Books like The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
12 books with a reading profile close to The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
Also deep · analytical, academic
Jonathan Haidt argues that moral judgment arises from rapid, emotional intuitions rather than logical reasoning.
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Also deep · analytical, academic
Philip Zimbardo provides a detailed account of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, examining how systemic forces and situational variables overwhelm individual morality.
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
analytical, narrative
Don and Mimi Galvin raised twelve children in mid-century Colorado, only to see six of their sons develop schizophrenia.
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Also deep · analytical, narrative
Michael Pollan chronicles the resurgence of clinical research into lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin, tracing their transition from fifties psychiatric tools to prohibited counterculture symbols.
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Skippy Dies
by Paul Murray
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Skippy is a fourteen-year-old boarding school student at Seabrook College, a Catholic school in Dublin, who dies in the first pages after collapsing in a doughnut shop.
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
by Gabor Maté
Also inward-looking · analytical, psychology
Gabor Maté argues that chronic physiological stress, often suppressed and unconscious, triggers autoimmune diseases and terminal illnesses.
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A Macat Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow
analytical, academic
Jacqueline Allan analyzes Daniel Kahneman’s research on the dual-process model of the human mind, which distinguishes between System 1 and System 2.
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Real Life
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Wallace, a Black queer doctoral student from Alabama, navigates a tense weekend at a predominantly white Midwestern university.
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Gifty is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she studies reward-seeking behavior in mice to understand the neural pathways of addiction and depression.
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The Woman Upstairs
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Nora Eldridge is a schoolteacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in her forties, once an aspiring artist, who has been living a careful, respectable life.
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Crossroads
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In suburban Chicago on a single day in 1971, the Hildebrandt family faces individual crises of faith and morality.
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Still Born
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In Mexico City, Laura and her close friend Alina reach their thirties with a shared resolve to remain childless.
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