Social Scientists & Psychologists

In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story....

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....

The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness....

Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness....

The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens....

This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist....

A sympathetic and moving portrait, The Clairvoyant explores a young girl’s struggle to use her extraordinary powers both wisely and well....

For Amartya Sen, “home” has been many places, including Dhaka, in modern Bangladesh, where he grew up; Calcutta, where he studied economics; and Cambridge, where he engaged with the greatest minds of the 20th century....

Dr. Peter McGraw teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor....

Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....

Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer....

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics....

From one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, comes an intimate and astonishingly frank examination of her own rape at 15, the life of her rapist, and how both shaped her life and work....

Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....

Carl Gustav Jung, the man who created analytical psychology both as a concept and as a practice, was a complicated person. He is also very difficult to understand, partly because so many of his personality traits seem to be contradictory and sometimes mutually exclusive....

From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator....

Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson’s chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal....

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world....

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) reveals himself in this autobiography, which is simultaneously an account of the early history of psychoanalysis, to have been an outsider from the start....

From his working class roots in New Jersey to the “tune in, turn on, drop out” cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave to aging, Ken Dychtwald’s Radical Curiosity makes sense of his first 70 years of life....

Contained in this book are short summaries of the stories of the great visionaries and great minds of humanity that changed the game and changed the world. Rather than information overload like regular history textbooks, this book series tells the unique stories of the characters....

In a sweeping narrative, the author of the mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history...

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the 20th century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna....

First-hand accounts chronicle the life and spiritual journey of Bill Thetford, a brilliant, accomplished psychologist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on ego development....

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction....