Other Resources

Websites

These non-profit websites have reliable information on a broad range of topics.  They have toolkits, interactive experiences, questionaires, free information from experts -- all about things that relate to you!  

• Helpguide
• American Psychological Association
• Scientific American Mind
• Psychology Today
• Authentic Happiness
• Institute of HeartMath
• wikiHow

Public Broadcasting channels offer great information about emotions.   Exploring these websites is a great way to investigate your self.

• BBC 
• PBS
• CBC

Books

These books were the most interesting and readable.   Some are self-help and others present information.

 

Self Discovery

Alice Miller, Ph.D.  Recommended at the beginning of therapy --  provokes thinking about your childhood.

• Prisoners of Childhood:The Drama of the Gifted Child and The Search for the True Self (1979)

Timothy D. Wilson, Ph.D. is a Psychology Professor the unconscious mental and emotional processes involving problem-solving, personality and behavior.

• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (2004)

Sam Gosling, Ph.D is a Professor of Psychology at the University Of Texas

• Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You (2008)

Emotions and Feelings

Neuroscience

Antonio D'Amasio M.D., a neuroscientist at USC who researches emotion

• Looking for Spinoza: Joy Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (2003) 
• Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (2005) 

Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D.

• The Emotional Brain (1985)

Jonah Leher, staff writer at  The New Yorker (Frontal Cortex)

• Proust was a Neuroscientist (2007)
  

Philosophy

Robert Solomon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College who studies emotions:

• True to Our Feelings (2001)
• Not Passion's Slave   (2003)

        Primitive Aspects of Human Nature

Animal Emotions

Temple Grandin describes how animals experience the world.

• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. 

 

Jaak Panksapp, PhD. writes about the neural mechanisms of emotions in non-humans.

• Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (1998)

Social Aspects of Human Nature

Attachments and Relationships

John Bowlby, M.D, Ph.D.  was the psychologist who developed attachment theory

• A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development (1988)

Shelly Taylor Ph.D. a Professor of Social Psychology at UCLA

• The Tending Instinct: Women, Men, and the Biology of Relationships (2002)

John Hill, MA is a Jungian analyst who practices in Zurich Switzerland

• At Home in the World: Sounds and Symmetries of Belonging (2010)

 

Romantic Love

Ethel Persons  M.D. was a noted professor at Columbia University and a renowned psychoanalyst

• Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion

Alain de Botton is a philosopher who writes for ordinary people

• On Love: A Novel

Autism and Social Rules

Temple Grandin, is a brilliant autistic woman who works with animals and writes beautifully

• Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism
  

Interpersonal Biology 

Louis Cozolino,Ph.D.  is a Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University

•  The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain (2010
• The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain.(2006 )

Marco Iacoboni, MD, a scientist in Italy

• Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others (2008)

 

Reasonable Aspects of Human Nature

Willpower

Roy Baumeister, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Florida State University & John Tierney

• Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength: Willpower

Deciding

Jonah Leher, staff writer at  The New Yorker (Frontal Cortex)

• How We Decide (2009)

Conscious Processes 

Antonio D'Amasio M.D. is a Neuroscientist at University of Southern California

• Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Mind (2010) focuses on our reasonable realm.

Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. Psychology professor at Princeton

• Thinking Fast and Slow (2011)

Television

This Emotional Life is a 3-part PBS educational series about relationships and emotions.

Lie to Me is a television show about solving crimes using facial expressions and emotions to expose the truth and discover lies in criminal investigations  The idea was inspired by the scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman, Ph.D., a psychologist who learned how to read emotional clues embedded in the human face, body and voice.