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BOOK LIST

OVERVIEW / FAMILIES

You Need Help! A Step By Step Plan to Convince A Loved One to Get Counseling by Komrad, 2012

The Price of Privilege:  How Parental Pressure & Material Advantage Are Creating A Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Levine, 2008

I am Not Sick / I Don’t Need Your Help: Helping the Seriously Mentally Ill Accept Treatment, by Xavier Amador, 2011

Will I Ever Be Good Enough?  Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers, by Karyl McBride, PhD, 2008

Invisible Grandparenting, by Pat Hanson, Ph.D.  2013

RECOVERY

The Recovery Experience, 1994

CHILDREN & TEENS

Before It’s Too Late by Stanton Samerow, 1989

Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid! by Gallagher & Korusoian. 2010

Borderline Personality Disorder In Adolescents, 2nd Edition: What to Do When Your Teen as BPD: A Complete Guide for Families, by Blaise A. Aguire, 2014

Raising Human Beings, Ross Greene 2016

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding & Parenting Easily Frustrated & Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross Greene, 2014

Treating Explosive Kids, Greene & Ablon, 2006

Growing Up Sad: Childhood Depression and Its Treatment by Cytryn & McKaid  1996

Helping Traumatized Children Learn by Susan Cole, 2005

Helping the Noncompliant Child: A Clinician’s Guide to Parent Training by Forehand & McMahon, 1981

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks & How We Can Help Them, Ross Greene, 2014

Girl Sent Away by Griffin

Companion Guide to Girl Sent Away:  Let’s Talk About Adolescent Mental Health

Anxiety Cure for Kids:  A Guide for Parents & Children

Mad House:  Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings by Clea Simon, 1997

Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions:  DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional & Behavioral Challenges, Harvey & Rathbone, 2015

CODEPENDENCE

Breaking Free:  A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence, 1989

Codependents Guide to the Twelve Steps, by Melody Beattie, 1992

Codependent No More:  How to Stop Controlling Others & Start Caring For Yourself, 1999

ADHD

Answers to Distraction, by Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey, 2006

ADD & The College Student:  A Guide for High School & College Students With Attention Deficit Disorder, Patricia O. Quinn, 1994

Driven to Distraction:  Recognizing & Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward Hallowell & John J. Ratey, 1995

Give Your ADD Teen A Chance:  A Guide for Parents & Teenagers by Lynn Weiss, 1996

Daredevils and Daydreamers by Ingersoll, 1997

ANXIETY DISORDER

Dialectic Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety:  Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD & Other Anxiety Symptoms by Chapman, Gratz & Tull, 2011

Fears and Phobias by Barden, 1989

DUAL DIAGNOSIS

Comprehensive Guide for Integrated Treatment of People With Co-Occurring Disorders, by Dianne Doyle Pita & LeRoy J. Spaniol, 2002

DEPRESSION 

On the Edge of Darkness / Conversations about Conquering Depression by Kathy Cronkite

Overcoming Depression / The Definitive Resource for Patients & Families Who Live with Depression & Manic-Depression by Papolos & Papolos, 1997

The Happiness Trap:  How to Stop Struggling & Start Living, by Russ Harris, 2008

When Someone You Know Has Depression:  Words to Say & Things To Do by Noonan, 2016

Shock:  The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy. by Dukakis & Tye, 2006

Living Through Personal Crisis, by Stearns, 1983

I Don’t Want to Talk About It:  Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, by Terrence Real   1997

BIPOLAR ILLNESS

Touched with Fire / Manic-Depressive Illness & The Artistic Temperament

A Brilliant Madness / Living with Manic Depressiveness Illness

Journey Not Chosen … Destination Not Known / Living with Bipolar Disorder by Worthen, 2001

New Hope for People With Bipolar Disorder, Fawcett, Golden, Rosenfeld, Goodwin, 2000

Surviving Manic Depression:  A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families & Providers, by Torrey & Knaible, 2002

Bipolar Disorder Survivial Guide, by Albert Rogers  2018

Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide:  What You & Your Family Need to Know, by David Miklowitz,Pj.D.  2002

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Mason & Kreger

DBT Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan, 2014

When Your Daughter Has BPD:  Essential Skills to Help Families Manage Borderline Personality Disorder by Daniel S. Lobel, Ph.D. 2017

Stronger Than BPD:  The Girl’s Guide to Taking Control of Intense Emotions, Drama & Chaos using DBT, by Debbie Corso  2017

