reading List

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Anxiety

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Martha Beck

Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer, MD, PhD

Trauma and stress

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD & Maia Szalavitz

It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn

Dissociation Made Simple by Jamie Marich, PhD

No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz 

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

Relationships

Attached by Amir Levine MD, and Rachel S.F. Heller

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship by Mira
Kirshenbaum

physical

The Mindful Body by Ellen Langer, PhD

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhD

Grief

Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James and Russell Friedman

The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD

For Clinicians

The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy by Daryl Chow, PhD

Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life by Allen Frances, MD