Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectiveness of major forms of psychotherapy. Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries—the search for the true causes of our behavior.

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm’s work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.

这是一本并不晦涩的摇滚乐理论读物，它涉及到早期摇滚乐的社会文化意义，研究了一些至今没有得到深入探讨的问题，由于涉及音乐、社会、学术背景较深，所以妨碍了十年前那批读者的理解，但看来它正适合今天的读者。 本书的主题，正如它副标题所说，是摇滚乐的被缚与抗争，这是任何人理解摇滚乐都不可绕过去的主题，其中的悖论、矛盾、希望，以及论题展开的整个文化问题，都值得用十倍于此书的篇幅去论述。所以说，它应该被再版，在今天这个中国音乐界期待着资本主义全面胜利的关口引起更多思考。

2006 documentary directed by Sophie Fiennes

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.