Windows to Our Children

10 best books like Windows to Our Children (Violet Oaklander): The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, The Wonky Donkey, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Dibs in Search of Self, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual, Teaching Meditation to Children: The Practical Guide to the Use and Benefits of Meditation Techniques, The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry, Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

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 Wonky Donkey

Author	Craig Smith
ISBN	1869439260

So I jumped on the bandwagon and got this for my boys after seeing the video of the hilarious Scottish granny reading it to her grandson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...

Just try saying "he was a stinky dinky lanky honky tonky winky wonky donkey" out loud. If that doesn't make you...

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Author	Alice Miller
ISBN	0465016901

The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...

Dibs in Search of Self

Author	Virginia M. Axline
ISBN	0345339258

this book seems to cause strong reactions, so let me first say what i think it is not:

* it is not a book that predicts how a generic child will improve when treated the way virginia axline treats dibs (how does she treat dibs? she mostly describes dibs’ behavior, not hers).

* it is not...

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;...

Play Therapy

Author	Virginia M. Axline
ISBN	0345303350

"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published."
NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Here is an intensely practical...

Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual

Author	Linda E. Homeyer
ISBN	0415883342

This new edition of Sandtray Therapy is an essential read for professionals and students who wish to incorporate the use of sandtray therapy into their work with clients of all ages. All aspects of this therapeutic technique are explored engagingly and in detail. The authors describe how to select...

Teaching Meditation to Children: The Practical Guide to the Use and Benefits of Meditation Techniques

Author	David Fontana
ISBN	1905857322

Meditation can help children cope with the intensity of their feelings and the pressures in their lives—among family, with friends, at school. It gives even the youngest kids enhanced self-understanding, and is especially valuable for adolescents navigating the emotional peaks and valleys...

The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry

Author	Lance Dodes
ISBN	0807033154

An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry—and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America.
 
AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet the evidence shows that AA has only...

Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

Author	Shirley P. Glass
ISBN	0743225503

Author(s): Shirley Glass & Jean Coppock Staeheli ISBN: 9780743225502 Binding: Paperback Published: 2004-04-15 Accompanied by case stories, a thought-provoking and compassionate guide documents the entire cycle of an affair, offering a step-by-step approach to healing and protecting...

Genograms: Assessment and Intervention

Author	Monica McGoldrick
ISBN	0393705099

Now updated and expanded in its third edition, and featuring revised genograms for easier reading, reflecting the growing and widespread use of genograms for clinical intervention, this best-selling text provides a standard method for constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and...

Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families

Author

Susan M. Johnson

Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. The primary developer of emotionally focused therapy...

The Tale of Three Trees

Author	Angela Elwell Hunt
ISBN	0745917437

Featuring the wonderful illustrations of Tim Jonke, this best-selling children's book tells the Easter story from a new and unusual point of view. Three trees on a mountain dream of what they wanted to become when they grew up. One wants to be a treasure chest, another an ocean-going boat, and the third...