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r/AcademicPsychology · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/AcademicPsychology during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/AcademicPsychology within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2022
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Cover of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst #1

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

A neuroscientist traces one punch backward through hormones, childhood, evolution, and culture to explain why anyone throws it at all.

3 in 2022
Cover of The Body Keeps the Score #2

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

2 in 2022
Cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow #3

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

A Nobel-winning psychologist splits the mind into a fast intuitive system and a slow deliberate one, then catalogues where the fast one lies to you.

2 in 2022
Cover of Feeling Good #4

Feeling Good

David D. Burns

David Burns hands depressed readers a list of ten named thinking errors and a worksheet to catch themselves making one.

1 in 2022
Cover of Healing Developmental Trauma #5

Healing Developmental Trauma

Laurence Heller

Laurence Heller's NARM framework reframes developmental trauma as a problem of nervous-system adaptation, not character failure.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat #6

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

A neurologist's case files: patients who lost the ability to recognize faces, bodies, and the right side of the world — and remained fully themselves.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture #7

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté

A physician argues that trauma is the hidden engine of most chronic illness, and that Western society is the primary carrier.

1 in 2022
Cover of The WEIRDest People in the World #8

The WEIRDest People in the World

Joseph Henrich

A Harvard professor's argument that Western psychology is a historical accident — and that most of what we call human nature is culture in disguise.

1 in 2022
Cover of Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men #9

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Lundy Bancroft

A domestic-violence counselor spent years running batterer-intervention groups, then wrote down the excuses so readers could recognize them faster.

1 in 2022