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Loved Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins by Erich Neumann? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl · 1946 · Psychology

    A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.

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    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 · Psychology

    The psychologist who coined the concept of 'flow' — the state of complete immersion in a challenging activity — presents his research on optimal experience and argues that happiness comes not from leisure but from deep engagement with work and activity that stretches our abilities.

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · Psychology

    How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.

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    The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel van der Kolk · 2014 · Psychology

    How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.

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    Between the Acts

    Virginia Woolf · 1941 · Psychology

    "Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book an

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    Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur

    Arnold Hauser · 1951 · Psychology

    First published in 1951 as Socialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur, Arnold Hauser's comprehensive work explores the interaction between art and society. Through the detailing of social and historical

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    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding · 1954 · Psychology

    Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to g

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    The Art of Loving

    Erich Fromm · 1956 · Psychology

    "The Art of Loving" (1956) is a seminal work by psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm. In this book, Fromm explores the concept of love in a profound and comprehensive manner, arguing that

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    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller · 1961 · Psychology

    Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is tot

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    Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937 · Psychology

    Napoleon Hill's quintessential volume _Think and grow rich_, the all-time bestseller in the field of professional success, outlines the laws of success and sets the standard of today's motivational th

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