Tissues Have No Expiration Date and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
This third collection of ten more psychotherapy tales will touch upon many emotions as Dr. Lasson takes you on a journey through his mind and the minds of his clients.You will meet Chase, a cherubic faced boy, whose talent that might not be appreciated without an out of the box approach.And Rudy...a man who managed to change his life around after causing his own sense of isolation.And Byron, whose negative reviews he was receiving were only the beginning of the challenges he would soon face.So get the tissue box ready and be prepared to be transformed with this new collection of psychotherapy tales.
Good Morning, Monster
As seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!"We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating." --Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America "Gildiner is nothing short of masterful--as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." --Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents four of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with "Good morning, Monster." Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. They seek Gildiner's help to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering has been long buried. As in such recent classics as The Glass Castle and Educated, each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. Good Morning Monster offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.
Adult Daughters of Borderline Mothers
Do you still flinch when your phone rings and her name appears on the screen?Does Any of This Sound Familiar?You walk on eggshells around your mother, adjusting your tone, your words, and your plans to avoid setting her off.You feel guilty for wanting space from her, as if needing distance makes you a terrible person.You replay her words in your head for days, wondering if she was right and you really are selfish, ungrateful, or too sensitive.You attract partners who feel eerily familiar, people who run hot and cold, who need you desperately one moment and reject you the next.You have spent your entire life taking care of everyone else and you have no idea who you are when you stop.Inside this book you will uncover: The 4 distinct archetypes of borderline mothers and how each one shapes the child in a different way that most people never recognizeWhy your nervous system stayed on high alert long after you left home, and what happens in your body when old patterns get triggeredThe specific guilt mechanism your mother installed in childhood that still fires every time you try to protect yourself, and how to interrupt itHow the idealization-devaluation cycle created an identity wound that shows up in every relationship you build without you realizing itThe 3-tier boundary system that works with borderline mothers when standard advice fails, without requiring confrontation you are not ready forWhy you attract partners who feel familiar instead of safe, and the attachment pattern driving that choiceThe difference between emotional flashbacks and regular memories, and why traditional coping strategies make flashbacks worse instead of betterHow parentification stole your childhood and turned you into a caretaker who forgot to take care of herselfWhat "good enough" parenting actually looks like when you are terrified of repeating your mother's patterns with your own childrenHow to rebuild trust in your own judgment after a lifetime of having your perceptions dismissed and your reality questionedReady to finally understand what happened and take your life back?
Vulnerability Protected
Vulnerability can be either precious or detestable, and we feel deeply divided as to which side we embrace, perhaps even from one moment to the next. Vulnerability is risky and can be raw, messy, and scary. But when it is protected, experiencing it becomes safer.Often, vulnerability, weakness, or even empathy, are demeaned. Many worship those who parade as fearless, those who promise protection only if we follow these leaders completely and unquestioningly.Vulnerability is essential for empathy. And empathy is the antidote to the cold detachment that is so toxic. Vulnerability can lead to owning all the parts inside us, which allows us to recognize the humanity in people we have been poised to judge and even hate.Vulnerability Protected is an exploration of the personal, relational, and political aspects of vulnerability, one of the most crucial resources in our world. We cannot possibly afford its disappearance.
When Healing Harms
The legal case that changed psychiatry and forced a reckoning within the profession.In 1979, Dr. Raphael Osheroff admitted himself to Chestnut Lodge, a prestigious psychiatric hospital, expecting world-class care for his severe depression. Instead, he was confined to a locked ward, denied medication, and subjected to seven months of talk therapy. The experience rendered him physically frail and emotionally devastated before his parents secured his transfer to a hospital willing to prescribe the antidepressants he desperately needed. But the damage was done: his marriage, his practice, and his reputation all lay in tatters.Then he did something unprecedented. He sued Chestnut Lodge.When Healing Harms excavates the long-buried story behind one of the most consequential--and most misunderstood--malpractice cases in modern psychiatry and surfaces its impact that persists to this day. Drawing on thousands of pages of court transcripts, medical files, legal archives, hundreds of letters, video testimony, and interviews, Eric Caplan provides the definitive account of how a world-renowned psychiatric hospital failed a patient in crisis, and how the story of that failure has been obscured and misrepresented for more than four decades. The result is a revelatory examination of how psychiatry confronted its limitations--and unwittingly gave rise to a system that has failed seriously ill patients even more than the one Osheroff fought to change.
