I didn't do my homework on this, I am just sharing off the top of my head. These have all been around a while. Some I found in the public library, others were in our inventory.
Author: Alice Miller
Title: Don't remember, but it was about the childhood traumas of people who marked the 20th century either as artists or despots and what made the difference in outcome. Includes Nietzsche, Picasso, Stalin....
Author: Don't remember
Title: Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist. I read this last summer on vacation and loved it to pieces. The author demonstrates (impressively to me!) the correlation between O'Connor's writings and the spirituality and writings of the desert fathers. He develops the idea of the "logismoi" (which Sr. Lorraine picked up in my talk; this is where I got it) in the desert fathers' experience and in O'Connor's fiction. (As an example, the voice of the "stranger" talking inside Francis Tarwater's head in "The Violent Bear it Away.")
Author: Josef Pieper
Title: On Hope. A little gem.
Author: Norbert Baumert (I think)
Title: Woman and Man in Paul. A pretty heavy text (literally and figuratively), but I found it very enlightening on aspects of Paul. Bring a Greek dictionary.
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Title for Alice Miller's books: The Drama of a Gifted Child.
No, it's a different title. I just went to Amazon and found it: The Untouched Key: Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness.
Alice Miller is supposed to be quite good. I've read another book by a different author called "Reclaiming Your Life" which is based on Miller's work. It has to do with the healing of traumatic experiences from childhood. I thought it was quite good.
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