Fans left a message saying that they wanted to learn psychology and asked if there were any books to recommend. Bian Xiao selected some popular and interesting books in various fields of psychology to recommend to you today.
Those interesting and professional psychology books.
Top 1。 Psychology and life
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Author: [America] Richard Grieg/[America] philip zimbardo
Impact: 9.5
Introduction: This book is a classic textbook for psychology courses and a must-read for every psychology major. This book is also recommended by ETS as the main reference book for GRE psychology test. There are more than 600 words and explanations, more than 2,000 references, and nearly 1 0,000 titles and subject indexes in the book. The writing is fluent and easy to understand, and it goes deep into life. It connects the theory and knowledge of psychology with people's daily life and work, and is an excellent reading for the general public to understand psychology and themselves.
Top 2。 developmental psychology
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Author: [America] R.S.Friedman
Impact: 9.5
Introduction: This book is a textbook recommended by the Chinese Psychological Association, with a wide range of contents. There are not only the introduction of classic research, but also the timely reflection of the latest research results. It has a very fundamental role for each of us, which is to help us be good parents (understand children); Be yourself (understand young people); Be a good boy (understand middle-aged and elderly people). Everyone can find their own growth and development in the book, which is very practical. If you want to see the original English, you can look for it. Graphic combination, highly recommended.
Top 3。 social psychology
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Author: [America] David Myers
Impact: 9.4
Introduction: This book perfectly combines basic research with practical application, and leads students to understand how people think, influence others and establish contacts with others with logical organizational structure. It is the best guide book for people to know themselves, society and the relationship between themselves and society. As a leading textbook in the field of social psychology, this book is the standard for evaluating other textbooks. Conformity, social beliefs, social conflicts and other phenomena can be found in this book professional explanation. The recommended index is five stars.
Top 4. 40 psychological studies of change
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Author: [America] Roger Hawke
Impact: 9.3
Introduction: This book includes ten fields of psychology, and four studies are selected in each field. Each study is introduced according to the same structure, including attractive topics, original sources, research background, theoretical assumptions, research methods, research results, discussions, significance of the results, criticism, recent applications and references. These classic studies introduced in this book are undoubtedly very important for both a beginner in psychology and a professional worker who takes psychology as his lifelong career. Recommended.
Top 5. Introduction to psychoanalysis
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Author: [Austrian] sigmund freud
Impact: 9.3
Introduction: This book is the most important classic of psychoanalysis. The book contains Freud's most important theories: error, sex, dreams and subconsciousness, which is the best choice for understanding Freud 100 psychoanalysis. The basic concepts and methods of psychoanalysis theory are deeply expressed in this book. Children's shoes interested in psychoanalysis are required reading. Some of them are profound and need to be savored. The suggested index is five stars.
Top6。 Evolutionary psychology
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Author: [America] David Bass
Impact: 9.3
Introduction: This book is a benchmark work in the field of psychology, authoritative and readable, and looks at human psychology and behavior from the perspective of evolution. It is the first textbook in the field of evolutionary psychology and the foundation work in this field. Author David Bass is a world leader in evolutionary psychology. He looks at the psychology and behavior of himself and others from a brand-new perspective, covering all aspects of daily life, which makes people suddenly enlightened and unbearable to read.
Top 7. oneself
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Author: [America] jonathan brown
Impact: 8.9
Introduction: This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in psychology, sociology and other fields. This book can also be used as an auxiliary teaching material for social psychology or as a teaching material for self-specific courses. All readers can get their own ideas about combining philosophy, sociology and psychology in this book. Its materials are novel, its research methods are rigorous and its expression is fascinating.
Top 8. The mask of the mind
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Author: [America] blakeman
Impact: 8.8
Introduction: This book can be called "the most comprehensive psychological defense mechanism in history". By using metaphors, cases and dialogues, the author makes extremely complex concepts and contents approachable. This book explains why people develop certain defenses and provides skills to identify unconscious defenses. This is the significance and origin of a valuable guiding ideology and behavior, whether it is a novice therapist, an experienced professional or anyone interested in human thinking. See what defense mechanism you have used, and recommend a four-star index.
Top 9. Intimate relationship
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Author: [America] Sharon Bourne/Daniel Paalmann/Roland Miller/Susan Campbell.
