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Books
Here you will find various books categorized by special topics that may be of interest to you. The books below are provided as educational guides. Please consult with an appropriate professional for further guidance. Happy reading! ☺
Addictions
Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction—Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Psychology Today: Breaking the Bonds of Food Addiction—Susan McQuillan
Deaf & Sober: Journeys through Recovery—Betty G. Miller
Drugs & Addictions: Some Things You Might Know, A lot of Things You Might Not—Marios Savva
Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD; Living With ADHD: Proven Strategies And Tips On How To Combat ADHD And Take Control Of Your Life—Jim Hall
Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD—Daniel G. Amen
ADHD: Parenting a Child or Teen With Attention Deficit Disorder—Grace Child
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach—Vincent J. Monastra
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Living Well on the Spectrum—Valerie L. Grus
The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome—Tony Attwood
Autism Every Day: Over 150 Strategies Lived and Learned by a Professional Autism Consultant with 3 Sons on the Spectrum—Alyson Beytien
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism—Naoki Higashida,
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant—Daniel Tammet
Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys—E.J. Plows
Adult Asperger’s Syndrome: The Essential Guide—Kenneth Roberson
Deaf issues
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood—Paddy Ladd
The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community—Harlan L. Lane
A Journey into the Deaf-World—Harlan L. Lane et al.
Mother Father Deaf—Harlan L. Lane
Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World—Leah Hager Cohen
Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love—Myron Uhlberg
Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity—H-Dirksen L. Bauman
Words in My Hands: A Teacher, a Deaf-Blind Man, an Unforgettable Journey—Diane P. Chambers
Deaf-Blind Reality: Living the Life—Scott M. Stoffel
Depression & Anxiety
The Feeling Good Handbook—David D. Burns
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness—Kay Redfield Jamison
Going to Pieces without Falling Apart—Mark Epstein
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers—by Robert M. Sapolsky
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide—Kay Redfield Jamison
Healing Anxiety and Depression—Daniel G., Md. Amen, Lisa C., M.D. Routh
I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression and Discovering Art—David Sandum
Domestic Violence / Abuse
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing—Beverly Engel
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse—Carolyn Ainscough
The Color Purple—Alice Walker
The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse—Laura Davis
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse—Dan B. Allender
My Story—Elizabeth Smart
Not Child’s Play: An Anthology on Brother-Sister Incest—Risa Shaw
Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like—Rosalind B. Penfold
Emotional intelligence
The Emotional Extremist’s Guide to Handling Cartoon Elephants: How to Solve Elephantine Emotional Problems Without Getting Run Over, Chased, Flattened—Renee Hoekstra
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence—Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence : Why It Can Matter More Than IQ—Daniel Goleman
Boy in the Ivy: The Inner Child of a Buried Man—T. McKinley
The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success—Steven J. Stein
Grief and Loss – Death and Dying
The Worst Loss : How Families Heal from the Death of a Child—Barbara D. Rosof
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson—Mitch Albom
Surviving the Death of a Sibling—T.J. Wray
The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die—Katherine Ashenburg
The Last Lecture—Randy Pausch
Hannah’s Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived—Maria Housden
On Death and Dying—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Life Transitions
The Way of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments—William Bridges
Moving Through Life Transitions with Power and Purpose—Cara DiMarco
Meaning of Life
Man’s Search for Meaning—Viktor Frankl
The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life—Robert C. Solomon
Meanings of Life—Roy F. Baumeister
Lonelieness—John T. Cacioppo
Mindfulness
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life—Steven C. Hayes
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—Robert M. Pirsig
The Tao of Pooh—Benjamin Hoff
The Places that Scare You : A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times—Pema Chodron
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder—Blaise A. Aguirre
Flow—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Full Catastrophe Living—Jon Kabat-Zinn
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway—Susan Jeffers
The Zen Path Through Depression—Philip Martin
Parenting, Families, & Relationships
How to Talk to Your Kids About Really Important Things: Specific Questions and Answers and Useful Things to Say—Charles E. Schaefer
Freeing Our Families from Perfectionism—Thomas S. Greenspon
His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage—Willard F. Harley Jr.
Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship—David Schnarch
Personal & Professional Development
Acceptance and Mindfulness at Work: Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory to Organizational Behavior Management—Steven C. Hayes
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life—Rosamund Stone Zander
Calming the Chaos—Jackie Woodside
The Zen Book—Daniel Levin
Working With You is Killing Me—Katherine Crowley
Virtual Freedom—Chris Ducker
The Confidence Gap—Russ Harris
Time for Change!—Jackie Woodside
Trauma & Recovery
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving—Pete Walker
In An Unspoken Voice—Peter Levine
Outgrowing the Pain—Eliana Gil
The Trauma Tool Kit—Susan Pease Banitt
Trauma and Recovery—Judith Herman MD
The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms—Mary Beth Williams