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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living343 reviews
Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler

Riverhead Hardcover, 1998

Powerful and elegant
A very simple, yet enjoyable, read, but I especially enjoyed hearing his voice on the audiobook. 		  
  







  
  
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality ...148 reviews
Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger

New Harbinger Publications, 1998

stop walking on eggshells
I found the book extreamly helpfull. The many examples were a great help in identifying the type behavior exhibited, and the methods to deal with them. 		  
  







  
  
Man's Search for Meaning65 reviews
Viktor E. Frankl

Beacon Press, 2006

Wonderful book - even if you've found meaning in your life!
Title says it all. The second half of the book has some really great tips & tricks for life. You shouldn't skip the first half of the book since it ties into and validates the teachings in the second half of the book. Sometimes the writing is a bit awkward and verbose (he does speak in technical terms at times), but go slow and really try to understand what he's saying. The book is a really ... 		  
  







  
  
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder74 reviews
Richard Louv

Algonquin Books, 2008

TEN Star Great book!!!!
Cannot recommend this book enough whether you live in a city, suburb or rural area. Nature is all around you as the book says, and sadly to many children have no idea what trees are in their neighborhood, or what that flower called a dandelion is growing thru the crack in the sidewalk. If nothing else I hope the book will make parents/adults and children simply stop and look around and ... 		  
  







  
  
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal ...20 reviews
Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, ...

New Harbinger Publications, 2007

Amazing resource.
I've read a lot of self-help, pop-psych books targeted at dealing with strong emotions. Most of them seemed true & helpful at the time I was reading them, but fell apart when I tried applying them to life. This book is not only easy to use while you are using it, but it is easy to recall later in the day, or the week, or even a few months later, and easy to use the techniques. I even find ... 		  
  







  
  
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness22 reviews
J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, ...

The Guilford Press, 2007

Very engaging and useful.
The book is a relatively quick read--as a clinical psychologist I like to preview books that I might recommend to pts--I got thru it in a weekend. The CD is excellent. Very good value. Beneficial even if one is not depressed! 		  
  







  
  
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think52 reviews
Dennis Greenberger, Christine Padesky

The Guilford Press, 1995

Great read!
This is a great read, especially for anyone who's dealt with depression. I've gone through it myself, and this book helped me a lot! 		  
  







  
  
Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition29 reviews
Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz

Basic Books, 2005

The BIBLE of group therapy texts!
Plain and simple, Yalom's seminal text on group therapy is a MUST for anyone wishing to perform therapy in this format. While he comes from a Gestalt standpoint, I feel he remains fairly objective in both his recommendations and observations from his experience. He does a good job at incorporating the latest research to back up his viewpoints as well. His examples are clear and thought-provoking, ... 		  
  







  
  
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child28 reviews
John Gottman, Joan Declaire

Simon & Schuster, 1998

What a help!
I found this book to be very helpful to me emotionally and to my parenting skills. I am also a substitute teacher and use these methods in the classrooms I teach in. I'm so impressed with this author, I'm ordering his book on marriage. 		  
  







  
  
The Feeling Good Handbook83 reviews
David D. Burns

Plume, 1999

Superb resource after suicide attempt
This book was extraordinarily helpful to someone close to me. She was clinically depressed and had just been released from the hospital after a suicide attempt. We read it together in small bites for the first few weeks, and then she was able to do it on her own. A therapist helped, loving family helped, meds helped---but this book was literally a lifesaver. The title suggest that it is useful ... 		  
  







  
  
Psychology4 reviews
David G. Myers

Worth Publishers, 2006

for 101, it's a 100.
This is a fantastic General Psych, Psych 101, or AP Psych textbook. My experience with it gave me the notion that this might just be the best Gen Psych textbook available. I got a 5 on the AP exam using this book, but more importantly, i learned so much from it, i cannot even begin to explain. I recommend this to students as well as teachers (for their class) because, simply, it just doesn't ... 		  
  







  
  
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy29 reviews
Steven C. Hayes

New Harbinger Publications, 2005

I'm free
I've been in and out of therapy for over thirty years,and have read at least fifteen self help books. Basicly I was told, kill the negative self talk,say positve affirmations and one therapist said, "just snap out of it." I constantly battled with my self. I also suffer from anxiety attacks. I've work for 20 years for a very large orginazation with a few thousand employees. Once it became ... 		  
  







  
  
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships95 reviews
David Schnarch

Holt Paperbacks, 1998

Are you differentiated?
If you're not, you need to read this book! The passionate Marriage is an excellent book written in a personable manner with excellent anecdotes that demonstrate the concepts the writer is explaining. Reading this book helped me recognize where I wasn't differentiated and where I needed to do some serious internal work to help myself. It's also helped my marriage a lot, in terms of how my wife and ... 		  
  







  
  
Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change14 reviews
William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick

The Guilford Press, 2002

Motivational Interviewing
What a wonderful book. I recently completed an introductory course in Motivational Interviewing and found the book an invaluable companion. My primary theoretical orientation is Reality Therapy but have found Motivaitonal Interviewing to be an easily integrated set of techniques for virtually any counseling style. Most importantly, MI appears to offer a set of techniques that fit well with the ... 		  
  







  
  
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition76 reviews
Alice Miller

Basic Books, 1996

A Significant Piece of the Puzzle
Reading books about psychology, especially books dealing with childhood trauma, is a bit like looking into a shattered mirror. Some parts will accurately reflect aspects of one's own psyche; other parts will be too distorted to have any relevance. As far as mirrors go, I think Alice Miller's "The Drama of the Gifted Child" provides for excellent viewing. The core of the book is about ... 		  
  







  
  
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being13 reviews
Daniel J. Siegel

W. W. Norton, 2007

Hands down the best book on this topic.....
I've always been a fan of this author, he is a scholar, excellent writer and based on his writing a wise individual. What makes this book especially good from my perspective is the balancing of subjective information from the world's wisdom traditions and his own interior experience with their physical correlates i.e. rigorous science without reducing either to the other. This is extremely ... 		  
  







  
  
Through Time Into Healing19 reviews
Brian L. Weiss

Fireside, 1993

Worked for me!!!
Yes some of the stories are a little mundane, and some of the stories are fascinating. However I had been getting severe migraines for ten years. My friend introduced me to this book; I followed the Regression steps and have been migraine free for 6 months now. (It hasn't been very long since I've done this) The doctors couldn't find out why I was getting my migraines, the MRI didn't show ... 		  
  







  
  
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death74 reviews
Irvin D. Yalom

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Yalom has gifted us with another fine book. And for a remarkably candid book by another brilliant psychiatrist
I recommend That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. The title comes from a song by Leonard Cohen: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Rako's book is fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully well-written. The writing just flows. 		  
  







  
  
After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful78 reviews
Janis Abrahms Spring, Michael Spring

Harper Paperbacks, 1997

highly recommended
No two situations are exactly the same but what this book successfully does is try to help both parties address why it happened and how they can move on together...or apart. I found it very helpful and very thorough. The flood of feelings you go through when an affair occurs is overwhelming and reading this book helps you realize that: 1. you're not alone, 2. that people can and do get past it ... 		  
  







  
  
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder50 reviews
Marsha M. Linehan

The Guilford Press, 1993

DBT vital for self
This book gave me tools to understand myself better and how to approach problems, get my needs met, and to understand that life isn't always fair and people aren't always going to do what you want. You can express yourself in an assertive manner and feel ok even if another person doesn't do what you wanted or needed. To be ok in yourself, your journey and process. How to "get out of the mind" ... 		  
  







  




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