5 must-read counselling books like When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within by Matthew McKay

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When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

By: Matthew McKay

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A major revision of the best-selling classic — a quarter of a million copies sold. This new edition…

"Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you even angrier and solidifies an angry attitude."

-Matthew McKay, When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

If you liked the counselling plot in When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within by Matthew McKay , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France

By: Eric Jager

3.97

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France as a resolute knight defe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

By: Gregory Boyle

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If you can't fix it, feature it."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

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3. The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

By: Harriet Lerner

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Dance of Intimacy,the bestselling author of The Dance of Angeroutlines the steps to take so … read more

Similar categories in Harriet Lerner's The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships book and Matthew McKay's When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. 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

Similar categories in Carl R. Rogers's On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy book and Matthew McKay's When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

5. The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

By: Lee Child

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: … read more

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6. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By: Kim Malone Scott

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more

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7. 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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  • counselling
  • 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

8. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

By: Dale Carnegie

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Learn how to break the worry habit -- Now and forever! With Dale Carnegie's timeless advice in hand… read more

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9. 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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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • 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

10. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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11. You Can Heal Your Life

By: Louise L. Hay

3.92

Format: 594 pages,

Louise's key message in this powerful work is: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost any… read more

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12. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more

Similar categories in Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha book and Matthew McKay's When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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13. 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
  • self help
"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

Cover of ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell

14. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

By: Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel

15. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

By: Daniel J. Siegel

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts by Jennie Allen

16. Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

By: Jennie Allen

4.08

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

You can choose hope in the midst of chaos. The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering cha… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

17. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

18. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

By: Melody Beattie

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"We work it out, or live it out."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

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19. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

By: Jen Gunter

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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20. When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

By: Matthew McKay

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A major revision of the best-selling classic — a quarter of a million copies sold. This new edition… read more

Similar categories in Matthew McKay's When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within book and Matthew McKay's When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you eve…"

-Matthew McKay, When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within

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Transform Your Habits

The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France

Eric Jager

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Gregory Boyle

4.48

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The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

Harriet Lerner

3.94

Transform Your Habits

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer

4.35

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

Mark Wolynn

3.55

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

Emily Nagoski

4.29

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

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Bruce D. Perry

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