Recommended reading
Reading novels, poetry, and self-help books can provide comfort, reassurance, and food for thought, and can be a valuable aid to building esteem, confidence, assertiveness, and other qualities.
Below is a list of books recommended by myself and by some of my clients. Clicking on the links provides direct access to online purchasing of these titles, as well as readers’ reviews. Many of them can also be borrowed from libraries or picked up in second-hand bookshops.
Books list
- Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff (Richard Carlson)
- A Woman In Your Own Right (Anne Dickson)
- The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
- Your Best Year Yet (Jenny Ditzler)
- The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)
- The Road Less Travelled (M Scott Peck)
- Man’s Search For Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
- Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
- You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)
- The Power Of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale)
- Cutting the Ties That Bind (Phyllis Krystal)
- The Art Of Happiness (The Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler)
- The Mirror Within (Anne Dickson)
- Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway (Susan Jeffers)
- The Little Book of Calm (Paul Wilson)
- The Break-up Survival Kit (Pam Spurr)
- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen (Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish)
- Men and Sex (Bernard Zilbergeld)
- If We’re So In Love Why Aren’t We Happy? (Susan Page)
- Transitions: Making Sense Of Life’s Changes (William Bridges)
- Assertiveness At Work (Ken and Kate Back)
- The Anger Workbook For Women (Laura Petracek)
- The Best Little Boy In The World (Andrew Tobias)
- Coming Out: An Act Of Love (Rob Eichberg)
- The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide (David Miklowitz)
- Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder(Julie Fast & John Preston)
- The Invention of Heterosexuality (Jonathan Ned Katz)
- On Death & Dying (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
- Love, Medicine and Miracles (Bernie Siegel)
- Calming Your Anxious Mind (Jeffrey Brantley)
- The Mindful Way Through Depression (Mark Williams & Jon Kabat-Zinn)
- The Conscious Person’s Guide to Relationships (Ken Keyes)
- Women Who Love Too Much (Robin Norwood)
- Families and How To Survive Them (Robin Skynner & John Cleese)
- Mindfulness (Mark Williams & Danny Penman)
- A Mindfulness Guide For The Frazzled (Ruby Wax)
- Sane New World (Ruby Wax)
- How To Stay Sane (Philippa Perry)
- The Emergency Poet (Deborah Alma)
There’s nothing as practical as a good theory.Kurt Goldstein
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.Viktor Frankl
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.M Scott Peck
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