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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
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Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt · 288 pages
> The guide of choice for people curious to move beyond conventional monogamy, and for anyone interested in learning better skills for love, sex, and intimacy, *The Ethical Slut* will open you up to the adventure and freedom that comes from redefining the way you relate to the adventure and freedom that comes from redefining the way you relate to friends and lovers. Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easto
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson · 353 pages
Models is a book on becoming an attractive man. But it does not promote tricks, techniques, and tactics to manipulate the laws of attraction. Instead, Manson encourages men to partake in self-development to attract women in an honest way.
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz Ph.D., Alanis Morissette · 216 pages
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson · 221 pages
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be he
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
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 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 Mating Game: Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
Kristin Neff · 305 pages
Kristin Neff, Ph.D., is a professor in human development whose 10 years of research forms the basis of her timely and highly readable book. *Self-Compassion* offers a powerful solution for combating the current malaise of depression, anxiety and self-criticism that comes with living in a pressured and competitive culture. Readers learn the three core components that will help replace negative and
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.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
John Gray · 304 pages
Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets.Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relat
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
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller · 294 pages
Introduces the theory of adult attachment as an advanced relationship science that can enable individuals to find and sustain love, offering insight into the roles of genetics and early family life in how people approach relationships.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Pete Walker · 340 pages
Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, & Other Toxic People
Jackson MacKenzie · 149 pages
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Julie Smith · 368 pages
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Robert A. Glover · 192 pages
Debunks the "nice guy syndrome," the need to please others at one's own expense with the hope of receiving happiness, love, and fulfillment, and offers advice for how to rediscover oneself, revive one's sex life, and build better relationships with others.
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
David Schnarch · 444 pages
With a new preface by the author, this updated edition explores the ways in which passion can be kept alive and how the height of sexual and emotional fulfillment can be reached in later life.
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
Mark Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn · 273 pages
Drawing on the collective wisdom of four mindfulness experts, this volume offers effective relief from the most prevalent psychological disorder: clinical depression.
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger · 258 pages
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski · 416 pages
Getting the Love You Want : A Guide for Couples
Harville Hendrix · 311 pages
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 325 pages
The four principles that can help us to overcome our brains' natural biases to make better, more informed decisions – in our lives, careers, families and organizations. In Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch, tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome our natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions, about our work, lives,