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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
Antonio Damasio
Harvest Books, 2000
A seminal work
+ An engaging discussion of consciousness
+ The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
I very seldom come across a book that is so groundbreaking in its content as to make me determined to fully understand what the author is trying to convey (even if it means rereading it three times!) Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens is an astonishing achievement and I believe that the science ...
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Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition
Peter D. Kramer
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997
Still the book of choice on subject of antidepressents and "Cosmetic Psychiatry"
+ A Good Book
This is another of those books that I have lent and given to many people dealing with mild to major mental illness and wondering what to do about it. This book gives the reader a better understanding of what ways the chemistry of the brain might manifest itself and shows case studies of what has ...
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The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes
Dean H. Hamer
Doubleday, 2004
Entertaining, erratic
To start with, the title is misleading. The important parts of the book are about spirituality (as in what Buddhists seek), which has little connection with God or churches. He does a moderately good job of describing evidence that he has identified a gene that influences spirituality. He makes ...
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Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, And The New Biology Of Mind
Eric Kandel
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2005
Fascinating synthasis of neuroscience with analytic-based psychiatry
+ Good reference
+ Surprisingly readable
+ A historical document of a wonderfull new mind
+ Vastly More Than a Text--The Future of Mankind's Mind
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Shadow Syndromes: The Mild Forms of Major Mental Disorders That Sabotage Us
John J. Ratey
Bantam, 1998
Cultivate your shadow hypochondriasis
+ an important book
+ Insightful observations, well written
Shadows Syndromes is a worthy read, in that it does a good job of highlighting the major disconnect between diagnostic categories and reality. While the DSM model has its uses (research and billing being the only two I can think of right now), it also serves to reify the notion that mental ...
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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
Antonio Damasio
Harvest Books, 2003
The Mind is shaped by Nature to ensure survival of the Body
+ A more personal Damasio
+ A joy to read
Spinoza was a remarkable 17th century philosopher whose Jewish family fled the Portuguese Inquisition to find refuge in Holland.
Spinoza held that `the mind' is simply a bodily process: it is not a separate entity from the body. Furthermore, he claimed that emotions, including spiritual emotions, ...
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Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think
Dean H. Hamer, Peter Copeland
Anchor, 1999
Outstanding synopsis of our biological roots
+ Good Introduction to the Concepts of Behavioral Genetics
+ This is a brilliant book
+ Why oh why oh why do you do me this way
+ groundbreaking
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Eric R. Kandel
W. W. Norton, 2007
From a reader severely lacking in scientific formation...
+ Sincere, honest, and intellectually entertaining
+ A Beautiful Retelling of a Personal and Scientific Quest
+ Thirty years studying a snail's neuron.
+ very informative and even entertaining
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Helen Fisher
Henry Holt and Co., 2004
speculative, but a brilliant attempt.
+ Summer Reading for Scientists!
+ Memorable
This book suceeds on two levels. First, it is scientifically rigorous, though speculative. (those who accuse Fisher of being a popularizer obviously have never read her technical journal articles, nor other articles on this subject by researchers. She is no more speculative than they.) Second, it ...
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
If you read one book on evolution...
+ Why take an interest in science?
+ We have a genetic predisposition to act self interestedly? Who woulda thunk it?
+ Shockingly Good
+ The Selfish Gene
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Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD
Daniel G. Amen
Berkley Trade, 2002
With Understanding, There Can Be Hope, Even with ADHD
+ A fantastic resource for ADHD
+ Useful but...
+ One Of The Better Ones
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Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience
Mark Solms
Other Press, 2003
Recommended
+ MANBRAINMIND
+ An excellent book of the new science of the mind!
+ this book is invaluable
+ The Brain and the Inner World:An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subejctive Experience
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Unintelligent design explained
+ Must read!
+ More a critique than anything else
+ Complex and Entertaining
+ like good medicine
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Unintelligent design explained
+ Must read!
+ More a critique than anything else
+ Complex and Entertaining
+ like good medicine
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
Antonio Damasio
Harvest Books, 2000
A seminal work
+ An engaging discussion of consciousness
+ The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
I very seldom come across a book that is so groundbreaking in its content as to make me determined to fully understand what the author is trying to convey (even if it means rereading it three times!) Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens is an astonishing achievement and I believe that the science ...
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