Psychology books from Switzerland
Recommended psychology books (6)
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If you are into psychology here are some psychology books from Switzerland for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
1.
Answer to Job by Carl Gustav Jung EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Explores the religious symbolism present throughout the Bible as it reflects the nature, needs, and processes of the human consciousness
2.
El mundo es de cristal by Morris West ES
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
"El mundo es de cristal" es una novela sobre un hombre y tres mujeres en un conflicto que explora la delgada línea entre el amor y el odio, el bien y el mal, la fantasía y la realidad.
La narrativa se basa en hechos reales: un caso registrado en la autobiografía de Carl Gustav Jung. Su relato es breve y curiosamente críptico: «Una señora vino a mi consulta. Se negó a dar su nombre... lo que tenía que comunicarme era una confesión».
La versión de Morris West del encuentro es una fascinante mezcla de verdad y ... continue
3.
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. His unusual impulsiveness is driven by two chance encounters - with a mysterious Portuguese woman in a red coat; and with a book he finds hidden in a dusty corner of a second-hand bookshop, the journal of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat, Amadeu de Prado. With the book as his talisman, Raimund boards the night train to Lisbon on a journey to... continue
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Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle by Carl Gustav Jung EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Extracted from Volume 8. A parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena.
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The Red Book : Liber Novus by Carl G. Jung EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. “The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the in... continue
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The Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav Jung EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of individual responsibility and freedom in the context of today's mass society, and argues that individuals must organize themselves as effectively as the organized mass if they are to resist joining it. To help them achieve this he sets out his influential programme for achieving self-understanding and self-realization. The Undiscovered Self is a book that will awaken many individuals to the new life of the self that Jung visualized.