"Must Read" Psychology and Therapy Books

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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients 4.32 avg rating β€” 27,472 ratings
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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy 4.25 avg rating β€” 39,920 ratings
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Existential Psychotherapy
Existential Psychotherapy 4.46 avg rating β€” 6,991 ratings
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating β€” 255,249 ratings
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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy 4.16 avg rating β€” 18,086 ratings
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The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,405 ratings
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The Feeling Good Handbook
The Feeling Good Handbook 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,706 ratings
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Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Professional
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Professional 4.15 avg rating β€” 894 ratings
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Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm
Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm 4.65 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love
Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love 4.06 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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The Art of Counseling
The Art of Counseling
by: Rollo May
3.94 avg rating β€” 346 ratings
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The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT 4.14 avg rating β€” 19,536 ratings
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Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,640 ratings
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions 4.26 avg rating β€” 40,180 ratings
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Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols
by: C.G. Jung
4.19 avg rating β€” 32,163 ratings
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Families and How To Survive Them
Families and How To Survive Them 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,322 ratings
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Mad Matters: A Critical Reader for Canadian Mad Studies
Mad Matters: A Critical Reader for Canadian Mad Studies 4.25 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist 4.43 avg rating β€” 183 ratings
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,580 ratings
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Depression: Cured at Last!
Depression: Cured at Last! 4.04 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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The Everybodies Guide to the PAC Model
The Everybodies Guide to the PAC Model 4.38 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche 3.98 avg rating β€” 5,463 ratings
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Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change 4.27 avg rating β€” 4,051 ratings
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families 4.16 avg rating β€” 27,320 ratings
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Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis 3.88 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 4.43 avg rating β€” 1,908 ratings
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The Red Book: Liber Novus
The Red Book: Liber Novus
by: C.G. Jung
4.49 avg rating β€” 6,322 ratings
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness 4.11 avg rating β€” 6,311 ratings
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook 4.58 avg rating β€” 39,400 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating β€” 17,217 ratings
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Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (Condor Books)
Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (Condor Books) 4.10 avg rating β€” 728 ratings
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Every Day Gets A Little Closer
Every Day Gets A Little Closer 3.76 avg rating β€” 3,125 ratings
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Art as Therapy
Art as Therapy 4.08 avg rating β€” 4,486 ratings
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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,277 ratings
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Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life Back
Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life Back 3.96 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by: C.G. Jung
4.20 avg rating β€” 13,643 ratings
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The Stress Response: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Free You from Needless Anxiety, Worry, Anger, and Other Symptoms of Stress
The Stress Response: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Free You from Needless Anxiety, Worry, Anger, and Other Symptoms of Stress 3.66 avg rating β€” 85 ratings
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Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions and Balance Your Life
Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions and Balance Your Life 4.15 avg rating β€” 859 ratings
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If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2,772 ratings
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill 3.67 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community 3.92 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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The Emotional Extremist's Guide to Handling Cartoon Elephants: How to Solve Elephantine Emotional Problems Without Getting Run Over, Chased, Flattened
The Emotional Extremist's Guide to Handling Cartoon Elephants: How to Solve Elephantine Emotional Problems Without Getting Run Over, Chased, Flattened 4.11 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Sposobnost za ljubav i rad-O.L.I. Integrativna Psihodinamska Psihoterapija
Sposobnost za ljubav i rad-O.L.I. Integrativna Psihodinamska Psihoterapija 4.70 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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The Self Illusion: Why There is No 'You' Inside Your Head [Extract]
The Self Illusion: Why There is No 'You' Inside Your Head [Extract] 3.84 avg rating β€” 2,294 ratings
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Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope
Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope 3.98 avg rating β€” 279 ratings
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Boy in the Ivy: The Inner Child of a Buried Man
Boy in the Ivy: The Inner Child of a Buried Man 4.62 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Intuition and Ego States: The Origins of Transactional Analysis
Intuition and Ego States: The Origins of Transactional Analysis really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys
Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys 4.17 avg rating β€” 404 ratings
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Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way
Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way 4.37 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
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I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression and Discovering Art
I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression and Discovering Art 4.62 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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Adult Asperger's Syndrome: The Essential Guide
Adult Asperger's Syndrome: The Essential Guide 3.92 avg rating β€” 203 ratings
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Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,124 ratings
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Outsmart the Common Cold
Outsmart the Common Cold 3.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence 4.03 avg rating β€” 184 ratings
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Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance
Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance 4.22 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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Bullshit in Psychotherapy: From an Ego to a Soul Driven Encounter
Bullshit in Psychotherapy: From an Ego to a Soul Driven Encounter 4.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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You Empowered: Get Beyond The Trauma You've Experienced To Live A Full And Happy Life
You Empowered: Get Beyond The Trauma You've Experienced To Live A Full And Happy Life 4.75 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art
Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art 4.59 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
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The Everybodies Guide to the Drama Triangle
The Everybodies Guide to the Drama Triangle 4.07 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Transforming Stigma: How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero
Transforming Stigma: How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero
by: Mike Veny
4.18 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Landscapes of the Heart: The Working World of a Sex and Relationship Therapist
Landscapes of the Heart: The Working World of a Sex and Relationship Therapist 4.38 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Relationships: The Grass is Always Greener
Relationships: The Grass is Always Greener 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide
Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide 4.05 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
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Me, the Boy, and The Monster: Exploring the psychology of adoption and trauma
Me, the Boy, and The Monster: Exploring the psychology of adoption and trauma 4.68 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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Kill your Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A very unprofessional view on things
Kill your Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A very unprofessional view on things 4.71 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Universal Mind: An exploration into life's biggest questions of existence, creation, evolution, consciousness, the mind, the universe, humanity, human psychology and the illusion of reality.
