Self-Help Books

• ACOA	• Anger	• Assertiveness	• ADHD	• Anxiety
• Bipolar Disorder	• Depression	• Dev Transitions	• Divorce	• Domestic Violence
• Drugs & Alcohol	• Eating Disorders	• Grief & Loss	• OCD	• Procrastination
• Perfectionism	• Sexual Assault	• Relationships	• Self-Esteem	• Self-Injury
• Sexual Abuse	• Shyness	• Stress	• Suicide	• Time Mngmt

 

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) / Recovery from Dysfunctional Families 

• Adult Children of Alcoholics

Janet Woititz

• Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics

Robert J. Ackerman

• Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Julie D. Bowden, Herbert L. Gravitz

• The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome: From Discovery to Recovery

Wayne Kritsberg

• Struggle for Intimacy

Janet Woititz

• Healing the Shame that Binds You

John Bradshaw

• Lovebound: Recovering from an Alcoholic Family

Phyllis Hobe

Anger 

• The Anger Control Workbook

Matthew McKay, Peter Rogers

• Beyond Anger: A Guide for Men: How to Free Yourself from the Grip of Anger

Thomas J. Harbin

• When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

Matthew McKay, Peter D. Rogers, Judith McKay

• The Angry Self: A Comprehensive Approach to Anger Management

Miriam M. Gottlieb

• Dance of Anger: Woman’s Guide to Changing Patterns of Intimate Relationships

Harriet Lerner

• Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion

Carol Tavris

Assertiveness 

• When I Say No, I Feel Guilty

Manuel Smith

• Asserting Yourself

Sharon Anthony Bower & Gordon H. Bower

• Assertive Option: Your Rights and Responsibilities

Patricia Jakubowski

• Your Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Living

Robert Alberti, Michael Emmons

Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD) 

• You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo

• Driven to Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M. Howell

• ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau

• Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most of Out of Life with Attention-Deficit Disorder

Edward M. Howell

• The Gift of Adult ADD: How to Transform Your Challenges & Build on Your Strengths

Lara Honos-Webb

• Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder

Gina Pera

• You, Your Relationship & Your ADD: A Workbook

Michael T. Bell

• ADHD: A Complete and Authoritative Guide (American Academy of Pediatrics)

Michael I. Reiff, Sherill Tippins

Anxiety 

• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

• The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook

Edmund J. Bourne

• Beyond Anxiety and Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide to Lifetime Recovery

Edmund J. Bourne

• When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy Can Change Your Life

David D. Burns

• Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks

Reid Wilson

• Healing Fear: New Approaches to Overcoming Anxiety

Edmund Bourne

• Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

Martha Davis, Matthew McKay

• Overcoming Panic, Anxiety, & Phobias: New Strategies to Free Yourself from Worry and Fear

Carol Goldman, Shirley Babior

• Overcoming Anxiety: From Short-Term Fixes to Long-Term Recovery

Reneau Z. Peurifoy

Bipolar Disorder 

• An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison

• Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Roger Granet, Elizabeth Ferber

• New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder

Jan Fawcett, Bernard Golden, Nancy Rosenfeld

• The Bipolar Workbook: Tools for Controlling Your Mood Swings

Monica Ramirez Basco

• The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know

David J. Miklowitz

Depression 

• I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

Terrence Real

• Learned Optimism: How to Change your Mind and Your Life

Martin E. P. Seligman

• The Feeling Good Handbook

David D. Burns

• The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs

Stephen S. Illardi

• Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

• Prisioners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl’s Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

Alex Pattakos

• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller

• Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide To Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals

 Thomas Moore

• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

David. Burns

• Living Without Depression and Manic Depression: A Workbook for Maintaining Mood Stability

Mary Ellen Copeland

• You Are Not Alone: Words of Experience and Hope for the Journey Through Depression

