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🧠 Mind As Prison

Narratives in which characters are trapped by their own thoughts—obsession, paranoia, or mental illness creating walls more confining than any physical cell.
Insane
by Alisa Roth • 2018
Jails hold more people with mental illness than hospitals. Incarceration makes them sicker.
4.07
1k+
🏥 Mental Illness In Jails🔒 Mass Incarceration🏚️ Deinstitutionalization
Insane Summary
Insane 88%
Jails hold more people with mental illness than hospitals. Incarceration makes them sicker.
by Alisa Roth 2018
4.07
1k+ ratings
🏥 Mental Illness In Jails🔒 Mass Incarceration🏚️ Deinstitutionalization
The Best Minds
by Jonathan Rosen • 2023
He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.
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18k+
🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives🔬 Forensic Psychiatry🏛️ Insanity Defense
The Best Minds Summary
The Best Minds 88%
He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.
by Jonathan Rosen 2023
4.03
18k+ ratings
🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives🔬 Forensic Psychiatry🏛️ Insanity Defense
What Is Madness?
by Darian Leader • 2011
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
4.14
531
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
What Is Madness? Summary
What Is Madness? 88%
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
by Darian Leader 2011
4.14
531 ratings
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
by David Adam • 2014
Disturbing thoughts visit almost every mind. OCD hijacks the brain's ability to dismiss them.
3.90
6k+
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir💭 Intrusive Thoughts🔬 Brain Science
The Man Who Couldn't Stop Summary
The Man Who Couldn't Stop 87%
Disturbing thoughts visit almost every mind. OCD hijacks the brain's ability to dismiss them.
by David Adam 2014
3.90
6k+ ratings
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir💭 Intrusive Thoughts🔬 Brain Science
Emotional Disorders and Metacognition
by Adrian Wells • 2000
The therapeutic target most clinicians miss: beliefs about thinking, not the thoughts themselves.
3.63
16
🧠 Clinical Psychology🔄 Cognitive Therapy💭 Metacognition
Emotional Disorders and Metacognition Summary
Emotional Disorders and Metacognition 87%
The therapeutic target most clinicians miss: beliefs about thinking, not the thoughts themselves.
by Adrian Wells 2000
3.63
16 ratings
🧠 Clinical Psychology🔄 Cognitive Therapy💭 Metacognition
Divided Minds
by Pamela Spiro Wagner • 2005
One twin develops schizophrenia. The other becomes a psychiatrist. A bond built for two, tested.
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3k+
🧠 Schizophrenia Memoirs👯 Twin Bonds🏥 Psychiatric Wards
Divided Minds Summary
Divided Minds 87%
One twin develops schizophrenia. The other becomes a psychiatrist. A bond built for two, tested.
by Pamela Spiro Wagner 2005
4.00
3k+ ratings
🧠 Schizophrenia Memoirs👯 Twin Bonds🏥 Psychiatric Wards
Rozdělené Self
by R.D. Laing • 1960
Schizophrenia begins as a solution: a last defense against the terror of not feeling real.
4.11
7k+
🧠 Existential Psychology🩺 Clinical Psychiatry🌊 Existential Phenomenology
Rozdělené Self Summary
Rozdělené Self 87%
Schizophrenia begins as a solution: a last defense against the terror of not feeling real.
by R.D. Laing 1960
4.11
7k+ ratings
🧠 Existential Psychology🩺 Clinical Psychiatry🌊 Existential Phenomenology
The Center Cannot Hold
by Elyn R. Saks • 2007
Restraints, psychosis, forced medication. Then a Yale law degree and tenure, against all odds.
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23k+
📖 Psychosis Memoirs🧠 Chronic Mental Illness🛋️ Psychoanalytic Tradition
The Center Cannot Hold Summary
The Center Cannot Hold 87%
Restraints, psychosis, forced medication. Then a Yale law degree and tenure, against all odds.
by Elyn R. Saks 2007
4.33
23k+ ratings
📖 Psychosis Memoirs🧠 Chronic Mental Illness🛋️ Psychoanalytic Tradition
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
by Nathan Filer • 2019
A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.
