Recommended Reading
I've long believed that, to practice psychotherapy effectively, the worst thing you can do is read about psychology! I instead strongly recommend, particularly before graduate school and also in addition to graduate school, that you immerse yourself in literature, philosophy, history, and the like -- these works tell you about how people really live subjectively. Here are some books, in areas ranging from philosophy to psychoanalysis, and also some novels, that I have found particularly inspiring in terms of practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy:
Declarations: Human Rights, Freedom, Independance
United States Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was passed on July 2 with no opposing vote cast. A committee of five had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence. The term "Declaration of Independence" is not used in the document itself.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1793) is a French political document that preceded that country's first republican constitution. The Declaration and Constitution were ratified by popular vote in July 1793, and officially adopted on 10 August; however, they never went into effect, and the constitution was officially suspended on 10 October. It is unclear whether this suspension was thought to effect the Declaration as well. The Declaration was written by the commission that included Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just and Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles during the period of the French Revolution. The main distinction between the Declaration of 1793 and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 is its egalitarian tendency: equality is the prevailing right in this declaration. The 1793 version included new rights, and revisions to prior ones: to work, to public assistance, to education, and to resist oppression.
Consciousness
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Conundrums
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How Democracies Die
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I Am Not A Brain
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Inventing Human Rights
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Mind and Cosmos
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The Perennial Philosophy
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The River of Consciousness
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The Sympathizer
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The Unconscious Abyss
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When Einstein Walked with Godel
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Why The World Does Not Exist
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To the Lighthouse
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Darkness at Noon
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Infinite Jest
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Buddha
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Living In The End Times
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In Defense Of Lost Causes
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The Stranger
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Crime and Punishment
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Notes from Underground and the Double
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Death of Ivan Ilyich
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The Black Swan
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Mrs. Dalloway
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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution'
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Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice
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Quantum Physics for Poets
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Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
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Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism
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Against Love: A Polemic
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View
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Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
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I Am a Strange Loop
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The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul
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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
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Consciousness Explained
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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
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The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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The End of Science
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy
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The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression
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The Theology of Medicine: The Political-Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethics
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Psychotherapy East and West
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Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality
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Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 14: The Emergence of a Tradition
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A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
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Working with the Core Relationship Problem in Psychotherapy: A Handbook for Clinicians
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The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
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The End of History and the Last Man
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The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday
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2666: A Novel
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The Third Reich: A Novel
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O Pioneers!
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A Room of One's Own
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Anna Karenina
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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The Bell Jar
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
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The Subterraneans
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Midnight's Children: A Novel
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
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The Subterraneans
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Midnight's Children: A Novel
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American Pastoral
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Swann's Way
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The Things They Carried
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The Road
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On the Road
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Interpreter of Maladies
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Talk Talk
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Oedipus Rex
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Hamlet
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Errata: An Examined Life
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Crime and Punishment
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Don Quixote
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
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Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
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The Essential Chomsky
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The Ever-Present Origin
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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The Denial of Death
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Madness and Civilization
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Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
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