My favourite Psychology related books of 2020 📚 

Just the way she talks is so therapeutic daaamn💞💞💞

Your approach defines “calm and collected.”

another great book is "the body keeps score"!!

Loved this video, I’ve read a few of them but will be saving the rest you’ve mentioned on my booklist. Thank you 😊

Please continue reading and giving us great book recommendations 😁

Thank you for providing your knowledge!!

Great to see these selections coming from you! :) Personally, The Defining Decade would be the first book I'd pick up soon because, as it coincides with one reason I've started following your channel, I have sacrificed all my decade since 16 for academic pursuits, intellectual development, and professional growth; and there must be things I should have done but haven't, with excuses that I'd engage in them later on, which I am sure you can sympathise with! At the same time, I feel it can be a treasure for strengthening my own identity and educational advice for young people. I really wish your channel reaches more more more people and convinces you of the values your tremendous sacrifices have made possible! 🤗

Thank you very much for sharing this. Awesome list

I am so grateful for this. I struggled as a teenager in school because everybody in my advanced courses absolutely loved to read while I could not be bothered. Fiction was not something I had any interest in, and my teachers would always remind me that I could never be successful in my career goals unless I developed a love for reading, or at least a habit of doing so. I love this type of book, however, and will definitely be purchasing a few of them!

Thank you. Your videos are very important ❤

The first two books you mentioned are literally my top two current favorites. Subscribed!

Thanks for the recommendations!

You’re so articulate and beautiful 🧡 thank you for helpful recommendations!

hi there! the way you talk about those books really made me want to read them, will add them all to my reading list thank you! love ur content ❤️

It is so therapeutic to hear her talk❤️

Wow, thank you! I've never heard of many of these! Added a bunch to my TBR.

"men's search for the meaning of life" is a really good recommendation, I have complete reading it and it's a really nice book

As someone who's suffering from anxiety disorders since age 13, I am more interested about psychology. Currently I'm doing a business degree though. But I really wish one day I'll accomplish my goal as a clinical psychologist too. Taking CBT from my psychologist and she's such an inspiration for me. Thank you for your videos it is really beneficial for me. ❤️🙏

i thought i was weird for only reading nonfiction!! omg yay im glad i found this video

Meg Jay is a really amazing psychologist and I'd really recommend her first book, Supernormals. It changed my life and is the reason why im interested in psychology

My new favourite channel as I have started my journey towards becoming a clinical psychologist. I'm at the very start with higher education access course at college. Such a inspiring person thank you, currently binge watching xx

I loved your video so much! I hope you do more book recommendations!

Love this!! I also like to explore the intersection between philosophy and psychology as I am trained in philosophy and counselling. I have put a few of these in my amazon basket as I was missing them from my book collection.

I’m so so grateful to have found your channel :D You’re a wonderful inspiration to many of us here and we really appreciate the videos! I am 17 this year and your content keeps me going to pursue a psychology-related degree in the future :) ☺️✨ stay safe and healthy!

thank you so much for sharing, i really love your voice🥰

Thanks for coming up with this list! Definitely interested in many of the books you mentioned.

Hi, I just discovered your channel and it has already helped me so much, thank you for all the recommendations! "Maybe you should talk to someone about this" is also a great book about clinical psychology, sooo funny and inspiring. Loved it :)

Still watching the video but read the description and all the Yalom jumped out! Love Yalom!!!

Thank you for the recommendations!😊 I’m recently starting to get into Psychology books (My father really loves them). I can’t wait to read more. Btw you’re really beautiful.☺️

Video was relaxing 🌊🩸💧

More of these videos please!!! 💕

Hey, I really like your recommendations, most of the books here are my favorite. Hopefully you could do another book to read video. Thank you!!

Thank you for this video! I had to laugh when you said you fell asleep with Matthew Walker because that’s the same as me! You’ve inspired me to read more, there’s a lot of books I have on my list to read but I’m slow with making time. I’d really recommend Marc Lewis memoirs of an addicted brain, a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs. Really good, part scientific and part autobiographical.

