Resources
Books
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. - E. M. Forster
The books listed below can serve as a helpful reference to you.
ADOPTION
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Deborah D. Gray
The Family of Adoption: Completely Revised and Updated
Joyce Maguire Pavao
The Essential Adoption Handbook
Colleen Alexander-Roberts
ADDICTION
Codependent No More
Melodie Beattie
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
Melody Beattie
The Power of Brokenness: The Language of Recovery
Glen Kirby and Jim McCraigh
Recovery Options: The Complete Guide
Joseph Volpicelli and Maia Szalavitz
AGING AND CARE-GIVING
Care-giving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal
Beth Witrogen McLeod
Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Help, How to Survive
Claire Berman
How to Care for Aging Parents
Virginia Morris
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Nell Casey
Against Depression
Peter D. Kramer
Listening to Prozac: AS Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
Peter D. Kramer
An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon
The Beast: The Journey Through Depression
Tracy Thompson
Darkness Visible
William Styron
CHILD ABUSE
Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused as Children
Eliana Gill
My Father’s Child: Help and Healing for Victims of Emotional, Sexual and Physical Abuse
Lynda D. Elliott and Vicki L. tanner
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant
Margaret Mahler
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain
Louis Cozolino
COMMUNICATION
You Just Don’t Understand
Deborah Tannen
DEATH AND DYING
On Death and Dying
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Meeting at the Edge
Stephen Levine
DISABILITY
Elijah’s Cup
Valerie Pardise
Legacy of the Blue Heron: Living with Learning Disabilities
Harry Slyvester
The Road Back: Living With a Physical Disability
Harriet Sirof
To the Left of Inspiration: Adventures in Living with Disabilities
Katherine Schneider
We Cry Out: Living with Developmental Disabilities
John DeFrain, John S. Campbell and Susan Dahl
DIVORCE AND SEPARATION
Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends
Bruce Fisher and Robert Alberti
Should You Leave
Peter Kramer
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
Judith Wallerstein
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Healing the Trauma of Domestic Violence: a Workbook for Women
Edward Kubany, Mari McCraig and Janet Laconsay
Surviving Domestic Violence: Voices of Women Who Broke Free
Elaine Weiss
EATING DISORDERS
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
Kim Chernin
The Secret Language of Eating Disorders
Peggy Claude-Pierre
The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders and Treatment
Kathryn Zerbe
EXISTENTIAL CONCERNS
Loneliness
Clark Moustakas
Man’s Search for Meaning
Victor Frankel
FAMILY LIFE
The Family Crucible
Augustus Y. Napier and Carl Whitaker, M.D.
GAY AND LESBIAN
Figuring it Out
N.S. B.
Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth
Ann Heron
GRIEF AND LOSS
How to Survive the Loss of a Love
Peter McWilliams, Harold H. Bloomfield and Melba Colgrove
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
On Becoming a Person
Carl Rogers
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for True Self
Alice Miller
The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience
Daniel J. Siegel
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
Daniel J. Siegel
INFERTILITY
The Infertility Book: A Comprehensive Medical & Emotional Guide
Carla Harkness
LIFE TRANSITIONS
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
William Bridges
MARRIAGE AND PARTNERSHIP
Love in Never Enough
Aaron Beck
Tell Me No Lies
Ellen Badyr, Peter Pearson and Judith D. Schwartz
The Art of Loving
Erick Fromm
The Relationship Cure
John Gottman
Mapping the Terrain of the Heart
Stephen Goldbart and David Wallin
The Conscious Heart
Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
A General Theory of Love
Thomas Lewis
On the Way to the Wedding
Linda Schierse Leonard
The Dance of Intimacy
Harriet Lerner
The Dance of Anger
Harriet Lerner
Passionate Marriage
David Snarch
Journey of the Heart
John Welwood
Love and Awakening
John Welwood
After the Honeymoon
Dan Wile
MEN’S LIVES
Inside Out: Becoming my Own Man
Jed Diamond
The Way of the Superior Man: A Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work and Sexual Desire
David Deida
MID-LIFE
Menopause Naturally: Preparing for the Second Half of Life
Sadja Greenwood
The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning
James Horner
PARENTING
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys
Dan Kindlon and Michael Thomas
How to Talk to So Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlich
Lost Boys
James Garbarino
Parenting form the Inside Out
Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
The Power of Positive Parenting: A Wonderful Way to Raise Children
Glenn I. Latham
Reviving Ophelia
Mary Pipher
PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT
The Wisdom of No Escape
Pema Chodron
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
Pema Chodron
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
Tonglen: The Path of Transformation
Pema Chodron
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Pema Chodron
Going To Pieces Without Falling Apart
Mark Epstein
Thoughts Without a Thinker
Mark Epstein
The Holotropic Mind
Stanislaus Grof
The Possible Human
Jean Houston
Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope With Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Paths Beyond Ego: Transpersonal Dimensions of Psychology
Frances Vaughn
Integral Psychology
Ken Wilbur
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion
Lisa Firestone
RECONCILIATION
Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness
Solomon Schimmel
SELF-HELP
The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
Elaine Aron
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Edmond Bourne
The Feeling Good Handbook
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
David Burns
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
When Anger Hurts
Matthew McKay
Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
Matthew McKay
Family Guide to Emotional Wellness
Matthew McKay
Self-Esteem
Matthew McKay
Couples Skills
Matthew McKay
SEXUAL ABUSE
Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest
Sandra Butler
Father-Daughter Incest
Judith Herman
I Never Told Anyone: Writing by Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton
The Courage to Heal
Helen Bass and Laurie Davis
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child
Alice Miller
TRAUMA
Waking the Tiger
Peter Levine
Too Scared to Cry
Lenore Terr
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
Wounds Not Healed by Time
VETERANS
Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning form Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families
Keith Armstrong, L.C.S.W., Suzanne Best, Ph.D, and Paula Domenci, Ph.D.
Flashback: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War
Penny Coleman
War and Soul
Edward Tick
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress: From the Holocaust to Viet Nam
John P. Wilson, Zev Harel and Boaz Kahana
WOMEN’S LIVES
Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development
Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan
A New Approach to Women and therapy
Miriam Greenspan
Women in Therapy
Harriet Lerner
Women's Growth in Diversity: More Writings from the Stone Center
Judith V. Jordan