Picks and Personal Favorites on Selected Topics

On Therapy
The Gift of Therapy (Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.)
Love’s Executioner (Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.)
Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Contemporary Applications (Ed. Archer & McCarthy)
Uncommon Therapy (Jay Haley)

On Relationships
The Dance of Intimacy (Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.)
The Monogamy Myth: A Personal Handbook for Recovering from Affairs (Peggy Vaughn)
Love is Never Enough (Aaron Beck, M.D.)
Boundaries in Marriage (Henry Cloud, Ph.D., and Scott Cloud, Ph.D.)
Not “Just Friends:” Protect your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal (Shirley Glass, Ph.D.)
Should You Leave? (Peter D. Kramer, M.D.)
Love and Respect (Emerson Eggerich, Ph.D.)
The Sex-starved Marriage (Michele Weiner-Davis)
Resurrecting Sex: Resolving Sexual Problems and Rejuvenating your Relationship (David Schnarch, Ph.D.)

On Career Development/Business Topics
Hardball for Women (Pat Heim, Ph.D.)
The Anti 9 to 5 Guide: Practical Advice for Women who think Outside the Cube (Michelle Goodman)
The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man’s World (Sharon Whiteley, Kathy Elliott, Connie Duckworth)
Pour Your Heart into it: How Starbucks Built A Company One Cup at a Time (Howard Schultz)

On Body Image/Weight Loss
The Beauty Myth (Naomi Wolf)
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Joan Jacobs Brumberg)
Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry (Laura Fraser)
Fat is a Feminist Issue (Susie Orbach)
Overcoming Overeating (Jane R. Hirschman and Carol H. Munter)
Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Health (Glenn A. Gaesser, Ph.D.)
The Hungry Self (Kim Chernin)
Appetites: Why Women Want (Caroline Knapp)
The Golden Cage (Hilde Bruch, M.D.)

Women and the Media
Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media (Susan J. Douglas)
Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising (Jean Kilbourne)

Finances
Women and Money (Suze Orman)
Smart Couples Finish Rich (David Bach)

Children’s Issues
The Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Richard Louv)
Raising Your Spirited Child (Mary Sheedy Kurcinka)
Reviving Ophelia (Mary Pipher)
Freeing your Child from Anxiety (Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D.)

For reflection
The Artist’s Way (Julia Cameron)
Care of the Soul (Thomas Moore)
Journal of a Solitude (May Sarton)
A Year by the Sea (Joan Anderson)
A Gift from the Sea (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
The Wisdom of the Ego (George E. Vaillant, M.D.)
The Ordeal of Change (Eric Hoffer)
The True Believer (Eric Hoffer)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan)

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