Book recommandations

This list contains the essential works to devel deeper into different themes . This list is based on my personal opinion and it will be regularly updated. Stay tuned!

Clinical psychology 

  • Existential psychotherapy – Irvin Yalom
  • Man’s search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – Deborah Cabaniss
  • Advanced Techniques for Counselling and Psychotherapy – Christian Conte
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul – Carl Jung

Philosophy

  • The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
  • The Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nieztsche
  • A History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russel
  • Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  • Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nieztsche

Literature as Psychology 

  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • Paradise Lost – John Milton
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Spiritual Psychology and Eastern Wisdom

  • The Bhagavad Gita – Translated by Eknath Easwaran
  • The Great Work of your Life – Stephen Cope
  • `The Dharma in Difficult Times – Stephen Cope
  • The Way of Zen – Alan Watts
  • The Untethered Soul – Michael A. Singer

Symbolism 

  • The Hero With a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
  • The Power of Myths – Campbell and Moyers
  • The Symbolic World (Blog and video essays) – Jonathan Pageau
  • The Language of Creation – Mathieu Pageau
  • The Sacred and the Profane – Mircea Eliade