Books Mentioned On DOAC By Dr. Jordan Peterson:

Jordan B. Peterson

I've worked with people. I mean, one of the things I've become well known for is my advice to start by cleaning up your room. But I had plenty of clients who couldn't—they couldn't go home and clean up their room; they hadn't cleaned it for like 20 years.

Carl Jung

That's very important. Jung called that a circumambulation. So now imagine the threat system is going off, saying something's wrong, but it's a primordial predator detection instinct. It isn't capable of high-resolution conceptual formulation.

Sigmund Freud

When Freud first developed psychotherapy, he introduced the technique of free association. This is why he would put patients on the couch and sit behind them. If I'm face to face with you and I'm laying out the problem...

Sigmund Freud

That's why Freud did it. Now, what Freud noticed, and the psychoanalysts noticed, is that if you let people free associate, the topics they picked would be linked to one another.

Dante Alighieri

Dante's Inferno is a topography of hell. Underneath every problem are layers of problems right to the bottom. For Dante, the worst problem was betrayal.

Joseph Conrad

There's a movie, Apocalypse Now, that's about a journey to the Heart of Darkness, and that's what the book is about, Joseph Conrad's book. There's a documentary called Heart of Darkness that describes the making of Apocalypse Now, and the people who made the movie went on a journey to the Heart of D

Christopher R. Browning

These were ordinary men—middle-aged policemen who had grown up before Nazi propaganda. Not indoctrinated Nazis from childhood, just normal guys. Their commander told them they could go home, they didn't have to do this job, and there would be no repercussions.

Leonard Cohen

And as Leonard Cohen, the poet, said, 'There's no decent place to stand in a massacre.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the things Nietzsche said, the famous German philosopher, was that every drive attempts to philosophize in its spirit.

Various

When God talks to Moses out of the depths of the burning bush, He says, 'I am what I am.'