Frames of Mind
In this groundbreaking classic, a leading psychologist argues that there are many human intelligences. "Brilliant." --New York Review of Books When we call someone "intelligent," we are often referring to traits like their high SAT score, their performance on an IQ test, or their ability to perform in today's schools--which prioritize linguistic and mathematical abilities. Traits like these underlie most popular and psychological understanding of intelligence--but they tell a very incomplete story. In this revolutionary classic, now updated with a new introduction, psychologist and educator Howard Gardner offers a dramatically different account: that by limiting our understanding of intelligence to "school smarts," we miss the impressive range of talents and aptitudes that characterize the human species. Gardner instead posits the revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences, which encompasses musical ability to physical dexterity to deep knowledge of other persons--and of oneself--each of which merits the label "intelligence." In a penetrating update, Gardner's Frames of Mind celebrates all forms of intellect--the varieties found in various animal species, plants, and ever-more powerful instruments of artificial intelligence.
Issue 36
Over 68,000 words of psychological knowledge, theory and practice by bestselling writer Connor Whiteley in one great collection. If you want great, fascinating information covering a wide range of psychological topics you NEED to buy this issue!Issue 36 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books: Could Apps Improve Our Mental Health? A Clinical Psychology and Cyberpsychology Guide to Mental Health AppsForensic Psychology of Terrorism and Hostage-Taking: A Forensic and Criminal Psychology Guide to Understanding Terrorists, Terrorism and Hostage SituationsAND contains 5 enthralling blog posts: How To Navigate Going Home as an LGBT+ Person?Why People with Mental Health Conditions Are More Likely to Be Abused by Police?What Should Straight Therapists Know When Working with Gay Male Clients?Why Denying Youth Gender-Affirming Care Increases Suicide?What's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Medical Family and Systemic Psychotherapy: Working with Individuals, Families and Healthcare Professionals
Your Unshakable Self
Your Unshakable Self explores the different concepts and aspects of our Self. If you're searching for a way to create a stronger, healthier and more resilient Self, Your Unshakable Self can help. This brilliant, engaging and insightful book guides you towards understanding your sense of Self, how to strengthen your Self and heal from past trauma and more.This fascinating book helps you to improve resilience, mental health and your relationship with your Self and who you are. Written by renowned, praised and widely acclaimed psychology author and podcaster, Connor Whiteley, GMBPsS, this easy-to-understand book includes: Basics of the Self―Find a comprehensive overview of the aspects of the Self, so you can understand your Self and sense of self-worth, self-value and more.Discover how the Self impacts behaviour- Get insightful and surprising information on how the Self impacts depression, anxiety and trauma responses.Strategies for building your Unshakable Self- Get techniques and strategies for shifting your sense of self so it becomes stronger, more resilient and you know who you are. If you want to improve your sense of Self and learn who you are then look no further. This is the book for you.
Your Unshakable Self
Your Unshakable Self explores the different concepts and aspects of our Self. If you're searching for a way to create a stronger, healthier and more resilient Self, Your Unshakable Self can help. This brilliant, engaging and insightful book guides you towards understanding your sense of Self, how to strengthen your Self and heal from past trauma and more.This fascinating book helps you to improve resilience, mental health and your relationship with your Self and who you are. Written by renowned, praised and widely acclaimed psychology author and podcaster, Connor Whiteley, GMBPsS, this easy-to-understand book includes: Basics of the Self―Find a comprehensive overview of the aspects of the Self, so you can understand your Self and sense of self-worth, self-value and more.Discover how the Self impacts behaviour- Get insightful and surprising information on how the Self impacts depression, anxiety and trauma responses.Strategies for building your Unshakable Self- Get techniques and strategies for shifting your sense of self so it becomes stronger, more resilient and you know who you are. If you want to improve your sense of Self and learn who you are then look no further. This is the book for you.
Autism and Work
Navigating the world of work as an autistic individual can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. Drawing from personal experience, compassionate insights and practical strategies, this empowering guide helps you understand your unique strengths and challenges, advocate for your needs and build a fulfilling career that truly fits you. Whether you're newly diagnosed or well along your journey, Autism and Work: Thriving in the Workplace offers support, encouragement and actionable advice to help you not just survive but thrive in any professional environment.Artist and neurodivergent advocate Mahlia Amatina draws on her lived experience of autism, mental health challenges and professional life to deliver a compassionate, practical guide for navigating work as an autistic individual. Packed with real stories, empowering strategies and thoughtful reflection, this short book offers encouragement and insight for anyone looking to not just survive, but thrive, at work. Whether you're newly diagnosed, self-identifying or years into your journey, Mahlia's creative and authentic voice offers a powerful reminder: you deserve to take up space, and you bring immense value to the workplace exactly as you are.
