Books
A book list was originally a blog entry. Given this list of books will most likely continue to expand; a unique page has been created for books.
* NAMI – National Alliance on Mental Illness Reading List
| Books | Author | Notes |
| General Topics | ||
| The Highly Sensitive Person | Dr. Elaine Aron | The foundation of this book is that some people are born more sensitive – Carl Jung called this innate sensitiveness. These books address strategies using this trait as an asset rather than a limitation. |
| The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook | ||
| The Highly Sensitive Child | ||
| Reviving Ophelia:
Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls |
Mary Pipher, PhD | Based on her experiences providing therapy to teens, this book addresses the challenges girls are up against in this culture. |
| Girls will be Girls:
Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters |
JoAnn Deak, PhD | Written by a school psychologist and educator, this book offers suggestions to problems girls are facing. |
| Parenting Teens With Love And Logic | Dr. Foster Cline and Jim Fay | A psychiatrist and an educator wrote this book. It addresses the impact of different types of parenting, and includes tips and recommendations on how to help teens become responsible through applying life logic. |
| The Anatomy of Peace:
Resolving the Heart of Conflict |
The Arbinger Institute | Both of these books are based on Terry Warner’s work on self – deception. The first book setting is when parents are dropping of their child at a wilderness program. The second book applies these same principles in a business setting. |
| Leadership and Self Deception:
Getting Out of the Box |
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| The Four Agreements:
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom |
Don Miguel Ruiz | Based on Toltec tradition, this book addresses the impact that agreements have in our lives. To quote “In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible.” |
| Loving What Is:
Four Questions That Can Change your Life |
Byron Katie | A self inquiry approach developed by Byron Katie when she realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but rather her beliefs about that world |
| The Price of Privilege:
How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Unhappy and Disconnected Kids |
Madeline Levine | This book is based on a Marin County’s (north of San Francisco) therapist experience with privileged teens in this county. |
| The Broken Brain | Nancy C. Andreasen MD | NAMI – General Topics |
| By Force or Fantasy How We Make our Lives | Ethel Person | NAMI – General Topics |
| The Essential Guide to Mental Health | Jack Gorman MD | NAMI – General Topics |
| When Someone you love has a Mental Illness | Rebecca Woolis | NAMI – General Topics |
| Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency | ||
| The Big Book | Alcoholic Anonymous | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions | Alcoholic Anonymous | Classic foundation work of 12 step programs |
| Safe Passage | Stephanie Brown PhDd | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| A Time to Heal | Cermak | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Adult Children of Alcoholics | Woititz | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| It Will Never Happen to Me | Black | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Life Skills for Adult Children | Woititz et al | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Beyond Co-Dependency | Beattie | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Codependent No More | Beattie
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NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Free at Last: Meditations | Hazleden Foundation | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Help for Helpers | Hazleden Foundation Aid | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Living Sober | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency | |
| Rational Steps for Quitting Alcohol | Albert Ellis | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Staying Sober(text and workbook) | Terry Gorski | NAMI – Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency |
| Anxiety Disorders | ||
| The Anxiety Disease | Daniel Sheehan | NAMI – Anxiety Disorders |
| Social Phobia | Richard Heimberg MD et al | NAMI – Anxiety Disorders |
| Triumph over Fear | Jerilyn Ross | NAMI – Anxiety Disorders |
| ADD/ADHD | ||
| Driven to Distraction | Edward M. Hallowell MD and John J Raley MD | NAMI – ADD/ADHD |
| Bipolar Disorder | ||
| An Unquiet Mind | Ray Redfield Johnson PhD | NAMI – Bipolar Disorder |
| We Heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide to Coping with Manic Depression | Diane Berger and Lisa Berger | NAMI – Bipolar Disorder |
| Depression | ||
| Darkness Visible: A Memoir Madness | William Styron | NAMI – Depression |
| Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy | David Burns MD | NAMI – Depression |
| Listening to Prozac | Peter Kramer MD | NAMI – Depression |
| Overcoming Depression | Demetri Papolos and Janice Papolos | NAMI – Depression |
| Understanding Depression | Donald Klein MD and Paul Wender MD | NAMI – Depression |
| On Death an Dying | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | NAMI – Grief and Loss |
| How we Die | Sherman Nuland MD | NAMI – Grief and Loss |
| Grief Recovery Handbook | James et al | NAMI – Grief and Loss |
| Living when a Loved one has Died | Grollman | NAMI – Grief and Loss |
| Medications | ||
| Mind, Mood, and Medicine | Donald Klein MD and Paul Wender MD | NAMI – Medications |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | ||
| The Boy who couldn’t Stop Washing | Judith L Rapoport MD | NAMI – OCD |
| Psychotherapy | ||
| The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs | Jack Gorman MD | NAMI – Psychotherapy |
| Consumer’s Guide to Psychotherapy | Jack Engler and Daniel Goleman | NAMI – Psychotherapy |
| Love’s Executioner | Irvin Yalom MD | NAMI – Psychotherapy |
| A Practical Guide to Cognitive Therapy | Dean Schuyler | NAMI – Psychotherapy |
| The Drama of the Gifted Child | Alice Miller | NAMI – Psychotherapy |
| Schizophrenia | ||
| Family Care of Schizophrenia | Ian RH Falloon MD | NAMI – Schizophrenia |
| Surviving Schizophrenia | Torrey E Fuller MD | NAMI – Schizophrenia |
| Understanding Schizophernia | Richard Keefe and Philip D. Hrvey | NAMI – Schizophrenia |
For books on Addiction also refer to the Institute of Addiction Studies Library’s Reading List (http://www.addictiondoctor.com/library.html#)
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