pickThis is an interesting work of psychology. It‘s a collection of essays inspired by Jungian theories of the collective unconscious and dream symbolism. Of course, Jung‘s essay is the stand-out of the bunch. I listened to this but got the paperback to reference images and interpretations of art. Very interesting book!
As a psychologist I often wonder by what standards do we have the right to judge others with our IQ, personality, emotional, among others the test to judge IQ are and have been proven to be biased so how can anyone consider them valid, but we do still use other test we need to change the standardization of testing and judging specifically children tests 🙌🏽
pickI really enjoyed this book. The author was genuinely interested in the gifts his mother had. He was always healthily skeptical, but never a jerk about it. This is a memoir of that journey, and their relationship. In the end, he felt there was something to it that couldn‘t necessarily be explained, but wants the reader to form their own opinion. As a Medium myself, I‘ve had too many experiences that I can‘t explain, but it isn‘t my goal to ⬇️
so-soOne of those books that the tagline is super interesting — a memoir from an adult who participated as a child in the Block Study. Though this is a thread that runs through the book, the author has few memories of participating and has little access to files, so there‘s not much to go on. What we end up with is a memoir about a detached mother and horrible marriage. I didn‘t hate it, but it certainly doesn‘t deliver on its promise.
I just realized that two of my #weekendreads qualify for #ItTakesAllKinds
#F&NFWithSameTopic
= forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @rachelsbrittain
These three.
The Therapist is a Netgalley ARC;
The colour of blood is my March #Doublespin pick, an Irish hard-boiled mystery set in Dublin I'm not enjoying too much so far, sadly;
The tagged is a non-fiction about psychopathy in females by a very cool and well-known forensic psychiatrist in Germany.
Much #forensicpsychiatry this Easter!😂
#weekendreads #Bookspin #Ireland #Dublin #Netgalley #TheTherapist #psychopathy #LydiaBenecke
pickTough to understand for me....
so-soTowards the end of the book, Breslin explains that while she originally planned to write a work of investigative journalism about longitudinal studies and their impact on the study subjects, her publisher requested she make this book a memoir. This likely accounts for why the book consistently feels like neither one thing nor the other. It's interesting, but I think it would have been better if Breslin had been able to write it how she wanted to.
