22 Best nonfiction books like The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients by Stefani Goerlich

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Similar categories in Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology
• sexuality

"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Similar categories in Randi Kreger's Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

"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

Similar categories in Dossie Easton's The New Topping Book book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• bdsm
• psychology
• sexuality

Similar categories in Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky's Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

Similar categories in Irvin D. Yalom's The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

Similar categories in Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology
• sexuality

"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

Similar categories in Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

Similar categories in Pete Walker's Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

"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

Similar categories in Kristin Neff's Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

Similar categories in Brené Brown's Rising Strong book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

Similar categories in Esther Perel's The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Eyes and the Impossible book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

Similar categories in Julie Schwartz Gottman's Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

Similar categories in Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

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• psychology

"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Similar categories in Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

"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

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology
• sexuality

"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

Similar categories in Nedra Glover Tawwab's Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

"Visit the past, but don't stay there."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

Similar categories in Melody Beattie's Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

"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

Similar categories in Nicole Arzt's Sometimes Therapy is Awkward book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

Similar categories in Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

"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

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

Similar categories in Deb Dana's The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

"The job of the autonomic nervous system is to ensure we survive in moments of danger and thrive in times of safety. Survival requires threat detection and the activation of a survival response. Thriv…"

-Deb Dana, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Similar categories in John M. Gottman's The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology

Similar categories in Jennifer Mullan's Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• social work
• psychology

Similar categories in Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• social work
• psychology
• nonfiction
• bdsm
• sexuality

Similar categories in Thomas F. Cash's The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) book and Stefani Goerlich's The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients

• nonfiction
• psychology