PSYCHOLOGY/CLINICAL/THEORETICAL:

• The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life by Bering, Jesse
• The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
• The Restoration of the Self by Heinz Kohut
• In A Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
• On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers

CHILDREN

• NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Ashley Merryman
• The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience by Martin Seligman
• Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People by Stephen Glenn
• Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson
• Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry by Lenore Skenazy
• Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves Parenting Our Kids by Clarke and Dawson
• Homework: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Out Without Freaking Out by Neil McNerney
• 1, 2, 3 Magic by Thomas Phelan
• Scream-Free Parenting by Hal Runkel
• Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell
• The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
• The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child In Treatment by Krissy Pozatek

SELF-HELP/WELLNESS:

• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
• How To Find Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up by James Hollis
• Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
• Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Rate
• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
• What You Can Change and What You Can’t: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement by Martin Seligman
• Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman
• Learned Optimism: How to Change your Mind and your Life by Martin Seligman
• The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make you Happy but Doesn’t, What Should Make you Happy but Does by Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence by Rick Hanson

DIVORCE/LIFE TRANSITIONS:

• The Good Divorce by Constance Ahrons
• Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce by Elizabeth Marquardt
• Crazy Time by Abigail Trafford

ANXIETY/DEPRESSION:

• The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy by David Servan-Schreiber
• Depression-Free, Naturally: 7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and Anger from your Life by Joan Mathews Larson

OCD:

• The OCD Cure – How to Overcome Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for Life by Stephen Hall

COUPLES:

• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• Talk to Me Like I’m Someone You Love by Nancy Dreyfus
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver
• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson
• Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Ester Perel
• Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom

MINDFULNESS:

• Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment– and Your Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield

ADOPTION:

• The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier

TRAUMA:

• In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter A. Levine
• Getting Past your Past: Take Control of your Life with Self Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy by Francine Shapiro
• Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship by Laurence Heller
• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Bass and Davis

NEUROSCIENCE:

• Neuroscience of Preference and Choice: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms by Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth and Byock, MD, Ira, David

LOSS, GRIEVING:

• On Death and Dying by Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth and Kessler, David
• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Dolan, Raymond, Sharot, and Tali