Impact: 8.8
Introduction: This book has long discussed the understanding and judgment of intimacy among poets, playwrights, philosophers and even physicians. For thousands of years, scientists have neglected the study of intimacy. When popular psychology occupies the dominant position of relational studies, people's knowledge and understanding of interpersonal relationships are often superficial or even wrong. This book will give us a new understanding of love, marriage, commitment, friendship, passion, understanding, communication, intimacy, attachment, partner choice, jealousy and so on. I strongly recommend this book for understanding intimate relationships such as love and marriage.
Top 10。 the lucifer effect: understanding how good people turn evil
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Author: [America] philip zimbardo
Impact: 8.8
Introduction: This book was written by the famous Professor zimbardo, and this interesting old man wrote Psychology and Life. Many years ago, he conducted the famous "Stanford Prison Experiment", recruited a group of college students as experimental objects, and artificially built a mock prison, which was almost a dime. Pay these people 15 dollars every day. Some people play prisoners, others play prison guards. The experiment was originally planned for two weeks, but it could not be carried out after five days. The original simple college students have become brutal jailers and collapsed prisoners, so the experiment had to be terminated, and even zimbardo himself was involved. In this book, zimbardo deeply analyzes the complex human nature, analyzes the influence of "situational power" on individual behavior, and analyzes the situational influence of prisoner abuse and genocide in prison.
Top 1 1。 emotional quotient (EQ)
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Author: [America] Daniel Gorman
Impact: 8.8
Introduction: The author of this book uses the breakthrough research of brain and behavioral science to explain the influencing factors of poor performance of high IQ people and excellent performance of ordinary IQ people. These factors include self-awareness, self-discipline and empathy, which are not innate, but can find another way for us to improve our intelligence. This book not only breaks the innate determinism of IQ for a long time, but also puts forward a key explanation to the problem of "emotional wisdom" that has been discussed for a long time in psychology. I sincerely recommend this book.
Top 12。 A gift for a therapist.
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Author: [America] Jalom
Impact: 8.7
Introduction: Jarom is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a master in the field of psychotherapy in the United States at present, and his contribution to existential therapy and group therapy is particularly outstanding. This book was written by him in combination with his decades of clinical experience, and selected 85 suggestions for the new generation of therapists, hoping to pass on his experience to the next generation. There are often some wise words in this book, which are thought-provoking. I may not understand it after reading it once, so I need to chew it again and again.
Top 13。 Personal formation theory
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Author: [America] carl rogers
Impact: 8.7
Introduction: This is a book written for "smart ordinary people". It consists of various speeches and articles by Rogers, and also represents Rogers' main viewpoints. Rogers, as a master of humanistic psychology, has always advocated actively paying attention to visitors unconditionally and listening to them very seriously. There are many dialogue fragments in this book, including his answers to some offensive words. The lines between the lines reflect his recognition of the goodness of human nature and are worth reading.
Top 14。 When Nietzsche cried
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Author: [America] Irving D. Allen
Impact: 8.7
Introduction: What kind of story will Nietzsche have when he meets Freud's mentor? This is a classic psychological reasoning novel. Most of the characters in the book come from real history. Under the disguise of two masters: Nietzsche and buhrer (Freud's mentor) at the end of 19, the author connected them into a doctor and a patient according to historical facts, which opened a gripping "talk therapy". What is Nietzsche's dilemma in life? How did he get in touch with Dr buhrer? Who is the patient? Who is the doctor? Poetic language, rational and meticulous thinking, suspense plot, climax after climax, but unexpected ending. Owen is the only remaining master of international psychiatry in the world, and all his books are very good. In addition, he recommended the lie diagnosis chair, the love executioner and Schopenhauer therapy.
Top 15。 The art of love
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Author: [America] Ai Fromm
Impact: 8.6
Introduction: This book is regarded as the most famous work in contemporary love art theory monograph. Love is an art, and people who want to master it need to have knowledge and make efforts. Here, love is not just a narrow love between men and women, nor can it be obtained by honing and improving skills. Love is the display of the whole personality. To develop the ability of love, we need to strive to develop our own personality and move towards beneficial goals. Fromm believes that love is not an emotion that has nothing to do with people's maturity, but only needs input. If you don't work hard to develop your whole personality and realize a creative tendency, then every attempt at love will fail. If you don't have the ability to love others, if you can't really love others with humility, courage, sincerity and self-discipline, then people will never be satisfied in their love life. If you want to love more comfortably and get high-quality love, this book is a good recommended reading.
