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Psychology

Reviews of books focusing on psychology  and involving the scientific study of human mental functions and emotional behaviors. This category is heavier than the self-help genre.

Author
Victor R. Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction, Second Edition

Victor Volkman has created a tool that takes the mystery out of one of the more remarkably effective clinical procedures in a way that can help millions of people revitalize and improve their lives. To those desperate people who have experienced trauma or tragedy, this process is a pathway to dealing with their feelings and getting on with their lives.......

Author
A.T.W.

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Id

Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care.......

Author
Amy Barth

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Annabelle's Secret

Annabelle has a secret. When she was seven years old, she was approached by a neighborhood boy and invited into a "secret club". Unfortunately, this club was just a ruse for thirteen-year-old Joel to groom Annabelle for abuse. A few years later, when Annabelle turns eleven, she finds some bad feelings have returned for her.......

Author
Sharon Wallace

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Surviving a House Full of Whispers

Sharon suffered continual physical and sexual abuse from her stepfather for seven years. Unfortunately, no one would listen to her or believe her story. At age 16, she finally finds the courage to flee from her tormenters. Social Services find her the first of a string of temporary jobs between which she criss-crosses England trying to find a safe haven.......

Author
George W. Doherty

Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press

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From Crisis To Recovery: Proceedings of the 6th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Events around the world continue to present challenges for first responders and mental health professionals. Natural and man-made disasters continue. Evidence mounts concerning potential events such as global warming and the effects this may have worldwide.......

Author
George W. Doherty

Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press

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Return To Equilibrium: The Proceedings of the 7th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Much discussion follows disasters and critical incidents about returning to normal, but "normal" is never the same again. "Return to Equilibrium", involving integrating the event, its effects, meanings and recognition it's part of one's life can build a new balance and create a new enriched life. Good or bad, experience changes us.......

Author
Sandra L. Ceren

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples (New Horizons in Therapy)

b>Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide

• Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples
• Introspective quizzes expose more of couples¿ inner lives and past history to each other
• Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens.......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Repair for Kids: A Children's Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R is Recognition, Entry, Process, Awareness, Insight, and Rhythm

Enter a Six-Stage Program with your child to cross the Bridge of Recovery and make available a whole new world of hope:

• Uncover and acknowledge feelings by discovering emotion
• Build self-esteem and optimism with the "Magic Mirror".......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!

• Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
• Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.......

Author
Victor R. Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research and Results

What Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Does:
"When accessed with the specific cognitive imagery procedure of TIR, a primary traumatic incident can be stripped of its emotional charge permitting its embedded cognitive components to be revealed and restructured.......

Author
Barbara Sinor

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Gifts From The Child Within: Self-discovery and Self-recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy, 2nd Edition

Gifts From the Child Within brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson.......

Author
George W. Doherty

Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press

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Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers: An Introduction

This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. It helps prepare them to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. Warning signs and symptoms are explored together with stages, strategies and interventions for recovery.......

Author
Jim Burtles

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Coping with Crisis: A Counselor's Guide to the Restabilization Process

In the wake of a catastrophic event, the witness may discover or experience unsettling emotions which can trigger subsequent behaviors. These reactions can lead to a number of consequences, some of which are unproductive.
 

Restabilization is a practical means of addressing these reactions and the resultant issues.......

Author
Gloria Arenson, MFT

Publisher
Energy Psychology Press

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EFT for Procrastination

Break free from the guilt and shame of not doing what needs to be done! EFT can rapidly eliminate the fears that hold you back. In EFT for Procrastination, psychotherapist Gloria Arenson shows you the hidden programs that lie in your subconscious, sabotaging your best intentions.......

Author
Dawson Church, Ph.D.

Publisher
Elite Books

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The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention

Voted Best Health Book, USA Booknews National Awards.
Your genes don't control your health or happiness outcomes; in fact many of the choices you make turn genes on or off. Author Dawson Church applies the insights of the new field of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing.......

Author
Dorothea Hover-Kramer

Publisher
Energy Psychology Press

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Second Chance at Your Dream: Engaging Your Body's Energy Resources for Optimal Aging, Creativity and Health

This book provides a new template for the second half of life, one that it is bursting with energy, health, power, creativity and new beginnings. Rather than settling for less than our dreams, it fills us with the expectation that this period is our second chance to do, and to be, all the things we've ever dreamed of-and more!This is the first book to apply the breakthroug.......

