these 12 books are rare and I guarantee I literally guarantee that you will not find them anywhere else on YouTube because they typically have zero Amazon reviewers the average publication date is 1989 and it has cost me thousands of pounds and thousands of hours to condense this year's research of 133 psychology books into this golden stack of 12. full disclaimer if it's not abundantly clear this is not a beginner friendly video and I am not going to entertain you into an idle apathetic stage with lots of b-roll shots of me pretending to read in Scenic locations this is for the people who want to study and these are the books which personally matter the most to me in my mentoring work behind the scenes and that higher level effort after several years of already being on the inner work Journey so if you are at the initial stages don't worry I've got a 52 episode series which is actually my response to this question which as an aside is the inspiration for today's question I didn't do just 10 books I did 52 but these are my top 12 for the year anyway it's the Q a series um throwing this in but we're doing the 12 of this year pointers inner work Essentials already done that series it took me seven months I read 350 books and they're over the top 52. these are the top 12 from this year and my final point you are going to forget that you watched this video but the ideas and the insights in these books will last you a lifetime and if you only buy three of these books from these masterful teachers and I've done my job and I've tried to make it as easy as possible because as you can see I've split them up into little sub Stacks so we've got four sub Stacks we've got the self-healing stack we've got the therapist stack we've got the jungian slash archetypal stack and we've got the academic stack each of them made up of three books I'm not gonna make this a boring top tour video where you jump around in the timestamps we've got thematic themes for every temperament all of that out the way let's get into the video I'm going to move at a very quick Pace because time is limited and I just want you to buy these books I don't really care if my description isn't the best if you're interested you're going to see the book and you're going to go oh yeah I should buy that and then you're gonna buy the book let's start with a self-healing stack three bucks here Primal wound Trials of the Visionary mind and the Edom project in search of the magical other by James Hollis the reason that these three books are at the top of my list for 2022 is because this book helps people to deal with spiritual emergencies or spiritual Awakenings from a psychological perspective of one of the highest yet most accessible levels I found I recommended its glands multiple times this year the Primal wound is a book that I've heard before you've seen me hold it up before it is one of the best takes on addiction and personal development in the sense of the real psychological meaning of that term looking at the developmental stages and the different psychological abnormalities that lead us to traumatized addiction looping and third book of the three and the self-development the self-healing stack James Hollis Eden Project this is a wonderful jungian style take on the anima animus image or the internalized externalized feminine and masculine which keeps us looping around in all of those unfulfilling and potentially toxic relationships where we believe that we're going to find the magical other forgetting that we are indeed the magical self that's the self-healing stack and this is the pace that we're moving at because I don't need to spend 50 minutes going through the video I just want you to buy the books Let's go to the therapist stack so this is the professional development stack if you're a Healer if you're a coach if you're a therapist these are the three books for you or if you're just someone who takes it very seriously you go from the self-healing stack to the therapist stack because if you want to learn how to heal yourself you might as well learn how to become a Healer I think I've just adjusted the lighting over there one second chance back down I'm gonna turn it up this way there we go should remove that remote next time professional stack reality game by John Rowan this is the best single Source guide to humanistic counseling and humanistic Psychotherapy that I have ever encountered it has got such a wonderful bibliography and it is going to help you take your practice to the next level it's truly worth reading next book is core energetics by John piercos I think I'm saying that correctly this is a bioenergetic style approach if you know Alexander lowen and Wilhelm Reich this is the Forgotten third man who gets very little attention and when I read this book I cannot believe that I put this off for two years because I should have read it back in 2020 and somehow I didn't fantastic take on the energetic systems within the human body and how trauma freezes us up and the final book psychosynthesis Roberto assaigoli invented psychosynthesis as a transpersonal model of human development and healing but John Furman and angilla they studied with assayagoli and wrote this wonderful book which honestly is actually better than any of acai gurley's main texts it's one of the top reads of the year because it just covers the home theme of personal transpersonal spiritual self-awakening holistic development in such a high level and yet quite accessible to hard read but a definite read for any therapist or any coach out there that's two stacks completed we're now moving over to our jungian archetypal stack these are the books that deal with the jungian archetypes first we've got Marion Woodman's the pregnant virgin this book is wonderful for any woman to read and also every man to read because we look at the psychological stages of morality and wounding for the feminine buy this book I recommend it to many clients and my female clients they read this and they go holy that's incredibly triggering and yet it's incredibly useful why it's a good book and then we've got puer eternus by yeah yeah Marie Louise Von Franz sometimes forget it's quite a long name this deals with the internal the internal and eternal child archetype I'm moving at a very quick place I'm stumbling over my words the point is just by the books best book I found on the inner child and the developmental issues of the inner child which we can hopefully overcome as we become mature adults and finally Young's map of the Soul this is a book I also wish I had read it three years ago because it is the best single Source introduction to all of the youngin ideas that I've ever come across all the main bases are covered actually recommended someone on Instagram who asked me if you should read the red book without encountering youngin ideas of like no just don't read the red book I don't think it's that useful from those people who are doing any work for self-healing the red book actually put it right here like how young you can see that I don't think it's worth reading honestly that's controversial to say I'm not a young Yen it reads like a potentially unhinged schizophrenic leaning Journal there's many mystical