The Buddha & The Borderline by Van Gelder  2010

I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me:  Understanding the Borderline Personality, by Jerold Kreisman, MD & Hal Straus, 2010

Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder:  Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, by Aguirre & Galen  2013

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified, by Robert O. Friedel, MD

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents:  What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD, Aguirre, 2014

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders:  A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well by Penzel, 2000

SCHIZOPHRENIA & SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Families Involvement in Treating Schizophrenia:  Models, Essential Skills & Process, 2003

Living with Schizophrenia / A Question & Answer Guide for Patients & Their Families

Twists & Turns/A Mother’s Caring Journey/Two Children With Schizophrenia

Surviving Schizophrenia / A Manual for Families, Consumers, & Providers (7th Edition)

Living With Schizophrenia: A Family Guide to Making A Difference, Rado & Janicak, 2016

A Beautiful Mind / The Life of Mathematical Genius & Nobel Laureate John Nash

The Collected Schizophrenias, Wang  2019

ALCOHOL & DRUG ADDICTION

Concerned Intervention / When Your Loved One Won’t Quit Alcohol or Drugs, by O’Neill & O’Neill 1992

Believable Hope:  5 Essential Elements to Beat Any Addiction, by Cartwright & Abraham, 2012

No More Letting Go:  The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism & Drug Addiction, by Debra Jay,2006

PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS

The Complete Guide to Prescription & Non Prescription Drugs, by Griffith, 2016-2017

Anatomy of an Epidemic:  Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs & The Astonishing Role of Mental Illness in America, Robert Whitaker, 2011

Blue Dreams:  The Science & The Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds, by Lauren Slater   2018

MENTAL HEALTH 

Breakdown:  A Clincian’s Experience In A Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry by Lynn Nanos, LICSW, 2018

Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America’s Mental Health Crisis, by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg,MD 2019

Insane Consequences:  How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill by D.J. Jaffee  2017

It’s OK That You’re Not OK:  Meeting Grief & Loss In A Culture That Doesn’t Understand, by Megan Devine  2017

Nowhere to Go / The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill

Users Guide to the Brain, by Ratey, 2002

Peace, Love & Healing:  Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self Healing, by Bernie Siegel

Personality & Psychological Disorders, by Davis & Claridge, 2002

Memory Solution, by Dace & Whitaker, 1999

Man Against Himself, Karl Menninger, 1956

The Broken Brain / The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry, Nancy C. Andreasen, 1985

REFERENCE BOOKS

Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria DSM-5

MEMOIRS

Crazy / A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, Pete Early, 2007

Nobody’s Child

Darkness Visible / A Memoir of Madness

Undercurrents / A Life Beneath the Surface

Judge, Jury & Executioner

Awakening the Silence

Beautiful Boy:  A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, by David Sheff, 2008

Beautiful Mind:  The Life of Mathematical Genius & Nobel Laureate John Nash, by Sylvia Nasar, 2001

Blessed Are theCrazy:  Breaking the Silence About Mental Illness, Family & Church, Sarah Griffith Lund, 2014

Brain on Fire:  My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan, 2013

The Center Cannot Hold:  My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn R. Saks, 2008

Empty Room:  Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister At Any Age, by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, 2004

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, 2015

Getting My Night Vision, by Nancy Pizzo Boucher, 2009

How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me:  One Person’s Guide to Suicide Prevention, by Susan Rose Blauner, 2002

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, 2006

Is There No Place On Earth for Me?

Life In Rewind:  The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered Over OCD & the Harvard Doctor Who Broke all the Rules to Help Him, by Murphy, Zenike, Zine, 2010

Laurie, Laurie, Hallelujah:  Ten Years of Her Thoughts Before Her Suicide, by Katz & Katz, 1982

My Life In Three Acts by Helen Hayes & Katherine Hatch, 1990

Out Came the Sun:  Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction & Suicide In My Family, by Mariel Hemingway & Ben Greenman, 2015

Invisible Girl, by Mariel Hemingway & Ben Greenman, 2015

Quiet Room:  A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness, by Schiller & Bennett

Resilience:  Two Sisters & A Story of Mental Illness, by Jessie Close & Pete Early, 2015

Scattershot:  My Bipolar Family, by Lovelace, 2008

Twists & Turns:  A Mother’s Caring Journey:  Two Children with Schizophrenia, by Ackerman, 1993

Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, 2008

An Unquiet Mind / A Memoir of Moods & Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher  2017