Popular European Psychology Books
Find psychology books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (86)
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Die Taube by Patrick Süskind DE
GermanyDescription:
In fünf Monaten wird der Wachmann einer Pariser Bank das Eigentum an seiner kleinen Wohnung endgültig erworben haben. Dann ist die letzte Hypothekenrate abbezahlt und damit ein weiterer Markstein seines Lebens gesetzt. Doch dieses Ereignis wird an einem heissen Freitagmorgen im August 1984 jäh vom Erscheinen einer Taube in Frage gestellt.
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El arte de amar : una investigación sobre la naturaleza del amor by Erich Fromm ES
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Esta obra, una de las más influyentes del pensamiento contemporáneo, elabora una teoría del amor que se centra en la «necesidad profunda» con que se enfrenta universalmente el hombre: la de superar el estado de separación, acceder a la fusión interpersonal y trascender a la propia vida individual. Un fracaso absoluto en satisfacer tal necesidad puede conducir a la locura; una satisfacción plena de la misma sólo se encuentra en el amor. ¿Y qué es el amor? Fromm lo concibe no sólo como una relación personal ... continue
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Equus by Peter Shaffer EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence.
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin EN
RussiaDescription:
Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication—now in a marvelous new translation Pushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the countryside, where he encounters the young and passionate Tatyana. She falls in love with him but is cruelly rejected. Years later, Eugene Onegin sees the error of his ways, but fate is not on his side. A tragic story about love, innocence, and friendship, this beautifully written tale is a... continue
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Extinction by Thomas Bernhard EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
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LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GEOFF DYER'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice: dive in.' Lucy Ellmann'I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody.' Karl Ove KnausgaardFranz-Josef Murau is the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. He now lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister'... continue
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev EN
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Considered one of the world's greatest novels, this controversial classic offers modern readers a vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. Includes a new Introduction. Reissue.
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SpainDescription:
"In Four by Four, Mesa's sentences are clear as glass, but when you look through you will be terrified by what you see."--Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the "special," scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not well i... continue