute awareness of passing time—is a functional tool for creativity and human connection.
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Games People Play
by Eric Berne
Also inward-looking · theoretical, accessible
Eric Berne introduces Transactional Analysis as a method for dissecting social interactions into three ego states: Parent, Adult, and Child.
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
theoretical, accessible
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá argue that humans are not naturally monogamous but evolved in egalitarian, promiscuous hunter-gatherer groups.
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
by bell hooks
Also inward-looking · theoretical, psychology
In this 2003 work, bell hooks examines the psychological toll of patriarchy on men, arguing that traditional masculine socialization forces boys to undergo a "psychic self-mutilation" by severing their connection to the…
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
by Alice Miller
Also deep and inward-looking · theoretical, psychology
Alice Miller describes how children endowed with high sensitivity often abandon their authentic feelings to satisfy the emotional needs of their parents.
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Also inward-looking · accessible, psychology
Bruce Perry illustrates how extreme trauma and neglect reshape the physical architecture of the developing human brain.
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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Also deep and inward-looking · accessible, psychology
In Love’s Executioner, Irvin D.
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All About Love: New Visions
by bell hooks
Also inward-looking and contemplative · theoretical, psychology
Bell hooks argues that modern society lacks a theoretical map for love because it confuses the concept with simple desire or care.
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The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Also inward-looking and contemplative · accessible, psychology
Thirteen-year-old Naoki Higashida uses a handmade alphabet grid to communicate his internal reality as a non-verbal person with autism.
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