Forst of all congrats on your accomplishments 2nd thank you for being so so...so you. Well done

Great list! I just finished rereading Mans Search for Meaning. Really good still 😀

Thanks for uploading 😊

Your voice is so beautiful 😍 thank you for sharing ❤

Thank you for this video! I love how you explained everything and your voice is so calming 💞 subscribed! ❣

This has been supercool! I'm interested in taking up some new psychology books to dabble into because I'm thinking of going back to college for psychology, just trying to figure out if it's the right thing and whether I want to go a forensic route or clinical. I know I'm going to cop "The Defining Decade" and "12 Rules of Life" because I think they will be very beneficial for what I"m going through right now. :), thanks a mill!

Really well done video. Hopeful for a 2021 update if ya have spare time ☺️

Thank you for this. Truly appreciate it. New subbie

great! I love books by Adam Philips and maybe a bit unrelated but huge in psychology and philosophy is the very current "my struggle" by Knausgard. One which was very heavy was Franz fanons work when he worked as a clinician during the French-algerian conflicts

Soooo much struggling to find a book to start my journey in psychology Very thankful I found u💕💕 Gonna tell u my review after finishing books

I just start my journey as a clinical psychologist and I found your channel. It’s great to see that I have read some of those already. Another book that I really enjoy is Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving (I believe that’s the name of the book in English, not quite sure) I am quite sure I would start watching other videos since your voice is very soothing and I am so happy to find someone that is a head on a similar path 💖💖

Hi Aika ! I’m so happy that I found your channel. I’m literally on the same exact path that you’re doing however , I am way younger haha. I’m currently a junior in undergrad but I’m technically a sophomore since I’m going to do another year, just really want to take my time. After that I’ll apply to graduate school for the same thing you’re doing. I too struggle with reading and was never a reader but I’m really trying to get into it now so it’s cool that you said the same thing. I always wanted to go to graduate school in the UK but I’ll stick with my home city in NYC since I just can’t go over there :( . I’ll be living through that journey with you then lol

Thanks for the list, going to start to work through some. As you mentioned Carl Jung, you should deffo read his 'modern man in search of a soul' I would highly recommend. Most digestible of his writing to get started. As far as clinical insights go he just seems to understand humans existentially to a level I've never seen before, the sort of writing where your eyes are stretched wide the whole time haha.

Thanks to your recommendations, I ordered „man‘s search of meaning“ as audiobook. One of the best I‘ve heard since a long time. Beautifully spoken! Please keep us dated about your favorite books. So much apreciated! May I ask you where I can buy the golden picture frames hangin on your wall in other videos? I‘m planing asimilar thing . Would be so helpful too. Much love, Anne

I just found your channel with this video and I think I should check out the rest of your recommendations because I know the first three books you mentioned are so so great, Love's Executioner, Man's Search for Meaning, and Why We Sleep. I should get another copy of Love's Executioner since I gave mine away. A couple of books I think are great are A General Theory of Love by Lewis, Amini, and Lannon and The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck. A couple of authors I think are great are Oliver Sacks and Peter Kramer. One book that connected psychology, philosophy, and brain science for me was The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger.

Thanks for the video. Ordered a book already. Would really recommend “Grit: Power of Passion and Perseverance”

I would love to see this type of videos from u 😊

I really need to start many of clinical practices ones... Intelligent and beautiful woman btw, hello from Brazil! Subscribed

I GOT SO HYPED WHEN YOU SAID LOVE's EXECUTIONER

Thank you for the list! It will help me transition from business and management books to psychology books. I think I'll start with Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters. I'm studying Psychology in Australia but I was born and raised in the Philippines. The concepts in Psychology are eurocentric but their is now awareness of the impact of culture on health. We have mandatory electives to further explore mental health and psychology through a multi-cultutal lens. Can I request for a video on how to write a research paper? Tips and all? Thank you and good luck on your doctorate! ^_^

The way she talks is just so relaxing

Thanks for this. I end up trying to find my own books on psychology and end up deep in Freud when I need to be reading something a little more pop-culture-ish. Appreciate the list.

I would love so much if you would talk more about books here 😍😍

Loved this video! I’d love to hear your perspective on religion!

Thank you so much.😎

A really interesting book that I would recommend which I believe combines philosophy with psychology is "Grit, why passion and resilience are the secrets to success" by Angela Duckworth. It is pretty much explains why talent in one area on its own it's not enough if you want to succeed in life. To achieve a goal you need talent, resilience and be methodological for years are the key ingredients for achievements.

Hi, I was just curious which songs you used in the video - thank you so much!

Subscribed as soon as you said that you thought that the Ancient Greeks/ Stoics were the original psychologists. Not many people think or say this and I 100% agree!

