The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene, 2018
A manual on power and self-knowledge that reads history's operators—Pericles, con artists, leaders—to show why we act against our own interests.
Psychology: books to read
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He did not want a statue. He wanted a city that could live without him.
“I could give you many other reasons,” he concluded, “why you should feel confident in ultimate victory, if only you will make up your minds not to add to the empire while the war is in progress, and not to go out of your way to involve yourselves in new perils. What I fear is not the enemy’s strategy but our own mistakes.” The novelty of what he was proposing aroused great debate. Neither hawks nor doves were satisfied with his plan, but in the end, his reputation for wisdom carried the day and his strategy was approved. Several months later the fateful war began. -
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, 1946
A psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz argues that meaning — not pleasure or power — is what keeps a person alive, and that it can be found even in suffering.
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Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell, 2019
Gladwell argues that our instinct to trust strangers is both society's foundation and its blind spot, and that we misread people we don't know.
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, 2008
Why the successful are rarely self-made: birthdays, ten-thousand-hour apprenticeships and one lucky terminal, arguing that opportunity is handed out far less evenly than we admit.
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The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, 2014
A psychiatrist's account of how terror lodges in the body, and what actually helps: breath, movement, other people. Part neuroscience, part fifty years of patients.
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Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen, 1993
Eighteen, in a Boston psychiatric ward in 1967, Kaysen reports on madness with a cool eye and a comic's timing.
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Η «απάτη» της ψυχοθεραπείας
Γ. Ελευθέριος Ελευθεριάδης, 2026
A short, deliberately unconventional encounter between psychology and Orthodox Christian thought, inviting readers to question how much we can claim to know about the human soul.
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Μεγαλώστε παιδιά MVP στον αθλητισμό και στη ζωή
Αχιλλέας Υφαντίδης, 2026
A practical guide for adults who want to help children build confidence, resilience and values—on the field and beyond it.
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Το καλό
Γιάννης Αθανασόπουλος, 2026
A reflective book about making room for kindness without confusing it with silence, and finding a steadier way to meet yourself and others.
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Λογική και Ψυχοθεραπεία
Γιάννης Παπαδάτος
A Greek psychologist argues for a view of psychotherapy grounded in human biology, critical reasoning, and the limits of what we know.
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Η ηθική της ψυχανάλυσης
Ζακ Λακάν, 1986
Lacan asks what psychoanalysis can say about desire, art and the good—and why desire may not lead toward happiness.
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Πληγωμένοι θεραπευτές
Κε-Μινγκ Λιν, 2021
Brief lives of psychology’s pioneers reveal how personal wounds shaped the ideas that changed our understanding of the mind.
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Ποσοτικές και ποιοτικές μέθοδοι επαγγελματικής αξιολόγησης
Νικόλαος Δρόσος, 2024
A practical guide to career assessment that asks how tests can support self-understanding without reducing a person to a score.
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Να προσέχεις
Γιάννης Αθανασόπουλος, 2024
A candid invitation to face fear, guilt and pain without pretending—and to make room for the possibility of light.
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Μικρή ανάσα
Ελευθέριος Γ. Ελευθεριάδης, 2024
Brief reflections on pain, faith, freedom and the possibility of change, told in direct language and grounded in human encounters.
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Ψυχολόγος τσέπης
Άννι Ζίμερμαν, 2023
A practical guide to understanding how early experiences shape adult patterns, relationships and self-talk.
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The people who hold the world together are never the majority.
You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to “saints.” Wouldn’t it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Man's Search for Meaning · Viktor E. Frankl
We read strangers in seconds and call it understanding.
We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy. If I can convince you of one thing in this book, let it be this: Strangers are not easy.
Talking to Strangers · Malcolm Gladwell
Being brilliant is not the same as being in the right room.
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?
Outliers · Malcolm Gladwell
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