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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
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
Aaron T. Beck · 368 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.
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz Ph.D., Alanis Morissette · 216 pages
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
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
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,
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
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
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud · 560 pages
Reparenting Your Inner Child: Healing Unresolved Childhood Trauma and Reclaiming Wholeness through Self-Compassion
Nicole Johnson LPC · 173 pages
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
Francine Shapiro · 352 pages
"A totally accessible user's guide from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy for healing ailments ranging from PTSD to minor anxiety and depression. Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the h
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.
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 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
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Steven Levenkron · 269 pages
Known as the illness of the 1990s, close to two million Americans and possibly more suffer from the psychological disorder of self-mutilation. The most prominent public admission was that of Princess Diana. Written for the self-mutilator, parents, friends, and therapists, Levenkron unravels step by step the mindset of the self-mutilator, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behavio
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
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 Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Elaine N. Aron · 251 pages
Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again
Janet S. Klosko · 384 pages