11 Top self help books like Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma by Babette Rothschild

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Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma

By: Babette Rothschild

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How empathy can jeopardize a therapist's well-being. Therapist burnout is a pressing issue, and sel…

If you liked the self help plot in Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma by Babette Rothschild , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

By: Alan W. Watts

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that … read more

Similar categories in Alan W. Watts's The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are book and Babette Rothschild's Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk

2. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

By: Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky , Connie Burk

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 by Moshe Kasher

3. Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

By: Moshe Kasher

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship

By: Richard C. Atkinson , Michael Kahn , None

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important aspect of the therapeutic process is the relationship between therapist … read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom, Nicola Ferguson

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
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

6. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

By: Kristin Neff

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more sel… read more

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7. 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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8. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

Cover of No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

9. 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

Similar categories in Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model book and Babette Rothschild's Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma

  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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10. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"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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11. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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12. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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13. Anchored

By: Deb Dana

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Discover your body’s neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation,… read more

Similar categories in Deb Dana's Anchored book and Babette Rothschild's Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. The Woman on the Ledge

By: Ruth Mancini

3.93

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more

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15. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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16. The Cuban Heiress

By: Chanel Cleeton

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip … read more

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17. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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18. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

By: Faith Jones

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People , TIME , USA Today , Real Si… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Happy & You Know It

By: Laura Hankin

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dark, witty page-turner set around a group of wealthy mothers and the young musician who takes a … read more

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"We are all so obsessed with protecting out child, aren't we?" "That's how we got into this mess in the first place. We want to paint a lovely picture that we hang over their window to block out how t…"

-Laura Hankin, Happy & You Know It

"Why was there no fucking TrueDaddy? The answer was clear. Because men wouldn't fall for it. Not that they were smarter- Amara firmly believed she could trounce the average man in a battle of wits- bu…"

-Laura Hankin, Happy & You Know It

Cover of The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series) by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez,

20. The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series)

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez,

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit. I… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma

By: Babette Rothschild

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How empathy can jeopardize a therapist's well-being. Therapist burnout is a pressing issue, and sel… read more

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  • unfinished
  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

15 Best nonfiction books like Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma by Babette Rothschild

Transform Your Habits

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan W. Watts

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky , Connie Burk

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

Moshe Kasher

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship

Richard C. Atkinson , Michael Kahn , None

4.06

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14 Best audiobook books like Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

4.55

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