9 must-read self help books like Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety by Elinor Greenberg

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Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety

By: Elinor Greenberg

4.34

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations demystifies the diagnosis and treatment of perso…

If you liked the self help plot in Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety by Elinor Greenberg , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

By: Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the w… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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2. The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

By: Erin Meyer

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is the philosophy of low - context communication in a nutshell: Tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them ,then tell them what you’ve told them."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is where I learned the traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what y…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"You may find yourself reacting defensively when you hear what others have said about the culture you call your own. It isn't true: my culture is not a bit like that. At the risk of pouring oil on the…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

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3. 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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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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4. Sweetbitter

By: Stephanie Danler

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more

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5. Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

By: Caroline Myss

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to ener… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

6. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

By: Ethan Watters

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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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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  • mental illness
  • 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. The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

By: Kiera Van Gelder

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles wit… read more

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

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

10. 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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11. 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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12. The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

By: Esther Perel

3.75

Format: 263 pages, ebook

Iconic couples' therapist and bestselling author of Mating in CaptivityEsther Perel returns with a … read more

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13. 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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14. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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15. Le Consentement

By: Vanessa Springora

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Au milieu des années 1980, élevée par une mère divorcée, V. comble par la lecture le vide laissé pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Si las relaciones sexuales entre un adulto y un menor de quince años son ilegales, ¿por qué esa tolerancia cuando son obra del representante de una élite, un fotógrafo, un escritor, un cineasta o un …"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"No, ese hombre no albergaba los mejores sentimientos. Ese hombre no era bueno. Era lo que aprendemos a temer desde niños: un ogro. Nuestro amor era un sueño tan potente que nada, ni una sola de las p…"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"I would recall my mission in life - pleasuring men. That was my condition, my status. And so I would offer my services anew, with renewed zeal, and with a simulated conviction that I even managed to …"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"What he loved more than anything was making love. Who could blame him? When it came to sex, I oscillated between feeling all-powerful and completely apathetic. Sometimes I was filled with a feeling o…"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

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16. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

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"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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17. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"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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18. 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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19. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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20. The Beekeeper's Promise

By: Fiona Valpy

4.29

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château… read more

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"Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. 'Like a field of sunflowers'."

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

"her fingertips brushed his hand for a fleeting moment, a touch as gentle as the brush of a butterfly's wing"

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

"You smell of honey and sunshine. Even after all that. The darkness of this world can't dim the light that shines from you, Eliane."

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

"...It's an affirmation of life and hope, of courage and quiet strength, of the defiant joy that exists alongside the sadness and the fear."

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

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21. Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety

By: Elinor Greenberg

4.34

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations demystifies the diagnosis and treatment of perso… read more

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  • relationships
  • psychoanalysis
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • self help

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Transform Your Habits

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Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.12

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Erin Meyer

4.34

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

Alice Miller , None

4.12

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2.00

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Julianne MacLean

4.31

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Rhys Bowen

4.33

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Barbara Davis

4.28

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Barbara Davis

4.20

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