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ADHD
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder From Childhood through Adulthood—Edward M Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Millions of children and adults tell themselves or are told by others to stop procrastinating, start concentrating, sit still, finish what they started, and get organized. But what appears to be a matter of self-discipline is for many a neurological problem. Now two doctors reveal the impact precise diagnosis and treatment can have.
Answers to Distraction—Edward M. Harwell, John J. Ratey
Answers To Distraction provides practical solutions to the dilemmas of ADD. This "user's guide" to ADD is presented in question-and-answer format ideal for even the most distractible reader. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of ADD, such as ADD in women, ADD and aggression, ADD and addiction, or ADD and work. The authors provide advice for teachers on recognizing ADD and helping students to cope, plus extraordinary insights into the relationship difficulties caused by ADD.
Succeeding in College with ADHD—Jennifer Bramer, PH, D.
Anxiety and Phobia Workbook—Edmund J. Bourne
A practical and comprehensive guide that offers help to anyone struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or other anxiety disorders....
Asperger's
Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome—Laine Holliday Willey
Pretending to be Normal tells the story of a woman who, after years of self-doubt and self-denial, learned to embrace her Asperger's Syndrome traits with thanksgiving and joy. Chronicling her life from her earliest memories through her life as a university lecturer, writer, wife and mother, Laine Holliday Willey shares, with insight and warmth, the daily struggles and challenges that face many of those who have Asperger's Syndrome. Pretending to be Normal invites its readers to welcome the Asperger community with open acceptance, for it makes it clear that, more often than not, they are capable, viable, interesting and kind people who simply find unique ways to exhibit those
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Asperger Employment Guide: A workbook for individuals on the Autistic Spectrum, their families, and Helping Professionals—Roger N. Meyer
"...A practical manual that enables those diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism to deepen their self-understanding and appreciate their value as working individuals."
Thinking in Pictures—Temple Grandin
The captivating subject of Oliver Sacks' an Anthropologist on Mars gives her personal account of living with autism, and tells how her extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world, of photos & line drawings.
Bipolar
Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Good Moods & Madness—Kay Redfield Jamison
The author, a professor of psychiatry who suffers from manic-depressive illness, relates her life story and successful efforts to come to terms with her disease.
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families.
"...Written for family members as well as patients, describing the stress bipolar disorder places on the patient and loved ones...explains how to adapt lifestyle to improve the quality of life." Appropriate for: Patients and Patients' Families.
Depression
The Beast: A Journey Through Depression—Tracy Thompson
A Washington Post journalist who has triumphed over depression eloquently tells this revealing biography of an illness. Never before has a writer so clearly grasped how the brain accounts for its own dysfunction. Thompson's story is told with a...
Undoing Depression—Richard O'Conner
"...Treats depression as a learned behavior that can be unlearned through thinking differently and incorporating coping skills into daily life."
Breaking the Patterns of Depression—Michael D. Yapko
"...Provides more than 100 activities to prevent depression from occurring and how to control it once it begins."
Overcoming Depression—Demitri F. Papolos and Janice Papolos
"...Includes new clinical findings and the latest information on new antidepressant and mood-stabilizing drugs ...the authors give advice for patients and their loved ones on how to fully participate in diagnosis and treatment."
Dysthymia and the Spectrum of Chronic Depression—Hagop S. Akiskal, editor and Giovanni B. Cassano, editor
Contains 16 contributions partially derived from a 1992 meeting held under the auspices of the Italian Psychiatric Association. Following an overview of chronic depressions, chapters cover current official diagnostic concepts and their classical roots; the classic, now officially discarded construct of neurotic depression, present-day neurasthenia's and atypical depressions; the unofficial rubrics of hysteroid dysphasia and recurrent brief depressions; and issues of chronically of depressives and conduct disorders arising in childhood. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
In the Jaws of the Black Dogs: A memoir of Depression—John Bently Mays
From The Publisher:
"Weaving intimate recollections with excerpts from the diaries he kept for thirty years, Mays illuminates the struggle that leads to breakdown and the uneasy truce achieved through psychotherapy. Along the way, he offers provocative commentary on the allure of cure, the cultural scripts of normality, and the distorting mirror of clinical language... "In the Jaws of the Black Dogs is not an objective analysis composed from the safety of hindsight. It is a writer's attempt to evoke the silent and distorting malignancy - as well as the moments of reprieve - of the only life he has ever known. Above all, he offers readers hope."
