Chimp Paradox/Thinking fast thinking slow

figges

Hi
I've found these two books to be really helpful with dealing with emotional control and managing impulsive decisions. I'm sure there is a lot more to be mined from the crossover of the two approaches they offer.
Does anybody have any views on how these two psychological approaches may be intertwined to be practically useful ?

endacl

Just a quick scan of the blurb suggests 'Civilisation and its Discontents' - lite. I suspect simplified and regurgitated Freud? Perhaps somebody who's read both might offer a better comparison...?

JuliusCaesar

While Thinking Fast and Slow was written by an eminent research psychologist, who references many studies in experimental psychology, The Chimps Paradox was written by a psychiatrist. I've read the former, but not the latter. The psychiatrist works seemingly in the capacity of a sports psychologist and uses the Chimp as a metaphor for what endacl might call the Id - that is the emotional part of the brain which reacts to stimuli in a heuristic way, or what Kahnemann calls System 1. System 2 is the rational self which responds to stimuli in a more rational way.

As to the application of these theories of psychology to the individual, there are surely many self-help books based on these ideas.

endacl

Aren't self-help books based on the idea of generating a load of cash for the author?

:pac::pac:

JuliusCaesar

endacl wrote: »

Aren't self-help books based on the idea of generating a load of cash for the author?

:pac::pac:

Well, it's self-help for the author!



(note to self....must start writing...)

endacl

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Well, it's self-help for the author!



(note to self....must start writing...)

(Note to Julius Caesar... Already did....)

Well out of copyright though. :pac: