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Books

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

We think we know why we do the things we do.  Read this little book by Timothy Wilson to discover how little that is true.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

These two books by Wilson’s colleagues describe what is known about happiness and meaning and how much we can actually do to make them happen for us.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

A classic, this book describes the peak experience of Flow, that is available to us all.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Robert Karen remains one of the great theorists and writers about the very difficult and rarely tackled topic of Forgiveness. Here are two books about related topics that can help anyone who is struggling to make sense of these elusive but vitally important areas of human interaction

Jon Kabat-Zinn has popularized the skill of “mindfulness meditation” in this country and, in doing so, has contributed significantly to the healing arts.  Here are two books and a guiding CD to introduce mindfulness and instruct in the meditation to help learn how to be mindful.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Scott Peck’s book about personal growth and therapy is one of the classics of the last 20 years. It still informs clearly about the value of therapy, helping those who are new to the process get an idea of what is available and how to use it well.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

The first book of the new Positive Psychology Movement, it is based on a 20-year program of research.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Two great books for the public by the master of marital research and therapy. They help couples identify the strengths and the vulnerabilities in their relationships and then go on to suggest things that can actually be done to help.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Irvin Yalom, a master therapist in group and existential theory, is also a gifted story-teller. Love’s Executioner was the first of his novels and gives a real insight into the workings of therapy.  The second book was written with a patient and gives another perspective on the therapeutic experience.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

One of the most popular little books ever written, it for a time practically became a cult classic in the “Anonymous” Movement.  A German Analyst, Miller’s scalpel draws blood both from psychoanalysis and from a style of parenting that is still popular in Western culture today. The book is particularly useful in explicating analytic understanding of how the earliest of childhood years are so vital in the development of the self.

A consummate story-teller, Kopp uses the story of the Buddha to develop the themes of personal responsibility, growth, and self-knowledge.  Filled with tales from literature, his own personal life, and his therapy with varied and interesting folk, this book touches all who read it and leaves them with a sense of having gained some personal, secret knowledge of life.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

This is a newly published book by Steven Stosny, creater of the “boot camp” workshops that have provided new hope to couples caught up in the cycle of male anger and, sometimes, violence that is so common in our culture. This is a must read for anyone with anger control problems or who is living with such a person.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

A true popularizer of science, Antonio Damasio has written clearly and skillfully about the neurochemistry of the brain and how it operates to create and control the mind. And in the book the the right, he expands this to deal with the issue of consciousness itself.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 

Two excellent books on the workings of memory as the latest research would have it from the head of Psychology at Harvard and one of the foremost researchers in the field. Yet, like Damasio, Schacter writes clearly and comprehensively for the sophisticated lay person.

An excellent book about the ways men tend to demonstrate depression and how that is quite different than the ways that women do.  The author clearly explicates the manners in which men develop such depression, defend against its exposure, and suffer as a result of it.

 
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