Hello, all.  I thought you might want to make use of this list of "summer readings" for people who are interested in psychology.  Have fun!  -- A.


Thanks to all for sending me suggestions for the summer reading list. I thought that some might be interested in seeing a compilation (in no particular order):

• The Psychology Major's Handbook, by T. L. Kuther

• How to Think Straight About Psychology, by K. E. Stanovich

• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, by M. Albom

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by M. Albom

• Forty Studies that Changed Psychology, by R. R. Hock

• The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by O. Sacks

• The Man Who Tasted Shapes, by R. E. Cytowic

• Fractured Minds: A Case Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology, by J. A. Ogden

• Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind, by J. A. Hobson

• The Case of the Frozen Addicts, by J. W. Langston

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death, by J.D. Bauby

• Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion, by A. S. Wylensky

• The Man with a Shattered World, by A. R. Luria

• Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy, by I. D. Yalom

• Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation, by E. L. Deci & R. Flaste

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by R. B. Cialdini

• Sleep Thieves, by S. Coren

• Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You, by R. J. Sternberg

• Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, by R. J. Sternberg

• The feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, by A. R. Damasio

• Mapping the Mind, by R. Carter

• Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by D. Blum

• An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, by O. Sacks

• Essentials of Understanding Psychology and Student Survival Guide, by R. S.Feldman

• Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D., by R. Peters

• Why we feel: The Science of Human Emotions, by V. S. Johnston

• Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology, and Evolution, by R. Plutchik

• Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, by D. Buss

Thanks again for the great suggestions!

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Michelle Marks Merwin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Tennessee at Martin
323 Humanities
Martin, TN 38238