Top 16。 Motivation and personality
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Author: [America] abraham maslow
Impact: 8.4
Introduction: This book mainly tells Maslow's efforts to collect scientific facts about human nature, trying to make axiology research based on science, and then become a "value science", thus making his humanistic psychology essentially different from classical humanism. Maslow believes that the prosperity of life and society, the progress of science and technology, the popularization of culture and education, the formation of democratic politics and sincere and beautiful wishes have not brought real peace, friendship, tranquility and happiness to the broad masses of people, mainly because the pursuit of material wealth has become the mainstream of society, but the desire for spiritual value has not been met. However, due to many fragments and obscure quotations in the book, it is difficult for us ordinary readers to fully grasp his profound thoughts, so we recommend four stars.
Top 17。 Inferiority and transcendence
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Author: [Austria] alfred adler
Impact: 8.4
Introduction: This book is the representative work of Adler, the pioneer of individual psychology. In this book, he tells us that to understand a person, we must start with his past, and a person's lifestyle is consistent with his knowledge and understanding of past experiences. Inferiority is not terrible. The key lies in how to understand your inferiority, overcome difficulties and surpass yourself. Adler and Freud are neck and neck. There is also a discussion about memory and dreams in this book, which is based on psychoanalysis. In addition, there are views on social issues such as education, family, marriage and crime, which are worth reading. The wheat psychology section has been updating the reading version of this book recently. You can listen to it. Miss watermelon has a sweet voice.
Top 18。 The trajectory of life
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Author: [America] Steven Arroyo
Impact: 8.2
Introduction: This is a highly echoed modern astrology book. It provides readers with a set of deep astrology methods based on Jungian psychology and oriental philosophy, aiming to help readers understand the individual's life trajectory in the universe by using astrology, so as to realize personal transformation and promote spiritual and psychological growth. This new astrology method is completely different from the traditional prediction-oriented astrology. It is based on the law of karma and the driving force of self-transformation, with special emphasis on the importance of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in transforming karma. All astrological techniques are used to promote personal growth. Friends who are interested in self-knowledge and spiritual growth can have a look, and there must be good gains.
Top 19。 Bouquet for Al Jinong
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Author: [America] Daniel Keyes
Impact: 8.2
Introduction: This is a book that makes people feel full of pain and warmth, makes people smile and makes people sad. The story tells that charles gordon was treated unfairly by his parents and the environment because of his congenital mental retardation. But he is simple and kind, thinks that everything in the world is beautiful, and regards his work partner bullied by the bakery as a good friend. Knowing that he was not smart enough to meet his mother's expectations, he became the subject of two scientists' experiments and underwent brain surgery with algie Nong, a real experimental mouse. Gordon gradually became a genius from a mental retardation, but his life fell from the clouds into the dark abyss of anxiety, anxiety, paranoia and suspicion. He found that the real society is so ugly, human nature is not sincere and pure, and sensitive thoughts bring him wisdom and tangled pain. This incomplete experiment is doomed to failure after all. When Gordon climbed to the top of his intelligence, he knew that the experiment was doomed to failure. After experiencing various emotional changes, he tried to find the reason. After he successfully completed the research of this failed experiment, his intelligence gradually declined and returned to his original essence. This book has been adapted into a film for many times, moved to the stage and screen of various countries, won the Hugo Award, and is worth reading.
Top 20. Elephants and riders
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Author: [America] jonathan heit
Impact: 8.2
Introduction: half of human psychology is like an unruly elephant, and the other half is like a rational elephant rider. These two split parts often make people fall into the struggle between rational and irrational thoughts. The author has studied Chinese and Western knowledge, integrated psychology, philosophy, ethics, religion, anthropology and other multidisciplinary knowledge, quoted a large number of psychological viewpoints in ancient and modern philosophy, literature and religion, and then verified these ancient wisdom with the research results of neuroscience and social psychology today, as the basis of empirical discussion, which not only made people see how psychology and psychiatry were distorted in the whole 20th century, but also actively put forward how human beings found happiness and the meaning of life in interpersonal relationships. This kind of discussion book about "positive psychology" is a rare type of psychological popular science works in China. Recommended reading, very good.
Today's books are recommended for the time being, and subsequent small series will recommend them to everyone.