RECOMMENDED READING LIST

TRAUMA

Van Der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin, 2015.

Menahem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands. Central Recovery Press, 2017.  

Harris, Nadine Burke. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity. Mariner Books, 2021.

LOVE

Lewis, Thomas, et al. A General Theory of Love. Random House, 2000.

CHILD ABUSE

Mills, Stephen. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

DEPRESSION

Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. Scribner, 2001.

RELATIONSHIPS

Beattle, Melody. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself. Spiegel & Grau, 2022.

Levine, Amir, et al. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – And Keep – Love. Penguin Publishing Group, 2012.

GIFTEDNESS

Miller, Alice. The Drama of the Gifted Child. Basic Books, 1997.

Neihart, Maureen, et al. The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?. Prufrock Press, Inc., 2002.

Webb, James T., et al. Misdiagnosis: and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders. Great Potential Press, 2005.

Jamison, Kay Redfield. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. Free Press Paperbacks, 1993.

GRIEF

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON

Aron, Elaine N. The Highly Sensitive Person. Thorsons Classics, 1999.

FOR THE CLINICIAN

McWilliams, Nancy. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition, Understanding the Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. Guilford Press, 2011.

McWilliams, Nancy. Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. Guilford Press, 1999.

Luepnitz, Deborah Anna. Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and It’s Dilemmas. Basic Books, 2002.

Yalom, Irvin D. Love’s Executioner: Other Tales of Psychotherapy. Basic Books, 1989.

Yalom, Irvin D. When Nietzsche Wept. Harper Perennial, 2003.

Yalom, Irvin D. The Gift of Therapy. Harper Collins Press, 2002.