Books Recommended by Jordan Peterson
Panzram
A Journal of Murder
Thomas E. Gaddis
Source: "He made friends with this physician in the prison [...] and the physician encouraged him to write his autobiography." - Jordan Peterson
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
Source: "It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology." - Jordan Peterson
Affective Neuroscience
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Jaak Panksepp
Source: "One of the best books on the neuroscience of emotion." - Jordan Peterson
The Gulag Archipelago (3 books)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
DMT
The Spirit Molecule
Rick Strassman
Source: "A very interesting book." - Jordan Peterson
History of Religious Ideas (3 books)
Mircea Eliade
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Demons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Aniela GregorekBryan JohnsonChelsea HandlerChip ConleyDaniel PinkDave ElitchDavid BlaineDustin MoskovitzEmma WatsonEsther PerelEv WilliamsFedor HolzJimmy FallonJocko WillinkJordan PetersonLex FridmanMaria PopovaMichael GervaisNaval RavikantRyan HolidaySam AltmanSimon SinekTerry CrewsTony RobbinsTuria PittPewDiePieShane ParrishMark MansonPhil JacksonTom BilyeuThe Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Words with Power
Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
Northrop Frye
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Erich Neumann
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Theodore Dalrymple
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal System
Jeffrey A. Gray
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Mephistopheles
The Devil in the Modern World
Jeffrey Burton Russell
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
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