Companion to an Untold Story Marcia Aldrich’s Companion to an Untold Story is the author’s attempt to make sense of her close friend’s suicide. In the time leading up to the unfortunate event, Aldrich’s friend Joel hatched a plan to ...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Boost Your Brain Power! "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Boost Your Brain Power! You Can Improve and Energize Your Brain at Any Age" is an empowering collection of stories on how anyone, at any age, can enhance their brain ...
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Daniel Smith describes himself as anxiety personified in his absorbing and humorous memoir Monkey Mind. Smith was anxious from birth. Anxiety lurked in his genes. Both his mother and father suffered from severe anxiety: His ...
Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief and Small Boats Roger Rosenblatt’s Kayak Morning: reflections on love, grief, and small boats mirrors the structure of grief itself: nonlinear; highlighting times of confusion, searching, yearning, aching, and love; full of small revelations that prove useful; and ...
Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way Composed of 13 distinctly powerful stories, Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way is a fascinating read. Each contribution is well-written, well-informed and uniquely insightful. The book does a solid job of placing the ...
[A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist by Andrew J. Ackerman is a book about the author's journey from addiction to recovery. Ackerman, the self-described hard-line "spiritual atheist," uses the book to offer his experience with 12-step ...
I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD A friend of mine has obsessive-compulsive disorder. His OCD doesn’t take over his life, at least not ostensibly. He has some rituals, and occasionally he does things that raise eyebrows, but overall he’s a normal ...
White Elephants As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words. I had to believe it was the alcohol. I don’t want them. The words rang in my ears. That’s the ...
When Truth Lies: A Journey with Schizophrenia The year is 1969, and Kevin has just graduated from high school. His classmates look forward to dates, parties, and college. Not Kevin. He sees Satan bugs crawl in and out of his body. He ...
Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created.
Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
Life is Full of Transitions Retirement: "removal or withdrawal from service, office, or business;" "withdrawal into privacy or seclusion."
No wonder this word retirement seems so inappropriate ...
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 ...
Seeking Enlightenment: The Spiritual Journey of a Psychotherapist Seeking Enlightenment by Catherine Morrison is a short memoir of one therapist’s journey in conceptualizing Eastern and Western spirituality. Morrison tries to come to terms with how these two diverse spiritual traditions cross paths in ...
George Mason: Life of Death Author's note: This review of George Mason’s autobiography, Life of Death, is not a review of Mason’s life, but rather of his book. It is difficult to critique the book without appearing critical toward the ...
Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl I found "Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacy Pershall to be a superbly written, first-person account of a young girl's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar ...
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Fletcher Wortmann obviously knows his subject.
"Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" is for anyone who is or knows someone who is suffering from mental illness of any type. While Wortmann wrestles with OCD, he ...
