BOOKS

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Anxiety Disorders	Attention Deficit Disorder
General Psychiatry	LGBTQ
Mood Disorders	Personality Disorders
Psychopharmacology	Relationships
Women’s Mental Health

Anxiety Disorders

Depressed and Anxious, Thomas Marra. The New Harbinger Publications, 2004. A helpful workbook for patients with step by step exercises and techniques to identify inner conflicts underlying depression and anxiety using fundamental dialectic behavioral techniques.

Attention Deficit Disorder

Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most Out of Life with ADD, Edward Hallowell and John Ratley. Ballantine Books, 2005. An excellent guidebook for anyone with ADD.

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADD from Childhood through Adulthood, Edward Hallowell and John Ratey. Touchstone, 1995. Written by physicians with ADD, it is an excellent read for persons with ADD. You will recognize yourself in the case studies.

Putting on the Brakes: Understanding and Taking Control of your ADD or ADHD, Patricia Quinn and Judith Stern. Magination Press; second edition, 2008. A practical guide to help parents manage their child with ADD.

General Psychiatry

A Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Benjamin Kaplan and Virginia Saddock. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005. A staple text offering a complete overview of the field of psychiatry. An essential book for all mental health professionals as a reference.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV-TR. American Psychiatric Association, 2000. The standard manual compiled by experts that lists the diagnostic criteria for mental disease based on clinical research.

An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis, Charles Brenner. Anchor Books, 1955. A standard introduction to psychoanalysis for both the layperson and the professional alike.

Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions, Gerald P.Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiege. Oxford University Press, 1998. A book mostly for the professional that provides elucidation of key topics in the American Psychological Association’s guidelines. A very practical approach to ethics and preventing problems in treatment.

Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman. Bantam Books, 2006. A book written in plane language describing the science of connection and human interactions.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. Understanding Personality Structure in Clinical Practice, Nancy McWilliams. The Guilford Press. 1994. Excellent book geared to the professional that offers a comprehensive and well-organized guide to diagnosis and therapy.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Nancy McWilliams. The Guilford Press, 2004. Another exceptionally clear, organized book that distills the essential components of a therapeutic relationship into its component parts.

Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, and Queer

Always My Child: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, or Questioning Son or Daughter
by Kevin Jennings (Author), Pat Shapiro (Contributor)

GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens
by Kelly Huegel (Author)

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
by Dan Savage (Editor), Terry Miller (Editor)

Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together
by Robert A. Bernstein (Author), Robert MacNeil (Introduction), Betty DeGeneres (Foreword)

Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens
by Kathy Belge (Author), Marke Bieschke (Author), Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Mood Disorders

Depressed and Anxious, Thomas Marra. The New Harbinger Publications, 2004. A helpful workbook for patients with step by step exercises and techniques to identify inner conflicts underlying depression and anxiety using fundamental dialectic behavioral techniques.

Feeling Good, David Burns. Harper; revised edition, 1999. Excellent source of information for people suffering with depression. Lists ten common “cognitive distortions” affecting person’s thoughts when depressed.

Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer. Penguin USA; revised edition, 1997. A seminal work in 1993 but still relevant today, a narrative description of psychopharmacology and the self.

Manic-depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depressions, Fredrick Godwin and Kay Redfield Jamison. Oxford University Press, USA; second edition, 2007. Excellent resource on manic-depressive illness geared for both the layperson and the professional.

Poets on Prozac Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process, Richard Berlin. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. A collection of essays that address questions of creativity and its association to madness with examples of poet’s works before and after treatment.

An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jameson. Vintage, 1997.
A personal memoir of bipolar illness by a professional in the field.

Personality Disorders

I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, Jerold Kreisman and Hal Strauss. Avon, 1991. An excellent resource for people interacting with persons with Borderline Personality Disorder and reviews the causes, symptoms, and treatment for the disorder.

Stop Walking on Eggshells, Paul Mason and Randi Kreger. New Harbinger Publications, 1998. An excellent description of the symptoms and behaviors of persons with Borderline Personality Disorder and how to deal with them.

Fatal Flaws, Stuart Yudofsky. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2005. An easy to read book without jargon about how to recognize and deal with persons with personality disorders.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. Understanding Personality Structure in Clinical Practice, Nancy McWilliams. The Guilford Press. 1994. Excellent book geared to the professional that offers a comprehensive and well-organized guide to diagnosis and therapy.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Nancy McWilliams. The Guilford Press, 2004. Another exceptionally clear, organized book that distills the essential components of a therapeutic relationship into its component parts.

Relationships

Love is Never Enough, Aaron Beck. Harper Paperbacks, 1989. From the father of cognitive behavioral therapy, a guide to why couples fight and how to overcome miscommunications and failed expectations. Can empower one member of the couple to generate changes that have ripple effects for the couple.

On Becoming a Person, Carl Rogers. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. A seminal work that was revolutionary in its time that argues that people need a relationship in which they are accepted. An essential book for both professionals and lay people alike.

Parenting from the Inside Out, Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell. Tarcher, 2004. From the point of view of the parental mind, the authors focus on the neurobiology of attachment and help parents meet the challenges of child rearing.

Psychopharmacology

Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, Stephen Stahl. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
A basic book in clearly written text for a practitioner of psychiatric medicine.

Women’s Mental Health

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Carol Gilligan. Harvard University Press, 1982. Now in its 33rd printing, it describes the developmental differences between men and women and challenges traditional paradigms.