Secondhand Psychology & Ethics Bargain Book Box SP4296

Secondhand Psychology & Ethics Bargain Book Box SP4296

Twenty-one psychology and philosophy paperbacks, many in vintage Pelican and Penguin editions: Jung’s Man and His Symbols, Laing’s Divided Self, Berne’s Games People Play and Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy, Storr’s Human Aggression, Argyle twice, Robert A. Johnson twice, Virginia Axline’s Dibs, Keirsey’s Please Understand Me II, Mackie’s Ethics, Glover’s Causing Death and Saving Lives, G.E. Moore, Meltzer’s Kleinian Development in two parts, and two books on relational frame theory. A psychotherapist’s shelf.

1. Man and His Symbols — Carl Jung — Jung’s last work, written for the general reader at a publisher’s request, with chapters by his closest followers on dreams, archetypes and art. The way into Jung, in the Picador edition with the moon cover.
2. The Psychology of Romantic Love — Robert A. Johnson — Tristan and Iseult as a map of why Western love is doomed to disappoint: we fall in love with the god in the other person and then blame them for being human. Johnson’s “We”, in the Arkana edition.
3. Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy — Eric Berne — The 1961 book that laid out Parent, Adult and Child before Games People Play made them famous. Evergreen edition.
4. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong — J.L. Mackie — There are no objective values; morality is something we invent, and here’s how. The most argued-with book in twentieth-century ethics, and still the clearest statement of the sceptical case. Pelican.
5. Ethics — G.E. Moore — Moore’s short follow-up to Principia Ethica, on what makes an action right. OPUS 10.
6. The Social Psychology of Work — Michael Argyle — Why people work, what makes them good at it, and what wrecks it. Pelican with the Chaplin cover.
7. Causing Death and Saving Lives — Jonathan Glover — Abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, war: the moral problems worked through one at a time, without dogma. The Oxford philosopher’s classic; an excellent example of moral philosophy illuminating practical problems, says the Journal of Medical Ethics. Penguin.
8. Understanding Jung, Understanding Yourself — Peter O’Connor — The Melbourne Jungian analyst’s introduction, written for Australians. Methuen.
9. Human Aggression — Anthony Storr — We are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth, Storr begins, and asks why. The 1968 Pelican that made him.
10. Gestalt Therapy Now — ed. Joen Fagan & Irma Lee Shepherd — Fritz Perls and his school on the here-and-now method. “You are you and I am I” on the cover, from the Gestalt Prayer.
11. Games People Play — Eric Berne — “Why Don’t You, Yes But,” “Now I’ve Got You, You Son of a Bitch,” and the rest: the psychology of human relationships as a catalogue of games. Five million copies, and still accurate about your family. Penguin.
12. Ethics — A.C. Ewing — An introduction to moral philosophy in the Teach Yourself series, yellow jacket.
13. The Divided Self — R.D. Laing — Schizophrenia as a sane response to an insane situation: the 1960 book that made Laing the voice of anti-psychiatry. The Pelican with the three-circle cover.
14. The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour — Michael Argyle — Why we stand where we stand and look where we look. The book that put body language on the map. Pelican Original.
15. Dibs: In Search of Self — Virginia Axline — A five-year-old boy who won’t speak, and the play therapist who waits for him. The true story that made play therapy famous. Pelican; “Dibs is the only real person I ever met who could teach me what it means to be a complete person,” says the note on the cover.
16. Learning RFT — Niklas Törneke — An introduction to relational frame theory and its clinical application, the theory behind ACT. Foreword by Dermot Barnes-Holmes, afterword by Steven Hayes.
17. Advances in Relational Frame Theory — ed. Simon Dymond & Bryan Roche — Research and application: the academic companion. Foreword by Jan De Houwer.
18. He: Understanding Masculine Psychology — Robert A. Johnson — Parsifal and the Grail as a map of a man’s life. Revised edition; the companion to She and We.
19. The Kleinian Development Part II: Richard Week-by-Week — Donald Meltzer — Klein’s analysis of a ten-year-old boy, session by session, with Meltzer’s commentary. Clunie Press.
20. The Kleinian Development Part I: Freud’s Clinical Development — Donald Meltzer — Freud’s cases as the ground Klein built on. Clunie Press.
21. Please Understand Me II — David Keirsey — Temperament, character, intelligence: the four temperaments and sixteen types, with the Keirsey Temperament Sorter inside. The book behind every personality test that isn’t Myers-Briggs.