Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits : Secrets of Sustainable Intimate Relationships
10 best books like Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits : Secrets of Sustainable Intimate Relationships (Deborah M. Anapol): The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory, Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships, The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
| Author | Laurence Heller |
| ISBN | 1583945113 |
Although it may seem that humans suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges, Healing Developmental Trauma presents a model for psychotherapy and growth showing that most emotional difficulties can be traced back to the compromised development of one or more five core capacities....
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes with essential emotional and life skills, and support inner communication and collaboration...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Soraya Chemaly |
| ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
| Author | Babette Rothschild |
| ISBN | 0393703274 |
This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.
It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. That memory is often expressed...
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
| Author | Wendy Maltz |
| ISBN | 0060959649 |
Considered a classic in its field, this comprehensive guide will help survivors of sexual abuse improve their relationships and discover the joys of sexual intimacy. Wendy Maltz takes survivors step-by-step through the recovery process using groundbreaking exercises and techniques. Based on...
Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving
| Author | Betty Dodson |
| ISBN | 0517886073 |
A friend handed this to me as she was packing her apartment. She read it for a sexuality class in college, and said it was a good read. I'll admit, Betty Dodson approaches the topic with the idea of liberating masturbation and allowing people to realize that self love is healthy and nothing to be ashamed...
More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
| Author | Franklin Veaux |
| ISBN | 0991399706 |
Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Now the new book More Than Two can help you find your own way. With completely new material and a fresh approach,...
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships --...
The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships
| Author | Kathy Labriola |
| ISBN | 0937609633 |
A counselor and nurse specializing in polyamorous singles, couples and groupings, Kathy Labriola has spent many years helping people to understand and manage their jealousy. This book is a compendium of the techniques and exercises she has developed, as well as tips and insights from the polyamory...
Love in Abundance: A Counselor's Advice on Open Relationships
| Author | Kathy Labriola |
| ISBN | 1890159778 |
Beyond the basics of polyamory lies a complex web of negotiations, agreements, pitfalls and rewards. Kathy Labriola, a relationships counselor who has worked for many years with singles, couples and groups in polyamorous and open relationships, sets forth some of the realities of alternative lifestyles:...
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
| Author | Miriam Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1573441767 |
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is a long-overdue self-help sex guide for the millions of people living with disabilities and chronic pain and illness. For sufferers of ailments from chronic fatigue syndrome and spinal cord injury to multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and others, the book...
| Author | Glenn R. Schiraldi |
| ISBN | 0737302658 |
Very comprehensive and accessible book about PTSD (i.e. the writing does not just target clinicians and psychologists). Among many other topics, the book goes over different feelings such as guilt, anger and shame, processes such as grief, paying attention to dreams and what they mean, and outlines...
| Author | Stephen A. Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0465014054 |
Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and...
Attachment in Psychotherapy
| Author | David J. Wallin |
| ISBN | 1593854560 |
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience,...
Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life
| Author | Jasmin Lee Cori |
| ISBN | 1600940617 |
Psychotherapist and trauma survivor Jasmin Lee Cori offers new insight into trauma-related difficulties (including PTSD, depression, substance abuse), provides self-care tools, candor about therapy and medications, and addresses spiritual issues.
While there are many different...
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures
| Author | Francine Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1572306726 |
About the Author
Francine Shapiro, PhD, the originator and developer of EMDR, is a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. She is the founder and President Emeritus of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, a nonprofit organization...
The Polyamory Breakup Book: Causes, Prevention, and Survival
| Author | Kathy Labriola |
| ISBN | 1944934812 |
Polyamory is not always easy. With multiple partners often come more complex relationships to navigate. This practical guide looks at the common causes of polyamorous breakups, identifies strategies to avoid ending relationships, and provides you with the toolkit to survive a breakup. Kathy Labriola...
