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• Rewire Your Brain for Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness
  The thesis of Dr. Marsha Lucas’s new book is simple: By changing your brain, you can change your relationship. In fact, the title says it all: Rewire Your Brain for Love. The basic idea at ...
• Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
  What if I told you that one secret to making a long-term relationship more fulfilling is to have another committed couple with whom you and your beloved could spend time?  The very premise of Two ...
• Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality
  Now in its fifth edition since its original publication in 1975, Barry and Emily McCarthy’s Sexual Awareness is still the go-to book for couples who want to learn more about healthy sexuality. Each of the ...
• Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders
  Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders is a user-friendly book aimed at individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those who love them. Dowell writes from the layperson’s perspective and covers ...
• The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (And the World)
  Nice.  On its own, the word “nice” can carry a variety of tones.  It can imply “good” or “generous;” on the other hand, if it is used sarcastically, it can imply the complete opposite.  How ...
• How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family
  When you think about it, who better to write a book about the wellness of a family than a husband and wife team who are mental health professionals and parents of two children?  Don MacMannis, ...
• Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
  Everyone has met Aphrodite -- the girl who enters a room and men turn their heads to gawk, the girl who always has a man clutching her arm while several others wait in the wings. ...
• A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival
  You thought of Aesop when you read the subtitle, didn't you?  The story in this book is not your typical Aesop's fable.  Not by a long shot.  In fact, Aesop's got nothing on the author ...
• Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing and Treating Sexual Pain
  In Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain, physician Deborah Coady, MD, and psychotherapist Nancy Fish, MSW, MPH, combine their medical and psychological expertise to write a book about ...
• The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely
  Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
• House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated
  When I was a psychology major, part of our lab work involved observing people through a one-way mirror.  In House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated, edited by Drs. Ted Cascio and Leonard Martin, the one-way ...
• Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame
  George N. Collins, MA, and his co-writer Andrew Adleman, MA, in Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame provide a guide away from the cyclic, reactive, addictive, superficial and thus ...
• The Essential Guide to Overcoming Obsessive Love
  Have you ever found yourself calling your partner repeatedly even though they have asked you to stop?  Does your partner sulk, pout and pick a fight whenever you want to meet up with friends for ...
• Right Here with You
  What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.”  Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different.  It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book.  In it, ...
• The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals
  Kelly Lambert, PhD is undoubtedly in the right field. She has a passion for the laboratory and a knack for applying its lessons to daily life. The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life ...
• Sleeping With Gods
  The subject of mental illness has often been explored in works of literature and other media. Michael Fontana’s novel Sleeping With Gods aims to combine a coming-of-age love story with themes of mental health. In ...
• The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
  I am what science calls a singleton. And according to G. Stanley Hall, a psychologist, professor and the first president of the American Psychological Association, I am without a doubt narcissistic, spoiled and a bumbling ...
• The Blame Game: The Complete Guide to Blaming
  Blame is a universal concept that most human beings experience at one point or another in their lives. For most of us, blaming behavior has become so second nature, that it goes unnoticed and ignored ...
• Women Who Love Psychopaths
  This book has many reasons to recommend it. Two are most powerful. First, its postulation through neuroscientific indications that the psychopath's brain is genetically different from his fellows and so he cannot change is paramount ...
• Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight
  By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist.  At age 40, he was a mature ...
• Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Creating a Better Life
  Charlette Mikulka — psychotherapist, social worker, wife, and mother — has created an incredibly all-encompassing book with Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your ...
• Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t
  Author Carl Alasko’s previous book, Emotional Bullshit, was well-received, and it is not hard to see why.  His new work, Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t, provides a perspective ...
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  What drives a person to success? Sure, a good education and finding just the right career helps. But could there be a genetic predisposition for success? David Brooks examines what makes a person successful in ...
• Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis
  Attachment theory has come a long way since John Bowlby’s paper “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves” was published in 1944. In the paper Bowlby wrote about his work with disturbed youth in London. He theorized for the ...
• The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
  The Long Goodbye by poet and literary critic Meghan O’Rourke is a beautifully written and poignant memoir about grappling with a mother’s death. In the first of three sections, O’Rourke recounts her mother's colon cancer ...