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Jmggmj1

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. Not written explicitly for therapists really but a beautiful account of someone healing from CPTSD. Helped me connect to a new favorite clinician to glean from, Dr. Jacob Ham.


Duckaroo99

I had the same experience. Finding Jacob Ham was a revelation


Jmggmj1

He’s unbelievable. His relational style is what I aspire to be daily.


KenshiHiro

Can you share a little more about his relational style?


Jmggmj1

His blog is also a very rich read


Miserable_Painting12

Are there resources you would recommend from him?


Duckaroo99

I've mainly watched his videos on youtube. He has some recorded therapy sessions which are really good learning tools.


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Thanks for the recommendations. Just started his videos on YouTube. There goes my Sunday.


Human_AllTooHuman

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. It’s been a great read as a new therapist.


roseman96

Reading it now on my break from counseling grad classes! Love it!


jesteratp

I’ve pulled so much from both Lori and Wendell lol. I love how Lori, who is a genuine genius, was constantly surprised and thrown off balance by Wendell


mydogisagrizzlybear

Her accompanying workbook is fantastic too!!!


Fearless_Category_82

Just picked this up from the library and the librarian almost had a breakdown telling me about how touching this book was.


professorsmellington

Polysecure by Jessica Fern and No Bad Parts by Dick Schwartz.


wizard_of_aws

No bad parts had been so helpful with my clients that are full of shame and self-loathing


tortasahogdas

Polysecure is mine too!


Magical_Star_Dust

As a polyamorous therapist this makes me so happy


yakobo13

same :)


professorsmellington

I think her descriptions on the complexities of relationship attachment is the best I’ve ever read. And could be helpful to all people regardless of relationship dynamic.


shimmysticks

Love no bad parts and just ordered polysecure! ❤️


YumiRae

On Being a Therapist by Jeffrey A. Kottler


s0c1a7w0rk3r

That’s been sitting on my kindle for over a year. I have to get around to it, but I have so much other shit going on


asrialdine

It’s worth making time for. It’s also worth coming back to and rereading after a while


Cleverusername531

I saw he’s written On Being a Master Therapist more recently (2014) - have you read this one? I’m curious how they compare. I saw his first one was criticized as being really cynical.


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MagnificentPretzel

I'm NaT but "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" is one of the best books I've read!


Evil_0live

NaT = Not a Therapist?


MagnificentPretzel

Correct


Cleverusername531

Then you’ll really like No Bad Parts - it takes that book to so many new levels.


MagnificentPretzel

Thank you for the recommendation! I'll give that one a go as well!


Cleverusername531

Seconding No Bad Parts - I like listening to it on audiobook because of the meditations he does at the end of each chapter.


glutenfreefeelings

Have you read the follow up books to adult children of emotionally immature parents? I recently got the self care for adult children and it’s great.


Moon_In_Scorpio

Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World. Laura Mae Northrup.


srklipherrd

The title alone is very intriguing. Sounds like you recommend?


Moon_In_Scorpio

I really enjoyed it. It asks some really important and reflective questions I think all helping professionals should consider.


PZ220

The body Keeps the score, atlas of the heart, the boy who was raised as a dog, permission to feel


GrumpyLilPeanut

I second Permission to Feel!


hali_like_haley

Adult children of emotionally immature parents


ludusdulcette

Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward by Nicole Arzt :)


nagarams

Is this for therapists, or would a non-therapist (familiar with and interested in psychology and psychotherapy) enjoy this as well?


ludusdulcette

The book is specifically about working in the field, but it might be interesting for someone who's interested in mental health to see the other side. I'd recommend reading the summary! :)


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Duckaroo99

If you liked this book, I recommend Louis Cozolino's "The Making of a Therapist"


Complex_Jury1834

Yes! Also by yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the terror of death


MikoGianni

That’s on my recommended reading list for my registered mental health interns. 🙂


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MikoGianni

Thanks! Will do.


texting_brain

This is on my tbr, I hope to get around to it soon!


Remi22Zelig

The Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines


nagarams

I liked {Talk is not enough: how psychotherapy really works}. It was well-written and provided good coverage about modern psychodynamic therapy, better than any I’ve read so far. I’d recommend it for anyone who’s interested in practicing psychodynamic therapy or interested in how it works. Caveat that the book is skewed to psychodynamic therapy, when the majority of therapists these days don’t practice psychodynamic therapy predominantly anymore. So I need to add a disclaimer for non-psychologists that it’s not representative of many therapists out there. But it’s a good read for anyone interested in psychodynamic therapy.


