50 Psychology Classics (61 page)

Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
(1970)

Abraham Maslow
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
(1971)

B. F. Skinner
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
(1971)

Gail Sheehy
Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
(1974)

Stanley Milgram
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
(1976)

Robert Bolton
People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
(1979)

Isabel Briggs Myers
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
(1980)

David D. Burns
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
(1980)

Milton Erickson
(by Sidney Rosen)
My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D
. (1982)

Howard Gardner
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
(1983)

Robert Cialdini
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
(1984)

Anne Moir & David Jessel
Brainsex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
(1989)

William Styron
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
(1990)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
(1996)

Robert E. Thayer
The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress
(1996)

Gavin de Becker
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence (1997)

Susan Forward
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You
(1997)

Daniel Goleman
Working with Emotional Intelligence
(1998)

V. S. Ramachandran
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
(1998)

John M. Gottman
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
(1999)

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, & Sheila Heen
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
(1999)

Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
(2002)

Martin Seligman
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment
(2002)

Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
(2004)

Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
(2005)

Louann Brizendine
The Female Brain
(2006)

Daniel Gilbert
Stumbling on Happiness
(2006)

The editions below were those used in researching the book. Original publication dates are stated in each of the 50 commentaries.

Adler, A. (1992)
Understanding Human Nature
, Oxford: Oneworld.

de Becker, G. (1997)
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
, New York: Random House.

Berne, E. (1964)
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
, London: Penguin.

Bolton, R. (1986)
People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
, New York: Prentice Hall.

de Bono, E. (1970)
Lateral Thinking
, London: Penguin.

Branden, N. (2001)
The Psychology of Self-Esteem
, New York: Wiley.

Briggs Myers, I. with Myers, P. (1995)
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
, Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black.

Brizendine, L. (2006)
The Female Brain
, New York: Morgan Road.

Burns, D. (1980)
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
, New York: William Morrow.

Cialdini, R. (1993)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
, New York: William Morrow.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1996)
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
, New York: HarperCollins.

Ellis, A. & Harper, R. (1974)
A Guide to Rational Living
, Los Angeles: Wilshire Book Company.

Erikson, E. (1958)
Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History
, London: Faber and Faber.

Eysenck, H.J. (1966)
Dimensions of Personality
, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Forward, S. (1997)
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You
, London: Transworld.

Frankl, V. (1969)
The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
, London: Meridian.

Freud, A. (1948)
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
, London: The Hogarth Press.

Freud, S. (trans. Joyce Crick) (1990)
The Interpretation of Dreams
, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gardner, H. (1983)
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
, New York: Basic Books.

Gilbert, D. (2006)
Stumbling on Happiness
, London: HarperCollins.

Gladwell, M. (2005)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
, London: Penguin.

Goleman, D. (1998)
Working with Emotional Intelligence
, London: Bloomsbury.

Gottman, J. & Silver, N. (1999)
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
, London: Orion.

Harlow, H. (1958) “The Nature of Love,”
American Psychologist
, 13: 573–685. Also at
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Harlow/love.htm
.

Harris, T.A. (1973)
I'm OK—You're OK
, New York: Arrow.

Hoffer, E. (1980)
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
, Chicago: Time-Life Books.

Horney, K (1957)
Our Inner Conflicts
, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

James, W. (1950)
The Principles of Psychology, Vols I & II
, Mineola, NY: Dover.

Jung, C. G. (1968) (trans. R. F. C. Hull)
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
, Princeton University Press.

Kinsey, A. (1953)
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
, Philadelphia: Saunders.

Klein, M. (1975)
Envy and Gratitude: And Other Works 1946–1963
, London: Vintage.

Laing, R. D. (1960)
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
, London: Penguin.

Maslow, A. (1976)
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
, London: Penguin.

Milgram, S. (1974)
Obedience to Authority
, New York: HarperCollins.

Moir, A. & Jessel, D. (1989)
Brainsex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
, London: Mandarin.

Pavlov, I. (2003)
Conditioned Reflexes
, Mineola, NY: Dover.

Perls, F., Hefferline, R., & Goodman, P. (1951)
Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
, London: Souvenir.

Piaget, J. (1959)
The Language and Thought of the Child
, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Pinker, S. (2003)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
, London: Penguin.

Ramachandran, V. S., & Blakeslee, S. (1998)
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
, New York: HarperCollins.

Rogers, C. (1961)
On Becoming a Person
, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Rosen, S. (ed.) (1982)
My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
, New York: WW Norton.

Sacks, O. (1985)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
, London: Pan Macmillan.

Schwartz, B. (2004)
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
, New York: HarperCollins.

Seligman, M. (2003)
Authentic Happiness
, London: Nicholas Brealey/New York: Free Press.

Sheehy, G. (1976)
Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
, New York: Bantam.

Skinner, B.F. (1971)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
, Indianapolis: Hackett.

Stone, D., Patton, B., & Heen, S. (1999)
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
, New York: Viking.

Styron, W. (1990)
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
, New York: Vintage.

Thayer, R. (1996)
The Origin of Everyday Moods
, Oxford: Oxford University Press.