The Zen Path through Depression—Philip Martin
The techniques Martin suggests are easy to follow, while his advice is basic and practical. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of depression and recommends a meditation or reflection. With these tools, coping with depression becomes a way to mend the spirit while enriching the soul.
Eating Disorders
The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders & Treatment—Kathryn J. Zerbe
This sensitive look at the complex causes and treatments of eating disorders, written by a leading authority interlaces clearly written clinical discussion with personal stories about individuals who have valiantly engaged in recovery. Topics include body image, sexual abuse, feminism, athletes, medical complications, nutrition, obesity, chemical dependency, and more.
Desperately Seeking Self: An Inner Guidebook for People with Eating Disorders—Viola Podor
From The Publisher
Desperately Seeking self is a guidebook for people with eating problems that uses an unique approach - a conversation between a client and therapist - to call on the spiritual self which is in all of us. For when we awaken to our true natures, life takes on precious meaning, and we become our own agents for healing and positive change. This conversation answers such basic human questions as: Why do I have this illness? Who am I to think that I deserve better? How will my life be different when I awaken to a deeper level? What exactly is a transformation?
Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters & Food—Margo Maine and Craig L. Johnson
Father Hunger—Robert S. McGee
Here is a book for men and women who hunger for something deeper and more authentic in their relationships with their fathers. Your relationship with your father affects your emotional style, your relationships, and the way you think about God.
Loss/Death
City of One: A Memoir—Francine Cournos
Francine Cournos was three years old when her father died, and by the time she was eleven, her mother was dead of breast cancer. "I had been hurled over a cliff," she writes. "The irreversibility of what had happened crashed down on me; a nauseating wave of fear and a flood of tears followed. I didn't know who I was without my mother. What would fill the vast space left by the disappearance of this all-consuming relationship? How would I spend my time? What would I become?" In answering these questions, Dr. Cournos offers a sharply perceptive portrait of an injured child's inner life, and the moving - even exhilarating - story of the ways in which, after much struggle and with considerable help from others, that injured child living in a foster home grew to become a happy and successful adult.
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method to Change your Brain Chemistry—Jeffery M. Schwartz
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. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psychopharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. 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.
Everything in it's Place: My Trials and Triumphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder—Marc Summers
From the time he was in the first grade, Marc Summers feared that if his bedroom wasn't perfectly neat and his shirts didn't hang exactly one-fourth of an inch apart in the closet, something terrible would befall his parents or himself. It wasn't until many years later that the source of his anxiety became clear: like an estimated 6 million Americans today, Summers suffers the effects of obsessive compulsive disorder.
A frank and often hilarious narrative, Everything in Its Place tells the story of Summers's journey from compulsive room cleaner to family man, television celebrity, and Obsessive Compulsive Foundation spokesperson. Describing his struggle to maintain personal relationships and build a career, the ups and downs of being on medication, and what it's like to be compelled to straighten the fringes of a rug at two o'clock in the morning, here is a compellingly readable and ultimately uplifting memoir.
Relationships
The Dance-Away Lover: And Other Roles We Play in Love, Sex, & Marriage—Daneil Goldstine, Katherine Larner, Shirley Zurkerman, David Kantor
My Lover, Myself: Self Discovery Through Relationships—David Kantor
In his more than thirty years of experience as a therapist, Dr. David Kantor has learned that our lovers are mirrors for showing us who we really are-and who we can become. In My Lover, Myself, readers will learn how to turn everything in a relationship-normal difficulties or serious problems-into opportunities for understanding our differences and becoming the best people we can be. Case histories and questionnaires will help lovers share their discoveries-and make the journey back to the healing relationship they promised each other in the beginning.
SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Winter Blues: Affective Disorder: What it is and how to Overcome it—Norman E Rosenthal
From the Publisher
Updated and expanded with the very latest information, this guide is a veritable survival kit for anyone who suffers from the winter blues. The book includes a self-test to help you evaluate your own level of SAD; revised chapters on antidepressant medications, light therapy, St. John's wort, and a helpful nutritional regimen; step-by-step guidance on coping with SAD all year round; resources for SAD sufferers; and much more.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Who Gets it, What Causes it, How to Cure it—Angela Smith, Chris Thompson (contributor)
Smyth looks at who gets Seasonal Affective Disorder, what causes it, and how to cure it. She discusses available treatment methods and describes how increased exposure to light can improve moods and boost energy levels.
Doody's Journal
Self Awareness
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are—Alan Watts
A lucid and witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity—Julia Cameron
From the Publisher
The Artist's Way is an empowering book for aspiring and working artists. With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron leads you through a comprehensive twelve -week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealously, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
Going to Pieces without Falling Apart—Mark Epstien
For decades, Western psychology has promised inner peace through building and strengthening the ego. But Going to Pieces without Falling Apart shows the way to the true freedom that only comes from relinquishing control. Mark Epstein, a Buddhist...
Reinventing Your Life: How to Break Free from Negative Life Patterns and Feel Good Again—Janet S. Klosko, Jeffery E. Young
Two renowned psychologists offer an innovative approach to solving long-term emotional problems based on the proven principles of cognitive therapy. As seen on Oprah, this guide shows how to effectively change negative thought patterns.
Changes that Heal: How to Heal: How to understand Your Past to Ensure a Healthier Future—Dr. Henry Clond
This book focuses on four developmental tasks--bonding to others, separating from others, integrating good and bad in our lives, and taking charge of our lives--that all of us must accomplish to heal our inner pain and to enable us to function and grow emotionally and spiritually.
Descrates' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain—Antonia Damasio
"Damasio's astonishing book takes us on a scientific journey into the brain that helps us see the source of our feelings, thoughts and desires, as well as our idiosyncratic creative and destructive behavior"--Jonas Salk. Damasio, a much-honored doctor and professor of neurology, draws on his treatment of brain-damaged patients to show, in direct contradiction to the durable Cartesian "mind-body duality," the interdependence of rationality and emotion
The Drama of a Gifted Child—Alice Miller
A theoretical book written by the Swiss psychoanalyst. She is a non-sectarian whose work strikes every creative person I know to the core, and who, in mid-life, became, through psychoanalytical insight, a very good painter
Self Injurious Behavior
Cutting: Understanding & Overcoming Self-mutilation—Steven Levenkron
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 behaviors, and, most of all, describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. Through riveting case studies and conversations with his patients, the profile of the self-mutilator emerges: someone who is typically fearful of people and abandonment, whose attachments are hostile or tenuous at best, who lacks interpersonal trust, and who often can't stay focused in a relationship of any depth. Cutting tells the reader where to turn for help and offers important skills the self-mutilator must learn - what Levenkron calls the "Attachment-Dependency Trust Axis" - in order to overcome the affliction.
Spirituality
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth—M. Scott Peck
"With profound psychological and spiritual insight, Dr. M. Scott Peck, a practicing psychiatrist, suggests ways in which confronting and resolving our problems -- and suffering through the changes -- can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. The result is a book that can show us how to embrace reality and achieve serenity and fullness in our lives." -- from the jacket
Stress
Why Zebras don't get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress -related Diseased, and Coping—Robert M Sapolsky
"Humorous as well as informative, this comprehensive text examines the effect stress has on the body and mind...new chapters cover memory, personality & temperament, & stress & society..."
Women's Issues
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths & Stories of the Wild Women Archetype—Claissa Pinkola Estes
The wild woman. She is the internal, eternal essence of the feminine: instinctive, intuitive, primitive, powerful. In this remarkable collection of multicultural myths and stories, a renowned Jungian analyst and storyteller reintroduces this important archetype into the lives of modern women.
Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls—Mary Piper
A therapist who has worked extensively with young girls reveals firsthand evidence of the damage that can be caused by growing up in a "girl-poisoning culture, " raises a call to arms, and offers parents compassion and strategies for survival. A perfect book to commemorate "Take Your Daughter to Work Day."