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Updated October 2, 2022
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Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Gottlieb, Lori
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."--Katie Couric "This is a daring, delightful, and transformative...
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Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
Tate, Christie
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Often hilarious and ultimately very touching." --People "Have you ever read a book that made you want to hug the author?" --Reese Witherspoon ...
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life "Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal....
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What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey
Paper Book
ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand....
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The unapologetic guide to Black mental health : navigate an unequal system, learn tools for emotional wellness, and get the help you deserve
Walker, Rheeda
Paper Book
An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis--and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. We can't deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates...
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The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
Van der Kolk, Bessel A.
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#1 New York Times bestseller "Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." --Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher...
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The examined life : how we lose and find ourselves
Grosz, Stephen
Paper Book
The everyday world bedevils us. To make sense of it, we tell ourselves stories. Here, in short, vivid, dramatic tales, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws from his twenty-year practice to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary...
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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Irvin Yalom
Paper Book
Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume. The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom's more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and...
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Good morning monster : five heroic journeys to recovery
Gildiner, Catherine
Paper Book
A therapist creates moving portraits of five of her most memorable patients, men and women she considers psychological heroes. Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. In Good Morning, Monster,...
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Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Brian L. Weiss
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From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved--now featuring a new afterword by the author. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Paper Book
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS * A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Dr. Sacks's most extraordinary book, in which the "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) recounts fascinating case histories of patients with neurological disorders....
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Switching time : a doctor's harrowing story of treating a woman with 17 personalities
Baer, Richard K.
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"One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer's office complaining of vague physical pains and depression. Odder still, she reveals that she's suffering from a persistent memory problem. Routinely, she "loses" parts of her day, finding herself in places she doesn't...
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