Great video Aika! Thanks so much for the book recommendations... Some of my favourite Mental Health/ Psychology books for 2020: 🔸The Colour of Madness Anthology: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK - Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott 🔸The Centre Cannot Hold - Elyn Saks 🔸The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas Szasz

I’m a undergrad psych major and looking to get a psyD in the US. Always looking for books. Thanks so much!

Man’s search for meaning is a beautifully horrifying book imo, crazy to imagine how Frankl managed to come up with that masterpiece whilst going through the terror of a concentration camp. Cool video idea too btw, it would be great to do these every year and review the books you’ve read haha! Two books I would highly recommend are: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker On becoming a person by Carl Rogers The denial of death is a heavy book but also provides insights into; why the idea of “forming a legacy” is of a concern to people and how this develops, covering the existential work around death and focuses heavily on the work of Otto Rank (A psychotherapist who trained under Freud and has published a number of his own books too). I am currently reading the Carl Rogers book now as I wanted to read something more positive and forward thinking. Considering Carl Rogers laid the groundwork for the humanistic/person-centres therapy models, reading how he came to these foundations is a delightful delve into psychology’s history and will probably help you as a clinician! Reflecting on my own practice and what is mentioned in the book I feel more assured in my approach when I start my new job as an assistant psych!

The Stoics have helped me control my anxiety. I highly recommend Epictetus especially.

Loveddd the way you explained each book!! I would love to read the top suggestions however I'm a high school senior and I'm afraid that it wouldn't be easily digestible for me. Would you say "man's search for meaning" would be a good fit for a highs schooler? or is there another book on the list that's better suited?

I’m doing a masters in psychology and I agree with you that the real psychologists of the past were the ancients. And I don’t enjoy the factor analysis and quantitative number side of things but it’s a necessary part of discovering human behaviour. I would highly recommend reading crime and punishment and Albert Camus the plague and also leonardo da Vinci’s biography by Walter issacson. I read them all this year and they are life changing. Keep up the good work. Also if you want to expand you’re knowledge of the human brain, ADHD 2.0 that came out recently. 30 percent of people in jail have adhd and the neuroscience behind it is fascinating and if you follow my channel I try to explain it. 4-6 percent of people suffer with it so it’s not trivial and it’s misunderstood. Great work with your channel. Also YOU HAVENT READ HARRY POTTER?!!! The psychology in those books are incredible!!!

Yes Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Incredible moving book. One of my favourite psychology books ever is Flow by Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi For me Jung is the greatest psychologist as well. But we can learn much from them all.

you're great!

Hi i came across your channel and i found it so interesting. Can you also recommend podcasts you are listening to as a phycology student ?

Hi! I've just found your channel and I'm finding it really interesting. I'm at the beginning of my psychology journey and this is really helpful, thank you. Approximately how many books would you say you read in a year?

Fantastic list! I just came across your channel & really enjoyed this video, well done. I'd recommend that you look into "The Choice" by Dr. Edith Eva Eger. She is a 93 y/o Holocaust surviver, still practicing psychology. It is similar to Man's search for meaning in the way that it combines her experiences in the concentration camps with her approach to psychology. Interestingly enough the author's Mentor was Victor Frankl, they became close friends. If you enjoyed Mans Search for Meaning, it is of my opinion that you will Highly enjoy "The Choice". Again, well presented video, Happy Reading😊

And I love your background music, where’d you get it if you don’t mind me asking

Thank you so much

Here are some great books I've read on philosophy and psychology. 1.- The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters - Anthony Pagden (genre: philosophy) 2.- How to win every argument - Madsen Pirie (genre: philosophy, real life) 3.- Ecology, Ideology and Power - Donald Gibson (genre: philosophy, environmentalism) 4.- Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives - Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir (genre: psychology, real life) 'The Enlightenment' (1630s - 1789) is a defining aspect of Western history. Many ideas today are reactions against The Enlightenment. Pagden thinks its critics misunderstood 'The Enlightenment', such that the reactions against it is really reactions against a caricature of The Enlightenment. 'How to win every argument' is a book about debate, explaining how debates are twisted by rhetoric, bad argument, etc. Done in a funny way - from the POV of how you too can twist debates by employing logical fallacies. By actually enumerating and giving examples of logical fallacies it helps you avoid falling for them. 'Ecology, Ideology and Power' is a critique of environmentalism from a 'progressive' point of view. Today, you probably understand 'progressivism' as the politics and ideas advanced by 'progressives'. In fact, many of the ideas of modern 'progressives' are not actually progressive! They are regressive. Gibson explains his philosophy as a version of progressivism which is hated, despised, and gaslit by today's 'progressives'. Scarcity - is about the psychology of scarcity. It explains how thoughts and actions are dominated by scarcity when people suffer from it. The authors don't point to an exit from this scarcity cul de sac. There may be none. But if you're trying to understand how and why people act how they do, this does a good job.

