7 best-selling nonfiction books like The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the "Love Lab" by John M. Gottman

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The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the "Love Lab"

By: John M. Gottman

4.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

John and Julie Gottman, world-renowned for bringing an evidence base to couples therapy, report her…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the "Love Lab" by John M. Gottman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more

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"My sister Susan,"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

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2. The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe about Ourselves

By: Curt Thompson

3.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hearts & Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Applied Theology, Basic Christian Living, Whole Life… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

3. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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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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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"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. Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

By: Harville Hendrix , Stan Tatkin

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

""What the heck is my partner thinking?"" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with g… read more

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6. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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8. The Screwtape Letters

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s T… read more

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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

9. Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The publication of Creatures of a Dayis reason to celebrate." --Steven Pinker In this stunning col… read more

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10. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

11. The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection

By: Sue Johnson

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its original publication in 1996, this volume has been a helpful guide to therapists in the p… read more

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12. 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
"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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13. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. 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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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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15. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

By: Lori Gottlieb

4.38

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorro…"

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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16. Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

By: Lee Williams

4.13

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitione… read more

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  • grad school
  • psychology
Cover of The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the "Love Lab" by John M. Gottman

17. The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the "Love Lab"

By: John M. Gottman

4.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

John and Julie Gottman, world-renowned for bringing an evidence base to couples therapy, report her… read more

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  • relationships
  • medicine
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • grad school
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • science

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