Comment: I'm not interested in filling this page up with unending lists of academic works on the world of affect and emotion. Rather, I want to offer just a few recommendations that can be categorized as "philosophically useful" to the emotional pilgrim. Being human, I'll include my own eBook, but at the bottom of this short listing.
The books I've chosen to recommend are not listed in any order of preference. It's a random listing.
The books I've chosen to recommend are not listed in any order of preference. It's a random listing.
![]() Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations
Jules Evans' book is deeply relevant to Wellbeing pilgrims. He writes of how we can all use philosophy to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Evans imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the world has ever known. Each of these ancient philosophers teaches a technique we can use to transform ourselves and live better lives. These practical techniques are illustrated by the extraordinary stories of real people who are using them today - from marines to magicians, from astronauts to anarchists and from CBT psychologists to soldiers. Jules also explores how ancient philosophy is inspiring modern communities - Socratic cafes, Stoic armies, Platonic sects, Sceptic summer camps - and even whole nations in their quest for the good life. ![]() The Antidote:
Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking A laugh-out-loud gem of a book. Countering a self-help tradition in which ‘positive thinking’ too often takes the place of actual thinking and feeling, Oliver Burkeman returns our attention to several of philosophy’s deeper traditions and does so with a light hand and a wry sense of humor. You’ll come away from this book enriched—and, yes, even a little happier. Perhaps a lot happier, having been exposed to a truth about how and who we are. . . . A marvelous synthesis of good sense, which would make a bracing detox for the self-help junkie. Many more to come for 'the patient'
![]() Beat Depression the Drug Free Way: Getting Better by Breaking the Myths My own eBook. It's more about myths than it is about depression. This was the product of 8 years research into the activities of the drug companies and how pharmaceutical interests forged an incredibly lucrative matrix of mythologies in our culture. It looks at just how and why we are "taken by" the contemporary myths, and how it is that the structure of our individual belief systems underpin all we believe about ourselves and our health and well-being. As professional reviewer said, "this book is not only about depression, but speaks a whole lot more about EVERY aspect of how we live our lives treading a path that is not in our best interests, but those of corporatism." Aside form the "myth" aspect, this book also helps take the reader through important exercises to dis-believe the Seven Deadly Myths and lead to an ability to balance emotions and understandings about their place in their personal environment. If interested in this book, contact me for a free copy. |