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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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 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,
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.
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
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
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 Feeling Good Handbook
David D. Burns · 658 pages
How to use Cognitive Therapy to overcome a wide variety of mood problems. Depression, Frustration, Panic, Chronic Worry, Phobias. Personal Relationship Problems. Marital Conflict, Difficulty at Work.
Existential Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom · 524 pages
"Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to be practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of its tenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whose Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a service to that discipline since 1970, provides existential psychotherapy with a
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
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
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
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.
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 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
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
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
Aaron T. Beck · 368 pages
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
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz Ph.D., Alanis Morissette · 216 pages
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
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
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.
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think
Dennis Greenberger, Christine A. Padesky · 215 pages
Written by two clinical psychologists, this manual shows you how to improve your life using cognitive therapy - one of the most effective and widely practiced forms of psychotherapy. Step-by-step worksheets teach you specific skills that have helped thousands of people conquer depression, panic attacks, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relations
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Russ Harris · 265 pages
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.