10 must-read self help books like Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment & Loss #2) by John Bowlby

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Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment & Loss #2)

By: John Bowlby

4.26

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Dr. Bowlby's second pioneering volume examines the effect of separation on the development of the c…

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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

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • 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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2. Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
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3. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

By: Lawrence Durrell

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more

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"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

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4. 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
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"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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5. Jitterbug Perfume

By: Tom Robbins

4.23

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and does… read more

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"All dreams continue in the beyond."

-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men."

-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets."

-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."

-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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6. Grit

By: Angela Duckworth

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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7. When Nietzsche Wept

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

A richly evocative novel set in 19th-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis. The … read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
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8. Istanbul: Memories and the City

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Jeffrey Young , Wendy T. Behary

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Do you know someone who is overly arrogant, shows an extreme lack of empathy, or exhibits an inflat… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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10. The Collector

By: John Fowles

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obse… read more

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11. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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12. Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

By: Maya Angelou

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verse… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self

By: Anodea Judith

4.67

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In EASTERN BODY, WESTERN MIND, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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14. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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  • philosophy
"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

15. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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16. A Life of One's Own

By: Marion Milner , Joanna Field

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

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17. The Course of Love

By: Alain de Botton

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An engrossing tale that provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this p… read more

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

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

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  • parenting
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

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

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

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

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

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

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

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

20. 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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21. 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
  • self help
"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

22. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… 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. Cat's Eye

By: Margaret Atwood

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city… read more

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25. 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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26. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

By: Steven Pinker

4.20

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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27. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jessica Bruder

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more

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  • nonfiction
"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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28. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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29. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • self help
"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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30. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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31. Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment & Loss #2)

By: John Bowlby

4.26

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Dr. Bowlby's second pioneering volume examines the effect of separation on the development of the c… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • counselling
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help

8 Best philosophy books like Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment & Loss #2) by John Bowlby

Transform Your Habits

Healing the Shame that Binds You

John Bradshaw

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

Irvin D. Yalom

4.19

Transform Your Habits

When Nietzsche Wept

Irvin D. Yalom

4.09

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

3.79

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Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

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

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

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

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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