Omg you go to Oxford!! I grew up there

Thank you

I liked "The Gift of Fear". The main point of the book is that the instinct of fear may not always be accurate, but it's always worth stepping back from a situation to analyze that feeling. The author is a professional threat analysist and uses real cases (with the consent of his clients) to point out where fear of a situation saved their lives. He then details the subconscious psychology behind the fear and some of the psychology of a potential attacker.

My favorite so far, Man's search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl👍

Yo she was so detailed

hi Aika I had just discovered your channel and I love it!!!! I'm currently studying in Ireland as a secondary school student and I'm also from HK. I want to study Psychology in the future too and I would love for you to share how you got into Cambridge and when did you start studying in the UK. lots of love xx

You have a very relaxed voice. Use a louder audio level for your next video. I had to turn the audio of my PC to maximum level. Thanks for the list.

id love to see you review the Classroom of the elite light noval series

In my extreme bias, I currently think AEDP is the best individual therapy and EFT is the best couple's therapy. I am currently reading a book on AEDP written by Hillary Jacobs Hendel called It's Not Always Depression, which creates a model of human thought and emotion related to healing trauma called The Change Triangle. Over the years I have also attempted to compile the best English-speaking psychology books on romantic relationships, they are on my Rumble channel in the description for the video, "What is a meta love map?"

Hey, please, may I know what lipstick you used in this video? your lips look amazing x

There's a really good book that I read called "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions" by Johann Hari that I really recommend reading!

Just finished Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters. Wow, what a book! I agree with your high rating of it. A breathtaking insight into how we almost use science to bolster up our 'Western' religion, so to speak, rather than hold our culture up as a variable to be scrutinised. Surely our knowledge and understanding of human distress would greatly benefit if our mental health professions had more courage to step aside and be neutral of culture, instead of colluding with it. Highly recommend this book 👍

at the end of the vid you say to give you suggestions, have you tried audio books instead of trying to read ? so my idea would be for you to try to, listen to the body keep count, as I've watched a youtube vid about that let me know your thoughts on audiobooks please

Also, quick question! Where do you get the ‘Existential Psychotherapy’ book from?

If you liked Man's Search for Meaning (which I loved as well) you would really like Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (don't ask me how to pronounce his name!!). They both fit into the positive psychology domain. With the times that we live in right now with mental illness and general unhappiness on the rise, I think it's important more than ever to focus on our wellbeing and to live our best lives. I believe every person can learn something from positive psychology to help live healthier and happier lives.

I wish you’d add your rating next to the book themselves!

Great recommendations. I'm going to read Man's Search For Meaning now :). If you're interested in psychology as it relates to politics, I'd highly recommend The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. It was a game changer for me.

nice , I have been listening to 12 rules for life on audible. You can listen to his voice breaking up on the high and low points.

Hey.plz could you tell me ,how do you feel about learning psychology for doctorate .and are you doing phd or psyd? ❤

I have enjoyed the video even though I am not interested in psychology

Have No Time For All These Books .. But Always Still Have To ( Try ) Improve My Own Mental Health Condition❣️❣️🥲

Soren Kierkegaard: Fear and trembling. great read into understanding religion as a atheist. He has a very scientific mindset while still being able to portray spirituality and its importance for humans. It also arms you with great qoutes you can throw at the misguided and vain. Thus spoke zarathustra - great book that probably deserves at least 3 read through and an essay from the reader. You wont fully comprehend it on your first go, I also dont feel like reading it 2 more times.

Off topic, where's your cup from? :)

Best psychology related films/series? :)

wow. I'm a RU-vidr doing Japanese studies and such, but my goal is to learn psychology in Japanese and help people here (in Japan). Thank you for your videos. Surprised that you don't upload often. L