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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMaybe 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
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
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Elaine N. Aron · 251 pages
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.
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
A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
Annie G. Rogers · 329 pages
Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactlty what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient.—The Los Angeles Times.
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
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
Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom · 312 pages
"First published in 1989, this ... collection of ten tales by distinguished psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has become a classic. ... Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own
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
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brene Brown
Lavender Clouds: Comics about Neurodivergence and Mental Health
Bex Ollerton · 144 pages
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.
The Examined Life
Stephen Grosz · 225 pages
In his work as a practicing psychoanalyst, the author has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden feelings behind the most baffling human behavior. This book distils more than 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight without the jargon. At its core, this book is about one ordinary process: talking, listening, and understanding. Its stories unveil a delicate self-
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky · 366 pages
Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and University of California professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives-in the short term and over the long term. The How of Happiness is a different kind of happiness book, one that offers a comprehensive gu
The Fifty- Minute Hour
Robert Mitchell Lindner · 216 pages
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer · 253 pages
El estado de salud es un estado natural, y los medios para lograrlo están dentro de las posibilidades de cada uno. ¿Tienes la sensación de estar desbordado por la existencia? ¿Paralizado por compromisos -afectivos, laborales...- que ya no te satisfacen? ¿Dominado por complejos de culpa o inseguridad? No proyectes tu insatisfacción en otros: la causa está en ti, en las «zonas erróneas» de tu person
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
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks · 352 pages
Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, fro
Reparenting Your Inner Child: Healing Unresolved Childhood Trauma and Reclaiming Wholeness through Self-Compassion
Nicole Johnson LPC · 173 pages
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
Living Loving and Learning
Leo F. Buscaglia · 267 pages