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The Gift Of Therapy: An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients

Irvin D. Yalom · 275 pages

Anyone interested in psychotherapy or personal growth will rejoice at the publication of The Gift of Therapy, a masterwork from one of today's most accomplished psychological thinkers.From his thirty-five years as a practicing psychiatrist and as an award-winning author, Irvin D. Yalom imparts his unique wisdom in The Gift of Therapy. This remarkable guidebook for successful therapy is, as Yalom r

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The Fifty- Minute Hour

Robert Mitchell Lindner · 216 pages

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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Flora Rheta Schreiber · 460 pages

This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.

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Good Morning, Monster

Catherine Gildiner · 368 pages

As seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!"We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating." —Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America"Gildiner is nothing short of masterful—as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given ac

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb · 432 pages

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world—where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crash

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

David D. Burns · 416 pages

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. Now, in this updated edition, Dr. Burns add

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The Skeleton Cupboard: Stories from a clinical psychologist

Tanya Byron · 306 pages

"Gripping, unforgettable and deeply affecting, The Skeleton Cupboard recounts the patient stories that most influenced Professor Tanya Byron, covering years of training that forced her to confront the harsh realities of the lives of her patients and the demons of her own family's history. Among others, we meet Ray, a violent sociopath desperate to be treated with tenderness and compassion; Mollie,

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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick · 274 pages

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question - why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtual

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The Body Keeps The Score

Bessel van der Kolk

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. Read by Sean Pratt. 16 hours, 17 minutes unabridged.

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Uncommon Therapy: Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H.Erickson, M.D.

Jay Haley · 313 pages

Long known as the world's leading medical hypnotist, Milton H. Erikson developed a strategic approach - for individuals, couples and families - that uses hypnotic-therapy skills in observing and motivating people. His ideas and procedures have been widely used to sharpen the techniques of therapists of many different schools. Jay Haley provides a look at Dr. Erickson's theories in practice, throug

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Dibs in Search of Self

Virginia M. Axline · 220 pages

Account of a deeply disturbed five-year-old's attempt to find his identity and of his emergence from psychotherapy as a whole human being.

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Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Susan Forward, Craig Faustus Buck · 326 pages

When you were a child...Did your parents tell you were bad or worthless?Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?Were you frightened of your parents?Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?Now that you are an adult...Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?Do you have intense emoti

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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller · 118 pages

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer -- and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Mill

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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee · 290 pages

"Frost and Steketee were the first scientists to study hoarding when they began their work. With vivid portraits that show us the traits by which you can identify a hoarder, the authors explain the causes and outline the often ineffective treatments for the disorder while illuminating the pull that possessions exert on all of us." "What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever c

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Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

Marsha M. Linehan · 180 pages

"This hands-on companion presents in session-by-session replicable detail the clinical strategies designed to remediate four specific skills areas arrested in the BPD patient: "mindfulnesss" (balancing emotion and rationality to achieve wisdom), interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. A component in Dr. Linehan's comprehensive treatment program, the manual also fea

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Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud · 560 pages

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The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection

Sue Johnson · 384 pages

"This second edition of the standard therapeutic manual for emotionally focused couple and family therapy represents a substantial revision and expansion of the enormously influential first edition. Sue Johnson brings up to date the EFT clinical road map that she provided in the highly regarded 1996 edition, incorporating the latest clinical research results, new case studies, a discussion of the

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No Bad Parts

Richard Schwartz Ph.D., Alanis Morissette · 216 pages

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I'm OK - You're OK

Thomas A. Harris · 288 pages

El análisis conciliatorio es un método para enseñar y para aprender que constituye un planteamiento novedoso al enfrentar al individuo con el hecho de que es responsable de lo que le ocurrirá en el futuro, cualquiera que haya sido su pasado. A partir de la distinción de tres elementos activos en la elaboración de la personalidad: el Padre, el Adulto y el Niño, se marca como objetivo el fortalecimi

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I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

Brene Brown · 320 pages

Shame manifests itself in many ways. Addiction, perfectionism, fear and blame are just a few of the outward signs that Dr. Brene Brown discovered in her 6-year study of shame's effects on women. While shame is generally thought of as an emotion sequestered in the shadows of our psyches, I Thought It Was Just Me demonstrates the ways in which it is actually present in the most mundane and visible a

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The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz · 590 pages

"Dr. Irvin D. Yalom is joined by Dr. Molyn Leszcz for this completely revised and expanded fifth edition. The authors present the latest research and clinical guidelines on group psychotherapy and explore the most recent developments in the field, drawing on nearly a decade of new research as well as their own broad clinical wisdom and experience. This edition features new sections on brief group

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Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

Robin Norwood · 302 pages

Discusses "loving too much" as a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which certain women develop as a reponse to various problems in their family backgrounds.

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