4.28
3k+
🔍 Psychiatric Critique💔 Trauma And Psychosis🏘️ Social Determinants
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health Summary
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health 87%
A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.
by Nathan Filer 2019
4.28
3k+ ratings
🔍 Psychiatric Critique💔 Trauma And Psychosis🏘️ Social Determinants
The Meaning of Madness
by Neel Burton • 2008
Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.
3.97
275
💊 Critical Psychiatry🌌 Existential Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Meaning of Madness Summary
The Meaning of Madness 87%
Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.
by Neel Burton 2008
3.97
275 ratings
💊 Critical Psychiatry🌌 Existential Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Experience Machine
by Andy Clark • 2023
Your brain guesses reality instead of recording it, and the mismatch shapes everything.
3.91
1k+
🧠 Predictive Processing💭 Consciousness Studies🦾 Embodied Cognition
The Experience Machine Summary
The Experience Machine 87%
Your brain guesses reality instead of recording it, and the mismatch shapes everything.
by Andy Clark 2023
3.91
1k+ ratings
🧠 Predictive Processing💭 Consciousness Studies🦾 Embodied Cognition
Psicotrampas
by Giorgio Nardone • 2013
Your best coping strategy is likely your worst enemy. The real fix is paradoxical.
3.44
453
🎯 Strategic Therapy🧠 Cognitive Distortions🔄 Paradoxical Interventions
Psicotrampas Summary
Psicotrampas 87%
Your best coping strategy is likely your worst enemy. The real fix is paradoxical.
by Giorgio Nardone 2013
3.44
453 ratings
🎯 Strategic Therapy🧠 Cognitive Distortions🔄 Paradoxical Interventions
Inside the Criminal Mind
by Stanton E. Samenow • 1984
The criminal is not a victim; he is a calculating architect who genuinely sees himself as decent.
3.77
2k+
🧠 Criminal Psychology⚖️ Forensic Psychology🎭 Psychopathy
Inside the Criminal Mind Summary
Inside the Criminal Mind 87%
The criminal is not a victim; he is a calculating architect who genuinely sees himself as decent.
by Stanton E. Samenow 1984
3.77
2k+ ratings
🧠 Criminal Psychology⚖️ Forensic Psychology🎭 Psychopathy
The Conscious Mind
by David J. Chalmers • 1996
A zombie physically identical to you feels nothing at all: why consciousness needs its own laws.
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3k+
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🌌 Metaphysics🎨 Qualia
The Conscious Mind Summary
The Conscious Mind 87%
A zombie physically identical to you feels nothing at all: why consciousness needs its own laws.
by David J. Chalmers 1996
4.00
3k+ ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🌌 Metaphysics🎨 Qualia
5150, rue des Ormes
by Patrick Senécal • 1994
A student crashes his bike and finds a family that collects the guilty as trophies.
4.08
7k+
🧠 Psychological Horror🚪 Locked-Room Horror🔗 Stockholm Syndrome
5150, rue des Ormes Summary
5150, rue des Ormes 87%
A student crashes his bike and finds a family that collects the guilty as trophies.
by Patrick Senécal 1994
4.08
7k+ ratings
🧠 Psychological Horror🚪 Locked-Room Horror🔗 Stockholm Syndrome
The Mind is Flat
by Nick Chater • 2018
Your inner life is not an archive. Every belief and emotion is improvised in the moment.
3.74
852
🧠 Folk Psychology Critique🔍 Consciousness Studies🎭 Confabulation
The Mind is Flat Summary
The Mind is Flat 87%
Your inner life is not an archive. Every belief and emotion is improvised in the moment.
by Nick Chater 2018
3.74
852 ratings
🧠 Folk Psychology Critique🔍 Consciousness Studies🎭 Confabulation
The Myth of Mental Illness
by Thomas Szasz • 1961
Mental illness is not a brain disease: it is a language of distress, a tool of control.
