It Will Never Happen to Me!
10 best books like It Will Never Happen to Me! (Claudia Black): Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have, Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition), Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem, Families and Family Therapy, Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time, Ethnicity and Family Therapy, The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy, One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 0684844958 |
From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy...
| Author | Pia Mellody |
| ISBN | 0062505890 |
Revised and Updated With Over 600,000 Copies Sold
Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their...
| Author | Charles L. Whitfield |
| ISBN | 0932194400 |
Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding...
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 1558744274 |
Based on the public television series of the same name, Bradshaw On: The Family is John Bradshaw's seminal work on the dynamics of families that has sold more than a million copies since its original publication in 1988. Within its pages, you will discover the cause of emotionally impaired families....
Families and Family Therapy
| Author | Salvador Minuchin |
| ISBN | 0674292367 |
No other book in the field so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers...
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 0894865838 |
In simple, straightforward terms, Beattie takes you into the territory beyond codependency, into the realm of recovery and relapse, family-of-origin work and relationships, surrender and spirituality.
You're learning to let go, to live your life free of the grip of someone else's problems....
| Author | Monica McGoldrick |
| ISBN | 1593850204 |
This widely used clinical reference and text provides a wealth of knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists,...
| Author | Augustus Y. Napier |
| ISBN | 0060914890 |
“If you have a troubled marriage, a troubled child, a troubled self, if you’re in therapy or think that there’s no help for your predicament, The Family Crucible will give you insights . . . that are remarkably fresh and helpful.”—New York Times Book Review
The classic groundbreaking...
| Author | Al-Anon Family Groups |
Altho it's been 30 years since I read this book it has helped me get thru many life problems. I was a "Lone Member" when I first read it. And, altho my alcoholic & I have since divorced, I find myself following the wisdom in my everyday life. I do have a friend who is an alcoholic, but in denial, & I am...
Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
| Author | Robert J. Ackerman |
| ISBN | 1558749527 |
This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women.
When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters...
Lifeskills for Adult Children
| Author | Janet Geringer Woititz |
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller Adult Children of Alcoholics, this book affirms and encourages ACoAs by developing skills for living.
Imagine how good you would feel if:
• You could stand up for yourself without losing your temper
• You could make a decision...
| Author | Janet Geringer Wotitiz |
| ISBN | 0932194257 |
What am i doing right now? Eating packets of taco bell hot sauce until my mouth feels like its going to act like the southern states in the civil war and run away by secession for a little while or something... best simile ever, right guys? Cuz that like so totally shows that I know like a lot about American...
An Adult Child's Guide to What's Normal
| Author | John C. Friel |
| ISBN | 1558740902 |
You have begun to deal with the pain and trauma of being raised in a dysfunctional family and now you are ready to lead a healthy life. But:
Do you know what healthy people do?
Do you know what is “normal”?
Do you know how to ask unwanted guests to leave?
In An Adult...
| Author | Bryn C. Collins |
| ISBN | 0809229145 |
Psychologist Bryn Collins opens up the discussion about life with emotionally unavailable partners. She begins by unequivocally stating that you are not the problem. Collins uses solution-focused skills to help you identify, cope with, and change these painful associations and teaches you how...
The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior
| Author | Craig Nakken |
| ISBN | 1568381298 |
Craig Nakken brings new depth and dimension to our understanding of how an individual becomes an addict.
Since its publication in 1988, The Addictive Personality has helped people understand the process of addiction. Now, through this second edition, author Craig Nakken brings new depth...
Healing Your Aloneness: Finding Love and Wholeness Through Your Inner Child
| Author | Erika J. Chopich |
| ISBN | 0062501496 |
Much of what this book had to say was credible and helpful. This book gives the reader a way of looking at pain or unhappiness and a technique through which to cope. Using an Inner Child/Inner Adult dichotomy seems appropriate, with the Inner Child expressing emotions and having the potential for great...
Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0393069133 |
Reading this book is a therapeutic encounter with one's own life's story. Dr. Alice Miller, author of such world-renowned books as the Drama of the Gifted Child and The Truth Will Set You Free, has devoted her life to empowering people who have severe symptoms from denying that they suffered physical...
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
| Author | Beverly Engel |
| ISBN | 0471454036 |
"Engel doesn't just describe-she shows us the way out."
-Susan Forward, author of Emotional Blackmail Praise for the emotionally abusive relationship
"In this book, Beverly Engel clearly and with caring offers step-by-step strategies to stop emotional abuse. . . helping both victims...
As Bill Sees It: The A.A. Way of Life...Selected Writings of A.A.'s Co-Founder
| Author | Bill W. |
| ISBN | 0916856038 |
Bill Wilson never got sober or even worked a program. He switched his drug of choice from booze to unfamiliar women in early recovery. He was a self centered 13th stepper. He also enjoyed a nice sobriety break while tripping on LSD so much his wife and Dr. Bob had to perform an intervention. That is why I take...
Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Familes
| Author | Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization |
| ISBN | 0978979702 |
The ACA (Adult Children of ALcoholics) is a Twelve-Step Program formed in 1978, to include the adult children of alcoholics, codependents, and addicts of various sorts--adults who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes and who exhibit identifiable traits that reveal past abuse or neglect.
This...
Writing to Change the World
| Author | Mary Pipher |
| ISBN | 1594489203 |
In these tumultuous times, don't we all want to be heard? Who doesn't want to transform the world? And who doesn't harbor a secret ambition to write? Writing to Change the World is intended to help people who have a message they're passionate about to convey it clearly through writing. Inspired by a course...
