Printable Version Of The Library List

 The BC Association of Clinical Counsellors has developed a resource base at Head Office. The following items are available for loan to RCCs (new additions are denoted with an arrow and are in bold type).  

Video Cassettes and DVDs

Acute Traumatic Stress: Pragmatic Intervention for the Counsellor, Speaker: Tony Snelgrove, Ph.D. (Vancouver Regional meeting 04/97)

BC Institute on Family Violence, Speaker: Dr. Jill Hightower (Vancouver Regional meeting 06/96)

Closer to Home, Speaker: Bill Moyers on Addiction (PBS TV program)

Ethics and the Helping Profession, Speaker: Dr. Max Uhlemann

Family Therapy, Speaker: David Freeman (2 Tape Series)

Focusing Oriented Therapy, Speakers: Shirley Turcotte, Anne Poonwassie (2005) (On Video and DVD – 4 Series)

Multiple Personalities (TV Special on W5)

One Hit Leads to Another

The Psycho-Immunology of Cancer, Speaker: Dr. Bill Nelems (09/97) (2 Tape Series)

The Importance of Research for Family Theory and Therapy Conference (2004)

Spiritual Direction & Psychotherapy, Speaker: Shiella Fodchuk

Throwaway Children (2 Tape Series)

Till Death Do Us Part New Clinical Perspectives on Divorce & Remarriage, Speaker: Susan Gamache

To a Safer Place

Trauma, grief and loss: A transpersonal perspective, Speaker: Colin Mallard

Working With Trauma: Clinical assumptions, interventions, and outcome goals, Speaker: Jessica Easton

Complaint, Investigation and Resolution, Presenter: George Bryce, Legal Counsel (2 Tape Series)

Boundary Issues in Professional Relationships, Speaker: Dr. Gary Schoener (On Video and DVD – 4 Series). Dealing With Sexual Misconduct & Other Boundary Violations.

Ethical Case Scenarios, Speaker: Dale Beyerstein, Professor in Ethics and Philosophy at Langara College

Ethical Workshop, Speaker: Jean Pettifor (2 Tape Series)

Traumatic Body Memory, Speaker: Susan Farling

Documents and Reports

Adult Children of Incest and Child Abuse -- Repression vs. Dissociation: Structural Distinctions

Balancing Conflicting Interests: A Counsellor’s Guide to the Legal Process, Maureen McEvoy and Gayla Reir

Child Custody Assessment Guidelines, (Psychologists Association of Alberta)(1995)

Children As Storytellers, Carol Martin & John Allan (1995)

Code of Ethical Conduct and Standards of Clinical Practice for Registered Clinical Counsellors, (compiled February 2004; amended March 2004).

Courtproofing for Therapists: A Workshop with Maureen McEvoy, (Sept 2000)

Dissociative Phenomena

Managing Clients' Requests for Validation of Delayed Memories of Childhood Abuse

Duty to Report, George K. Bryce, Legal Counsel (1999)

Protecting Counsellor-Client Confidentiality, George K. Bryce, Legal Counsel (1999)

Establishing the Playing Field: The Legislative Framework, Robert W. Hunter. Regulation of Professionals and Disciplinary Hearing: a practical course.

Guilty as Charged: Sentencing for Professional Misconduct, Terrence L. Roberton, Harper Grey Easton & Dr. Lawrence P, Rossoff (College of Dental Surgeons of BC)

Hanging Together or Hanging Separately: Facing the Dilemma of Colleagues Charged with Implanting False Memories, Judith A. Peterson, Ph.D. and Martha C. Dean, Ph.D.

Informed Consent & Release of Information Models

Interim Report of the Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse, (American Psychological Association)

Municipal Business License and Zoning Requirements, George K. Bryce, Legal Counsel (1996)

Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse, (American Psychological Association)

Symptom Clusters in Victims of Chronic Trauma and Abuse

War Trauma Symptoms

Books (alphabetically, by title)

The 48 Laws of Power. Robert Green, (1998)

Abnormal Psychology, Timothy W. Costello and Joseph T. Costello. Comprehensive outline in easy-to-use narrative format, supplements major textbooks, fully indexed, recommended bibliography.

Abnormal Psychology: Revised Sixth Edition (textbook), Davison Neale (1996)

About Men & Women, Tad Guzie and Noreen Monroe Guzie. How your “Great Story” shapes your destiny.

Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride, Marion Woodman (1982). “This book is about taking the head off an evil witch.” With these words Marion Woodman begins her spiral journey, a powerful and authoritative look at the psychology and attitudes of modern woman. 

Adult Children of Alcoholics, Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D.

Adult Development and Aging, Marion Perlmutter and Elizabeth Hall

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The quantum alternative to growing old, Deepak Chopra (1993)

Alchemical: Active Imagination, Marie-Louise von Franz. Working with the text of Gerhard Dorn, an alchemist and physician of the sixteenth century, von Franz presents alchemy as a therapy of the soul.

Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, Marie-Louise von Franz. Designed as an introduction to Jung’s more detailed studies, and profusely illustrated, here is a lucid and practical account of what the alchemists were really looking for – emotional balance and wholeness.

Alcoholic Family, Peter Steinglass, MD Provides us with the first family systems model that charts the developmental course of alcoholism, laying the research groundwork for clinical assessment and intervention.

All I really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon thoughts on common thing, Robert Fulghum (1986)

An Analysis of Human Sexual Inadequacy, Jhan and June Robbins. Masters and Johnson’s revolutionary experiments with men and women in overcoming sexual problems – through laboratory-–controlled sessions of physical contact and lovemaking.

An Analysis of Human Sexual Response, Ruth & Edward Brecher. The boldest experiment in human sex and research.

The Analytic Encounter: Transference and human relationship, Mario Jacoby (1984). A study that addresses transference in the psychotherapeutic relationship. 

Animus and Anima, Emma Jung (1957), two essays by Emma Jung.

Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide for Sufferers and their Families, R.L. Palmer.

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook (Revised Second Edition), Edmund J. Bourne (1995) “…A practical and comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia… or other anxiety disorders.” 

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, C.G. Jung, translated by R.F.C. Hull

The Art of Breathing: Thirty simple exercises for improving your performance and well-being, Nancy Zi (1986). “Thirty progressive exercises, specific applications of what you have learned, and mental imagery drills teach you the chi yi method of controlled breathing.”

Art of Helping, Robert R. Carkhuff.

The Art of the Psychotherapist, James. F.T. Bugental (1987). How to develop the skills that take psychotherapy beyond science.

Aspects of the Feminine, C.G. Jung (1982), “a range of articles and extracts from Jung’s writings on marriage, Eros, the mother, the maiden and the anima/animus.”

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder: Three Perspectives on Attention Disorders, Elin Horton. Notes from Elin Horton’s presentation to Region 4 in February 2002.

Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality, Gordon W. Allport. A distinguished psychologist outlines here the need for a psychology of becoming, of growth and development of personality.

Becoming a Psychotherapist: A clinical primer (second edition), Rosemary Marshall Balsam, Alan Balsam (1984). Addresses key issues for therapists, including the different stages of therapy, setting up an office, and transference issues.

Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and its devastation, Susan Forward, Craig Buck (1978). “Susan Forward presents twenty-five case histories ranging from father and daughter, mother and son, siblings, grandfather and granddaughter, mother and daughter, to father and son.”

Between Parent & Child, Dr. Haim G. Ginott (1961). Offers a direct, fresh, and easily understood method of getting through to your child and winning his heart. It is designed to establish a relationship of mutual responsibility, love and respect.

The Bible and the Psyche: Individuation symbolism in the Old Testament, Edward F. Edinger (1986). “This… study links a body of literature known and revered for well over two thousand years with a psychological process that has gained recognition only in the twentieth century through the work of C.G. Jung.

Body and Soul: The other side of illness, Albert Kreinheder (1991). “Informed by the author’s personal experience of cancer, arthritis and tuberculosis over many years, Body and soul is unique…. It is essentially a feeling-intuitive approach to physical illness, dramatically illustrating the symbolic attitude, individuation and active imagination with the body.”

Body-Centred Psychotherapy, Ron Kurtz (1968), the Hakomi Method.

Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments, James and Jongeward. This book will help the reader increase his awareness of the real power he has to direct his own life, to make decisions, to develop his own ethical system, to enhance the lives of others, and to understand that he was “born to win”.

Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung’s Psychology, June Singer (1953)

Bowen Family Systems Theory, Daniel V. Papero 

Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse, Stephen D. Grubman-Black (1990). Insight, hope, and encouragement on how to begin the healing process for survivors, parents, and teachers.

Building On Strength:  Improving Governance and Accountability in Canada’s Voluntary Sector, Final Report (1999)

Calling the Circle: The first and future culture, Christina Baldwin (1994). “The circle is an ancient form of gathering…. Author Christina Baldwin introduces a structure for calling the circle and exploring its potential to empower us in our ordinary lives.” 

Career/Lifeskills Resources Catalogue (2008).  From Career/Lifeskills Resources Inc., this catalogue contains resources and assessment tools for career/work counsellors and human resource professionals, including: MBTI, Personality Dimensions, True Colors, Strong Interest Inventory, and more.

Case Studies in Abnormal Behavior, Robert Meyer (1983).  A collection of contemporary and classic cases that brings the field of abnormal psychology to life for students with its rare combination of readability, humor, and strong scholarship.

