Book Review: Shrunk Riveting. Humorous. Quirky. Satirical.
In other words, I could not put it down.
Shrunk, a novel by Christopher Hogart, tells the story of Henry and Helena Avalon, a couple that moves in next door to the ...
The Oxford Handbook of Prevention in Counseling Psychology As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Unfortunately, when we practice prevention there’s rarely any kind of instant “return on investment” to reinforce our behavior. The results ...
Infant Research & Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy For decades, psychotherapy has been considered “the talking cure”: two people in conversation, with a shared goal of relieving the suffering of the patient. From the early days of Freud to the current popularity of ...
Handbook of Counseling Military Couples Handbook of Counseling Military Couples is a collection of essays by psychologists and therapists, edited by Bret A. Moore, Psy.D. It is intended to be read by clinicians working with military couples. The first half ...
A Life Lived Ridiculously Dr. Annabelle R. Charbit, PhD in neuroscience, accomplished writer, and lifelong sufferer of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), has used all three of these descriptors to write A Life Lived Ridiculously, her intriguing first novel. The book ...
The Little Psychotherapy Book: Object Relations in Practice The Little Psychotherapy Book by Allan G. Frankland is a user-friendly, small (187 pages) manual designed to assis understanding psychodynamic psychotherapy from an object relations (O-R) perspective “in a dynamic and easy-to-follow way.” It presents very ...
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 ...
Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up What happens when the use of psychotropic drugs in children becomes part of everyday life? If you were a child or raised children in the United States in the last 20 or 30 years, you ...
Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist Darcy Lockman left her journalism career to become a psychotherapist. Clearly a gifted writer, the decision could not have been easy. But she made it and stuck with it. After earning her doctorate, she needed ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
