The 8 best psychology books you can't miss

The 8 best psychology books you can't miss

According to the RAE, "psychology is the science or study of the mind and behavior in people and animals." It's funny how some, including myself, when we hear the word science we think of a million numbers, formulas and unintelligible words. However, part of the scientific community has made an effort to provide us with informative material that brings us, as non-specialized readers, closer to scientific knowledge. Reading about psychology is not, therefore, a pleasure reserved only for those who have completed the degree. We can all do it. A) Yes, If you want to know more about how the human mind and behavior work, delve into this list of the 8 best psychology books that you cannot miss.

Strategies to improve self-esteem 

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Self-esteem is, in essence, the ability to love ourselves and affects how we relate to others. Having a healthy and realistic self-esteem is what allows us to face and face life, and encompasses a series of skills and abilities that we can always improve. Strategies to improve self-esteem by Elia Roca, is a work of great value for all therapists who seek to help their clients in this field, but it is also a suitable reading for all audiences because brings the non-specialized reader closer to scientific and rigorous information in a practical and very clear way.

Among the contents of this book, you will find valid instruments to assess self-esteem and a series of cognitive, behavioral and emotional strategies that will help you improve it. In addition, the author dedicates part of her pages to analyze the relationship between thoughts and self-esteem. Thoughts are beliefs we have about ourselves and those beliefs determine how we act and how we see the world. If you want to improve your ability to love yourself or if you are interested in learning more about self-esteem, this easy-to-read book will be very useful.

The futility of suffering

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«Have we ever thought about how easily we suffer? Or, to put it another way, how much life escapes us suffering? », with these two questions María Jesús Álava Reyes begins her book. Throughout our lives we are going to face sweet moments and sad moments, things do not always go the way we want, and that is inevitable. However, we can choose how we deal with problems and how much time we spend suffering.

The futility of suffering it is a very good tool that helps us understand our feelings and teaches us how to manage them, that is the key to enjoy and control our life beyond the circumstances. We all suffer and we all suffer uselessly at times. If you want to change that, if you want to focus your life towards illusion, leave a space for this book on your shelf.

Hug your inner child 

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Why are we who we are? How important is who we were as children to us?  Hug your inner child by Victoria Cadarso helps us deepen our "inner child", recovering our first experiences, our essence and everything we hid so as not to feel vulnerable. With this book you will understand the need to reconnect with your "inner child" and recover even your "wounded child", your ghosts, that part of you that you left forgotten, we all have it. In addition, the author provides a detailed description of the development phases and provides fundamental keys to face our fears and our emotions.

I could not leave this book out of the list of the 8 best psychology books that you cannot miss. It is an essential book, as is working with our inner child, understanding it is what will allow us, in the words of the author, "to reconnect with our heart", with love, with the origin. 

Accompany in the duel

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Losing someone is a very hard experience that we are inevitably going to have to face sooner or later. However, it is also hard and difficult for those who accompany that loss. Accompany in the duel by Manuel Nevado and José González is a valuable book for professionals that treat patients who are going through this situation and, Also, for those who seek to better understand the grieving stage and that they want, personally, to help someone who is going through it.

The book provides the necessary tools to do this accompaniment, with special emphasis on the importance of facing our prejudices about grief in order to be able to put into practice the proposed exercises effectively. I find it very interesting that they dedicate an entire chapter of the book to "child grief." Sometimes, whether you are a parent, older brother or sister, teacher or teacher, it is difficult to talk about a loss or an absence with a child. We find it difficult to understand how he feels and handles it. In his work, Nevado y González, also guide us on how we should communicate death to children and on how we should approach this issue.

Dare to talk about sex with your son

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If talking about death with your children can be difficult, talking about sex is usually not much easier. The book Dare to talk about sex with your son, by pedagogue Nora Rodríguez, is a guide that can be very useful if, as a parent, you want to discuss sexuality with your children, but you don't know exactly how to do it.

Why is it important to talk about sex with your children? As the author explains, children sometimes feel that they have all the necessary information about sex. However, if it is not the parents who, naturally, bring them closer to this knowledge, the children find it alone. Where? Well, where we all look for our doubts: on the internet.

Unfortunately, the vision that is shown in the networks of sexuality is not always real. Thus, if we let the youngest educate themselves "alone," less than positive stereotypes about relationships and sex will be perpetuated. The information is there, accessible to them from a very early age, and as adults we can provide them with what is necessary so that they understand what is unreal in everything that comes to them and we can help them understand sexuality without fears and insecurities. Would you like to talk about this topic with your children? This book is a mine of tips that will guide you so that you can do it correctly and safely.

Sage's apprentice

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Sage's apprentice, written by the psychologist and pedagogue Bernabé Tierno, is a practical and easy-to-read guide that teaches us to live better and happier. Sometimes we live at such a fast pace that we do not stop to listen to ourselves, nor do we stop to think about the harm we do to ourselves and the happiness we are denying ourselves. The author proposes that we take an attitude of "apprentices of wise men", invites us to open our minds to accept that, following our common sense, we can head towards a better life.

Tender has the ability to summarize in very powerful principles and phrases a whole philosophy of life, making your readings didactic and attractive. Allow me to give you a fragment of this jewel: «We all want to live better. We all want to be happier. If we learn to be a little wiser there is no doubt that we can do it. " This book is, at least for me, almost a hopeful epiphany that shows us that we all have what it takes to be happier and that building a better, more satisfying life is in our hands.

The strength of love 

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I would like to include another book by Bernabé Tierno in this list of the 8 best psychology books that you cannot miss. The strength of love, published in 1999, is another of the essentials of this author. Love floods all spheres of our life. It captures conversations, thoughts, memories ... Love is the basis of our existence. But have you ever wondered what love is?

In this book, Bernabé Tierno reflects on love, on its forms, on what makes it up. It collects vital teachings about affection, about the relationship between attachment and self-esteem. It is, in short, an exposition of the healing power of love and the consequences of not having it. The last part of the book, which dedicates to 3 very critical moments in life, deserves special mention: old age, illness and death. The psychologist dedicates the last pages to analyze what role the force of love plays in these difficult stages. Do you dare to look at love with different eyes? Do it with this book.

Practical manual for the treatment of shyness and social anxiety

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It is not bad to be shy, in fact, we have all felt nervous, tension or embarrassment at some point in our life. But there are many levels of shyness and while it is completely normal to feel mild anxiety at times, when social anxiety becomes intense and frequent it can limit our lives. In extreme cases, shyness can even prevent those who suffer from maintaining personal relationships, advancing in the professional field or performing such everyday tasks as going to work.

Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson provide us with a Practical manual for the treatment of shyness and social anxiety. The authors have selected treatments for social anxiety, effective and scientifically based, and have adapted so that non-specialized readers can understand them and apply them. The manual is a practical workbook that teaches us to better manage our interpersonal relationships and helps us feel more comfortable with others. I consider this book recommended, deserving of closing this list of the 8 best psychology books that you cannot miss, because not only can it help you improve the way you relate to the environment, it seems to me a very useful tool to get to know us better and to deepen and dare to overcome fears that are not always easy to overcome.


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  1.   Gustavo Woltmann said

    A nice list, but I think that some of the titles you point to do not have a primary focus on psychology and that it occupies a secondary role, and that the central theme would be self-help or something like that.
    -Gustavo Woltmann.