Resources to Support Your Mental Health
Tip Sheets(downloadable pdfs)
Thinking that Worsens Depression
Web resources
For children: thecircleofcalm.com
Recommended Books
General:
The Developing Mind, Dan Siegel, Guilford Press.
The Mindful Brain, Dan Siegel, Norton.
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John Ratey, Little,Brown & Co.
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, Steven Grosz, Norton.
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, Stuart Brown, Avery Books.
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry. Jeffrey Lieberman; Little, Brown & Co.
The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander, Penguin Books.
Finding Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Basic Books.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain, Broadway Paperbacks.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, Scribner.
Anxiety and Depression
The Feeling Good Handbook, David Burns, Plume.
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Steven Hayes, New Harbinger.
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Edward Bourne, New Harbinger.
Coping With Shame:
I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making The Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough.” Brene Brown, Gotham Books.
The Drama of the Gifted Child. Alice Miller, Basic Books.
Trauma:
It's Not You, It's What Happened To You, Christine A. Courtois, Telemachus Books
Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman. Basic Books.
The Trauma of Everyday Life, Mark Epstein, Penguin Press.
Getting Past Your Past, Francine Shapiro, Rodale Press.
Addiction/Recovery
Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy. Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Schwartzwelder,& Wilkie Wilson. Norton.
Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol. Patt Denning, Jeannie Little & Adina Glickman. Guilford Press.
Sexuality and Intimacy:
Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men, Ritch Savin-Williams, Harvard University Press.
Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy, Ken Page, Shambhala Publications.
Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance, Richard Isay, Pantheon.
Commitment and Healing: Gay men and the Need for Romantic Love, Richard Isay, Wiley and Sons.
Coming Out of Shame, Gershen Kaufman and Lev Raphael, Crown Publishing.
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, Esther Perel, Harper Collins.
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, Esther Perel, Harper Collins.