18 must-read nonfiction books like The Absent Father Effect on Daughters by Susan E. Schwartz

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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

By: Susan E. Schwartz

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Clinical Book…

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1. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

By: Slavenka Drakulić

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Hailed by feminists and scholars as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in r… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Humor is the only way to overcome depression"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

"Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

"Only when there is no privacy can there be total control"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

"How could you forget something you never learned or had?!"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

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2. Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer

By: Dick Swaab

3.90

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were precede…"

-Dick Swaab, Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer

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3. The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

By: Linda Schierse Leonard

4.04

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

An invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and those of her clients,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"The healing for women is not to be found in the quicksand of blame. The attitude of blame might lock us forever into the roles of passive prisoners, victims who have not assumed responsibility for ou…"

-Linda Schierse Leonard, The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

"For many of these women, the root of their injury stems from a damaged relation with the father. They may have been wounded by a bad relation to their personal father, or wounded by the patriarchal s…"

-Linda Schierse Leonard, The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

"Whatever the case may be, if the father is not there for his daughter in a committed and responsible way, encouraging the development of her intellectual, professional, and spiritual side and valuing…"

-Linda Schierse Leonard, The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

"The father-daughter wound is not only an event happening in the lives of individual women. It is a condition of our culture as well.² Whenever there is a patriarchal authoritarian attitude which deva…"

-Linda Schierse Leonard, The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

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4. Father-Daughter, Mother-Son: Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes That Bind Us

By: Verena Kast

4.04

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Verena Kast's ground-breaking book is the first modern analysis of the vast range of mother and fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. The Unavailable Father: Seven Ways Women Can Understand, Heal, and Cope with a Broken Father-Daughter Relationship

By: Sarah S. Rosenthal

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Strategies for overcoming a damaged father/daughter relationship Problems between fathers and daugh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • self help
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6. 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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  • personal development
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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7. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

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8. Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

By: Connie Zweig , Jeremiah Abrams

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author offers exploration of self and practical guidance dealing with the dark side of personal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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9. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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10. The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

By: Michael A. Singer

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes this thought-provokin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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11. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

By: Robin Norwood

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

This text is suitable for the reader for whom being in love means being in pain. Therapist Robin No… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help

12. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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13. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. The Beautiful and Damned

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more

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15. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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16. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

By: Gavin de Becker

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US's leading expert on vi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

17. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more

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18. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

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19. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

20. 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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21. 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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22. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more

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23. 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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24. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more

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25. The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

By: R.D. Laing

3.78

Format: None pages,

In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person wi… read more

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26. Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

By: Henry Cloud , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal pro… read more

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27. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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28. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

By: Michele Filgate

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"His hands are worms, my body dirt."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much…"

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

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29. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

By: Héctor García

3.72

Format: 208 pages, None

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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30. Surrounded by Narcissists: How to Effectively Recognize, Avoid, and Defend Yourself Against Toxic People (and Not Lose Your Mind)

By: Thomas Erikson

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Part of the bestselling Surrounded by Idiots series! Internationally bestselling author Thomas Eri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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31. The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

By: Susan E. Schwartz

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Clinical Book… read more

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  • personal development
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help

11 must-read self help books like The Absent Father Effect on Daughters by Susan E. Schwartz

Transform Your Habits

The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

Linda Schierse Leonard

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Unavailable Father: Seven Ways Women Can Understand, Heal, and Cope with a Broken Father-Daughter Relationship

Sarah S. Rosenthal

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller , None

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

Connie Zweig , Jeremiah Abrams

4.04

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6 Top novella books like The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

Transform Your Habits

The Invention of Morel

Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Transform Your Habits

My Death

Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Membranes

Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman

3.88

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