3.76
2k+
🚫 Anti-Psychiatry🏥 Medicalization⚖️ Psychiatric Ethics
The Myth of Mental Illness Summary
The Myth of Mental Illness 87%
Mental illness is not a brain disease: it is a language of distress, a tool of control.
by Thomas Szasz 1961
3.76
2k+ ratings
🚫 Anti-Psychiatry🏥 Medicalization⚖️ Psychiatric Ethics
The Rape of the Mind
by Joost A.M. Meerloo • 1956
Brainwashing follows a precise script, and its gentler forms shape your thoughts every day.
4.18
1k+
🧠 Thought Control🗳️ Political Psychology📢 Propaganda Studies
The Rape of the Mind Summary
The Rape of the Mind 87%
Brainwashing follows a precise script, and its gentler forms shape your thoughts every day.
by Joost A.M. Meerloo 1956
4.18
1k+ ratings
🧠 Thought Control🗳️ Political Psychology📢 Propaganda Studies
Rethinking Depression
by Eric Maisel • 2011
Sadness isn't a sickness. It's a summons to build a life that means something to you.
3.40
118
🏥 Mental Health Skepticism📚 Existential Psychology💭 Meaning Making
Rethinking Depression Summary
Rethinking Depression 87%
Sadness isn't a sickness. It's a summons to build a life that means something to you.
by Eric Maisel 2011
3.40
118 ratings
🏥 Mental Health Skepticism📚 Existential Psychology💭 Meaning Making
Surfing Uncertainty
by Andy Clark • 2015
Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.
4.09
381
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🤔 Philosophy Of Mind🔮 Predictive Processing
Surfing Uncertainty Summary
Surfing Uncertainty 87%
Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.
by Andy Clark 2015
4.09
381 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🤔 Philosophy Of Mind🔮 Predictive Processing
La historia del loco
by John Katzenbach • 2004
A schizophrenic man returns to an asylum to solve a nurse's murder and his own splintered memories.
4.01
15k+
🩸 Psychological Thriller🏥 Mental Asylum🔪 Serial Killer
La historia del loco Summary
La historia del loco 87%
A schizophrenic man returns to an asylum to solve a nurse's murder and his own splintered memories.
by John Katzenbach 2004
4.01
15k+ ratings
🩸 Psychological Thriller🏥 Mental Asylum🔪 Serial Killer
An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995
A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.
4.06
87k+
🎭 Bipolar Disorder📖 Psychiatric Memoir🩺 Patient As Expert
An Unquiet Mind Summary
An Unquiet Mind 87%
A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.
by Kay Redfield Jamison 1995
4.06
87k+ ratings
🎭 Bipolar Disorder📖 Psychiatric Memoir🩺 Patient As Expert
The Dark Side of the Mind
by Kerry Daynes • 2019
A forensic psychologist spends her career studying stalkers, until one starts hunting her.
4.02
8k+
🧠 Forensic Psychology🔍 True Crime Memoir🧸 Childhood Trauma
The Dark Side of the Mind Summary
The Dark Side of the Mind 87%
A forensic psychologist spends her career studying stalkers, until one starts hunting her.
by Kerry Daynes 2019
4.02
8k+ ratings
🧠 Forensic Psychology🔍 True Crime Memoir🧸 Childhood Trauma
The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment
by Chris Niebauer • 2014
The self you're improving isn't real. Split-brain science on why effort undermines itself.
4.18
61
🚫 Anti-Self-Help🧠 Split-Brain Research🔬 Neuroscience Of Self
The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment Summary
The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment 87%
The self you're improving isn't real. Split-brain science on why effort undermines itself.
by Chris Niebauer 2014
4.18
61 ratings
🚫 Anti-Self-Help🧠 Split-Brain Research🔬 Neuroscience Of Self
Desperate Remedies
by Andrew Scull • 2022
For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.
4.09
448
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
Desperate Remedies Summary
Desperate Remedies 87%
For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.
by Andrew Scull 2022
4.09
448 ratings
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
Why Smart People Hurt
by Eric Maisel • 2013
For bright minds who overthink everything: meaning is not found. It is made.
