Books,
magazines &
multimedia
Hopefully, by this stage, your appetite for psychology has been whet-
ted. If so, the following list of books, magazines, TV and radio shows,
blogs and Twitter feeds should give you plenty to feast on. I’ve avoid-
ed textbooks and focused instead on popular science and fiction, with
the emphasis on more recent publications.
Books
POPULAR SCIENCE
Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational
HarperCollins, 2008
Cheeky and revealing experiments described with wit by one of the world’s leading
behavioural economists. Also look out for his 2010 book, The Upside of Irrationality.
Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. A Brief History of Modern Psychology
Blackwell Publishing, 2007
The author has a passion for psychology’s history and it shines through in this slim,
entertaining volume.
Mick Cooper Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Sage, 2008
The many mixed and contradictory findings in the field of therapeutic research are
laid out and explained with great clarity.
Antonio Damasio The Feeling of What Happens, Body and Emotion in the Making
of Consciousness
William Heinemann, 1999
Emotion expert Damasio uses neurological case studies as inspiration for his
“embodied” theory of consciousness. Poetic and thought-provoking.