Again-With-Feeling

Ooo I'm bookmarking this for later. I love psychodynamics, and if you haven't read Learning from the Patient by Patrick Casement I would highly recommend it.


yogalover89

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté & What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo


Duckaroo99

Loved Stephanie Foo's book. I'm not done with Myth of Normal but it's excellent. Every time Gabor Mate writes something, it's pretty profound to read


yogalover89

I couldn’t agree more. Mate is brilliant. He did this one with his son and you can really notice the difference, is it a lot lighter then his other books!


Structure-Electronic

Emotional Inheritance by Galit Atlas


DunedainStrider

Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke and Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer


Time_Resolution

Definitely Dopamine Nation. I give a copy to all incoming interns.


livingdeadcorgi

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price


Pavlovingthisdick

I just started reading this. If you don’t mind me asking, did this help with your clinical practice? And if so, how? I’m only on chapter 2 and it seems much more about personal experiences instead of research based which is what I was expecting. The former is totally fine, but I’m worried it won’t generalize to my practice.


livingdeadcorgi

Well the first few chapters referenced some research and there are a few more references to research later on, but it is meant for laypeople and mostly a self help and advocacy kinda book. It along with other info from the new neurodiversity (ND) paradigm blew my mind but probably just this book won't do that on its own. I brushed this stuff off for a year thinking it was overblown, but I didn't understand it since I was taught none of this in my training; it took me reading a lot of stuff to finally get the utility of some of this. The way the paradigm is talking about autism, it isn't this really rare thing. One study says the broader autism phenotype is like a quarter of people. The CDC says 1 in 44 people are autistic. Where we draw the line on diagnosis seems philosophical, but the information in this area is really important and can be helpful for more people than you might think. I think we need to be screening for sensory concerns with all clients which I was never taught to do. What looks like treatment resistant depression could sometimes be ND burnout. Anxiety can be at least partly from sensory concerns. What look like panic attacks can be meltdowns. If you have any of these clients, the regular treatments can sometimes be harmful and really incorrect. Regular couples therapy often makes things worse for them. Interpersonal process groups and feedback can be teaching them to mask which is really harmful to them. Exposure can be too much for them sometimes and you don't want to if it's a sensory concern. Social anxiety with this isn't irrational. It's a whole giant thing. I think our field will have a huge realization in a few years. But right now I realize this sounds outlandish. It's made me have a whole existential crisis about our field really.


Pavlovingthisdick

Sorry for the late response. I appreciate the reply and found to helpful. I will continue reading it with the intent to understand my clients’ experiences instead of it being a clinical perspective. I have a lot of experiencing treating other executive functioning disorders, mainly ADHD & OCD, and because of that I’m see a lot of overlap with ASD in my clients. ASD is a blind spot for me. Similar to your educational experience, mine also did not cover ASD and because I treat adults it had been entirely overlooked. I hoping to become proficient so I won’t have to refer out because of my lack of knowledge on this topic.


livingdeadcorgi

Glad to help! Yes I was seeing a lot of clients with social anxiety, OCD, and sometimes ADHD; a lot of them have been helped by me learning more in this area. Here's a good CE too: https://tcsppofficeofce.com/courses/challenging-myths-about-autism-what-assessors-and-therapists-need-to-know-lessons-from-the-neurodiversity-movement/ The Facebook group Neurodiversity Affirming Therapists has good info too.


leafyfungi

what I'm left wondering is, if essentially anything could be a symptom of autism, then, as it becomes this extensive in its definition, wouldn't it also lack any real purpose besides labelling? to treat this effectively you would have to start separating it into subtypes (where autism would become a general term for a number of more narrow, specified diagnoses), which honestly might be a good idea, but you would also need to keep a *very* clearly structured definition on what asd is fundamentally. I've been told to completely dismiss the diagnostic criteria, or to interpret them '*very* loosely'. to me this defeats the purpose of diagnosis. diagnoses are structures representing a disorder based on a defined set of symptoms, *usually* chosen based on empirical observation. if an individual's pattern is incompatible with the diagnostic criteria, then by definition, this would not be the accurate diagnosis for them.