3.26
1k+
🧠 Gifted Adults🧭 Meaning Making🌌 Existential Psychology
Why Smart People Hurt Summary
Why Smart People Hurt 87%
For bright minds who overthink everything: meaning is not found. It is made.
by Eric Maisel 2013
3.26
1k+ ratings
🧠 Gifted Adults🧭 Meaning Making🌌 Existential Psychology
Projections
by Karl Deisseroth • 2021
How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.
4.00
2k+
🧠 Biological Psychiatry💔 Affective Neuroscience🔌 Neural Circuits
Projections Summary
Projections 87%
How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.
by Karl Deisseroth 2021
4.00
2k+ ratings
🧠 Biological Psychiatry💔 Affective Neuroscience🔌 Neural Circuits
Prometheus Rising
by Robert Anton Wilson • 1983
You inherited a mental operating system. A guide to spotting the code and rewriting it yourself.
4.25
8k+
🧠 Consciousness Models🏗️ Reality Construction💻 Mind Programming
Prometheus Rising Summary
Prometheus Rising 87%
You inherited a mental operating system. A guide to spotting the code and rewriting it yourself.
by Robert Anton Wilson 1983
4.25
8k+ ratings
🧠 Consciousness Models🏗️ Reality Construction💻 Mind Programming
Phantom Limb
by Lucinda Berry • 2016
After her fragile twin's suicide, she wakes in a psychiatric ward with scars she didn't make.
3.89
68k+
🔪 Psychological Thriller👯 Twin Bond🌀 Unreliable Narrator
Phantom Limb Summary
Phantom Limb 87%
After her fragile twin's suicide, she wakes in a psychiatric ward with scars she didn't make.
by Lucinda Berry 2016
3.89
68k+ ratings
🔪 Psychological Thriller👯 Twin Bond🌀 Unreliable Narrator
Mind
by John Rogers Searle • 2004
Neither ghost nor computer: consciousness is a biological fact and its feel can't be explained away.
3.86
883
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind💡 Consciousness Studies🎯 Intentionality
Mind Summary
Mind 87%
Neither ghost nor computer: consciousness is a biological fact and its feel can't be explained away.
by John Rogers Searle 2004
3.86
883 ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind💡 Consciousness Studies🎯 Intentionality
The Happiness Trap
by Russ Harris • 2007
Thoughts aren't facts. Feelings aren't enemies. A clinical path to living well without the struggle.
4.13
21k+
🧠 Third-Wave Cbt🤲 Acceptance Practice🧭 Values-Based Living
The Happiness Trap Summary
The Happiness Trap 86%
Thoughts aren't facts. Feelings aren't enemies. A clinical path to living well without the struggle.
by Russ Harris 2007
4.13
21k+ ratings
🧠 Third-Wave Cbt🤲 Acceptance Practice🧭 Values-Based Living
Gurdjieff, A Beginner's Guide
by Gil Friedman • 2003
Lost keys reveal the automatic patterns that run you. A beginner's guide to waking up.
3.94
208
🧘 Esoteric Psychology🔍 Self-Observation🏗️ Inner Work
Gurdjieff, A Beginner's Guide Summary
Gurdjieff, A Beginner's Guide 86%
Lost keys reveal the automatic patterns that run you. A beginner's guide to waking up.
by Gil Friedman 2003
3.94
208 ratings
🧘 Esoteric Psychology🔍 Self-Observation🏗️ Inner Work
Hypersanity
by Neel Burton • 2019
Logic fails at life's hardest problems. The tools you really use are older and stranger.
3.60
182
🧠 Limits Of Reason🫀 Emotional Intelligence⚡ Intuition Research
Hypersanity Summary
Hypersanity 86%
Logic fails at life's hardest problems. The tools you really use are older and stranger.
by Neel Burton 2019
3.60
182 ratings
🧠 Limits Of Reason🫀 Emotional Intelligence⚡ Intuition Research
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Kieron O'Connor • 2011
OCD starts with self-made doubt, not an intrusion. Treat the reasoning, not just the compulsion.
