Book Reviews Articles

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• Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
  Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness, yet at the same time also one of the most poorly understood. Most people have felt emotionally depressed at some point in their life. ...
• The Blueprint for a Sucessful Practice: Methods of Marketing Your Business and Increasing Your Bottom Line
  The Blueprint for a Successful Practice by Gina Spielman is a book for people who have decided to take the plunge and start their own business. Although Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker ...
• The Escape of Sigmund Freud
  Eighty years old, sick with cancer, and reeling from the Nazis' takeover of his beloved Vienna, Sigmund Freud, in 1936, faced a harsh reality: he had to leave. But where would he go, and how ...
• Facing Bipolar: The Young Adult’s Guide to Dealing With Bipolar Disorder
  This book on bipolar disorder is written specifically for teens and young adults with the condition. I chose to read it because I work in the education field and it is helpful to have some ...
• Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners
  The popular TV series "Mad Men" contains several scenes depicting psychoanalysis. Betty Draper lies on the couch in her analyst’s office, the doctor seated impassively behind her. Betty reports on her mundane thoughts in great ...
• Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents
  Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents by William Steel and Cathy A. Malchiodi is a powerful and user-friendly book aimed at educating clinicians in their work with child and adolescent trauma survivors. This comprehensive book ...
• Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide
  Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide by Babette Rothschild is a reference book for clinician and client alike. Rothschild has successfully taken the enormously complex subject of trauma therapy and recovery and broken it down into ...
• The Quest for Mental Health
  One thing about getting older is that history feels more relevant. I grew up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Cognitive-behavioral therapy was in its infancy, and dialectical behavior therapy had not yet been ...
• Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
  Anyone with even the slightest interest in psychology will have come across the concepts of mindfulness and meditation before. They are mentioned in almost all of the literature in the field, and frequently referred to ...
• Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
  Gazing into a mirror, what is it that you see?  You see a reflection of the person others see when they look at you.  If the mirror should shatter you would then see not just ...
• Crazy: Notes On and Off the Couch
  Have you ever wondered what’s going through your therapist’s head? Or, if you are a mental health professional yourself, have you ever wondered if you were alone in your thoughts about your job? Whichever side ...
• Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter
  Dr. Deborah Serani's new book, Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing is a solid entry in the self-help depression book genre, once you get past the ...
• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook
  Almost every mental health professional will remember the moment when they first discovered the counseling theory which really felt right for them and encapsulated their view of the world. For me, that moment came when ...
• A Users Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit
  Deciding to seek therapy can be downright frightening for some people. This can be due to confusion about how the therapeutic process works, inaccurate portrayals of psychotherapy in the media, or stigmatization and judgment from ...
• The House on Crash Corner
  Mostly anecdotal, “The House on Crash Corner,” by Mindy Greenstein, Ph.D., has a message if you “listen between the lines.” It’s a message on life and death, of understanding, simplicity, synchrony and relating. Divided into four ...
• The Handy Psychology Answer Book
  In The Handy Psychology Answer Book, Lisa J. Cohen, PhD endeavors to provide answers to approximately 1000 questions regarding the study of the human mind in an easy-to-read Q&A format. Dr. Cohen states that her ...
• I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
  While the public is familiar with more mainstream psychological diagnoses such as depression or schizophrenia, the only knowledge most individuals have of borderline personality disorder (BPD) results from having watched Winona Ryder in the Oscar-nominated ...
• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
  Valerie Porr, M.A. understands intimately the ramifications of a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It was this experience and curiosity that led her to attend a lecture by Marsha Linehan, PhD, creator ...
• The Use of Technology in Mental Health: Applications, Ethics and Practice
  A growing number of people have lived with the Internet all their lives, with concomitant increase in the use of new communications technologies in therapy and in training mental health practitioners.  Editors Kate Anthony, DeeAnna ...
• The Buddha & The Borderline
  The Buddha & The Borderline, by writer, artist and advocate Kiera Van Gelder, exposes a regularly hushed-up topic: borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is shrouded in stigma. There’s little information about the disorder and, while ...
• My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness
  Schizophrenia affects one percent of the world population.  It is indiscriminate of race, gender, status, and wealth.  Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not multiple personalities -- that’s Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder).  ...
• The Pocket Therapist
  Therapists are an unusual bunch.  We spend all day listening, cautioning, affirming, and putting out fires with clients who are feeling out of control, suicidal, despairing, or wildly stress-ridden.  By the end of ...
• Schizophrenia for Dummies
  Learning that a loved one has been diagnosed with schizophrenia can be extremely stressful and confusing. There can be many questions about the nature of the illness, treatment possibilities, and the prospects for recovery. Many ...
• Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
  Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed class of medication in the United States. But Dr. James S. Gordon questions the use of drugs to treat depression: This book will challenge the prevailing “medical model” of depression ...
• Depression For Dummies: A Reference For The Rest Of Us
  Laura L. Smith, Ph.D. and Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D. have a hit on their hands with the easy-to-understand guide to everything you ever wanted to know about depression but were afraid to ask, Depression for ...