Three good books on writing

One thing about reading psychology books is that many of them are formal and academic. And psychology can be written in a dry or abstract or conceptual language. Sometimes laden with psychological jargon. And sometimes it seems like psychological writing loves nothing more than going into the ego/self axis and object relations theory. And sometimes it just dives straight into the categorization of neuroses and pathologies - and into hysteria, psychosis and narcissism to name just a a few conditions.

It led James Hillman to say 'We might look at some of the examples of the language of psychology: readings from journals, case reports, texts, research studies. But it would be boring-indeed insulting! Why can we not read this stuff? Why is it so enraging? Let us put the question psychologically; what in us is bored, insulted, outraged? these emotions are telling us something, some emotional truth. The emotional self looks to psychology- that discipline that calls itself after the soul-to connect it with this soul. But this expectation for nourishment, for help in the psyche's struggle for awareness, is frustrated by psychology itself. The language of psychology insults the soul. It would sterilize metaphors into abstractions. We are made ill because it is ill'.