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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

by Ethan Watters

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling...


The Crashing Ego

by Edward Schiff

Book Synopsis: A person's ego has been known to be a powerful driving force, but did you know that it has also been linked to bipolar disorder? --- By gaining insight into bipolar thinking and its connection...


Healing the Addictive Personality: Freeing Yourself from Addictive Patterns and Relationships

by Lee L. Jampolsky

Since 1991, Dr. Lee Jampolsky's self-help classic Healing the Addictive Mind has given well over 100,000 people around the world the tools to create significant change in their lives. Now he continues his proven...


The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

by Simon Baron-Cohen

A pathbreaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for our psychological understanding of evil.


The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar

by Terri Cheney

“Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable.”

As a young girl, Terri Cheney’s life looked perfect. Her family lived in a lovely house...


Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son's Story

by Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn

On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton, England, and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway...


The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child: A Survival Guide for Parents

by Judith Lederman & Candida Fink

HELP IS HERE

Bipolar disorder has recently been identified as one of the most misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions affecting children -- and it is dramatically on the rise. The Ups and Downs of Raising...


Sorrow's Web: Overcoming the Legacy of maternal Depression

by Anne Sheffield

Drawing on her experience of growing up with a depressed mother and then, years later, of becoming a depressed mother herself, Books for a Better Life winner Anne Sheffield casts long-overdue light on the grave...


Psychology Today: Taming Bipolar Disorder

by Lori Oliwenstein

Bipolar disorder is about the wildest of euphorias and the deepest of depressions. Now, Alpha Books and Psychology Today present all the information, guidance, and support people with bipolar disorder-and their...


Eden Express

by Mark Md Vonnegut

"Most diseases can be separated from one’s self ... schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. As a recent college...


Conversations with Anorexics: Compassionate and Hopeful Journey through the Therapeutic Process

by Hilde Bruch, Danita Czyzewski & Melanie A. Suhr

From Publisher's Weekly: This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia....


The Twelve Steps And Dual Disorders: A Framework Of Recovery For Those Of Us With Addiction & An Emotional Or Psychiatric Illness

by Tim Hamilton & Pat Samples

With compassion and encouragement, this book helps us to begin and strengthen our recovery from our addictions and emotional or psychiatric illnesses. A gentle, spiritual and supportive approach to bolster our...


The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project

by Murray Bowen, Jack Butler & Joanne Bowen

This book presents original papers from Bowen's NIMH Family Study Project with commentaries concerning the origins and developments of family psychotherapy and the beginnings of a new type of therapeutic relationship....


The Dual Disorders Recovery Book: A Twelve Step Program for Those of Us with Addiction and an Emotional or Psychiatric Illness

by Anonymous

This compelling book The Dual Disorders Recovery Book, written for those of us with an addiction and a psychiatric illness, provides a source of information and support throughout our recovery. Personal stories...


A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness

by Tom Davis

The story of a loving family coming to grips with its own fragilities, A Legacy of Madness relays the author's journey to uncover, and ultimately understand, the history of mental illness that led generations...


Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of Choice

by Bertram P. Karon & Gary R. VandenBos

An important new book which is a stunning attempt by two knowledgeable, persevering psychotherapists to present their understanding and sound therapeutic approach to dealing with the difficulties and challenges...


Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions: Schizophrenia and Severe Character Disorders

by Hyman Spotnitz

In Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions, Hyman Spotnitz and his contributors demonstrate how to develop and use emotional interchange that fosters a climate of increasing emotional complexity and facilitates...


Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social

by Majia Holmer Nadesan

Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago the term did not exist. This book examines the historical and social events that enabled autism to be...


Wrestling with Our Inner Angels: Faith, Mental Illness, and the Journey to Wholeness

by Nancy Kehoe

Wrestling with Our Inner Angels is Nancy Kehoe’s compelling, intimate, and moving story of how she brought her background as a psychologist and a nun in the Religious of the Sacred Heart to bear in the groups...


How We Got Barb Back: The Story of My Sister's Reawakening from 30 Years of Schizophrenia

by Margaret Hawkins & Carolyn S. Spiro

Margaret Hawkins spent her girlhood dazzled by her vivacious, high-achieving sister, Barb. Younger than Barb by eleven years, Margaret saw her sister as the star of her family. And no wonder. Barb's high school...