Julia Thorne & Larry Rothstein

Developmental Transitions 

• The Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in your Twenties

Alexandra Robbins, Abbey Wilner

• Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

Karen Levin Coburn, Madge Lawrence Treeger

• Cutting Loose: A Guide to Coming to Terms with your Parents

Howard Halpern

• Making Peace with Your Parents: The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationships

Leonard Felder, Harold H. Bloomfield

Divorce 

• The Divorce Handbook

James Friedman

• Learning to Leave: A Woman’s Guide

Lynnette Triere, Richard Peacock

• Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life

Abigail Trafford

• Divorce & New Beginnings: A Complete Guide to Recovery, Solo Parenting, Co-Parenting, and Stepfamilies

Genevieve Clapp

Domestic Violence 

• It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence

Meg Kennedy Dugan, Roger R. Hock

• Surviving Domestic Violence: Voices of Women Who Broke Free

Elaine Weiss, Michael Magill

• Breaking Free from Partner Abuse: Voices of Battered Women Caught in the Cycle of Domestic Violence

Mary Marecek & Jamie Moffet

• Dangerous Dating: Helping Young Women Say No to Abusive Relationships

Patricia Riddle Gaddis

• What to Do When Love Turns Violent: A Practical Resource for Women in Abusive Relationships

Marian Betancourt

• Men's Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart

Paul Kivel

Drugs and Alcohol 

• Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson

• Addictive Personality: Understanding Addiction and Compulsive Behavior

Craig Nakken

• Educating Yourself About Alcohol and Drugs : A People's Primer

Marc Alan Schuckit

• Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism

Katherine Ketcham, William F. Asbury, Mel Schulstad, Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Eating Disorders 

• Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family & Friends

Michelle Siegel, Judith Brisman

• Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery

Lindsey Hall, Monika Ostroff

• Why Weight: A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating

Geneen Roth

• Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating

Geneen Roth

• Dying To Be Thin: Understanding & Defeating Anorexia and Bulimia

Ira Sacker, Marc Zimmer

• Overcoming Binge Eating

Christopher Fairburn

• Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery

Lindsey Hall, Leigh Cohn

Grief & Loss 

• Lessons of Loss: A Guide to Coping

Robert Neimeyer

• The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith

John W. James, Russell Friedman

• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler

• How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies

Therese A. Rando

• The Grieving Child: A Parent’s Guide

Helen Fitzgerald

• No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

Carla Fine

• Living Through Mourning: Finding Comfort and Hope When a Loved One Has Died

Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

• The Courage to Grieve

Judy Tatelbaum

• Living When a Loved One Has Died

Earl A. Grollman

• The Drama and Trauma of Losing a Child

Douglas Daher

• The Mourning Handbook : The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping With All Aspects of Death and Dying

Helen Fitzgerald

• Motherless Daughters

Hope Edelman

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

• Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obessive-Compulsive Disorder

Ian Osborne

• Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Gail Steketee

• Over and Over Again: Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Fugen Neziroglu, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well

 Fred Penzel

• Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome your Obsessions and Compulsions

Reid Wilson, Edna B. Foa

Procrastination 

• The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now

Rita Emmett

• Procrastination: Why You Do it, What To Do About It

Jane Burka, Lenora Yuen

• The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

Neil A. Fiore

• Do It Now! : Break the Procrastination Habit

William J. Knaus, John W. Edgerly

Perfectionism 

• Never Good Enough: Freeing Yourself from Chains of Perfectionism

Monica Ramirez Basco

• Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good

Miriam Adderholdt

• Never Good Enough: How to Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage

Monica Ramirez Basco

• Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control

Allan E. Mallinger, Jeannette Dewyze

• Overcoming Perfectionism: The Key to Balanced Recovery

 Ann W. Smith

• When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping With Perfectionism

Martin M. Antony

Rape and Sexual Assault 

• I Never Called it Rape: Recognizing, Fighting and Surviving Date Rape

Robin Warshaw

• Recovering from Rape

Linda A. Ledray, Linda E. Ledray

• When You Are the Partner of a Rape or Incest Survivor

Robert Barry Levine

• Sexual Assault: Will I Ever Feel Okay Again?

