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BOOK I RECOMMEND

TRAUMA

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk M.D

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma - Peter A. Levine

  • In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness Peter A. Levine and Gabor Maté

  • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past

      Peter A. Levine

  • Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart Ph.D.

  • Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice - Halko Weiss

  • The Adverse Childhood Experiences Recovery Workbook: Heal the Hidden Wounds from Childhood Affecting Your Adult Mental and Physical Health  

      Glenn R. Schiraldi PhD

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction  

      Gabor Maté

THERAPEUTIC MODEL BASE ON SUB-PERSONALITIES

  • Internal Family Systems Therapy - Richard C. Schwartz

  • Embracing Ourselves: The Voice Dialogue Manual  

      Hal Stone , Sidra Stone

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation Janina Fisher

  • I'm OK-You're OK - Thomas Harris

  • Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit  

      John Firman, Ann Gila

SELF-JUDGMENT AND SHAME

  • Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset 

      Hal Stone, Sidra Stone

  • Soul without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within  

      Byron Brown

  • Healing the Shame that Binds You - John Bradshaw

BIOENERGETICS (Body base therapy)

  • Bioenergetics - Alexander Lowen

  • Love and Orgasm - Alexander Lowen

  • The Betrayal of the Body - Alexander Lowen

  • Love, Sex, and Your Heart - Alexander Lowen

BUDDISM AND PSYCHOLOGY

  • Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy 

      Mark Epstein

  • Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective  

      Mark Epstein

  • Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation  

      John Welwood

PSYCHO-SPIRITUALITY

  • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man (Book one)  -  A. H. Almaas

  • Diamond Heart: The Freedom to Be (Book two) - A. H. Almaas

  •  Diamond Heart: Being and the Meaning of Life (Book three) - A. H. Almaas

  •  Diamond Heart: Indestructible Innocence (Book four) - A. H. Almaas

  • Diamond Heart: Inexhaustible Mystery (Book five) - A. H. Almaas

  • The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization - A. H. Almaas

  • Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization - 

      A. H. Almaas

  • Fear No Evil: The Pathwork Method of Transforming the Lower Self

       Eva Pierrakos Donovan Thesenga

  • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork

      Eva Pierrakos, Donovan Thesenga

FAMILY DYNAMICS AND RELATIONSHIP

  • The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses

      Robert W. Firestone

  • Psychological Defenses in Everyday Life

      Robert W. Firestone

  • Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart 

      John Welwood

  • The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm

  • Metagenealogy: Self-Discovery through Psychomagic and the Family Tree  

     Alejandro Jodorowsky Marianne Costa

  • Family Evaluation – Murray Bowen, Michale E. Kerr

  •  The Drama of the Gifted Child - Alice Miller

  • Facing CoDependence - Pia Mellody

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