6 must-read grad school books like Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases by Richard S. Sharf

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Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases

By: Richard S. Sharf

3.82

Format: 658 pages, Hardcover

This comprehensive and insightful text will provide you a thorough overview of the theories of psyc…

If you liked the grad school plot in Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases by Richard S. Sharf , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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2. 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

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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3. The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals

By: Patricia C. Broderick , Pamela Blewitt

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This textbook provides an in-depth look at the science of human development and how it applies to c… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • textbooks

4. Rebecca

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.93

Format: 245 pages, ebook

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our hero… read more

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5. 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
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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6. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

7. 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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8. Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

By: Deborah Anna Luepnitz

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy… read more

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9. Career Counseling: A Holistic Approach

By: None

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Providing the most current, comprehensive coverage available, CAREER COUNSELING: A HOLISTIC APPROAC… read more

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10. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

By: Nancy McWilliams

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Addressing the art and science of psychodynamic treatment, Nancy McWilliams distills the essential … read more

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11. Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice

By: David Sue , Derald Wing Sue

3.89

Format: None pages,

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12. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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13. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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14. Bridge to Terabithia

By: Katherine Paterson

4.05

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine… read more

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"Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned."

-Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open."

-Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

"It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you."

-Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

"You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like."

-Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

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15. The Cabin at the End of the World

By: Paul Tremblay

3.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet N… read more

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"Too many people have smiles that don’t mean what a smile is supposed to mean."

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

"She juts out her lower jaw, a purposeful imitation of Daddy Eric when she asks him a question with an answer that isn't yes right away, but will be yes eventually if she waits long enough."

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

"No matter how bleak or dire, end-of-the-world scenarios appeal to us because we take meaning from the end... there's also undeniable allure to witnessing the beginning of the end and perishing alone …"

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

"They share another long look. This one is reserved for ill-fated observers in the moments before impending, inescapable calamity, whether it be natural disaster or violent failure of humanity; a look…"

-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

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16. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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17. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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18. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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19. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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20. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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21. Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

By: Scott Erickson

4.48

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In a world that's difficult to make sense of, and a season that's so often overtaken by consumerism… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

By: Hilary Jacobs Hendel

4.22

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiet… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"healing is not just a desired outcome of treatment, it is a potential that is there from the start. We are wired to heal, to right ourselves, to grow and transform. This is not just a metaphor. It is…"

-Hilary Jacobs Hendel, It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

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23. The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping

By: Gerard Egan

3.84

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approa… read more

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  • counselling
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  • textbooks
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24. Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession

By: Samuel T. Gladding

3.59

Format: 583 pages, Paperback

The sixth edition of Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, likes it predecessors, covers every ma… read more

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25. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision Dsm-5-tr

By: American Psychiatric Association

4.11

Format: 3928 pages, Kindle Edition

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR),… read more

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26. The Counselor and the Law: A Guide to Legal and Ethical Practice

By: Anne Marie Wheeler

3.84

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Book by Anne Marie Wheeler, Burt Bertram read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
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27. Group Techniques (Group Counseling)

By: Gerald Corey

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Far more than a recipe book of techniques that readers can pull out at the right time, this book en… read more

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28. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling (3rd Edition)

By: Theodore P. Remley Jr.

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Counseling Ethics, Legal Issues in Counseling; a suppleme… read more

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29. Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases

By: Richard S. Sharf

3.82

Format: 658 pages, Hardcover

This comprehensive and insightful text will provide you a thorough overview of the theories of psyc… read more

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20 Best nonfiction books like Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases by Richard S. Sharf

Transform Your Habits

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Dibs in Search of Self

Virginia M. Axline

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals

Patricia C. Broderick , Pamela Blewitt

5.00

Transform Your Habits

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

Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

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Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

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Ann Napolitano

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