Don't Lie To Me
Michael Baisden does it again with another relationship book masterpiece that challenges readers to confront their own self honesty!"Many books have been written about why people lie and cheat," Michael says, "But what about the lies we tell ourselves that open us up to these narcissists?"People can only manipulate you when you either don't know who you are, or you feel underserving of what you want and need!The Journey To Transparency begins with being real with ourselves and that self-truth will expose and eliminate people with bad intentions!
Creative Rest
Are you feeling overwhelmed, shut down or disconnected? Unsure how to rest in a way that truly restores you?For autistic people, rest isn't just about sleep or stillness. It's about creating safe, sensory-friendly spaces where we can drop the mask, process emotions and reconnect with ourselves.Creative Rest offers a gentle, uplifting toolkit of art therapy-inspired practices designed especially for autistic minds and bodies. Through sensory-friendly creativity, mindful art exercises and compassionate self-care strategies, you'll discover how to soothe overwhelm, regulate emotions and recover from autistic burnout or shutdown in ways that feel natural and nourishing.Inside you'll find: Gentle art prompts for emotional regulation, self-expression and sensory calmCreative rest ideas to help prevent autistic burnout and support recovery after overwhelmJournalling prompts tailored for neurodivergent self-reflection and growthStrategies to use art as emotional regulation when words are hard to findTools for building a personalised self-care practice that honours your needsWhether you're exploring art for autism, looking for sensory overload recovery techniques or simply craving more joy and peace in your daily life, this book is your invitation to slow down and reconnect; no pressure, no perfection and no judgment.You don't have to earn rest. You are worthy of it, exactly as you are.
Bad Bet
BAD BET: How Online Gambling Is Destroying America exposes one of the fastest-growing and most overlooked addiction crises in the United States.What was once limited to casinos and racetracks is now available 24 hours a day on smartphones, tablets, and computers. With the rapid expansion of legalized online sports betting, millions of Americans-particularly young men-are being drawn into a system designed to keep them playing, often at devastating personal cost.In this powerful and eye-opening book, Jack Alan Levine, a recovering gambling addict, joins veteran journalist John Rabe to examine the rise of online gambling from two distinct but complementary perspectives. Levine offers a deeply personal account of addiction, revealing how gambling can take hold, escalate, and ultimately disrupt every aspect of a person's life. Rabe provides a broader lens, exploring how professional sports, media, and technology have fueled the normalization and growth of betting across American culture.Together, they uncover the mechanics behind the industry's rapid expansion, the psychological pull of constant access and in-game wagering, and the real-world consequences affecting individuals, families, and communities nationwide.BAD BET is both a warning and a call to awareness. It challenges readers to look beyond the surface of entertainment and recognize the risks associated with a system where the odds are always in favor of the house. For anyone seeking to better understand the impact of online gambling-or to recognize its warning signs before it's too late-this book offers insight, perspective, and a closer look at a crisis that is only beginning to unfold.
The Decision Trap
Do you ever find yourself scrolling social media far longer than you meant to? Reaching for the sweets at the till without thinking? Caught up in the excitement of yet another made-up shopping "holiday"?It's no accident. Every day, the choices we make-what we buy, click, watch and believe-are subtly steered by psychological tactics operating just below our awareness. These decision traps are woven into the apps we use, the shops we visit and the systems we depend on.But once you know what to look for, you can step out of their reach.Psychologist Niklas Laninge and designer Arvid Janson have spent years working with the very tools used to shape consumer behaviour. In The Decision Trap, they turn the spotlight on their own industry, revealing the hidden mechanisms that guide our choices without us realising it. With clarity, insight and a touch of dry humour, they show how these forces work-and how to resist them.This is a sharp, empowering guide for anyone who wants to make better decisions, sidestep everyday pitfalls and live a more intentional, less manipulated life.
ADHD in Adults
In this groundbreaking guide, Drs. Barker and Achuthan revolutionize our understanding of adult ADHD through a balanced, integrated approach. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, they present a comprehensive framework that combines effective psychological interventions, carefully considered medication strategies, environmental adaptations, and strength-based perspectives. This meticulously researched volume offers: Critical insights into diagnostic considerations and treatment selection, A balanced examination of both psychological and pharmaceutical approaches, Evidence-based strategies for workplace success, relationships, and daily life management, Specialized guidance for women, cultural minorities, and complex presentations. Whether you're a clinician seeking optimal treatment combinations, an adult navigating life with ADHD, or a family member seeking understanding, this compassionate guide provides a roadmap to lasting improvement and genuine well-being through personalized, multimodal care.