4.03
34
🧠 Clinical Psychology🔄 Ocd Treatment🫀 Anxiety Disorders
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Summary
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 86%
OCD starts with self-made doubt, not an intrusion. Treat the reasoning, not just the compulsion.
by Kieron O'Connor 2011
4.03
34 ratings
🧠 Clinical Psychology🔄 Ocd Treatment🫀 Anxiety Disorders
Solitude
by Terry Waite • 2017
Solitude can crush or transform. A former hostage maps its extremes, from Beirut to the deathbed.
3.78
108
🧘 Solitude And Isolation🕯️ Memoir And Reflection⛓️ Captivity Narratives
Solitude Summary
Solitude 86%
Solitude can crush or transform. A former hostage maps its extremes, from Beirut to the deathbed.
by Terry Waite 2017
3.78
108 ratings
🧘 Solitude And Isolation🕯️ Memoir And Reflection⛓️ Captivity Narratives
Veronica. decided to die. Paul Coelho. the Russian original. hardcover
by Paulo Coelho • 1998
After a suicide attempt, a woman wakes in a mental hospital with days to live.
3.74
245k+
🧠 Philosophical Fiction🏥 Psychiatric Hospital💀 Mortality Awakening
Veronica. decided to die. Paul Coelho. the Russian original. hardcover Summary
Veronica. decided to die. Paul Coelho. the Russian original. hardcover 86%
After a suicide attempt, a woman wakes in a mental hospital with days to live.
by Paulo Coelho 1998
3.74
245k+ ratings
🧠 Philosophical Fiction🏥 Psychiatric Hospital💀 Mortality Awakening
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
by Adrian Wells • 2008
Anxiety and depression are driven by how we think about thoughts, not by the thoughts themselves.
4.37
166
🔄 Metacognitive Therapy🔁 Rumination And Worry🎯 Attentional Control
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression Summary
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression 86%
Anxiety and depression are driven by how we think about thoughts, not by the thoughts themselves.
by Adrian Wells 2008
4.37
166 ratings
🔄 Metacognitive Therapy🔁 Rumination And Worry🎯 Attentional Control
MindWorks
by Gary van Warmerdam • 2014
Your emotions are hijacked by inner characters and false beliefs. A method for taking back control.
4.35
178
🧱 Limiting Beliefs🔄 Cognitive Reframing💬 Negative Self-Talk
MindWorks Summary
MindWorks 86%
Your emotions are hijacked by inner characters and false beliefs. A method for taking back control.
by Gary van Warmerdam 2014
4.35
178 ratings
🧱 Limiting Beliefs🔄 Cognitive Reframing💬 Negative Self-Talk
Switch on Your Brain
by Caroline Leaf • 2007
How your thoughts physically reshape your brain, and a three-week system to take conscious control.
3.95
8k+
🧠 Neuroplasticity🔄 Cognitive Reframing🧹 Mental Detox
Switch on Your Brain Summary
Switch on Your Brain 86%
How your thoughts physically reshape your brain, and a three-week system to take conscious control.
by Caroline Leaf 2007
3.95
8k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroplasticity🔄 Cognitive Reframing🧹 Mental Detox
Learning from Experience
by Wilfred R. Bion • 1962
Thoughts come first. An apparatus to think them has to be built, and it requires another mind.
4.19
135
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🍼 Object Relations🌡️ Affect Regulation
Learning from Experience Summary
Learning from Experience 86%
Thoughts come first. An apparatus to think them has to be built, and it requires another mind.
by Wilfred R. Bion 1962
4.19
135 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🍼 Object Relations🌡️ Affect Regulation
No One Cares About Crazy People
by Ron Powers • 2017
Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.
3.87
4k+
🏛️ Psychiatric History📋 Mental Health Policy👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir
No One Cares About Crazy People Summary
No One Cares About Crazy People 86%
Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.
by Ron Powers 2017
3.87
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Psychiatric History📋 Mental Health Policy👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir
No Self, No Problem
by Chris Niebauer • 2019
Split-brain patients proved the self is a story your left hemisphere tells on the fly.