Challenge of the Heart: Love, sex, and intimacy in changing times, John Welwood (ed.) (1985). A collection of essays that “approach the challenge of intimacy with bravery and gentleness, inspiring the reader toward becoming a ‘warrior of the heart’.”

Change of Life: A Psychological Study of Dreams and the Menopause, Ann Mankowitz. The purpose of this book is to maintain a psychological focus on one menopausal woman’s experience and what she learned about herself by paying close attention to her dreams.

The Changing Family Life Cycle, Betty Carter, Monica McGoldrick (1989). A framework for family therapy (2nd edition).

Changing With Families: A Book About Further Education for Being Human, Richard Bandler, John Grindler and Virginia Satir

Character Analysis, Wilhelm Reich. This third, enlarged edition includes all the previously published material as well as a new section expounding Reich’s later discoveries.

Characterological Transformation: The Hard Work Miracle, Stephen M. Johnson. Integrates object relations theory, ego psychology and character analytic approached to provide a new understanding of human behavior and character development.

Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects, John N. Briere

Child Development: Infancy through Adolescence, Alison Clarke-Stewart and Susan Friedman

The Child, the Family, and the Outside world, D.W. Winnicott (1964)

Child Sexual Assault, A manual sponsored by the West Vancouver Policemen’s Association.

Children As Storytellers, Carol Martin and John Allan (1995). On how to link children’s natural storytelling ability to academic success and emotional well-being.

Circle of Care: Clinical issues in Jungian therapy, Warren Steinberg (1990). “Transference and countertransference phenomena, including an overview of Jung’s ideas, are presented with clarity and precision.”

Circle of Stones, Judith Duerk (1989)

Client Rights in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Susan Beamich, Michelle Anderson and Marilyn Oladimeji. Handbook produced by the Clients Rights Project – a community based coalition between Feminist Advocates for Counselling Ethics (FACE) and Women’s Counselling Referral and Education Centre (WCREC).

Clues to Suicide, An investigation edited by Edwin S. Shneidman & Norman L. Farberow, Foreword by Karl A. Menninger, MD

Co-Dependence: Misunderstood-Mistreated, Anne Wilson Schaef. Discusses the impact her new theory will have on the field of mental health, chemical dependency, family therapy, and the women’s movement. The she traces the history and development of the concept of co-dependence and discusses its often confusing, overlapping definitions.

Co-Dependency: An Emerging Issue, A compilation of different authors.

Codependent No More – How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, Melody Beattie (1987). An expert guide to achieving serenity for Codependents who want to take care of themselves.

Coma: The dreambody near death, Arnold Mindell (1989). “Process oriented and Jungian analyst Arnold Mindell illustrates how we can communicate with comatose individuals…”

Coming Back to Life: The After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience, P.M.H. Atwater (1988). Based on extensive interviews with over two hundred near-death survivors and thousands of their friends and relative, Atwater examines the major positive and negative after-effects which survivors experience.

Compassion and Self-Hate, Theodore Isaac Rubin, MD (1975). This wise and compassionate self-help book can help you break negative mental and emotional patterns and build a stronger sense of well being and self-understanding.

Conjoint Family Therapy, Virginia Satir. This new edition incorporates fifteen more years of the author’s experience, techniques, and models.

Connecting with Self and Others, Sherod Miller, et al. (1992). “Connecting will help you… increase your awareness of self…, skills for sending and receiving messages…, options for building relationships.”

Consulting Process in Action, Gordon Lippitt & Ronald Lippitt

Contract Cohabitation: An alternative to marriage, Edmund L. Van Deusen (1974)

Conversation, Language, and Possibilities: A postmodern approach to therapy, Harlene Anderson (1997). “[This book] forges surprising links between postmodern theory and collaborative clinical practice. In this framework, human systems are viewed as systems of language and communication.”

Coping With Teenage Depression: A Parents’ Guide, Kathleen McCoy (1982). Shows parents how to prevent the depression that commonly underlies so called normal teenage rebellion.

The Couple Who Became Each Other: And Other Tales of Healing from a Hypnotherapist's Casebook, David L. Calof with Robin Simons

Courage in Both Hands, Allan A. Hunter (1962). Dramatic stories of real men and women who accomplished more than they believed they could.

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass & Laura Davis. An inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child – and those who care about her.

The Courage to Heal Workbook.

Crystal Visions: Nine Meditations for Personal & Planetary Peace, Diane Mariechild

Crystal Woman: The Sisters of the Dreamtime, Lynn V. Andrews. Represents the beginning of a new circle of learning for medicine woman Lynn Andrews.

Current Psychotherapies, 3rd Edition, Raymond J. Corsini and Contributors

The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships, Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1986). A helpful guide to understanding and reducing anger in close relationships.

The Dance of Intimacy, Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1989). A woman’s guide to courageous acts of change in key relationships. 

