The Latest Therapy Titles at Your Fingertips

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Try to See It My Way:
Being Fair in Love and Marriage

by B. Janet Hibbs, PhD with Karen Getzen, PhD
Intuitively we think we know what’s fair, but partners often disagree. Dr. Hibbs reveals how fairness is both innate yet powerfully shaped by familial expectations and experiences. This innovative book for therapists and client recommendation goes beyond communication and even your own beliefs, to a groundbreaking understanding for healthier relationships. www.trytoseeitmyway.com

The Radical Acceptance of Everything: Living a
Focusing Life

by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
Radical acceptance of whatever arises in inner process leads to transformative shifts – provided that the acceptance comes from Self-in-Presence. Includes: facilitating clients to be with their most difficult emotions, a new take on the inner critic, and the art of facilitative language. From a 38-year practitioner of the Focusing process. www.focusingresources.com

Why, Mommy, Why? Dissociative Identity Disorder

by Jody Thomas
Share in the joy of Jody’s provocative journey of recovery from childhood abuse. Frequent hospitalizations, suicide attempts, cognitive therapy and harrowing childhood memories are brought to life in stunningly vivid and honest prose. Jody Thomas’ autobiography is a story of survival and success, leading to many tears, and finally, joy. Publlsher: GreenEffectMedia. www.WhyMommyDID.com

Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the
Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence

by Laury Rappaport
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy eloquently describes Gendlin’s Focusing in a manner that is easily grasped while demonstrating how to combine it with art therapy. Integrating theory, clinical practice and 45 guided Focusing Arts exercises, this book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. www.focusingarts.com

Integrating Experiential and Brief Therapy

by Bala Jaison, PhD
Brief or deep? Demonstrating an innovative approach for integrating Solution Oriented and Focusing Oriented Therapy (SOFT), this book provides hands-on tools to naturally weave the best of both the Brief and Experiential traditions. The numerous case examples spark the imagination showing how to combine, harmonize and facilitate change - both deeply and briefly. www.focusing.org/iebtbook

Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships

by Geoffrey L. Greif
“[Greif] has written a wonderfully textured exploration of the diversity of men’s friendships through the lifespan… Highly recommended.”—Choice

Drawing on interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif provides an in-depth guide to male friendships and why they are vital to the health of individuals and communities. www.oup.com/us

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

by Eugene Gendlin, PhD
Presents Focusing-Oriented psychotherapy in great detail with many verbatim examples. It is helpful for both therapists and clients. The second half of the book discusses the integration of Focusing with many other therapy processes. The integration deepens each approach because it shows how to help the client access the level from which change comes, rather than being stuck in the dead ends of intellectualizing or drowning in emotions. www.focusing.org/fopbook

Limitless You

by Lee Gerdes
With the revolutionary brain conditioning technology, we can liberate ourselves from our limitations. As our emotions stabilize and mental acuity picks up, our health and physical wellbeing advance. By optimizing our brain, we optimize our entire life. We can at last be the limitless individuals we were born to be. www.BrainStateTech.com

Focusing with Children:  The Art of
Communicating with Children at School and at Home

by Marta Stapert and Erik Verliefde
Improvement in children’s behavior occurs naturally when they feel heard, and more, when they listen to what they feel bodily. This process is explained with many useful examples from the authors’ 20 years of experience. It includes both a structured approach for groups and many relaxed moments for ‘between’ times. www.focusing.org/fwcbook

The Forgotten Body: A Way of
Knowing and Understanding Self

by Elissa Cobb
One's body, once acknowledged and honored, becomes a wise and willing counsel on the path toward living a full, authentic life. This book is a "must read" written with passion, compassion and elegance for all those who seek a healthy transformative process that involves the wisdom of the body. Publisher: Satya House Publications. www.satyahouse.com

Loss, Trauma, and Resilience

by Pauline Boss
Boss presents guidelines for therapists based on groundbreaking work with families with physically missing (kidnapped, imprisoned, adoption, divorce, immigration, disasters) and psychologically missing (Alzheimer's and other dementias, traumatic brain injury, depression, chronic mental illness). Jargon free, useful ideas about unresolved grief, resilience, meaning, mastery, identity, ambivalence, attachment and finding hope. Norton (2006). www.ambiguousloss.com

Focusing

by Eugene Gendlin, PhD
This little book is considered a classic, having been in continuous print for 28 years. It is translated into 14 languages, most recently Chinese and Turkish. It explains Focusing in a way that makes it accessible to anyone and it includes many examples of people Focusing in different kinds of situations. This 2007 edition has an updated forward. www.focusing.org/fbook

The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer

by Campbell Purton
The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer sets a new standard as a succinct guide to Focusing and to Focusing-oriented theory and practice for everyone wanting an authoritative synopsis. Beginners will find the style companionable and reassuring, while more advanced readers will appreciate the incisive and authoritative writing with pointers for further reading and resources. www.focusing.org/focpbook

My Kids’ Skills Workbook

by Ben Furman, MD
A whole new way of helping children overcome emotional and behavioral problems. Children love it! A perfect tool for therapists working with children. Includes delightful illustrations, clear instructions, space for solving three problems and a form for the child to order the awesome free Kids’ Skills Master Certificate. www.kidsskills.org

Book 1: The Inner Dynamics of Coaching

by Marilyn Atkinson, PhD with Rae T. Chois
Book 1, the Art & Science of Coaching Series. Using Solution Focused and Ericksonian methodologies, this book shows the power of perspective in transformational conversations. By using these processes, you learn to connect with your beyond-conscious mind as a deep friend. You can help yourself and others clearly distinguish the nature of deeper knowing. www.Erickson.edu

Book 2: Step-by-Step Coaching

by Marilyn Atkinson, PhD with Rae T. Chois
Book 2, the Art & Science of Coaching Series. Following upon the theory and practice of Book 1, Step by Step Coaching is about the practice and methodologies of powerful coaching conversations. By linking the Heart and the Mind, you learn to fully generate flow conversations that vastly increase inspiration and empowerment. www.Erickson.edu

The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson, MD

by The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Press
Dr. Erickson added more cases to psychiatric literature than any therapist in history. This series of 19 volumes presents his groundbreaking studies. Only 500 copies of each volume are printed, featuring case binding in "Erickson Purple" with fine gold foil stamping featured on the spine and front cover. www.erickson-foundation.org/collectedworks

North Node Astrology: Rediscovering Your Life
Direction and Soul Purpose

by Elizabeth Spring, MA
Endorsed by Jungian author James Hollis and evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest, this book is a reference book as well as a collection of articles that shed light on unconscious motivation. An inspiring guide for transmuting the grace and grit of life into the gold of healing and personal success. www.elizabethspring.com

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