Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have
10 best books like Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have (Judith Viorst): Healing and the Mind, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Adult Children of Abusive Parents, The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life, It Will Never Happen to Me!, 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, The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships, Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
| Author | Bill Moyers |
| ISBN | 0385476876 |
At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health -- the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name. In a remarkably short period of time, Bill...
| Author | Carol Gilligan |
| ISBN | 0674445449 |
This book started a revolution. Published decades ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right, with their own integrity, for virtually the 1st time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate & continues in the academic world & beyond. Translated into...
| Author | Steven Farmer |
| ISBN | 0345363884 |
A history of a childhood abuse is not a life sentence. Here is hope, healing, and a chance to recover the self lost in childhood. Drawing on his extensive work with Adult Children, and on his own experience as a survivor of emotional neglect, therapist Steven Farmer demonstrates that through exercises...
Emotional Incest is something not many people have heard of. It’s when a parent/guardian uses a child to fulfill their emotional needs. Something they should be seeking other adults for. Example: the parent that tells their child every aspect of their day in detail. Or the parent that complains about...
| Author | Claudia Black |
| ISBN | 0345345940 |
Dr. Black's analysis of ACOA's is pretty dead on. Coming from a home with an alcoholic parent I found myself relating a lot to what she says in her book. While I do think a lot of it is very - how do you say? - surface stuff, I understand the need for it considering it's meant to be sold to a wide amount of people....
| 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....
In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches...
| 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 | Marion Woodman |
| ISBN | 0919123031 |
I took a couple of months to read The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Marion Woodman. I'm not sure why it took me so long, but I think it had to do with finally realizing what a victim of stress I allowed myself to be for my entire adult life, going from a skinny kid and teen to a fat middle-aged adult and wondering...
| Author | Linda Schierse Leonard |
| ISBN | 0553373188 |
The Madwoman is a powerful psychological and emotional energy that lives in us all--both men and women--and speaks to us all, inhabiting our dreams, our lives, our collective cultural memory. Ignored or suppressed, she becomes a force of self-destruction; acknowledged and understood, she becomes...
At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go...
| 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 | Violet Oaklander |
| ISBN | 0939266067 |
This is a very helpful and practical guide to beginning children's play therapy. The author offers so many suggestions and examples on how to do play therapy and different mediums to utilize (painting, clay, music, toys, sand trays, senses, etc). She does an excellent job of demonstrating how various...
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 0452270839 |
This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures,...
| Author | Paul L. Wachtel |
| ISBN | 1572304162 |
This uniquely practical volume examines precisely what the therapist can say at key moments to enhance therapeutic effectiveness and the process of healing and change. Through vivid clinical illustrations, the book illuminates why some communications in therapy are particularly effective,...
| Author | Maxine Harris |
| ISBN | 0452272688 |
"The Loss That is Forever" provides a thoughtful framework for understanding the impact that early loss has on every aspect of adult development. Through extensive research, interviews with more than sixty-five men and women, and the compelling writings of such well-know figures as Virginia Woolf,...
| Author | Daniel N. Stern |
| ISBN | 0465095895 |
A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental PsychologyChallenging the traditional developmental sequence as well as the idea that issues of attachment, dependency, and trust are confined to infancy, Stern integrates clinical and experimental science to support his revolutionizing vision...
| Author | Edward M. Hallowell |
Here is the first book to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures,...
William Bridges' lifelong work has been devoted to a deep understanding of transitions and to helping others through them. When his own wife of thirty-five years died of cancer, however, he was thrown head-first into the kind of painful and confusing abyss he had known before only in theory. An honest...
| 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 | Judith L. Rapoport |
| ISBN | 0451172027 |
One boy spends six hours a day washing himself—and still can't believe he will ever be clean. Another sufferer must check her stove hundreds of times daily to make sure she has turned it off. And one woman, in an effort to ensure that her eyebrows are symmetrical, finally plucks out every hair. All of...
| Author | J. William Worden |
| ISBN | 0826141625 |
Praise for earlier editions:
Worden ... has again provided mental health professionals with a superb guide describing specific principles and procedures that may be helpful in working with bereaved clients undergoing normal or abnormal grief reactions .... an extremely practical...
| Author | Ellen F. Wachtel |
| ISBN | 0312254709 |
We Love Each Other, But...offers simple, practical tips that will help you restore and strengthen a relationship that has gone off track. It lays out the nuts and bolts of building relationships so they continue to be gratifying over the long haul. Dr. Ellen Wachtel shows how, even when you feel like...
