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BOOKS 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

BUDDHISM 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, Michael E. Kerr

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller

  • Facing CoDependence – Pia Mellody

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