The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy
10 best books like The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy (Augustus Y. Napier): The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0060938110 |
Anyone interested in psychotherapy or personal growth will rejoice at the publication of The Gift of Therapy, a masterwork from one of today's most accomplished psychological thinkers. From his thirty-five years as a practicing psychiatrist and as an award-winning author, Irvin D. Yalom imparts...
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
| Author | Judith Lewis Herman |
| ISBN | 0465087302 |
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.
In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book...
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0060958340 |
The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
| Author | Bruce D. Perry |
| ISBN | 0465056520 |
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims...
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465092845 |
The classic work on group psychotherapy
Hailed by Jerome Frank as "the best book that exists on the subject," Irvin D. Yalom's The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for decades.
In this completely revised and updated fifth edition, Dr. Yalom...
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
| Author | William R. Miller |
| ISBN | 1572305630 |
This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivational interviewing (MI), a proven approach to helping people overcome ambivalence that gets in the way of change. William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick explain current thinking on the process of...
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;...
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
| Author | Marsha M. Linehan |
| ISBN | 0898621836 |
For the average clinician, individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often represent the most challenging, seemingly insoluble cases. This volume is the authoritative presentation of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Marsha M. Linehan's comprehensive, integrated approach...
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
| Author | John M. Gottman |
| ISBN | 0609805797 |
John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over many years. Here is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting...
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Heralded by the New York Times and Time as the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond.
This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among...
| Author | Sue Johnson |
| ISBN | 0415945682 |
Since its original publication in 1996, this volume has been a helpful guide to therapists in the practice of emotionally focused therapy. This second edition addresses the many changes in the field of couples therapy, including updated research results linked to clinical intervention and new information...
| Author | Gerald Corey |
| ISBN | 0534614434 |
Up-to-date and comprehensive, this practical best-selling text now available with an online personalized study plan, helps students learn how to deal with and apply ethical standards. The authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional...
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
| Author | American Psychiatric Association |
| ISBN | 0890425558 |
This new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. Their dedication and...
Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods
| Author | Michael P. Nichols |
| ISBN | 0205478093 |
Good try but laborious reading that characterizes any generic psychology textbook. The prose is dry and uninteresting, which is a shame considering family therapy can easily make for some of the more interesting writing in the field. The book takes a broad perspective, and so has an advantage over,...
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond
| Author | Judith S. Beck |
| ISBN | 0898628474 |
Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this ideal teaching text makes cognitive therapy immediately accessible to students as well as to professionals new to cognitive therapy. The author uses a single case example to demonstrate how to conceptualize patients according to the cognitive model,...
Letters to a Young Therapist
| Author | Mary Pipher |
| ISBN | 0465057675 |
Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's "girl-poisoning culture," Reviving Ophelia, has sold nearly two million copies and established its author as one of the nation's foremost authorities on family issues. In Letters to a Young Therapist, Dr. Pipher shares what she has learned...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Kottler |
| ISBN | 0787968943 |
Since it was first published in 1986, On Being a Therapist has become a classic book in the field and has proved to be one of the most inspiring sources of guidance for aspiring and seasoned practitioners alike. Jeffrey Kottler provides a candid account of the profound ways in which therapists influence...
The Making of a Therapist
| Author | Louis Cozolino |
| ISBN | 0393704246 |
The difficulty and cost of training psychotherapists properly is well known. It is far easier to provide a series of classes while ignoring the more challenging personal components of training. Despite the fact that the therapist's self-insight, emotional maturity, and calm centeredness are critical...
