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Subtitle: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients Recommended by: Rachel Manija This is a collection of short tips about psychotherapy from a longtime practitioner. I loved his tips about creating a warm, safe, positive relationship with the client and processing the here-and-now of the relationship for clues about how to help [...] Subtitle: Stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind Kristin Neff is a psychology professor who focuses on self-compassion. Her book has a lot of helpful information – and also pushed my buttons. I think I’m not in her target audience. While Kristin Neff talks about some emotional trauma in her life, there is an “us [...] Subtitle: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness; Tales of Multiple Personality in Everyday Life This book contains a therapist’s compassionate, engaging views on people who have Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder) and how they can heal. Martha Stout discusses both specific cases and general themes of survival, courage, integrity, and the [...] Subtitle: Bringing All Parts of You Into Creative Partnership: Conscious & Subconscious, Head & Heart, Masculine & Feminine, Adult & Child, Waking & Dreaming Recommended by: Jenny Davidow Jenny Davidow’s clear, practical, non-judgmental book covers a surprising array of techniques to make friends with your subconscious. Learn to decode your dream symbols, negotiate inner alliances, create positive [...] Subtitle: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship Recommended by: my sister There are some good ideas in this book, delivered in a patronizing, lecturing tone with a lot of repetition. Yes, people choose each other for a reason, and it’s useful to remember that when times get hard. No, staying with someone when [...] Transition and Beyond Subtitle: Observations on Gender Identity Recommended by: Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT Speaking as both a trans man and a psychotherapist, Vanderburgh provides a compassionate, detailed tour through all the aspects of gender transition, from contemplation to completion. Client vignettes provide real-world examples. The book candidly addresses every question I had about gender transition as well as [...] Subtitle: Strengthening Intimacy in Families I read this by coincidence, and it fits perfectly with themes I’ve been thinking about lately. Kathy Weingarten, a family therapist, addresses double binds that society creates for women around acceptable roles and definitions of success. She talks about dominating behaviors in men and how to address them. She [...] Subtitle: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation Recommended by: Laura Davis’s website Laura Davis is co-author of the classic book about healing from incest, “The Courage to Heal.” This book is written with compassionate awareness that not all stories have happy endings and not all estrangements can be reconciled. Nevertheless, I cried while reading it, for all the [...] Subtitle: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness This book is billed as a “culmination of his life’s work” on the back cover. It recapitulates material from Peter Levine’s earlier book “Waking the Tiger” about trauma and the nervous system, and uses many of the same case studies covered in the Somatic Experiencing curriculum. Somatic Experiencing [...] Subtitle: Telling the Trust About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power Recommended by: Pam Lyons Brene Brown researches shame by listening to people’s stories. This book focuses on women for the most part, although she mentions how men’s experience of shame differs at the end of the book. The content overlaps with The Gifts of Imperfection quite a bit. She [...] |
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