Comments | rachelmanija: Psychology books I am getting rid of, Part II

rachelmanija

Psychology books I am getting rid of, Part II

Jan 13, 2016 09:49

The Essential Jung. When people tell me Jungian stuff, I love it! And then I attempt actual Jung. Where are they even finding all those cool ideas? All I am seeing is (opening at random) Even though alchemy was essentially more materialistic in its procedures than the dogma, both of them remain at the second, anticipatory stage of the coniunctio, ( Read more... )

genre: psychology, psychology

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naomikritzer January 13 2016, 18:11:00 UTC

Treating eating disorders has changed like 180 degrees since 1996. If you're looking for a book, seek out something on Family-Based Treatment or the Maudsley approach.

This is written for a lay audience rather than psychologists but I found "Brave Girl Eating" to be riveting and it also talks in some detail about this approach to treatment and how it worked for one girl and her family.

rachelmanija January 13 2016, 21:32:33 UTC

Thanks! I will check it out. Honestly, sometimes books for laypeople are better. This is not my first go-round getting rid of useless books for therapists (and not because they were outdated, either. I have no idea why I have that ancient eating disorders book because it wasn't one of my school textbooks.)

osprey_archer January 14 2016, 02:19:14 UTC

The image of the disembodied dinosaur tail following some unfortunate psychoanalyst is hilarious. It sounds like the start of a surrealist dark comedy. Hopefully eventually the whole dinosaur will manifest and the psychoanalyst will have to ride it into battle.

rachelmanija January 14 2016, 02:24:32 UTC

I would watch that anime.

jinian January 14 2016, 13:21:11 UTC

But it's not disembodied -- it's attached to the psychoanalyst's butt. At the brainstem. Animate that!

osprey_archer January 14 2016, 13:49:26 UTC

THE PSYCHOANALYST WILL TURN INTO A DINOSAUR.

This is becoming more of a horror film than a comedy. Still into it.

sashajwolf January 14 2016, 18:14:52 UTC

Umm, it's not so much that Jung's easier to read in German, it's that having grown up in Germany makes it easier to read Jung, if that makes sense? Which is to say, I can understand him in German or English, but I totally get why non-German-speakers can't understand him in either.

Kant, now, is impossible in English but just about comprehensible in German, and Hegel is just about comprehensible in either but you'll wish he wasn't, when you get to the bit about how unbaptized people aren't really human if not before ;-)