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Amen, Daniel G.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
In his pioneering new book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Dr. Amen explains how you can "optimize" your brain to achieve your fullest potential. Using state-of-the-art technology, Dr. Amen has spent the last decade helping thousands of patients understand how the way their brains are wired can affect their thoughts and emotions.

Arterburn, Stephen

Addicted to "Love:" Understanding Dependencies of the Heart: Romance, Relationships, and Sexes
Stephen Arterburn examines what this "love" addiction looks like, who it afflicts and what you can do if you suspect that your spouse, friend, or family member maybe be suffering from it. Arterburn points the way to psychological and spiritual healing.

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Baker, Dan; Stauth, Cameron

What Happy People Know
Dan Baker argues that people can escape the destructive cycles in their lives and teach themselves to be happy. By drawing on several different tools for happiness, Baker points out, you can begin to overcome the brain's predisposition for difficult, stressful times.

Beattie, Melody

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Where recovery began for many people, this inspiring, straightforward, personal explanation of what codependency is and who has it gives listeners the option to change unhealthy behaviors and stressful relationships as they rediscover hope, guidance, and encouragement.

Bradshaw, John E.

Healing the Shame that Binds You
Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to superachieve, resulting in the breakdown in the family systems and our inability to go forward with our lives.

On the Family
In this insightful and fresh look at the family as a dynamic, emotional unit, Bradshaw examines functional and dysfunctional families in order to highlight the need for an emotional and ideological democracy in the family as opposed to more restraining models of the family dyanmic.

Bolles, Richard Nelson

What Color is Your Parachute?
For more than 25 years, this "Cadillac of job-search books" has been the best-selling book of its kind. Updated and revised annually, Parachute is essentially two books in one: a practical manual for job-hunters and a guide for career-changers.

Bourne, Edmund J.

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
This practical workbook contains a complete discussion of phobias and anxiety disorders and suggests step-by-step methods of treating them. Each chapter concludes with a summary of "Things to Do" and a list of suggested further reading. Questionnaires, exercises, and charts are featured throughout the book.

Burns, David

The Feeling Good Handbook
Dr. David Burns is one of the prime developers of cognitive therapy, a fast-acting, drug-free treatment for designed to help the clinically depressed. In The Feeling Good Handbook, he adapts cognitive therapy to deal with the wide range of everyday problems that plague so many (chronic nervousness, panic attacks, phobias, and feelings of stress, guilt, or inferiority). The Feeling Good Handbook teaches how to remove the mental obstacles that bar you from success--from test anxiety and fear of public speaking to procrastination and self-doubt.

Ten Days to Self-Esteem
In David Burn's Ten Days, he offers an innovative way to not only identify the sources of low self-esteem and changes in mood but help you to develop a clear path to a more positive outlook on yourself and life as a whole.

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Carnes, Patrick

Don't Call it Love
In Dr. Carnes's comprehensive look at sexual addiction and other forms of compulsive, self-destructive sexual behavior, he combines clinical insight with stories from people who are recovering and have recovered, aiming all the while to provide a means to both shed light on those affected by sexual addiction and offer a way to redevelop a healthy, fulfilling sexuality.

A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps
This book is perfect for anyone looking to recover and cope with difficulties in life. Carnes seeks to apply the twelve-step model used in many recovery groups to any and all moments in life where mature, thoughtful reflection and recovery is necessary.

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
Dr. Carnes exmaines the tangled web of love, addictive sex, hate, and fear that is sometimes found in family relationships. He offers a way for addicts and codependents to deal with their sexual compulsions as well as their lives as a whole.

Chodron, Pema

When Things Fall Apart
The head of a Tibetan Monestary in Canada, Pema Chodron offers a unique approach to coping with loss and uncertainty, all from a profoundly Buddhist standpoint. She weaves seminal concepts of Buddhist thought into coping with very modern issues with a goal in mind to face both the good and bad.

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Davis, Laura

The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
As a step-by-step guide through the healing process, this workbook will touch a deep nerve and provide the same directional support as its companion bestseller Courage to Heal. The workbook is a combination of checklists, open-ended questions, writing exercises, art projects, and activities.