elements and there's many wonderful insights but it's just not worth reading from those people but a book like this is still absolutely fantastic because you'll encounter all the ideas around the archetypes and the unconscious and different elements of the psyche and the Persona in an incredibly readable but still incredibly Academic Way whereas young himself can be a bit difficult to go into but that's neither here nor there it's your choice that's the archetypal Stark now the final stack this is the academic stack we've got frames of Mind by Howard Gardner this is the theory of multiple intelligences this is breakout book where he breaks out and basically says yeah there's multiple intelligences the reason I'm bringing this book forwards and not necessarily because it's incredibly useful to keep returning to but the idea of Intelligence being a performance was really a huge unlock for me that any intelligence must be performed in a socially useful way to actually qualify as an intelligence so we think of things like emotional intelligence or spatial intelligence or musical intelligence they have to have a performative outer expression I spoke about this a few times on the channel and it's because of this book it's a really good one to read if you want to understand the complexity of how intelligence develops in human beings next book slow down for this one embodied spirituality in a sacred World by Michael Washburn if you haven't seen some of the titles maybe the lights bounced off I'm gonna put them down somewhere maybe in the description or in the comments you'll find out this is one of the best books on transpersonal psychology as it relates to spirituality is incredibly dense rude is high level Advanced book I've held it up before if you like the sound of this book I'm not gonna go into any of the quotes you can just see just how heavily highlighted this book was top read final book my real top read of the last two months synthetic Paradigm the untrodden path between Freud and Young by Robert Aziz this book basically tears down Freud and tears down Young from an incredibly critical incredibly harsh yet very well measured very academic style it's just so refreshing it's so nice to see people step out of cult mentalities and do original thinking in a way that encourages new conclusions and potential synthesis of otherwise tribal-like mentality is I'm not on Freud or young in particular but there needs to be more books like this because this again literally I think has zero reviews on Amazon and it's been slept on the guy did a really good job with this book and I recommend it to you and guess what we've reached the end of the video but it's 2022. I've got a little surprise for you we don't have just 12 books I've got another 10 so we've got 10 extra uh 20 22 22 books and I'm gonna rapidly go through these because these are the ones that are also useful but didn't make the top 12. we've got the roots of war and Terror by Anthony Stevens and this is a psychological look into terrorism and acts of human violence in the post 911 era it's really useful for understanding the human Shadow we've got Carl Rogers client focused therapy client-centered therapy sorry just an incredible like professional development book so you can work with your clients and more compassionate and yet more direct way we've got Marion Woodman's the ravaged bridegroom masculinity in women does what it says on the front cover we've got another James Hollis book the middle passage from misery to meaning in midlife this is not actually the book that I wanted to recommend I've picked up the road the wrong book all I wanted to recommend was this book swamplands of the Soul read too many James Hollis books don't read the Middle Passage read this one and say because this one is about spiritual malays and Dark Knight of the song this one covers the same themes which is why I picked it up but just not in the same level of depth or Clarity or interest they're both useful might as well rebirth for like ten dollars each but let's be correct Freud Adler controversy goes into great detail and the reason I'm holding this one up is that it allowed me to see a really useful piece of information then you can measure psychologists based on their clientele Freud had mainly high class clientele Adler had more world-class clientele there for the theories of their psychologies of pathology were very different and this is the book that really unlocked that perspective for me another John Perry book same author as Trials of the Visionary mind we've got the far side of Madness again dealing with spiritual emergencies we've got young Entourage by John Conga that talks about Carl Jung and boham Reich the bioenergetic often forgotten psychologist of the 20th century he talks about the energetic systems you can find out for yourself we've got archetype by Anthony Stevens second Anthony Stevens book this is a nice kind of in-between from transpersonal psychology and jungian psychology when it comes to the archetypal systems again every book that I'm holding up is my top books of all these 133 and actually read 184 books this year but about 50 of them but business and miscellaneous I'm not even including them these really are the top top percentage just consider buying them final two books anatomy of human and destructiveness by Eric Fromm hopefully that just came up there this is a book about evil and destruction and violence and mutilation and all of the Shadow themes that we like to shy away from it's a classic study it's very difficult to read in terms of emotional content but if you're serious about understanding all of the most malevolent parts of humanity then read a book like this and we will finish in a paradoxical manner after having potentially devalued young based on the statements I'm actually going to recommend young this book is absolutely marvelous this is the structure and dynamics of the psyche by Carl Jung which is the top book that I'd recommend that you read from young as the essay on synchronicity embedded within this book and you already know what that word is if you want to read some young read this book after having read the books are in stack a Young's map of the Soul by Murray Stein that's my 2022 year in review video please just buy three of the books I've got frustration and I've got anger because I hate the fact that I'm gonna make this video and it's going to be a piece of forgettable entertainment when you could just go on Amazon and spend 30 and 30 hours of your life getting ideas that will change you for a lifetime I'm not angry at you I'm angry at the space itself and the format doesn't work I wish I were recommending these books to you in a private client session because then you take it more seriously but because I'm giving it away for free on YouTube it somehow doesn't shine as brightly but this has literally taken me thousands of hours and it is all I do I'm trying to give you the absolute best so please just take it but if you want to continue the YouTube rabbit hole then here's the next YouTube video and we're just gonna go straight back down the distraction Avenue or hopefully not who knows but paradoxes continue there's the next video