The world of books, research and even just book reviews themselves don't cease to amaze me. Sometimes I learn there are entire fields of research that are well known in the academic community, but not among the general public. They express my own ideas much more coherently than I can and it fascinates me how hard it actually is to translate one's own ideas.
Book reviews, too, always make me realize things I never thought about. I don't know why is that, maybe I'm just more ignorant than the average reading person. Either way I enjoy it and see it as a challenge.
Here's some books I am interested in.
Developmental psychology / psychopathology
Dante Cicchetti — developmental psychopathology (especially developmental cascades, and how trajectories emerge from interacting biological and environmental factors)
Gilbert Gottlieb — probabilistic epigenesis
Affective neuroscience / emotion and cognition
Antonio Damasio — Descartes’ Error
Jaak Panksepp — Affective Neuroscience
Clinical neurology / narrative approaches
Oliver Sacks — The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (especially the integration of clinical observation and narrative structure)
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