Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why

Susan Forward, Joan Torres · 294 pages

Profiles of men who emotionally abuse women and the women who are attracted to them are accompanied by advice for women who want to improve or terminate misogynistic relationships while increasing their self-respect, courage, and confidence.

Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, & Other Toxic People

Jackson MacKenzie · 149 pages

Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed

Wendy T. Behary · 176 pages

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Lundy Bancroft · 418 pages

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves you. So…why does he do that? You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the cha

Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

Beverly Engel · 272 pages

Healing Your Emotional Self "Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create

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.

Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Karyl McBride · 265 pages

"The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBrid

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family

Eleanor D. Payson · 187 pages

Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry

Albert J. Bernstein · 242 pages

The author of Dinosaur Brains offers protection from people who seek to destroy the emotional and psychological well-being of others--people with personality disorders. Like the fabled demons, these vampires: think their needs are more important than yours; believe "the rules" apply only to other people; and use their tempers in the same way terrorists use bombs. Emotional Vampires tells readers h

Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

Susan Forward, Donna Frazier · 304 pages

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

Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting over Narcissistic Parents

Nina W. Brown · 248 pages

"Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case? Some parents dismiss the needs of their children, asserting their own instead, demanding attention and reassurance from even very young children. This may especially be the case when a parent has narcissistic tendencies or narcissistic personality disord

Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self

Elan Golomb · 271 pages

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

What My Bones Know

Stephanie Foo · 352 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter ‒ And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Meg Jay · 272 pages

How Full Is Your Bucket?

Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton · 128 pages

In an inspirational handbook, the discoveries of Donald O. Clifton, the grandfather of positive psychology, show how the briefest interactions affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity.

Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other EverydayPsychological Injuries

Guy Winch · 289 pages

Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited

Sam Vaknin · 600 pages

The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment

Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Robert M. Pressman · 186 pages

Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema · 273 pages

Offers advice on how women can overcome negative thinking and behaviors that lead to anxiety and depression, challenging the practice of analyzing personal emotions while presenting strategies on how to live more productively.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

M. Scott Peck · 316 pages

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of

The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

Brené Brown · 1 pages

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Chris Voss · 274 pages