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Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression

di John Lee

Someone pushes your buttons . . . you feel rage . . . fear . . . sweaty palms . . . unbidden tears . . . you feel like a kid . . .

We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves....

The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship

di Diane England

War, physical and sexual abuse, and natural disasters. All crises have one thing in common: Victims often suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their loved ones suffer right along with them....

The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

di Nathaniel Branden

What love is, why love is born, why it sometimes grows, and why it sometimes dies. Have you ever wondered how romantic love evolves? What the difference is between mature and immature love? What role sex plays...

Depressed Child: A Parent's Guide for Rescusing Kids

di Dougals A. Riley

By emphasizing how parents can talk to their children about thoughts and feelings, exploring how children develop negative beliefs about themselves, and teaching parents how to help their children change those...

Embracing Fear

di Thom Rutledge

It′s Time to Take Back Your Life

Fear takes many forms -- dread, panic, anxiety, self-consciousness, superstition, and negativity -- and manifests itself in many ways -- avoidance, procrastination, judgment,...

Emotional Desires of the Heart: A Poetic Journey from Pain to Joy

di C. Nadine Morris

Emotional Desires of the Heart relates the journey of one girl who suffered the pain of a broken relationship and, through her gift of poetry, found the means to overcome, love again, and find true happiness...

At Wits End: What You Need to Know When a Loved One Is Diagnosed with Addiction and Mental Illness

di Jeff Jay & Jerry A. Boriskin

At Wit's End is a guide that will provide vital information - and support to families dealing with a loved one's co-occurring psychiatric and addictive problem.

Addiction experts Jay and Boriskin demystify complex...

Stop Being Mean to Yourself: A Story About Finding The True Meaning of Self-Love

di Melody Beattie

In this wonderfully practical book, Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being. -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Beckoning readers toward a spiritual territory beyond even...

Intervention: How to Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help

di Vernon E Johnson

Johnson Institute

Helping those who don't want help.

In Intervention: How To Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help, Dr. Vernon Johnson describes the process that has successfully motivated thousands of chemically...

Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children

di Jean Illsley Clarke & Connie Dawson

As time-tested as it is timely, the expert advice in Growing Up Again Second Edition has helped thousands of readers improve on their parenting practices. Now, substantially revised and expanded, Growing Up...

Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear

di Claudia Black

In Changing Course, the best-selling sequel to It Will Never Happen to Me, Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals working their way through the painful experience of being raised with addiction....

Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You Workbook: Workbook - Second Edition

di Jordan Paul & Margaret Paul

A companion to the best-selling book of the same title, this popular, newly revised workbook helps couples create a deeply satisfying, more intimate relationship. Focusing on the ever-present dynamic of conflict-and...

Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

di Dorothy Tennov

Excellent. Of universal interest. It deals with the subject in an entirely new way.-Simone de Beauvoir Originally released twenty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion....

To Be or Not to Be Intimidated?: That is the Question

di Robert Ringer

In candid terms the book explains what intimidation is, why you become intimidated, and how you can avoid the mental lapses that can cause even the most successful people to sometimes fall victim to intimidation....

Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving

di Molly Fumia

The loss of a loved one is one of the most traumatic experiences we will ever face. This wise and profound book of reflections for the grieving offers a compassionate companion for those who have lost a loved...

A Piece of My Heart: Living Through the Grief of Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death

di Molly Fumia

Despite advancements in the care of those who are suffering from the loss of a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death, many parents, especially mothers, cannot or will not give themselves permission...

A Blessed Snarl

di Samuel Martin

Patrick Wiseman moved his wife and son back to Newfoundland to start a new Pentecostal church, but when his wife Anne leaves him for a man she meets on Facebook and his son Hab moves in with his girlfriend Natalie-a...

The Emotional Calendar

di John R. Sharp

A leading Harvard psychiatrist reveals how our emotional lives are profoundly shaped by the seasons, and how to recognize our own seasonal patterns and milestones

In two decades of psychiatry practice, John R....

The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

di Douglas Riley

The perfect book to help you give your oppositional-defiant child the help he or she needs.

How to Live with a Control Freak

di Barbara Baker

Do you live with a controlling partner? Someone who always wants to make the decisions, about where you go on holiday or what you spend on clothes? Someone who needs to know where you are or what you are doing?...