Kay Scott

• Recovery

Helen Benedict, Susan Brison

• Healing Your Sexual Self

Janet Woititz

• After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back

Nancy Venable Raine

• Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery

Patricia Weaver Francisco

• Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors

Aphrodite Matsakis

• Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems

Victoria M. Follette, Jacqueline Pistorello

Relationships 

• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

Harville Hendrix

• Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making a Troubled Relationship Work

David D. Burns

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

John Gottman

• Love is Never Enough: How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstandings, Resolve Conflicts, and Solve Problems Through Cognitive Therapy

Aaron Beck

• Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide

Harville Hendrix

• A Couple’s Guide to Communication

John Gottman

• The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships

 John Gottman

• The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationships

Don Miguel Ruiz

• After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful

Janis Abrahms Spring, Michael Spring

• The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

Harriet Lerner

• Conversationally Speaking : Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness

Alan Garner

• Letting Go: A 12-Week Personal Action Program to Overcome a Broken Heart

Zev Wanderer, Tracy Cabot

• Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends

Bruce Fisher, Robert Alberti, Virginia Satir

• The Dance of Intimacy

Harriet Lerner

• The Couple’s Journey: Intimacy as a Path to Wholeness

Susan M. Campbell

• Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting With Your Partner

Phil McGraw

• Communicating in Relationships: A Guide for Couples & Professionals

Frank D. Fincham, Leyan O. L. Fernandes, Keith Humphreys

• In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want

Iyanla Vanzant

• Passionate Attachments: Thinking About Love

Willard Gaylin, Ethel Pearson

• Intimate Connections

David Burns

Self Esteem 

• Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem

Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning

• The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

• How to Raise Your Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

• Revolution From Within: A Book of Self Esteem

Gloria Steinem

• Women And Self Esteem

Linda Sanford, Mary Ellen Donovan

• Intimate Connections

David Burns

• Confidence: Finding it and Loving it

Barbara DeAngelis

• Love 101: To Love Oneself is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

Peter McWilliams

• Ten Days to Self-Esteem

David D. Burns

Self-Injury 

• Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

Steven Levenkron

• A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

Marilee Strong

• The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence

Tracy Alderman

Sexual Abuse  

• Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Wendy Maltz

• Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

Laura Davis

• Courage to Heal: Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Ellen Bass, Laura Davis

• Incest and Sexuality: A Guide to Understanding

Wendy Maltz

• A Safe Place: Beyond Sexual Abuse

Jan Morrison

Shyness 

• Shyness: A Bold New Approach: Managing Your Shyness at Work, Making Small Talk, Navigating Social Situations

Bernardo Carducci

• The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Techniques for Overcoming Your Fears

Martin M. Antony, Richard P. Swinson

• How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends

Don Gabor

• Beyond Shyness: How to Conquer Social Anxieties

Jonathan Berent, Amy Lemley

• Hidden Face of Shyness: Overcoming Social Anxiety

Franklin Schneier, Lawrence Welkowitz

• People Skills

Robert Bolton

• Intimate Connections

David Burns

• Conversationally Speaking : Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness

Alan Garner

Stress Management and Relaxation 

• The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook

Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning

• Live Right! Beating Stress in College and Beyond

Debra Atkinson, Pat Ketchum

• Kicking Your Stress Habits

Donald A. Tubesing

• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: Guide to Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

Robert Sapolsky

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Suicide 

• No Time To Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

Carla Fine

• When Bad Things Happen To Good People

Harold Kushner

• Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Kaye Redfield Jamison

Time Management 

• Time Management from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule and Your Life

Julie Morgenstern

• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

• Stop Clutter From Stealing Your Life

Mike Nelson

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

• Checklists for Life: 104 Lists to Help You Get Organized, Save Time, and Unclutter Your Life

Kirsten M. Lagatree

• How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life

Alan Lakein