Not a Monster
In popular culture, the term sociopath has been reduced to a symbol of danger, cruelty, emotional emptiness, and inevitable harm. Media narratives and armchair psychology have blurred the line between clinical understanding and cultural myth. Labels replace observation. Fear replaces research. And once the diagnosis is socially assigned, curiosity ends. Not a Monster challenges that collapse. In this incisive, research-informed examination of sociopathy and antisocial personality, psychologist Channa Bromley, PhD reframes sociopathy through the lens of trauma psychology, behavioral adaptation, and nervous system survival responses. Rather than an absence of humanity, Bromley presents sociopathy as an adaptive psychological architecture-one formed under sustained threat, chronic stress, and developmental survival conditioning.This groundbreaking book explores: The psychology of sociopathy explained beyond stereotypesThe trauma and sociopathy connectionDifferences between sociopathy vs. psychopathyHow antisocial personality patterns developEmotional regulation and survival adaptationCultural myths about sociopathsMisdiagnosis and misunderstanding in mental healthThis book does not excuse destructive behavior. Instead, it offers a psychologically accurate framework for understanding risk, prevention, and intervention. By replacing moral panic with structural insight, Bromley shows how clarity-not condemnation-is what allows society to identify danger earlier and respond more effectively. Not a Monster is a correction of a cultural and clinical misunderstanding.
The Brain Tumour That Saved Me
What if the very thing that nearly broke you became the turning point that reshaped your life?In her late thirties, Paula Johnson was training for her first Ironman when her body began behaving in ways no one could explain: crushing fatigue, strange symptoms, and bursts of energy that pushed her farther than ever before.The diagnosis, when it finally came, was shocking: a rare hormone-secreting brain tumour.What followed was anything but a tidy story of illness and recovery.Life veered wildly through brain surgery, earthquakes, a devastating house fire, divorce, breast cancer, broken bones, missed diagnoses, unexpected love, and a surprising late-in-life ADHD discovery.And somehow, through all of it, there was laughter.The Brain Tumour That Saved Me is a deeply human memoir about rebuilding a life when everything seems to fall apart. With candour, humour, and hard-earned wisdom, Paula reflects on what it means to keep going when life refuses to follow the plan.Inside this remarkable true story, you'll discover: How resilience is built one difficult chapter at a timeWhy borrowed belief can carry us when our own runs thinThe unexpected strength found in sport, community, and adversityHow even life's most chaotic moments can reshape who we becomeHeartfelt, honest, and unexpectedly funny, The Brain Tumour That Saved Me is for anyone navigating illness, heartbreak, burnout, or a season when everything feels uncertain.This isn't a story about being fearless.It's about beginning before you feel ready and discovering that sometimes the hardest chapters of our lives become the ones that transform us the most.Are you ready to rethink what strength really means and find courage in your own turning point? Then this story is for you.
You Are Not As Broken As You Think You Are
Have you noticed a pattern of unhealthy relationships? Do you feel stuck in negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors? Do you wish you had more power to set healthy boundaries? You want to make thechanges you know you need to make, but you don't know where to start, and maybe you don't even knowhow you got to this point in the first place.In You're Not as Broken as You Think You Are, Sara Stalker uses her expertise as a psychotherapistwho specializes in childhood trauma and addiction to help you understand your survival strategies, silenceyour inner critic, and reclaim the power that trauma tried to take away.Learn how to: Recognize toxic relationshipsUnderstand how your history impacts your present (and your future)How to break unhealthy parenting patternsUnderstand your addiction (and how it impacts others)Embrace healthy relationshipsHow to begin stitching yourself back togetherAnd more.If you or a loved one is feeling weighed down by trauma, or the effects of trauma, You're Not as Brokenas You Think You Are give you the support and insight you crave.Your history is a chapter, not the whole story. It's time to stop surviving and start living.