4.25
4k+
🧠 Neuropsychology☸️ Buddhist Philosophy🪞 Illusion Of Self
No Self, No Problem Summary
No Self, No Problem 86%
Split-brain patients proved the self is a story your left hemisphere tells on the fly.
by Chris Niebauer 2019
4.25
4k+ ratings
🧠 Neuropsychology☸️ Buddhist Philosophy🪞 Illusion Of Self
Minds, Brains and Science
by John Rogers Searle • 1984
Consciousness is biological, not computational. That is why no program will ever think.
3.76
626
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🧩 Mind-Body Problem🔬 Cognitive Science
Minds, Brains and Science Summary
Minds, Brains and Science 86%
Consciousness is biological, not computational. That is why no program will ever think.
by John Rogers Searle 1984
3.76
626 ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🧩 Mind-Body Problem🔬 Cognitive Science
Energize Your Mind
by Gaur Gopal Das • 2024
A monk's guide to calming mental chatter, reframing anxiety, and uncovering your true self.
4.26
1k+
😌 Emotional Regulation🐒 Monkey Mind😰 Managing Anxiety
Energize Your Mind Summary
Energize Your Mind 86%
A monk's guide to calming mental chatter, reframing anxiety, and uncovering your true self.
by Gaur Gopal Das 2024
4.26
1k+ ratings
😌 Emotional Regulation🐒 Monkey Mind😰 Managing Anxiety
Strangers to Ourselves
by Rachel Aviv • 2022
A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.
4.10
15k+
🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis🌍 Cultural Psychiatry📖 Medical Narratives
Strangers to Ourselves Summary
Strangers to Ourselves 86%
A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.
by Rachel Aviv 2022
4.10
15k+ ratings
🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis🌍 Cultural Psychiatry📖 Medical Narratives
Just a Thought
by Amy Johnson • 2021
The voice in your head is not you. Recognizing this dissolves self-doubt without a battle.
4.11
436
🕉️ Non-Dual Awareness👁️ Thought Observation🧠 Spiritual Psychology
Just a Thought Summary
Just a Thought 86%
The voice in your head is not you. Recognizing this dissolves self-doubt without a battle.
by Amy Johnson 2021
4.11
436 ratings
🕉️ Non-Dual Awareness👁️ Thought Observation🧠 Spiritual Psychology
I am Not a Brain
by Markus Gabriel • 2017
Neuroscience keeps looking for the self inside the skull. The real thing lives between people.
3.49
233
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind📜 German Idealism🔓 Free Will Debate
I am Not a Brain Summary
I am Not a Brain 86%
Neuroscience keeps looking for the self inside the skull. The real thing lives between people.
by Markus Gabriel 2017
3.49
233 ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind📜 German Idealism🔓 Free Will Debate
A Quiet Mind to Suffer With
by John Andrew Bryant • 2023
Forgiveness, he found in the psych ward, is for those bound, not just the guilty.
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500
😰 Scrupulosity✝️ Theology Of The Cross🧠 Mental Illness Memoir
A Quiet Mind to Suffer With Summary
A Quiet Mind to Suffer With 86%
Forgiveness, he found in the psych ward, is for those bound, not just the guilty.
by John Andrew Bryant 2023
4.49
500 ratings
😰 Scrupulosity✝️ Theology Of The Cross🧠 Mental Illness Memoir
Atmamun
by Kapil Gupta • 2016
Thought itself is the prison. Meditation and mindfulness are just painting the bars.
4.44
1k+
✂️ Anti-Self-Help🕉️ Advaita Vedanta☯️ Nondual Philosophy
Atmamun Summary
Atmamun 86%
Thought itself is the prison. Meditation and mindfulness are just painting the bars.
by Kapil Gupta 2016
4.44
1k+ ratings
✂️ Anti-Self-Help🕉️ Advaita Vedanta☯️ Nondual Philosophy
Prokleta avlija
by Ivo Andrić • 1954
In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.
4.24
12k+
🪆 Nested Stories🔗 Prison Narrative📜 Historical Obsession
Prokleta avlija Summary
Prokleta avlija 86%
In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.
by Ivo Andrić 1954
4.24
12k+ ratings
🪆 Nested Stories🔗 Prison Narrative📜 Historical Obsession
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