Book Recommendations

Learning about therapy

• The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom

Depression & Difficult Times

• Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges
  
• Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg
  
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes
  
• Awareness by Anthony De Mello

Relationships

• The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships by John Gottman
• Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You by Patricia Evans
• Co-Dependent No More by Melody Beattie
• Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem by Kimberlee Roth, Freda B. Friedman, and Randi Kreger

Death

• Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman
  
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges

Trauma Histories (e.g., abuse, adult child of alcoholic, war, dysfunctional families)

• Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet G. Woititz
• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman
• Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles L. Whitfield
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger

Reducing Stress

• Inner Peace for Busy People by Joan Borysenko, PhD

Parenting

• Just Tell Me What to Say by Betsy Brown Braun
• The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel, PhD
  
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack and Mary Pipher
  
• The Myth of the Perfect Mother: Parenting Without Guilt by Jane Swigart PhD
  
• Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser

Addiction

• Co-Dependent No More by Melody Beattie
• Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles L. Whitfield