8 Best psychology books like Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques by John Sommers-Flanagan

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Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques

By: John Sommers-Flanagan

4.36

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive, in-depth exploration of the origins, contemporary developments, and applications t…

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1. Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Randi Kreger , Paul T. Mason

4.01

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder i… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over t…"

-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

"Children who experience abuse also learn to deny pain and chaos or accept them as normal and proper. They learn that their feelings were wrong or didn't matter. They learn to focus on immediate survi…"

-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

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2. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

By: Gavin de Becker

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US's leading expert on vi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

3. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

By: Anne Fadiman

3.91

Format: 2 pages,

Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more

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4. 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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  • psychology
"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

5. Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship

By: None

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her mood… read more

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6. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By: Eric Hoffer

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more

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7. Letters to a Young Therapist

By: Mary Pipher

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's "girl-poisoning culture," Reviving Ophelia,… read more

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8. 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

With 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do-Insight and Inspiration, Tom Butl… read more

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9. Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more

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10. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

By: Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her m… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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11. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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12. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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13. The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

By: Victoria Schwab

4.30

Format: 648 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and set in the … read more

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"A head gets lost, but a heart knows home."

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

"Is it possible to have a death wish when you know you cannot die?"

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

"Just because we do not carry on doesn't mean we haven't been. We live a life, we leave a legacy. But the river runs one way and we are carried on it."

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

"I always wanted one. I don't know why. It wasn't ego. Some women just want to see their own reflection. I wanted to know what it felt like. To make another person. And then, when she was here, I want…"

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

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14. 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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  • psychology
  • mental health
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15. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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  • psychology
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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16. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

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17. Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Practicing in Integrated Systems of Care

By: Lisa López Levers

3.38

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

This introductory textbook, written specifically for graduate students in clinical mental health co… read more

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18. Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques

By: John Sommers-Flanagan

4.36

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive, in-depth exploration of the origins, contemporary developments, and applications t… read more

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

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4.29

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Sloane Crosley

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