I'm looking for a new book to read. I want something that's really going to make me think. What's the creepiest or most thought-provoking psychology book you've ever read?
Like, a psychological thriller? Or an actual non-fiction medical book?
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” by Oliver Sacks is extremely sad, and if you have a family history of dementia, also extremely scary. It’s real stories about patients with various conditions that lead them to being unable to remember who they are, their lives, or sometimes to tell the difference between people and objects. It’s a VERY good read, but it left me traumatized.
Xan_Winner on
Creepiest? Go look up Freud’s research.
He found out that a lot of little girls said that they got molested by their own fathers. When he published that, he got so much backlash that he invented a disorder – he claimed that a lot of girls wish that their fathers would sleep with them, so they supposedly make up lies about it.
Absolutely chilling. For decades this bogus disorder was used to discredit victims, all because Freud was a cowards who bowed to backlash.
FullMetalBriefcase on
Not a psychology book per se, but Mad in America is a pretty frightening history of mental health care in America. You might also check out My Lobotomy.
damselmadness on
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AdmirableGanache4296 on
Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright
A non fiction that reads like a thriller. It’s a true account of a family, in which, the daughters accused their own father of sexual assault.
malware-deus on
* Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
* We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shrive
MaximumCaramel1592 on
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. It’s about learning to trust your feelings of fear and discomfort. Reading about people talking about those feelings which they had but didn’t act on (and what then happened) was absolutely chilling.
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Like, a psychological thriller? Or an actual non-fiction medical book?
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” by Oliver Sacks is extremely sad, and if you have a family history of dementia, also extremely scary. It’s real stories about patients with various conditions that lead them to being unable to remember who they are, their lives, or sometimes to tell the difference between people and objects. It’s a VERY good read, but it left me traumatized.
Creepiest? Go look up Freud’s research.
He found out that a lot of little girls said that they got molested by their own fathers. When he published that, he got so much backlash that he invented a disorder – he claimed that a lot of girls wish that their fathers would sleep with them, so they supposedly make up lies about it.
Absolutely chilling. For decades this bogus disorder was used to discredit victims, all because Freud was a cowards who bowed to backlash.
Not a psychology book per se, but Mad in America is a pretty frightening history of mental health care in America. You might also check out My Lobotomy.
Why is this post in quotes?
Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright
A non fiction that reads like a thriller. It’s a true account of a family, in which, the daughters accused their own father of sexual assault.
* Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
* We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shrive
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. It’s about learning to trust your feelings of fear and discomfort. Reading about people talking about those feelings which they had but didn’t act on (and what then happened) was absolutely chilling.