Author
John James, PhD

Publisher
Elite Books

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The Great Field: Soul at Play in the Conscious Universe

Therapist John James, PhD, draws on nearly twenty years of therapeutic practice to present elegant and sometimes startling conclusions about the nature of the universe and its implications for the human experience.......

Author
Sheila Sidney, Ph.D. Bender

Publisher
Elite Books

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The Energy of Belief: Psychology's Power Tools to Focus Intention and Release Blocking Beliefs

Change is hard. Beliefs, thoughts and behaviors often continue as if they have a life of their own, and trying and talking--despite the best intentions--often don't seem to help. Many people spend years in psychotherapy without making a dent in their issues, but now a growing body of doctors, nurses, psychologists, and social workers are discovering that there are remarkab.......

Author
Dr. Robin Kelly

Publisher
Elite Books

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The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells

One of the great mysteries of biology is how the cells in our bodies can act in perfect synchronization. Simply raising your arm requires the coordination of billions of cells. How do so many cells communicate simultaneously and rapidly, to allow the body to act in such exquisite harmony?

In The Human Antenna, London-trained physician Dr.......

Author
Stephanie Marohn

Publisher
Elite Books

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Audacious Aging: Eldership As a Revolutionary Endeavor

A new generation is evolving together through the passage of eldership. In Audacious Aging, we collect their voices, full of wisdom, fierceness, compassion and gentleness. They are the graceful and eloquent transformative agents our communities and our planet are now seeking.......

Author
George W. Doherty, MS, LPC

Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press

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Taking Charge in Troubled Times: Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of major disasters, critical incidents and other events that have had major impacts on our world. The 2004 tsunami, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect millions of lives daily.......

Author
Niall McLaren M.D.

Publisher
Future Psychiatry Press

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Humanizing Madness: Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences

An application of the philosophy of science to psychiatry

Although it's been 140 years since Maudley's groundbreaking treatise, modern psychiatry is in a state of intellectual collapse.......

Author
Dillan Kane

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Thoughts: Life of a Suicide

The main intent of this book is for suicide prevention. It's story about my brother who committed suicide when he was sixteen and an assortment of suicides and attempts while working in the mental health system. One area of suicide prevention that is discussed is what happens to a suicidal person, if there was such a thing as an afterlife.......

Author
Marian K. Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology (Explorations in Metapsychology)

Metapsychology, as developed by Frank A. Gerbode, MD, is a subject rich in philosophy and practical application. Much of Applied Metapsychology makes use of one-on-one session work to achieve the individual's personal goals -- from relieving past pain to living more fully to expanding consciousness.......

Author
Marian K. Volkman (Ed.)

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction: Creative and Cognitive Approaches (TIR Applications Series)

What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late?

We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health:

• Physical impacts are stored in muscles and posture
• Threats of harm are stored as tension
• Overwhelming emotion is held inside.......

Author
Rick Ritter

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Workbook (New Horizons in Therapy)

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from ten years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, parap.......

Author
Frank A. Gerbode

Publisher
Inst for Research in Metapsychology

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Beyond Psychology: An Introduction to Metapsychology, 3rd Edition

This book lays the foundation for a way of helping another person to improve rapidly and profoundly the quality of her life. This approach is unique in that it is both directive and non-judgmental. It provides guidance, yet allows the person being helped to reach her own understandings and make her own judgments without receiving interpretations, approval, or disapproval.......

Author
Grant J. Hallstrom

Publisher
ClearStone Publishing

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Emotional Black Holes

Shhhh, Listen! Do you hear that vacuum sucking people down? A severely depressed 16-year-old youth broadcasts his suicide on a webcam via the internet, in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers; a third grade elementary school child shoots a parent in cold blood; a public servant is arrested for lewd conduct and solicitation of a gay sexual encounter in a public re.......

Author
Charles Lawrence Allen

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Why Good People Make Bad Choices: How You Can Develop Peace Of Mind Through Integrity (New Horizons in Therapy Series)

Suppose that four simple instinctual directives helped to bring about the survival of the human species. While good for survival purposes, those directives have also been at the heart of most human problems.

Why Good People Make Bad Choices takes you on a journey of self-discovery by way of new insights about the human condition.......

Author
Victor R. Volkman (Ed.)

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Traumatic Incident Reduction and Critical Incident Stress Management: A Synergistic Approach (TIR Applications)

From the Foreword:
TIR offers an opportunity for the members of a CISM team to deal with any accumulated emotional baggage that their involvement in crisis-intervention has created. Training in TIR adds another tool to the toolkit of crisis-intervention techniques and enables peer-support to ad-dress an extended range of crisis-reactions, even those that might.......

Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children

Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery

Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result.......

Author
Rue Hass

Publisher
Energy Psychology Press

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EFT for the Highly Sensitive Temperament (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques)

Are you very sensitive to your own feelings and the feelings of those around you? Do you get overwhelmed by external stimuli, such as crowds, loud sounds and hectic environments? Are you deeply affected by the beauty of art, literature, music and nature? Do you get stressed easily? Do you suffer from feelings of inadequacy and sadness? Do you always seek deep and meaningfu.......

Author
Niall McLaren M.D.

Publisher
Future Psychiatry Press

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Humanizing Psychiatry: The Biocognitive Model

Does psychiatry have a future?
Assailed from many directions, under constant attack for its reliance on "a drug for all problems" and increasingly unable to attract bright new trainees, the specialty is showing every sign of terminal decline.......

Author
George W. Doherty

Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press

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From Crisis to Recovery: Strategic Planning for Response, Resilience, and Recovery

Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready?

Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily.......

Author
Nikolai Shevchuk

Publisher
CreateSpace

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How to Become Smarter

This book describes techniques for improving mental abilities such as general intelligence, attention control and impulse control, speed of thinking, reading and writing performance as well as understanding and getting along with other people. Regulation of mood is also covered.......

Author
Albert Garoli

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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The Evolutionary Glitch: Rise Above the Root of Your Problems

Ever wonder what it is that keeps holding you back?

Deep within the constructs of your brain, a superimposed identity has been formed. This "glitch", embedded in your neural network through the evolution of brain development, is an acquired Persona which perpetuates itself by constantly creating problems and limitations in your life.......

Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery: Twenty True Stories from the Soul

Whether addicted or not, we all have stories to tell

The stories of tragedy and redemption found within Tales of Addiction are not about the well known celebrities you find in the usual tabloids. Rather, these stories are true-grit tales told by people you will never meet but whose words will haunt you for months, years maybe.......

Author
Jason Harvey

Publisher
Amazing Life Press

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Achieve Anything In Just One Year: Be Inspired Daily to Live Your Dreams and Accomplish Your Goals

This is a self improvement, motivational and personal development book that is designed to be read on a daily basis. One page a day for one year. Each page starts with an inspirational quote, followed by a discussion of that day's topic, and ends with a task or an assignment for the reader to follow.......

Author
George W. Doherty

Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press

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Being There When It Counts: The Proceedings of the 8th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Will You Be There When it Counts?
"Being There When It Counts" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before, during and following disasters, critical incidents, crises, and terrorist activities.......

Author
Marj Frazer Lacey, MS, MFT

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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It's Not a Life Sentence:Liberating Your Self, Becoming Who You Are

Reconnect with your joyous, genuine self. Become whole! Discover your personal truth and take charge of your life with the help of a warm, insightful therapist.

Author
Robert P. Rugel

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Taming Marital Arguments: Breaking Out of the T.R.A.P.

What happened since the honeymoon?

• Are you mad at your partner all the time?
• Do you feel like your partner is selfish?
• Do innocent conversations suddenly escalate into arguments?
• Does your partner misinterpret what you say?.......

Author
Dennis Garlick

Publisher
Aesop Press

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Intelligence and the Brain: Solving the Mystery of Why People Differ in IQ and How a Child Can Be a Genius

Presenting a breakthrough new explanation of human intelligence-one rigorously based on the latest scientific discoveries-this book turns the corner and finally provides a resolution to the hot debate over intelligence.......