The Universal Mind: An exploration into life's biggest questions of existence, creation, evolution, consciousness, the mind, the universe, humanity, human psychology and the illusion of reality. 4.15 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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How to Handle a Narcissist: Understanding and Dealing with a Range of Narcissistic Personalities (Narcissism and Emotional Abuse Toolkit: How to handle ... and heal from emotional abuse Book 1)
How to Handle a Narcissist: Understanding and Dealing with a Range of Narcissistic Personalities (Narcissism and Emotional Abuse Toolkit: How to handle ... and heal from emotional abuse Book 1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 462 ratings
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How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything: Yes, Anything
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything: Yes, Anything 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,486 ratings
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Your Mental Health Repair Manual: An Empowering, No-Nonsense Guide to Navigating Mental Health Care and Finding Treatments That Work for You
Your Mental Health Repair Manual: An Empowering, No-Nonsense Guide to Navigating Mental Health Care and Finding Treatments That Work for You 3.67 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Creation of Me, Them and Us
The Creation of Me, Them and Us 4.55 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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My Silent Loud: The Voice Inside Every Little Black Boy
My Silent Loud: The Voice Inside Every Little Black Boy 3.33 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability 4.75 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology 4.22 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
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Everything Tracker: The Ultimate Comprehensive CBT Toolkit
Everything Tracker: The Ultimate Comprehensive CBT Toolkit 3.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do
Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do 4.08 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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Winning the War with Bipolar
Winning the War with Bipolar 4.38 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Forces of Life: Psychology and Success or Failure in Ourselves and Our Children
Forces of Life: Psychology and Success or Failure in Ourselves and Our Children 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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People Are Sheep: When was the last time you thought with your own head?
People Are Sheep: When was the last time you thought with your own head? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Scapegoating in Families: Intergenerational Patterns of Physical and Emotional Abuse
Scapegoating in Families: Intergenerational Patterns of Physical and Emotional Abuse 3.75 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Mindful Brain: Your life-journey of meeting a brain and culture founded psychology, and discovering the mindpower in positive psychology and flow.
The Mindful Brain: Your life-journey of meeting a brain and culture founded psychology, and discovering the mindpower in positive psychology and flow. 4.57 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness 4.08 avg rating β€” 746 ratings
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The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians
The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians 4.78 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Hope Is On The Way: How God Reveals a Wellspring of Help on Easter Saturday
Hope Is On The Way: How God Reveals a Wellspring of Help on Easter Saturday it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Practical Clinical Supervision for Psychotherapists: A Self and Relational Approach
Practical Clinical Supervision for Psychotherapists: A Self and Relational Approach 3.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck?
Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck? 4.42 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
by: Rollo May
4.07 avg rating β€” 1,085 ratings
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Gestalt Therapy Verbatim
Gestalt Therapy Verbatim 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,274 ratings
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A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism
A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism 4.50 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective
Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective 4.24 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work
Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work 4.03 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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Into the Heart of the Feminine: Facing the Death Mother Archetype to Reclaim Love, Strength, and Vitality
Into the Heart of the Feminine: Facing the Death Mother Archetype to Reclaim Love, Strength, and Vitality 4.28 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
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You Untangled: A DBT Skills Workbook, Practical Tools To Manage Your Emotions And Improve Your Life
You Untangled: A DBT Skills Workbook, Practical Tools To Manage Your Emotions And Improve Your Life 4.08 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Re-Enchanting the Forest
Re-Enchanting the Forest 3.74 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Loss of a Parent: Adult Grief When Parents Die
Loss of a Parent: Adult Grief When Parents Die 3.79 avg rating β€” 415 ratings
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Superhero Therapy: Mindfulness Skills to Help Teens and Young Adults Deal with Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma
Superhero Therapy: Mindfulness Skills to Help Teens and Young Adults Deal with Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma 4.15 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain 4.13 avg rating β€” 17,031 ratings
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When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,566 ratings
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Freedom From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program For Living With Uncertainty
Freedom From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program For Living With Uncertainty 4.31 avg rating β€” 496 ratings
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How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists
How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists 4.09 avg rating β€” 694 ratings
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Four Archetypes
Four Archetypes
by: C.G. Jung
3.99 avg rating β€” 1,834 ratings
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