Monday Marathon of Nothingness

[dotinthesky]

It's Monday again. At the rate I'm going, I'll have been on holidays for the last two months. I'm grabbing a few books today, a notepad, a pen, and spending my hours writing and reading. And drinking lots of tea. I've sent my CV to a temp agency and I'm going to wait and see.

Spin the wheel, spin the bottle, which office clerk will go into the closet with me for a kiss? Ok, it's absurd. I'll shut up now.

I want to write a proper post, about knick-knacks and weekends and trips to the supermarket and the latest d-celebrity spotted on the tube and children singing to Gerri Halliwell in the cinema, but it's just not coming.

I also want to understand more about Freud's definition of the death instinct. moonlightjoy, maybe you can explain this to me.

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I really love psychology and I wish I could read more about it... but I only learn from side texts. Any books you can suggest to a layman like me?

[moonlightjoy.livejournal.com]

hmmm.. i honestly don't know! see, the thing is, psych is such a diverse world.. you can't really find ONE book that will tell you everything, unless you pick up an Intro to Psych text book for university students...

The topics i'm most interested in are Cognitive Psychology (about the mind), Neuroscience (brain), Social Psychology (fairly obvious) and Abnormal Psych (weirdos).

Books.. hmmmm...

A really really great book i read was called _Searching for Memory_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465075525/qid=1080143459/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6962037-3919034?v=glance&s=books) by Daniel L. Schacter. I really really recommend it!

Other good authors: Steven Pinker (language stuff), Antonio Damasio (brain stuff - really interesting!).

Are you interested in any particular psychiatric illnesses?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Ha! We have a Steven Pinker book at home (How the Brain Works). I also read a book by Louis A. Sass which I loved (Madness and Modernism). I guess I'm looking for an interesting text which is not too dry. I'll check out the one you suggested.

♥

[moonlightjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'll love it!

And the Steve Pinker book is actually called _How the Mind Works_

funny because he actually doesn't mention the brain at ALL in his book!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

lol... my brain is all fuzzy.