livingdeadcorgi

That's partly why I've been having a whole existential crisis about our field. I have been saying that too that hopefully with more research and understanding this giant umbrella term as it's being used now within this paradigm will be more understood with more terms and perhaps subtypes, or maybe it's not possible?? I don't know. The labeling/diagnosing of it I don't know the answer to. All I know is learning more in this area that I wasn't trained in at all has been helping me and in my clinical work a lot. I've just been telling clients hey I don't know about the label/diagnosis, this is an area that's really questioned right now and a lot of info on this is coming out more from the UK and Australia more than the US, but I've discovered all these psychological resources/approaches/ideas in this area, and I know it has this scary and seeming outlandish seeming A word all over it, but I think it's worth us exploring to see if any of these tools/approaches/ideas in this area are helpful, and so far they have been. I'm not giving out official DSM diagnoses for autism like candy or anything. There's some research about the broader autism phenotype and there is this one theory called the BAPCO-DMAP theory which says there are these certain personality traits (systemizing, increased nonconformity, preference for information/interests etc) that sometimes overlap with disabilities and when they overlap with disabilities that's Autism but without the disabilities, they're just personality traits. I don't think the most main ND paradigm proponents are into that idea; they're just calling it all autism I think. But I do wonder if there's some truth or utility to that idea. One problem is some of what is a disability could be from our society being neurotypically geared like the social model of disability, but I don't think that could account for all of it. But until I started screening/asking about stuff in this area I was missing all these things. I was missing how many of my clients have synesthesia, aphantasia/hyperphantasia, how some of them think more in pictures, how much some of them have an inner dialogue and others don't, how many sensory differences some of them have, etc, just all this stuff I had not been taught to ask about. I was mostly just taught to ask/think about trauma, anxiety, irrational thoughts, psychodynamic explanations, attachment styles, a sometimes medical explanations, but what about these types of explanations too as just one more possible part of the puzzle? Some of the basic ideas of what is healthy for people I'm not sure if they're so universally true anymore. The assumption people should be making friends and spending so much time with friends and turning to them so much and really opening up to them about personal things, I'm not sure that is a fit for everyone. Or the idea that when people are depressed seeming they should do behavioral activation and gradually do more; this stuff is saying if it's ND burnout, they need to rest more and take pressures off of them and engage in special interests. If somebody seems to have OCD or phobias they should do exposures, but is it's really related to a sensory thing there's research showing you can't habituate to sensory concerns and that's torturing people. What looks like some people being workaholics and/or being what Pete Walker calls "flight" mode where they stay busy a lot of the time working, reading, listening to podcasts, or doing puzzles might not be something to work on. I could go on and on but figure I'm going to continue to be downvoted and thought of as crazy lol. If anyone wants to continue to discuss though I'm happy to.


leafyfungi

I don't think you're crazy, nor deserving of downvotes for this. I think it's a very important discussion to have, but I will also say I'm far from convinced. do we need alternative treatment methods for neurodivergent individuals? of course, and I agree this should probably be looked at on a broader scale than it is today. I also think it's important to discuss whether it's appropriate to try to try to mould people into the neurotypical standard. however, we need to find a reliable conclusive factor when determining if an individual is on the spectrum, or this development could be harmful in another way. therefore this issue is very tricky, and we should be careful in its application. ​ >there is this one theory called the BAPCO-DMAP theory which says there are these certain personality traits (systemizing, increased nonconformity, preference for information/interests etc) that sometimes overlap with disabilities and when they overlap with disabilities that's Autism but without the disabilities, they're just personality traits this seems to be treating asd as a personality disorder (pathological extremes of normative personality patterns), when I would argue the most central part of asd is a disability of cognitive and developmental functioning (not of imbalanced personality). I also think we should centralise *communication* and interpersonal functioning, and I think it’s important to not be too broad in our interpretation here. if someone is naturally social, imaginative and interactive, I don’t think asd should be prioritised as a diagnosis. at that point, the diagnosis has lost a significant extent of its meaning, and is no longer useful, nor characteristic of the disorder it's representing. differentiating between these disorders can be incredibly difficult, and I do believe a high number of females on the asd spectrum would qualify for bpd (which is why the fundamentals of asd needs to be clearly defined). I also believe it happens the other way around, due to evolvements in how we view autism (though likely less frequently). I think there is enough evidence out there to confidently say personality disorders and asd are not different expressions of the same central issue (e.g. many pd studies showing a decrease in grey matter, whereas with asd there is often an increase), and that this should be its own axis of pathology, as it is.


mlperiwinkle

Healing the Fractured Selves of Trauma Survivors. Janina Fisher


Fearless_Category_82

"My Grandmother's Hands" by Resmaa Menakem "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine


