Reading List
Psychology
Child, Developmental & Social
Childhood and Society, Erik H. Erikson
Playing and Reality, D.W. Winnicott
The Child, the Family, and the Outside World, D.W. Winnicott
Home is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst, D.W. Winnicott
Deprivation and Delinquency, D.W. Winnicott
Understanding Human Nature, Alfred Adler
Understanding Life, Alfred Adler
Toward a Psychology of Being, Abraham H. Maslow
Cognitive & Behavioural
The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking, R. Peter Hobson
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, António Damásio
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, António Damásio
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman
Psychoanalytic & Relational
The Undiscovered Self, C.G. Jung
Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
Psychology and the East: Extracts, C.G. Jung
The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development, John Bowlby
I'm OK - You're OK, Thomas A. Harris
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships, Eric Berne
What Do You Say After You Say Hello, Eric Berne
The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Alice Miller
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment, Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals, Thomas Moore
Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul, Marion Woodman
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis, Karen Horney
Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization, Karen Horney
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, Karen Horney
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs
I and Thou, Martin Bube
Trauma & Mental Health
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Kay Redfield Jamison
On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind, Richard G. T. Gipps
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter A. Levine
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Pete Walker
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization, Onno van der Hart
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions, Johann Hari
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Elyn R. Saks
Philosophy
Western Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
Phenomenology of Spirit, G.W.F. Hegel
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, Erich Fromm
To Have or to Be?, Erich Fromm
Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud, Erich Fromm
The Art of Being, Erich Fromm
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism and Human Emotions, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
Islamic / Persian philosophy
The Fourth Intellectual Journey in Transcendent Philosophy - Spiritual Psychology, Mulla Sadra
The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din), Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Man and Islam, Ali Shariati
The Beginnings of Islamic Metaphysics (Bidayat al-Hikmah), Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
The End of Islamic Metaphysics (Nihayat Al-Hikmah), Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i
Nasirean Ethics, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Sociology / Politics / Culture
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Who Rules the World?, Noam Chomsky
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, Mohammed El-Kurd
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Orientalism, Edward W. Said
Culture and Imperialism, Edward W. Said
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, Susan Williams
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, Vincent Bevins
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Lenin
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Psychotherapy
Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalom
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalom
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, Irvin D. Yalom
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death, Irvin D. Yalom
What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations, Thomas H. Ogden
Psychoanalysis and Religion, Erich Fromm
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, Carl R. Rogers
A Way of Being, Carl R. Rogers
Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory, Carl R. Rogers
Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains, Louis Cozolino
The Development of a Therapist: Healing Others - Healing Self, Louis Cozolino
Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas, Deborah Anna Luepnitz
Existential Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalom
Inside Out and Outside In: Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Practice in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts, Joan N. Berzoff, Patricia Hertz
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text, Glen O. Gabbard
Psychoanalytic Listening, Salman Akhtar
Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Giuseppe Civitarese
Attention and Interpretation, Wilfred R. Bion
The Primitive Edge of Experience, Thomas H. Ogden
The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue, Thomas H. Ogden
Character Analysis, Wilhelm Reich & Wilhelm Reich