Recommendations by topic

We are happy to provide recommendations of books, articles, and other resources we have found helpful, thought-provoking, or inspiring.  While many are related to therapy, some have to do with life changes, personal growth, and emotional development.  Feel free to explore and click on various materials and don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to start a conversation about anything you come across.

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Psychotherapy & Emotional Development
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• Thinking of the Unconscious as "Mental Maps" - Tyson Davis (Glen Forest Blog)
• Attachment (Part 1): how our past affects our present - Tyson Davis (Glen Forest Blog)
• Attachment (Part 2): understanding the root of problems in relationships - Tyson Davis (Glen Forest Blog) 
• How Psychotherapy Really Works: How it works when it works and why sometimes it doesn't (book) - Willard Gaylin 
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner's guide (book) - Nancy McWilliams (academic audience)
• Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process (book) - Nancy McWilliams (academic audience)
• Attachment in Psychotherapy (book) - David Wallin
• Getting to Know Me (article) - Jonathan Shedler
• The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (article) - Jonathan Shedler
• Still Face Experiment (video) - research by Harvard trauma researcher Edward Tronick demonstrating negative impact of emotional neglect and trauma 

Personal Growth & Self-Understanding ​

• The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
• Necessary Losses: The loves, illusions, dependencies, and impossible expectations that all of us have to give up in order to grow - Judith Viorst
• The Art of Loving; Escape from Freedom; The Heart of Man (books) -  Erich Fromm
• The Art of Noticing - Rob Walker
• 16Personalities (online test) - Online personality questionnaire based on Myers-Briggs personality test, originally informed by the work of psychoanalyst Carl Jung

Marriage and Relationship Issues
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• Hold Me Tight: Seven conversations for a lifetime of love - Sue Johnson
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman & Nan Silver
• The Science of Trust: Emotional attunement for couples - John Gottman
• After the Affair: Healing the pain and rebuilding trust when a partner has been unfaithful - Janis Abrahms Spring
• Boundaries in Marriage - Henry Cloud & John Townsend
• Passionate Marriage: keeping love and intimacy alive in intimate relationships - David Schnarch

Families & Parenting

• Parenting From the Inside Out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive (book) - Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell
• Parenting with Love and Logic (book) - Foster Cline & Jim Fay
• The Child, the Family, and the Outside World (book) - D.W. Winnicott