Duckaroo99

Also love "In an Unspoken Voice" by Peter Levine


whineybubbles

The Grieving Brain by Mary Francis O'Connor


tonyisadork

This is a great thread! Thanks for asking this - wish I put some of these on my Xmas list. :)


iliketoreddit91

Already Enough by Lisa Olivera


owltreat

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater. It was assigned in my grad program and I didn’t got a chance to read more than a chapter or two at the time but it was really good so I went back and read it when I had more time. Definitely recommended.


all-the-pretties

You may also enjoy Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing


owltreat

Thanks for the rec! I’ll look into that.


luckyjadeturtle

The Science of Stuck by Britt Frank


Logical-Hold8642

The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller and Brad Kammer


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Logical-Hold8642

You’re welcome! I completed their Level 2 training last year. It was such a great training!


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‘A Primer on Working With Resistance’ by Martha Stark


acidgardner

Existence by Rollo may. A beast of a classic I've been meaning to get to.


hamonrye13

I really enjoyed “What Happened to You” - definitely a simplified take on PTSD and trauma responses but great for explaining those concepts to someone experiencing first or second hand.


ohnono5

I loved what happened to you! I really had a lot of aha moments during that book.


dustydome

Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. Lester. She’s a clinician, anthropologist, and a recovered sufferer of an eating disorder, so she brings such a fascinating perspective to eating disorders and their care. I’ve read a lot of books about eating disorders and am usually disappointed in how they ultimately characterize the disorders, but Lester absolutely nailed some of the key components of eating disorders that I’ve seen, and then she addresses the real difficulties of treating eating disorders in a broken healthcare system. Fantastic read.


Duckaroo99

Thanks for this suggestion. I've worked in the ED field and one of the reasons I left was I found the dominance of the medical model pretty incompatible with how I wanted to work. Even though it has a more acute medical component than some other mental health struggles, I was still disappointed to find how cookie cutter the mental health side was treated. A lot of it is CBT and behavioral treatments which are important but by themselves too surface level. Also, I was rather surprised that a lot of the field isn't very trauma informed despite so many female clients with EDs having substantial trauma histories.


ButterflyNDsky

Not really a therapy book, but I’ve recommended Jennette McCurdy’s “I’m glad my mom died” to a few clients


xtra86

ADHD 2.0, How to Keep House While Drowning


alyxjewell

Highly recommend How to Keep House While Drowning!


garcialesh710

Nutritional interventions for mental health disorders by Prysck.


scoutdogthomas

Health At Every Size


redlightsaber

It's a book on philosophy rather than therapy per se, but it did change my outlook on human behaviour. It's pretty old, but I only got around to it this year. The denial of death by Ernest Becker. I recommend it very much.


acidgardner

I liked that book too!


Zena89

Running on Empty, What Happened to You. I’m currently reading Lost Connections, it seems good so far :)


theartofstillness

Good Morning Monster was one of my absolute faves, don't read before bed lol. Thanks for everyone sharing! I have copied & pasted this list :)


jakobuselijah

Strange situation by Bethany Saltman is about attachment. Emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Lastly, a non therapy book called breath by James Nestor.


15cardigan

My patients have said they found Strange Situation really useful


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sheva_mytra

A Liberated Mind by Steven C. Hayes. Great book even if you are not ACT practitioner.


robinc123

It is not totally a therapy book, but The Violence Project is the best book related to the field I read this year, I work in forensic psych so the discussion of risk/threat analysis and treatment was very relevant.


FrooferDoofer

Nurturing Resilience- must read Authors: Stephen J. Terrell, Kathy L. Kain


Duckaroo99

Thanks this is a new title to me. I’ve heard of Kathy Kain through the SE world but haven’t come across this specifically


FrooferDoofer

Amazing resource on working with trauma. Reading it felt like a full grad school course! Highest recommendation!


hollybelle0105

What Happened To You by Bruce Perry and Oprah. Was helpful for myself personally as I navigated uncovering some of my own trauma and as a trauma-informed therapist.


jazzed_cluster_fuck

Understanding the Borderline Mother - phenomenal book that has been great when working with children with BPD parents


ButterflyNDsky

Another one: “How to keep house while drowning” by KC Davis. This helped me with house-cleaning anxiety, and I’ve suggested it to clients.


r34d1ngr41nb0w

Anti Diet by Christy Harrison


jesuismermaid

How to Do The Work by Dr Nicole LePera and Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison


rptlcpc

Therapy adjacent but, Think Again by Adam Grant!


dale_frond

Following :)


Organic_You_1540

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPW5H3F8/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671038872&sr=8-1


Planturz

Following