Movies and books about Choice

Vladimir Mirzoyev (director), Dmitry Glukhovsky (screenplay)

A true visual guide to an otherworldly life. The seven episodes of Bogland in the first season are so gripping you won’t be able to look away. In adva…

Chico Xavier, Wagner de Assis

I watched the film based on Shiku Shavier’s book Our Home. Well, what can I say—if this is what the “better world” awaiting us after death looks like,…

Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann

«Одни из нас» (English: The Last of Us; more accurate translation — «Последние из нас») from the perspective of gestalt therap…

Otto Bathurst, Tom Harper, and others

Review from the perspective of Gestalt therapy The film Peaky Blinders is a remarkable example of how the Gestalt therapy paradigm can be used to anal…

Donn Karen

A licensed psychotherapist in practice, the first Black female professor of psychology at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the creator of the…

John Grisham

Detectives come in all forms. If it's a detective novel by John Grisham, it will focus more on psychological exploration than on police investigation.…

Hans-Martin Lohmann

One of my first reactions while reading the biography of Sigmund Freud (author H.-M. Lohmann) was the desire to change the photo on the cover. After a…

Jim Kemp

It was worth getting used to the idea that the "win-win" strategy is the most optimal, and dismissing the feeling of "something’s not right," especial…

Nate Silver

At the beginning of reading the book, one of my predictions turned out to be wrong. Namely — that reading would be difficult because I am not a specia…

Marc Randolph

Companies that have reached a certain level and have a history also have a beautiful story about their founding. The author of the book about the hist…

Darren Aronofsky

I watched the movie "Mother". The reaction is very mixed. Definitely not a film for those who aren't ready to perceive it metaphorically—if you watch…

Jane Campion

The events take place in the mid-19th century. Ada McGrath, along with her daughter, moves from Scotland to New Guinea to marry Alisdair Stewart, a m…

Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina

Coco is an adventure and family animated film with such depth that it will appeal to both children and adults. For children, it serves as a vivid exam…

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse’s utopian novel *The Glass Bead Game* can be read repeatedly—at different stages of personal development. Each time, readers can examine…

Ruta Sepetys

A bestseller on the New York Times list and recipient of numerous literary awards, Ruta Sepetys’ novel Between Shades of Gray offers readers a chance…

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land is an attempt to examine people in a technologically advanced society from a meta-perspective. Written in…

Jodi Picoult

The contemporary American author Jodi Picoult’s novel "My Sister’s Keeper" tells the story of a family where the eldest of three children, Kate, suffe…

Jaco Van Dormael

(I went to see my favorite vocalist, who is also a good actor, Jared Leto.) The film doesn’t just touch on the theme of choice—it’s woven into the ver…