Dumont, Raeann

The Sky is Falling: Understanding and Coping with Phobias, Panic and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
An authoritative guide to understanding and coping with a range of phobias, panic, and obsessive-compulsive disorders draws on case studies and the authors' expertise to help readers recognize anxiety disorders, manage symptoms, and find treatment.

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Eisenberg, Arlene and Howard; Mooney, Al J.

The Recovery Book
The Recovery Book attempts to explain exactly what a recovering addict and his or her family will face during every stage of living clean and sober, with information on support groups, family relationships, temptations, and hundreds of questions and answers.

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Greenspan, Miriam

Healing Through the Dark Emotion
In this look at grief and despair, Miriam Greenspan poses the idea that these difficult emotions are not things that one should try and suppress or medicate but tools that can be used to stimulate growth in almost all facets of life.

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Hay, Louise

I Can Do It
Hay has designed a book that covers almost every aspect of life, framing her ideas in the context of affirmations-- every single thought a person has and every word he or she speaks. By using this affirmations correctly, Hay suggests, it is possible to improve virtually anything about your own life.

You Can Heal Your Life
In You Can Heal Your Life Hay helps readers take responsibility and control of their own reality and afflictions, seeking to change destructive thought patterns in favor of more healthy, happy view of self and the world.

Hendrix, Harville

Getting the Love You Want
Getting the Love You Want Workbook
Hendrix's book draws not only on his extensive research but is in part inspired by his own failed marriage. He takes a multi-faceted look at relationships and marriage and uses his findings as a means to help transform your relationships into bonds that are deep, passionate, and lasting.

Hershorn, Michael

60-Second Anger Management
Learn to manage your anger quickly and effectively, as well as help mend relationships and a sense of self that is often damaged by anger and ineffective communication.

Hollis, James

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
For men and women who have reached the middle of their lives, Hollis's book can be seen as a thoughtful call to not only face but embrace the questions and the mystery of life. Hollis advocates careful self-reflection and a reconnection with yourself as an individual.

Hunter, Mic

Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
A long overdue book by a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual abuse of male children is rare, or that the consequences are less serious than for girls.

Hope and Recovery: A Twelve-Step Guide for Healing from Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Hope & Recovery is the current basic text of SAA (Sex Addicts Anonymous, a twelve-step group for sexually recovering people). The book is designed for individuals who feel that they are sexually compulsive and are looking for information on the addictive disease and "tools" to use to become and remain free from sexual addiction.

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Keyes, Ken

Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Ken Keyes' book explores how to change the unconscious wiring of the mind in order to live a life that is truly desirable and overcome the obstacles that will inevitably arise.

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Richo, David

How to Be an Adult
Using the metaphor of the heroic cycle, Richo describes the process of arriving at both spiritual and psychological maturity. By discussing challenges to adulthood such as fear and guilt and also the difficulty in balancing interpersonal relationship with personal boundaries, Richo explores effective paths to a healthy self-esteem and also a developed sense of intimacy.

Robinson, Bryan E.

Chained to the Desk

By examining work addiction from a mature, psychological standpoint, Robinson sheds light on a common problem among working men and women that can have serious consequences in all aspects of life.

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Schneider, Burt and Jennifer

Sex, Lies, and Forgiveness
A practical, compassionate guide to explore and help heal relationships for individuals, couples, and families dealing with sex addiction

Schwartz, Jeffrey M.; Beyette, Beverly

Brain Lock: Free Yourself From Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from ` their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.

Sheehy, Gail

New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time
The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood-- beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five-- are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier-- a Second Adulthood in middle life.

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Wilson, R. Reid

Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks
Panic: Nearly everyone has experienced it at some time or another, but in the form of a panic attack, it can be incapacitating. With insight and compassion, psychologist R. Reid Wilson, Ph.D., a leading expert on panic attacks, offers an accessible and practical self-help program for reducing and eliminating these attacks, providing a detailed five-step strategy for controlling the moment of panic.

Woititz, Janet Geringer

Adult Children of Alcoholics
Written with specifically the adult children of alcoholics in mind, Woititz's book delves into how the journey begins for many and also what she has found--after over a decade of research-- to work well in recovery.