Dr. Charlie Easmon, Medical Director of Your Excellent Health Service, recently attended a Golden Civilization Conversation in London and felt inspired to share a reading list and ideas that he feels are contributing to delivering a Golden Civilization now.
Ted Talks
Books
Man’s search for meaning by Viktor Frankl
Thinking fast, thinking slow by Daniel Kahneman
Neurotribes - Steve Silberman
Why we sleep by Prof Matthew Walker
Madness explained, Richard Bentall
The Element: How finding your passion changes everything by Ken Robinson
Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar PHD
Stephen Covey - the 7 habits of highly effective people
Awaken the giant within By Anthony Robbins
Napoleon Hill any book
Dale Carnegie any book
The leader who had no title by Robin Sharma
The Kaiser Permante ACT study
The Spirit to Serve by J.W. Marriott Jnr & Kathi Ann Brown
The top five regrets of the dying by Bronnie Ware
How the mind works by Steven Pinker
Status syndrome by Prof Michael Marmot
You are not a gadget by Jaron Larnier & 10 reasons to turn off all your social media right now
Madness and Civilization by Foucault
Man up: surviving modern masculinity by Jack Urwin
Being a man ...in the lousy modern world by Robert Twigger
Stiffed: The Betrayal of Modern Man by Susan Faludi
The OIQ Factor: Raising your school’s organisational intelligence - How schools can become cognitively, oscillating and emotionally smart by William Powell & Ochan Kusuma-Powell
Smile or Die: How positive thinking fooled America & The World by Barbara Ehrenreich
Authentic Happiness by Martin EP Seligman
Toxic Parents: overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life by Dr Susan Howard
Sway: the irresistible pull of irrational behaviour by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
The Descent of man by Grayson Perry
Happiness: Lessons from a new science by Richard Layard
Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Mackay
Reasons to stay alive by Matt Haig
How much is enough? By Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Rumi
The Happiness Advantage: The 7 principle that fuel success and performance at work by Shawn Achor
The art of handling people by Herbert N. Casson
Why we sleep by Prof Matthew Walker
The art of Happiness: A handbook for living The Dalia Lama
The road to character by David Brooks
The confidence game by Maria Konnikova
The art of the good life by Rolf Dobelli
Seneca the good life
Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
The Anatomy of Human Aggressiveness by Erich Fromm
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
The deepest well: healing the long-tern effects of childhood adversity by Dr Nadine Burke Harris
Fully connected: Social Health in an age of overload by Julia Hobsbawm
The Power of Less: 6 essential productivity principles that will change your life by Leo Babuata
The Examined Life: How we lose and find ourselves by Stephen Grosz
The art of thinking clearly by Rolf Dobelli
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
Scrum - The art of doing twice the work in half the time by Jeff Sutherland
A guide to confident living by Norman Vincent Peale
The art of loving by Erich Fromm
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Primary Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
Confessions of a sociopath by M.E.Thomas
The First and Second Penguin Krishnamurti Reader
The first and last freedom by Krishnamurti
Intimacy: Trusting oneself and the other by Osho
We are what we think - a journey through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world by James Geary
How art can make you happy by Bridget Watson Payne
Poiesis: The language of psychology and the speech of the soul by Stephen K.Levine
Sapiens: 10,000 year’s of human history by Yuval Noah Harari
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
Mid Life: look younger, live longer, feel better by Dr Muir Gray
Theory X & Theory Y Douglas McGregor of MIT 1960s
The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
Charities
Apps
Practitioners
Dr Rosemary Taylor (adolescents)
Tony McLellan crew inc
Mandy Saligari
Nightingale
Dr Andy Zamar
Sleep specialists including .....
Resilience Prof Richard Williams (via Iapos)
Lexxic
Simon Baron-Cohen
Lighthouse
Alpha
Warren Von
Hoffman
Central and North West London NHS Gaming addiction Prof Bowden-Jones
Techniques
Counselling of many sorts
EMDR
RTMS
ECT
Drugs
Psychopaths vs sociopaths
Training for non specialists
Mental health First aid
People management
The one minute manager series by Ken Blanchard
Emails to chaplian
Models
Deloitte Mental Health Champions
Disney
Zappos Tony Hsieh
Unilever
De Bono 6 thinking hats
Dr. Charlie Easmon MBBS MRCP MSc Public Health DTM&H DOccMed
Medical Director of
Your Excellent Health Service
charlie@yourexcellenthealth.co.uk
www.yourexcellenthealth.co.uk