BOOK AND PODCAST REVIEWS - NON-FICTION

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past (2001) Douwe Draaisma Teach Yourself Jung (2005 ) Ruth Snowden 50 Psychology Classics (2006) Tom Butler-Bowdon 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need To Know (2008)  Adrian Furnham Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older is a set of connected but discrete essays opening up a relatively new area for psychology - autobiographical memory. It should be of great value to creative writers. Draaisma (Professor of the History of Psychology at Groningen Unversity) is not afraid to go beyond science into literature in order to demonstrate a point. It is well worth reading if you are interested in how you see the world yourself and why you might do so. It also respects subjectivity in a way that one hopes others, with equal communications skills, will develop.     Teach Yourself Jung is a good basic introduction to Jung's life and thinking. It can be recommended, although Frieda Fordham's 1953 classic text approved by the ol

The Jew of Linz: Wittgenstein, Hitler and Their Secret Battle for the Mind (1998) Kimberley Cornish   What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy (2002) Zachary Shore  Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel (2003) Anne De Courcy   Hitler's Spy Chief: The William Canaris Mystery (2004) Richard Bassett   Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, Confidante of Hitler, Ally of FDR (2004)   Peter Conradi How To Read Hitler (2005) Neil Gregor Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017) Eric Kurlander     I am rather amazed that I read the thoroughly weird book The Jew of Linz through to the end, possibly because I was seduced by its first chapters. Essentially it postulates (on slim evidence) that the course of history was changed by boyhood contact in Linz between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Adolf Hitler. The seduction of the first chapters was caused by the fact that Cornish really