Psychology · Similar reads
Books like Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb is about emotional neglect, childhood, self-awareness. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Daring Greatly
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Brené Brown · Health
Daring Greatly is Brené Brown's argument, drawn from twelve years of qualitative research on shame and vulnerability, that the willingness to show up without guarantees — to be seen, to risk failure, to remain open in the presence of uncertainty — is not weakness but the foundation of courage, connection, and meaningful achievement.
Read the summary → - Lost Connections
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Johann Hari · Health
Lost Connections is Johann Hari's argument that depression and anxiety are not primarily chemical imbalances in the brain but responses to social and environmental conditions — disconnection from meaningful work, close relationships, the natural world, a secure future, and status that feels deserved.
Read the summary → - The Body Keeps the Score
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Bessel van der Kolk · Psychology
The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van der Kolk's account of four decades spent studying and treating trauma, from Vietnam veterans at the VA in the 1970s to survivors of childhood abuse, accidents, and domestic violence.
Read the summary → - Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.
Read the summary → - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Susan Weinschenk · Psychology
Susan Weinschenk is a behavioral scientist and UX consultant, and this book is her translation of cognitive science research into practical guidance for designers.
Read the summary → - A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology
A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.
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