Highly reviewed psychotherapy books

The Sports Nutrition Guidebook by Nancy Clark will help you make the best decisions in restaurants, convenience stores and your own kitchen. Whether you’re training for a race or only planning for an healthy lifestyle, let this top sports nutritionist teach you how to get full value from your meals. You will learn how to eat before and after workouts and activities, how to prepare for optimum healing and how to bring the meal plans of Clark into action. You will find the latest studies and guidelines on vitamins, energy drinks, natural foods, intake of carbohydrates and proteins, exercise, competitiveness, reduction of fat and development of muscles. Whether you are finding tips to get energized for workouts and to improve your fitness and performance, the Sports Nutrition Guidebook of Nancy Clark has the answers you can trust.

The Social Animal is an acclaimed book that has been used for over 50 years in behavioral science lectures and a strong guide to the discipline to many students in the U.S. and around the world. This latest edition preserves the strong descriptive voice of Elliot Aronson, while incorporating the intellectual perspective of his brother, professor at the New York University, Joshua Aronson, his new co-author. The Social Animal, Twelfth Edition, has been extensively revised and updated to give additional perspectives into human social activity around a range of core subjects, including violence, loyalty, compliance, economics, race relations, marketing, peace, and emotional desire

An revised version of the bestselling manual to reprogramming your destructive emotions and actions. Originally the domain of mental health practitioners, CBT (or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) has achieved broad recognition as the therapy of choice for those trying to conquer depression, control frustration, defeat an addiction, lose weight and simply achieve a fresh perspective on life. Written by two CBT counselors, this manual lets you apply the concepts of CBT to your daily life allowing you to fixing negative thoughts; refocusing and retraining your awareness; and finally, get rid of depression, frustrations, and obsessions which torment you. The book is full of helpful advices and techniques that will support even a true pessimist along this journey to recovery

Master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom’s brings to light the myths, annoyances and emotions at the core of the therapeutic encounter. This New York Times bestselling collection of ten tales was first published in 1989 and has become a classic. Not only does Yalom give us a remarkable and insightful view into his patients’ private needs and motives, he also shares his own tale as he tries to balance his all-too-human reaction with his professionalism as a psychologist. Loves Exectioner now hopes to inspire future generations of readers with a new afterword.

A funny, thought-provoking, and shocking new book by a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national therapy columnist that brings readers behind the scenes in a therapist’s world. Every day, in her practice in Los Angeles, Lori Gottlieb helps her patients finding the answers they are looking for. But one day a disaster brings her life to collapse and start working on it with a therapist. Meet Wendell, the eccentric yet experienced psychologist who unexpectedly arrived in her office. Lori slowly discovers that the same problems she is now taking to her therapist, are the very ones her patients are strruggling with. Gottlieb welcomes us to her life on both side of the practice , exploring the realities and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we walk the tightrope between love and desire, purpose and destiny, remorse and redeeming, fear and bravery, optimism and improvement. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone delivers an intensely intimate tour into our hearts and minds and provides the rarest of gifts: a courageously honest image of what it is to be human, and a humorous and enlightening account of our own enigmatic lives and our ability to change them.

To the average clinician, the most difficult, often insoluble cases are always those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This book is the definitive overview of systematic, structured approach to treating adults with BPD through dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), Marsha M. Linehans. DBT was the first psychotherapy which was found to be effective for BPD. Since then, it has been adapted and tested for a wide range of other emotional dysregulation disorders that are difficult to treat.

You can feel a wide variety of feelings, such as anxiety, rage, terror, and depression, when you have undergone a traumatic incident. The reality is that there is no right or wrong way to respond to trauma; but there are ways you can learn from your experience and discover your own strength, development, and healing potential. Overcoming Trauma and PTSD provides validated beneficial therapies based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you resolve both psychological and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) physical and mental effects. The book will help you seek comfort from traumatic nightmares, sleeplessness, and any signs that you may suffer. Workshops, checklists and drills are all provided to help you continue to feel good and launch your journey on the road to recovery. The book will help you control your anxiety, deal with traumatic experiences and hallucinations, and help you decide if you need to see a psychiatrist.