The books that influenced me the most

Many people have written to me asking what they should read to properly educate themselves. Here is a list of books that I found particularly influential in my intellectual development.

Trigger warning: These are the most terrifying books I have encountered.

1. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

2. 1984 – George Orwell

3. Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm

4. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

5. Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky

6. Beyond Good And Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche

7. Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning

8. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski

9. The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang

10. Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

11. The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul – Carl Jung

13. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

14. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

15. Animal Farm by George Orwell

Notes From The Therapy Room

I write about what people bring into therapy but don’t say out loud.Fear of death, the need to be loved, quiet despair,

and the parts we hide even from ourselves.

Read them privately