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The first group of books below are all about the issue of Happiness: research, thoughts, and how to attain it. They are written by people who have been in the psychological and social psychological study of the topic and so actually have more to say about the topic than just their own speculations.
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Strangers to Ourselves
Timothy Wilson
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Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth
Ed Diener & Robert Biswas Diener
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
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The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt
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Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy & Lasting Fulfillment
Tal Ben-Shahar
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csiksznihilyi
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Living Your Strengths
David Mullen
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These next few include books on Mindfulness and ways to address the internal negative monologue that is often responsible for much of the suffering that people feel.
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Full Catastrophe Living
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Guided Mindfulness Meditation (CD)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Arriving at Your Own Door
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Coming to Our Senses
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
Steven C Hayes
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The following are books about psychotherapy and about life. They are written by established tale spinners and professional therapists who are wise in the ways of lessons. Thus they are enjoyable as well as valuable.
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Becoming Attached
Robert Karen
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The Forgiving Self
Robert Karen
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The Road Less Travelled
M. Scott Peck
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Drama of the Gifted Child
Alice Miller
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If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him Sheldon Kopp
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Irvin Yalom is a master and world-renowned existential therapist. He has written the definitive books on existential therapy. He is also a great story-teller. As with tale spinners of the past, he embeds the nut of the primary lessons of modern living in these books. Read them and learn what truly good therapy can be all about. Some of these are explications of his therapeutic practice, some are novels.
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Steve Stosny has written a book alerting women to the ways men can sometimes use their anger to control and intimidate women. And Terrence Real has written one trying to help men recognize and deal with the ways in which that anger and irritability can often be an unrecognized expression of depression and desperation.
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Meanwhile, below are two books by the master of marital research and therapy, John Gottman
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For the attorneys and those involved with attorneys amongst you, the following are a sampling of books written for attorneys or about the legal profession that provide insight into some of the problems, pleasures and difficulties of that profession.
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Finally, the books below are written by scientists and researchers for the sophisticated lay public. They are attempts to clarify important issues in science in ways that are understandable to the rest of us. I have included several books by Oliver Sacks, an eminent neurologist, whose writing is clear and accessible. In addition are books by Daniel Schachter of Harvard and Antonio Damasio, both scientists and popularizers on the cutting edge of knowledge in the area of cognitive science.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
