Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

10 best books like Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain (Sue Gerhardt): In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups, Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, The Interpersonal World Of The Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Author	Lindsey Hilsum
ISBN	1473545382

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **

‘It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than...

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...

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Author	La Leche League International
ISBN	0452285801

This book is great for helping new moms get the hang of latching and positioning. That's about it.

Most moms work and many of those moms work full-time, so having an entire chapter of a breastfeeding book devoted to advocating that women NOT work is unsupportive, misogynistic and completely...

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;...

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Author

Peter A. Levine

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that...

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

Author	Axton Betz-Hamilton
ISBN	1538730286

In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.

Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents...

The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups

Author	Erika Christakis
ISBN	0525429077

A bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child’s eye view of the learning environment
 
Parents of young children today are embattled:...

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

Author

Bruce D. Perry

An inside look at the power of empathy: Born for Love is an unprecedented exploration of how and why the brain learns to bond with others—and a stirring call to protect our children from new threats to their capacity to love

From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults,...

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Author	Daniel J. Siegel
ISBN	0553804707

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain-and in your life.

- Is there a memory that torments...

The Interpersonal World Of The Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

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...

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Author	Stephen Grosz
ISBN	0393349322

Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary...

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

Author

Philippa Perry

This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good connection and what can enhance it
The most influential relationships are between parents and children. Yet for so many families, these relationships go can wrong and it may be difficult to get back on...

Overleve: en beretning fra Kambodsjas mørke år

Author

Marit O. Bromark

Historien om Røde Khmers regime er her sett med vanlige folks øyne, fra dem som opplevde revolusjonen på kroppen. Sivun Pen var 23 år, inspektør i finansdepartementet, lykkelig gift og far til en seks uker gammel gutt da Røde Khmer stormet kontoret hans i Phnom Penh i april 1975. Han ble forvist...

A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development

Author	John Bowlby
ISBN	0465075975

I was expecting a bit more of the actual theory of attachment instead of the history of it but it was helpful in understanding the theory and its development, interesting and well written.

Oh and if you want to talk about the content it's basically - parents screw you up but only because their parents...

Primal Health: Understanding The Critical Period Between Conception And The First Birthday

Author	Michel Odent
ISBN	1902636333

Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a child's first birthday is critical to lifelong health. In this prophetic book, first published in 1986, Odent argues that different parts of the primal adaptive system develop, regulate...

Expectation

Author	Anna Hope
ISBN	0857524909

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not...

Liucija

Author

Jurga Lago

Esu Jurga Lago – dizainerė ir grafikė, pirmojo juvelyrikos prekės ženklo YURGA įkūrėja nepriklausomoje Lietuvoje.

Vizualiosios kūrybos simbolis – mažas paukštelis – laisvės, skrydžio ir gyvenimo džiaugsmo šauklys. Ne gražuolė gulbė ir ne stiprus erelis,...

Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy

Author	Philippa Perry
ISBN	0230252036

Ever wanted an insight into counseling? Or wished you could be a 'fly-on-the-wall' in a psychotherapy session? Couch Fiction allows you to peep through the key-hole of the therapy room door and, more than that, read the minds of the protagonists...

Based on a case study of Pat (our sandal-wearing,...