/lit/ - Literature

Pretty standard practice.

Inherently limiting

It´s great for authors with little empathy.

It can be helpful in creating really believable characters. Reading case studies for specific instances like single parent households, abuse, the like can help see common cause-and-effect. It's especially helpful if you utilize mental illness in writing. I think a good understanding of psychology can be impossibly helpful to writing a good character.

Dosto would've been better choice OP.

>>3765014
I fucking love NGE. Inspired me a lot in my writing. Charaterization was just masterful.

Currently writing book about schizoid main character. DSM-IV is pretty helpful.

Any writers that openly admitted using of psychology books?

>>3765058
Most Modernists/Surrealists/Futurists/Dadaist were interested from Dream logic and Freudian psychology.

>>3765091
Freud is so much fun. Got a lot of stuff from him.

>>3765101
You shouldn't base your views on psychology solely on Freud; He was too obsessed with sex.

Anyhow, Realist Literature and especially psychological realism (Dostoyesky, Faulkner, Marquez's character study novels (General in his labyrinth, Autumn of the patriarch), Kafka) and all others could help you.

>>3765014
That's like calling someone up on the phone and asking them to describe a painting to you, so you can forge it.

A show I really liked, that I thought had amazing fucking characters was, bear with me, The Dead Zone. Contrived, barely any continuity, and for the LOVE OF GOD, just please pretend it got cancelled after season five. Do not watch season 6, under no circumstance should anybody have to suffer through THAT.
BUT! The character relationships where amazing.
While Johnny was never really fleshed out, you kind of liked him, while he remained this vague thing. Like a medium for his powers and not much else.
Sarah was great, how her initial panic and fear and desperate sympathy gradually turned into a sort of maternal jealousy.
Walt, I loved Walt. He really didn't like Johnny at the beginning, openly defensive and offensive at the same time, put when Johnny comes up to him and says "dude, I totally just had a psychic vision of this chick being murdered" Walt's all, well I think you're a lunatic two skips away from serial killer, but as a police officer, I can't ignore that, which was the fucking first time IN HISTORY that I'd ever seen that reaction on film, and I nearly cried. Beautiful. And the gentle progression to grudging respect, to friendship, it's like art.
Gene Purdy was great because through out the entire series he would swing back and fourth between slimy and sincere, you'd like him, then think "oh he's the final boss", to liking him to disgust to sympathizing with him. His entire character just really relaying this internal struggle between his pure faith and good intentions but also his need to support his church or whatever, and the inherent scruplelessness needed to really succeed in a capitalistic undertaking like that.
Bruce was dumb, ignore him, he didn't even serve a purpose except being a witch anyway.

tl;dr
Watch some TV or something.
NOBODY EVER WATCH SEASON 6 OF THE DEAD ZONE I FUCKING MEAN IT.

>>3765120
What are some psychology essentials? For example, if I had to read only 3 books about psychology in all my life, which one should they be?

>>3765149
Fact or fiction?

>>3765170
Both

>>3765177
Crime and Punishment
Steppenwolf
Analysis of Dreams

>>3765183
I meant 3 fiction and 3 fact

>>3765120
getting fancy with those parentheses I see.