Understanding Therapy Series: Don’t Judge a Book By its Cover… Self Help

There's a never expanding Library of self-help books out there. From specific workbooks on dialectical behavior therapy, on how to work through depression or anxiety, to books that are written to educate and inform about mental illness, mental wellness, boundaries, relationships family of origin issues, and the list goes on and on. In this episode we speak about the merits of self-help and bibliotherapy and make some recommendations for the resources that we think would be most helpful. Here are some of the recommendations that we have for books that we found  transformational. -Gabor mate: When the Body says No.  Scattered Minds.  In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts.  The Myth of Normal -Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score -Gordon Neufeld: Hold on to Your Kids  Why Parents Need to Be More Important Than Peers -Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus: I Hate You, Don't leave me -David Burns: Feeling Good -Kent Hoffman, Bert Powell, Glen Cooper, Christine Benton: Raising A Secure Child -Jay Earley: Batman and Psychology A Dark and Stormy Knight, Written by Travis Langley -Nicole Arzt: Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward A Collection of Life-Changing Insights for the Modern Clinician - Robin S. Rosenberg: The Psychology of Superheroes An Unauthorized Exploration -Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy: Internal Family Systems Therapy Second Edition  - Robin Shapiro: Easy Ego State Interventions Strategies for Working with Parts  -Lori Gottlieb: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed  -Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep -Elizabeth A. Stanley, Bessel van der Kolk: foreword Widen the Window Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma  -Michael P. Nichols:  The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships  -Eric Berne: Games People Play  -Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion  -Jay Gabler: Sociology for Dummies, 2nd Edition  -Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning