7 must-read mental health books like Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten by Dr. L.

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Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

By: Dr. L.

4.20

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Living with limerence is a guide for coping with unwanted infatuation.  In the 1970s, psychologist…

If you liked the mental health plot in Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten by Dr. L. , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 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 Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • 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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2. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

By: Dorothy Tennov

3.94

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Author Dorothy Tennov, Ph.D., on Love and Limerence: It was over 35 years ago that, having becom… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Tennov's Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • love
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Those without personal knowledge of limerence explained the strange actions of limerents as the results of romantic, imaginative, fantasy. They called it storybook-like, unreal, romantic, the product…"

-Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

"One non-limerent, on learning of limerence theory, felt that the pain of limerence may be great but that it should not be forgotten that non-limerents hurt, too. He expressed his feelings in a poem a…"

-Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

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3. Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

By: Lori Gottlieb

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

The controversial national bestseller! Nearly forty and single, Lori Gottlieb faced the unthinkabl… read more

Similar categories in Lori Gottlieb's Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

By: Mark Manson

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Models is the first book ever written on seduction as an emotional process rather than a logical on… read more

Similar categories in Mark Manson's Models: Attract Women Through Honesty book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Gillette's King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

6. 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

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7. The Empowered Wife: Six Surprising Secrets for Attracting Your Husband s Time, Attention, and Affection

By: None

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

Can a wife single-handedly bring a boring or broken marriage back to life? This improved and expand… read more

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8. F*CK Him! - Nice Girls Always Finish Single - "A guide for sassy women who want to get back in control of their love life"

By: None , Brian Nox

4.50

Format: 60 pages,

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9. Adult Children of Alcoholics

By: Janet Geringer Woititz

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Chi… read more

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10. Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

By: Carolyn Elliott

3.86

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A smart, sexy guide to embracing the repressed, tabooed, and often unwanted aspects of ourselves so… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Elliott's Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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11. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

By: Melody Beattie

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more

Similar categories in Melody Beattie's Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"We work it out, or live it out."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

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12. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

Similar categories in Ramani Durvasula's It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

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13. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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14. The Pivot Year

By: Brianna Wiest

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Perfect Paperback

This is the year you change your life. If you’re in a pivot period—if you’re still bridging the … read more

Similar categories in Brianna Wiest's The Pivot Year book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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15. Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What)

By: Matthew Hussey

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Love Life, relationship coach and expert Matthew Hussey explores the most important and foundati… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Hussey's Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What) book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • love
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Attention is not intention."

-Matthew Hussey, Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What)

"In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person."

-Matthew Hussey, Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What)

"Don’t invest in someone based on how much you like them, invest in someone based on how much they invest in you."

-Matthew Hussey, Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What)

"The love of your life can only ever be the person who chooses you for their life. It can never be the person who doesn’t choose you."

-Matthew Hussey, Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What)

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16. Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life

By: Karen Gurney

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

'This book taught me so much about female desire. A must read!' Cherry HealeyDid you know that ther… read more

Similar categories in Karen Gurney's Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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17. Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

By: Dr. L.

4.20

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Living with limerence is a guide for coping with unwanted infatuation.  In the 1970s, psychologist… read more

Similar categories in Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • love
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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18. Twenty Disastrous Limerence Errors: & Exactly How to Avoid Them (Limerence Recovery Book 2)

By: Lucy Bain

4.43

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you trying your hardest to recover from unrequited love, but feel trapped in an irrational, dep… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Bain's Twenty Disastrous Limerence Errors: & Exactly How to Avoid Them (Limerence Recovery Book 2) book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • psychology
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19. Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them

By: Lalalaletmeexplain

4.31

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Have you ever been on a disastrous date and vowed never to use apps again?Are you blaming yourself … read more

Similar categories in Lalalaletmeexplain's Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. The Limerent Mind: How to Permanently Beat Limerence and Shine (Limerence Recovery Book 1)

By: Lucy Bain

4.03

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a completely revamped, updated 2024 version of The Limerent Mind!When I started this projec… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Bain's The Limerent Mind: How to Permanently Beat Limerence and Shine (Limerence Recovery Book 1) book and Dr. L.'s Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten

  • relationships
  • love
  • psychology
  • self help
"The last thing that I want you to do is to think that you need to become someone more 'conventional', emotionally-flat and unreactive, because this is a). impossible (suppression never equals healing…"

-Lucy Bain, The Limerent Mind: How to Permanently Beat Limerence and Shine (Limerence Recovery Book 1)

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21. How to Break Up with Limerence & Romantic Obsession: & Start Attracting Healthy Romantic Relationships

By: S.A. Alonso

4.60

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Is intense infatuation, or limerence, disrupting your life and causing emotional distress? Obsessed… read more

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8 must-read philosophy books like Living with limerence: A guide for the smitten by Dr. L.

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Healing the Shame that Binds You

John Bradshaw

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

Dorothy Tennov

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

Mark Manson

3.67

Transform Your Habits

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

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12 Best audiobook books like Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

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The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Brené Brown

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

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