Suggested books
It can be helpful when counselling and psychotherapy is supplemented by reading. There are many books and publications about anything that may be concerning you or be of interest to you, each giving you a somewhat different perspective on the issue and how it might be dealt with. Here, I have selected just a few on a range of subjects that I think provide practical insights and thought-provoking perspectives whilst also being easy to read.
- On anger
- On attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- On bullying
- On depression
- On eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
- On gambling
- On grief and bereavement
- On hearing voices
- On mindfulness
- On obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- On parenting and childhood
- On reinventing yourself
- On self-esteem
- On self-compassion
- On shame and abuse
- On sleeping
- On suicide
- On vulnerability
- On our desire to talk, understand and be understood, and curiosity about what makes people tick
ACT on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
(by Georg H. Eifert, Matthew McKay, John P. Forsyth and Steven C. Hayes, 2006)
The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships
(by Harriet Lerner, 2004)
ADHD & Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
(by Blake Taylor, 2008)
Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach
(by Vincent Monastra, 2014)
Real And Lasting Ways To Stop Bullies, Stand Up For Yourself And Overcome Fear
(by Alice Caldwell, 2016)
Bullying Scars: The Impact on Adult Life and Relationships
(by Ellen Walser deLara, 2016)
Depression, An Emotion Not A Disease
(by Dr Michael Corry and Dr Aine Tubridy, 2005)
Getting Past Your Past
(by Dr Francine Shapiro, 2012)
The Body Keeps The Score
(by Dr Bessel van der Kolk, 2015)
Tony 10
(by Declan Lynch, 2018)
A Grief Observed
(by C S Lewis, 1961)
Can’t You Hear Them?
(by Simon McCarthy-Jones, 2017)
Mindfulness for Worriers: Overcome Everyday Stress and Anxiety
(by Padraig O’Morain, 2015)
Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
(by Mark Williams and Danny Penman, 2011)
Break Free From OCD
(by Dr Fiona Challacombe, Victoria Bream Oldfield and Prof Paul Salkovskis, 2011)
Why Love Matters
(Second edition, by Sue Gerhard, 2015)
Finding your way with your baby
(by Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria, 2015)
Raising Emotionally Healthy Children
(by Paul Gilligan, 2015)
How to Win Friends and Influence People
(by Dale Carnegie, originally 1936, various republications)
How to Raise Your Self-Esteem
(by Nathaniel Branden, 1988)
Self Compassion: Stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind (by Kristin Neff, 2011)
Self-Acceptance: How to banish the self-esteem myth, accept yourself unconditionally and revolutionise your mental health
(by Harry Barry, 2019)
Healing the shame that binds you
(by John Bradshaw, 2005)
The Drama of the Gifted Child
(by Alice Miller, 1997)
Why We Sleep
(by Matthew Walker, 2018)
Reasons to Stay Alive
(by Matt Haig, 2015)
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
(by Brené Brown, 2015)
The Examined Life
(by Stephen Grosz, 2013)
Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories
(by Kerry Malawista, Anne Adelman and Catherine Anderson, 2011)
Suggested books
It can be helpful when counselling and psychotherapy is supplemented by reading. There are many books and publications about anything that may be concerning you or be of interest to you, each giving you a somewhat different perspective on the issue and how it might be dealt with. Here, I have selected just a few on a range of subjects that I think provide practical insights and thought-provoking perspectives whilst also being easy to read.
