Recommended Reading

Adolescents

• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

Attention Deficit Disorder

• Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey

Depression

• Prozac Nation - Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel

• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

• Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression by Shoshana S. Bennett, Ph.D. and Pec Indman, Ed.D., MFT

• Pregnancy Blues: What Every Woman Neds to Know About Depression During Pregnancy by Shaila Kulkarni Misri, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.

• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

• Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression by Nell Casey

Eating Disorders

• The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron

• Anatomy of Anorexia by Steven Levenkron

General Well-Being

• The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns, M.D.

Inspirational Stories of Triumph

• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

• Tears of Rage by John Walsh

• Yesterday, I Cried by Iyanla Vanzant

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

• Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting’ Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou

• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

• All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

(The above books can be purchased in one volume)

• A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer

• The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer

• A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer

• A Brother’s Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse by Richard B. Pelzer

Mortality

• On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.

• Dying: Facing the Facts by Hannelore Wass, Felix M. Berardo and Robert A. Neimeyer

Psychiatric Medicine in Layman’s Terms

• Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self by Peter D. Kramer

• The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs by Jack M. Gorman, M.D.

Relationships

• Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps: How We’re Different and What to Do About It by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease

Self-Mutilation

• Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron

• The Luckiest Girl in the World: A Young Skater Battles Her Self-Destructive Impulses by Steven Levenkron

Sexual Assault

• The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

(Recommended that book below be read and used in conjunction with book above)

• The Courage to Heal Workbook - A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis

• Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women’s Childhood Sexual Abuse by Steven Levenkron with Abby Levenkron

• After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back by Nancy Venable Raine

Trauma and Memory

• Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories Lost and Found by Lenore Terr

• Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse by Renee Fredrickson

• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman

• Memory and Abuse by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.