Her Man, His Secret
You found something on his phone. A message. A profile. A picture of someone you didn't expect. And now the ground beneath your feet doesn't feel solid anymore.If your man is secretly involved with a trans woman, a femboy, or a drag queen, everything you thought you knew about the down low is about to change.For more than twenty years, America has treated the down low as a single story: a closeted gay man hiding his truth from the woman who loves him. But the reality is far more complicated than that, and the difference matters more than you think. The man who is attracted to masculine men and the man who is exclusively drawn to feminine-presenting individuals are not living the same secret, and they are not hiding the same thing.Drawing on published research from Northwestern University, data from the CDC, real interviews, and composite stories built from the lived experiences of women, trans women, and the men caught between two worlds, Robyn Bailey takes you inside a conversation no one else has been willing to have. With the unflinching honesty of someone who grew up in the community, in the church, and in the culture that shaped these secrets, Bailey breaks down the psychology, the patterns, the health risks, and the emotional devastation of discovery, all while treating every person involved with the dignity they deserve.This is not a book of excuses. This is a book of understanding. Because you cannot make the right decision for your life if no one has told you the truth about what you are actually facing.
The Brain Tumour That Saved Me
What if the very thing that nearly broke you became the turning point that reshaped your life?In her late thirties, Paula Johnson was training for her first Ironman when her body began behaving in ways no one could explain: crushing fatigue, strange symptoms, and bursts of energy that pushed her farther than ever before.The diagnosis, when it finally came, was shocking: a rare hormone-secreting brain tumour.What followed was anything but a tidy story of illness and recovery.Life veered wildly through brain surgery, earthquakes, a devastating house fire, divorce, breast cancer, broken bones, missed diagnoses, unexpected love, and a surprising late-in-life ADHD discovery.And somehow, through all of it, there was laughter.The Brain Tumour That Saved Me is a deeply human memoir about rebuilding a life when everything seems to fall apart. With candour, humour, and hard-earned wisdom, Paula reflects on what it means to keep going when life refuses to follow the plan.Inside this remarkable true story, you'll discover: How resilience is built one difficult chapter at a timeWhy borrowed belief can carry us when our own runs thinThe unexpected strength found in sport, community, and adversityHow even life's most chaotic moments can reshape who we becomeHeartfelt, honest, and unexpectedly funny, The Brain Tumour That Saved Me is for anyone navigating illness, heartbreak, burnout, or a season when everything feels uncertain.This isn't a story about being fearless.It's about beginning before you feel ready and discovering that sometimes the hardest chapters of our lives become the ones that transform us the most.Are you ready to rethink what strength really means and find courage in your own turning point? Then this story is for you.
Motivation Overrated
Motivation has been treated as a requirement for too long-as if life must wait for enthusiasm before it can move.In Motivation Overrated, Sandeep Chavan examines a quieter truth: life has always continued without motivation. Work happens without feeling ready. Decisions occur without internal certainty. Responsibilities settle quietly, without emotional hype.Rather than offering techniques, productivity systems, or motivational advice, this book simply observes how action actually unfolds in ordinary life. It shows how a subtle misunderstanding about motivation slowly shaped modern thinking. A signal was mistaken for a cause. Readiness was confused with alignment. Resistance was treated as failure rather than information.The result is a widespread belief that something is wrong whenever motivation fades.This book gently corrects that interpretation.Through calm reflection and careful observation, Motivation Overrated reveals that action does not begin with emotional permission. Stability is built through continuation rather than inspiration. Motivation, when it appears, is not a driving force but a temporary signal that comes and goes without determining whether life proceeds.Nothing in this book asks the reader to change their behavior.Instead, it restores a simple sequence that has always existed: life responds to movement, not persuasion.For readers tired of motivational pressure and productivity hype, Motivation Overrated offers something rare-a clear and steady recognition that life never required enthusiasm in the first place.
Emotional Engineering for Love
Why do intelligent, self-aware people keep ending up in painful, confusing, or emotionally draining relationships?Why does love sometimes feel like a powerful connection, yet ends in heartbreak?Emotional Engineering for Love offers a powerful, science-grounded answer: Your relationships are not random. They are shaped by your subconscious attachment architecture.Drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, nervous system regulation, and real-world relational psychology, this book reveals how early emotional wiring and trauma responses quietly determine who you choose, chase, commit to-and struggle to leave.Most relationship advice focuses on communication or compatibility. This book goes deeper.It explains how: The nervous system and trauma influence attraction and bondingAttachment styles silently guide partner selectionEmotional chemistry is often nervous-system familiarity-not loveSurvival patterns can masquerade as passionLove can become toxic when it is rooted in dysregulation rather than safetyIf you've ever wondered: Why do I keep marrying or dating the wrong person?Why does love feel intense but unstable?Why do the same relationship patterns keep repeating?This book helps you understand why and shows you how to change it. Whether you are recovering from a toxic relationship, navigating marriage or long-term partnership, or trying to break cycles of emotional chaos, Emotional Engineering for Love gives you the insight to stop surviving in love and start thriving.
