5 Top counselling books like Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR by American Psychiatric Association

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

By: American Psychiatric Association

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of resear…

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1. The Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teac… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matt…"

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

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2. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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3. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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4. The Iliad/The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more

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5. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

By: American Psychiatric Association

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of resear… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • science
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6. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

By: Daniel Goleman

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels"

-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

"Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort"

-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

"[Sharmayne Williams:]...puoi avere tutte le emozioni possibili, ma non devi permettere che siano loro a manovrarti."

-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

"In the calculus of the heart it is the ratio of positive to negative emotions that determines the sense of well- being."

-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

7. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

By: Ethan Watters

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of e… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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8. 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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  • counselling
  • social work
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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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9. The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Molyn Leszcz

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

In this completely revised and updated fifth edition of group psychotherapy's standard text, Dr. Ya… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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10. The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

3.86

Format: 136 pages,

The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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11. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science

12. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more

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13. The Will to Power

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse in… read more

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14. The Satanic Bible

By: Anton Szandor LaVey

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Satanic Biblewas first published by Anton LaVey in 1969. It is a collection of essays, observat… read more

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15. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

By: Peter A. Levine , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more

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16. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

By: Philip G. Zimbardo

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Renowned social psychologist and creator of the "Stanford Prison Experiment," Philip Zimbardo explo… read more

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17. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more

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18. 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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19. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

4.19

Format: 45 pages,

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more

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20. Games People Play

By: Eric Berne

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback

We think we're relating to other people. Actually we're all playing games. Forty years ago, Games P… read more

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21. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

By: John Koenig

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more

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  • psychology
  • reference
"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

11 must-read nonfiction books like Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR by American Psychiatric Association

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The Sociopath Next Door

Martha Stout

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

American Psychiatric Association

3.87

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12 Top fiction books like The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox

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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Iliad/The Odyssey

Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

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