Synopsis: Meigs presented a talk summarizing several highly regarded books on thinking. Here is Meigs’ starter list — it will grow.
CURRENT NEUROLOGY
Norman Doidge, MD, The Brain that Changes Itself
Norman Doidge, MD, The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
INTELLECT, THINKING, RESPONDING
Daniel Kahneman, PhD, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Alex Osborn, founder of BBO, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving
EMOTIONS, SELF-ATTUNEMENT, PAYING ATTENTION
Eugene Gendlin, PhD, Focusing
Marion Milner, Psychoanalysis, A Life of One’s Own, 1934
The audience gave one or two minute summaries about a book on thinking that they have found of merit.
