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Abandonment, Grief, Anger and Betrayal
(including Negative Habits, Addiction, Mind-Body, Trauma Processing)
Addiction
- AA, Al Anon, Smart Recovery, SAMH
- A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Hayes
- Addiction As An Attachment Disorder, Flores
- Finding Your Best Self: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both, Najavits
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Maté
- The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook: Changing Addictive Behaviors Using CBT, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing Techniques, Glasner-Edwards
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, Maté, Maté
Childhood Adverse Experience Testing
- Attachment Theory (There are so many great attachment resources, this is a small, incomplete list).
- A Secure Base, Bowlby
- Attachment, Intimacy, Autonomy, Holmes
- Attached, Levine, Heller
- Attachment Across The Life Cycle, Stevenson-Hine, Parks
- Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma―and Our World, Hubl
- Fairnbarn’s Object Relations Theory In the Clinical Setting, Celani
- Mothers of Psychoanalysis, Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Sayers
- Secure Love, Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime, Menanno
- The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy: Enhancing Connection & Trust in the Treatment of Children & Adolescents, Baylin, Hughes
- The Psychodynamics of Children and Love, Hate and Reparation, Klein
- Treatment of Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy, Brisch
- Trauma and Recovery, Herman
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- ADHD 2.0: Hallowell, Ratey
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, Mate’
- Divergent Mind, Nerenberg
- Driven to Distraction, Hallowell, Ratey
- Anger: Wisdom For Cooling The Fire, Thich Nat Hahn
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
- Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, Shapiro
- Family Secrets
- Family Secrets: The Path From Shame to Healing, Bradshaw
- Secrets in Family and Family Therapy, Evan Imber-Black
- Grief
- Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, Cacciatore
- The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection, Karen
- It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand, Devine
- On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss, Kübler-Ross, Kessler
- The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss, O’Connor
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, and other titles, Chodron
- Guided Imagery
- Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal, Naparstek
- Heart Journeys.com, Naparstek
- Calm
- Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life, Gawain
- Fragrant Heart.com, Blakie
- Mindfulness
- Somatic ReProcessing
- Body Centered Psychotherapy (Hakomi Method), Kurtz
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Walker
- Focusing, Gendlin
- Healing Developmental Trauma, Heller, LaPierre
- In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Levine
- My Body Compass, Wong
- Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress, Mischke-Reeds
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment, Fisher, Ogden
- The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life, Lipov, Mustard, Lorincz
- The Body Keeps the Score,van der Kolk
- The Blessing of Somatic Therapy Techniques: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Release Trauma, Reveal Peace & Rewire Mind-Body Connections, Naty H.E.A.L.S.
- Waking the Tiger Within, Levine
- Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind or Molecules of Emotion, Pert
Cultural, Communication, Race and Class Studies
Creativity and Performance/Optimization
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and The Language of Human Experience, and others, Brown
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Dweck
- The War of Art, Pressfield
- The Artist’s Way, Cameron
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rubin
- Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner
- Lucid Dreaming, LaBerge, Rheingold
- Idealized Design: How To Dissolve Tomorrow’s Crisis Today, Ackoff, Addison, Magidson
- Intuition
- Second Sight, Orloff
- The Art of Intuition: Cultivating Your Inner Wisdom, Burnham
- The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, Aron
- Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety, Dana
- Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Learn and Grow, Miller, Rollnick
- Performance Psychology
Developmental Psychology & Psychotherapy Theory
