17 must-read self help books like Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy by Carolyn Spring

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Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

By: Carolyn Spring

4.61

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

A book for psychotherapists and their clients - and for anyone who wants to make the journey from s…

If you liked the self help plot in Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy by Carolyn Spring , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

By: Susan Forward , Donna Frazier

4.23

Format: 304 pages, ebook

With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the sma… read more

Similar categories in Susan Forward's Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Criticism is the fountainhead of control."

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

"Charlene had controlled Karen for so long, she had every reason to believe her daughter would buckle, that she'd never have to follow through on her threats."

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

"...many daughters may never have given themselves permission to even 'consider' changing the relationship with their mothers, because they didn't think they had the right to do it."

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

"The healing process kicks into gear with with the words "This is what you did to me." That statement is not gentle or polite; it's absolutely direct. In fact, I know that seeing it might feel like a …"

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

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2. Healing the Shame that Binds You

By: John Bradshaw

4.09

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I dran… read more

Similar categories in John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame that Binds You book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

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3. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

By: John Bradshaw

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Using a wealth of practical techniques, informative case histories and unique questionnaires, John … read more

Similar categories in John Bradshaw's Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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4. Counselling for Toads

By: Kenneth Grahame , Robert De Board

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translated into seven languages! For over 25 years Counsel… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Grahame's Counselling for Toads book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

By: Alice Miller , None

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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6. Dibs in Search of Self

By: Virginia M. Axline

4.32

Format: 285 pages,

A child therapy classic. Dibs will not talk. He will not play. He has locked himself in a very spec… read more

Similar categories in Virginia M. Axline's Dibs in Search of Self book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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7. The Case Against Sugar

By: Gary Taubes

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Audio CD

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat,a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the … read more

Similar categories in Gary Taubes's The Case Against Sugar book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • nonfiction
  • self help

8. I'm OK - You're OK

By: Thomas A. Harris , میلاد فتوحی

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

An enormously popular (7-million copies sold) and insightful classic of popular psychology based on… read more

Similar categories in Thomas A. Harris's I'm OK - You're OK book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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9. The Skeleton Cupboard: Stories from a clinical psychologist

By: Tanya Byron

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psy… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Byron's The Skeleton Cupboard: Stories from a clinical psychologist book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss

10. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

By: Neil Strauss

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in… read more

Similar categories in Neil Strauss's The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom, Nicola Ferguson

11. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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Similar categories in Irvin D. Yalom's The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

12. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

By: Michael Moss

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500… read more

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13. Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

By: Sue Gerhardt

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, pa… read more

Similar categories in Sue Gerhardt's Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

14. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

Similar categories in Pete Walker's Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

15. Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

By: Onno van der Hart , None , None

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short ed… read more

Similar categories in Onno van der Hart's Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

16. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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17. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sunis a profoundly encouragin… read more

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18. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Bruce D. Perry

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more

Similar categories in Bruce D. Perry's What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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19. A Matter of Death and Life

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.41

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, … read more

Similar categories in Irvin D. Yalom's A Matter of Death and Life book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"My work is to live before I die."

-Irvin D. Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life

"У житті людини важливі три речі. Перша — бути добрим. Друга — бути добрим. І третя — бути добрим"

-Irvin D. Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life

"What Matters to Me" 1. What matters to me is my family and close friends. In this way, I am like almost everyone else in the world. 2. What matters to me is my work, no longer as a professor, but as …"

-Irvin D. Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life

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20. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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21. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • nonfiction
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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22. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

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23. On Self-Hatred: Learning to like oneself

By: The School of Life

4.33

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life.Behind many of our problems lies… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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24. Dark Rooms (Tennison, #8)

By: Lynda La Plante

3.97

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors which once occurred in her family's house… read more

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Cover of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

25. Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

By: Janina Fisher

4.53

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understan… read more

Similar categories in Janina Fisher's Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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26. Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach

By: Patricia A. DeYoung

4.59

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensiv… read more

Similar categories in Patricia A. DeYoung's Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy by Carolyn Spring

27. Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

By: Carolyn Spring

4.61

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

A book for psychotherapists and their clients - and for anyone who wants to make the journey from s… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • memoir
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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28. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

Similar categories in Grace Dent's Hungry book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

Cover of This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry by Nathan Filer

29. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry

By: Nathan Filer

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley

30. Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

By: Elizabeth A. Stanley

4.10

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

"I don't think I've ever read a book that paints such a complex and accurate landscape of what it i… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma book and Carolyn Spring's Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

31. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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22 must-read nonfiction books like Unshame: Healing Trauma-Based Shame Through Psychotherapy by Carolyn Spring

Transform Your Habits

Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

Susan Forward , Donna Frazier

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Healing the Shame that Binds You

John Bradshaw

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

John Bradshaw

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Counselling for Toads

Kenneth Grahame , Robert De Board

4.29

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The 50th Law

Robert Greene , Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

4.17

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The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine

Rollo Tomassi

4.67

Transform Your Habits

The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

David Deida

5.00

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W. Anton

2.50

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