Saturday, May 03, 2008

De Bono's Lateral Thinking Kicks Off My Psych Canon

I'm officially beginning my (pop) psychology education. I'm going to read a 50 work Canon starting with De Bono's "Lateral Thinking". I just finished this book (twice through), and it is fascinating. "Lateral thinking" is not a skill that, once mastered, provides epiphanies. This book is important because it really gets one thinking - about thinking. It gets into the processes of thinking. After this it's on to Freud, Int. of Dreams; Fred Skinner; Gavin De Becker, The Gift of Fear; Eric Berne (Transactional Analysis); Malcolm Gladwell, Blink; Karen Horney; Erik Erikson; Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person; Piaget, Maslow, Gestalt, Steven Pinker; Eric Hoffer, The True Believer; Daniel Goleman; R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness; etc., etc. I'll post a blurb about each book as I read same.

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