Death: The final stage of growth, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1975)

Depression and the Body: The biological basis of faith and reality, Alexander Lowen (1972), “shows how we can overcome depression by activating dormant life forces and by training mind and body to respond as keenly as a finely tuned instrument responds to a virtuoso.” 

A Dictionary of Symbols, J. E. Cirlot

Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, M. Scott Peck, MD A profound and powerful new book, which challenges us to take another journey in self-awareness: to achieve, through the creative experience of community, a new “connectedness” and wholeness which, in turn, can be shared by all the peoples and nations of the world.

Dilemmas, Gilbert Ryle. Grasps philosophical problems at the critical stage when they are just casting off their connections with everyday life, just about to launch on their long academic flight, and that it attempts to deal with them then and there, before they can become airborne.

Doing Contextual Therapy: An integrated model for working with individuals, couples, and families, Peter Goldenthal (1996). “… for many clinicians, [Contextual Therapy] has been a mystery. Doing Contextual Therapy is designed as a workshops between covers to remove this mystery.”

Don’t: A woman’s word, Elly Danica (1990). “… the story of a fighter who, through the writing of this book, discovered within herself the strength to survive and triumph over the horror of incest and sexual exploitation.”

Don’t Help: A Positive Guide to Working with the Alcoholic, Ronald L. Rogers & Chandler Scott McMillin

Don’t Push the River (it flows by itself), Barry Stevens (1970), “the first person account of the author’s use of Gestalt Therapy and the ways of Zen, Krishnamurti, and the American Indian to see herself more clearly.”

Dr. Ruth’s Guide to Good Sex, Dr. Ruth Westheimer (1983)

Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Alice Miller

The Dream Workbook,  Jill Morris (1985). Discover the knowledge and power hidden in your dreams.

The Dreambody in Relationships Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a path of awakening, Arnold Mindell (1987). “… a look at the mystery of relationships and at ways whereby we might unravel it and be happier with one another.”

Dreams, C.G. Jung, translated by R.F.C. Hull

Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language, John A. Sanford. This revised edition of classic exploration of the psychological and spiritual significance of dreams draws on the work of C.G. Jung to show how dreams can help us find healing and wholeness and reconnect us to a living spiritual world.

Dreams and Healing: A Succinct and Lively Interpretation of Dreams, John A Sanford. A detailed and comprehensive examination of dreams by following the courses of the series of dreams of a young university student and a middle-aged woman.

DSM-IV Options Book: Work In Progress. 9/1/91, Task Force on DSM-IV. American Psychiatric Association.

Ego and Archetype, Edward F. Edinger. Here is a remarkably lucid synthesis of C.G. Jung’s basic ideas.

An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis, Charles Brenner, MD

Embracing the Beloved:  Relationship As A Path Of Awakening, Stephen and Ondrea Levine (1995)

EMDR: The breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress, and trauma, Francine Shapiro, Margot Silk Forrest (1997)

The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do when a parent’s love rules your life, Patricia Love with Jo Robinson (1991). “This book describes a syndrome known as emotional incest, a surprisingly common but rarely identified style of parenting in which parents turn to their children, not to their partners, for emotional support.”

Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman (1995). “The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart.”

The Encyclopedic Handbook of Private Practice, Eric A. Margenau, Ph.D., editor

Ended Beginnings: Healing childbearing losses, Claudia Panuthos, Catherine Romeo (1984). “a holistic healing program aimed at mind, heart, body, and soul…”

An End to Innocence: Facing life without illusions, Sheldon Kopp (1981), “by losing our childhood innocence without losing the ability to trust, we can shed old behaviour patterns and learn to live on our own as adults.”

The Essential Ken Wilber: An introductory reader, Ken Wilber (1998). “… contains brief passages from [the author’s] most popular books, ranging over a variety of topics, including levels of consciousness, mystical experience, meditation practice, death, the perennial philosophy, and Wilber’s integral approach to reality.”

The Essential Partnerships, Stanley Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan (1989). How parents and children can meet the emotional challenges of infancy and childhood.

Ethnicity and Family Therapy: Second edition, Monica McGodrick, Joe Giordano, John K. Pearce (1996). “…revised and expanded to encompass the broad range of cultural influenced encountered in clinical practice today.”

Evaluation and Treatment of Marital Conflict, Philip J. Guerin, Jr., Leo F. Fay, Susan L. Burden, & Judith Gilbert Kautto (1987)

Eve: The history of an idea, John A. Phillips (1984). “Phillips’study of the myth of Eve in Western religious history demonstrates a pervasive need in Judaism, Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Islam, and even Gnosticism to scapegoat women for the origin of evil…”

Experience & Education, John Dewey (1938). A clear and concise statement by the twentieth century’s most influential philosopher of education.

Experience Has Taught Us 175 Missing Pieces: An Explorer's Guide; Developing a Handbook on Life Book One, Neil Douglas-Tubb, RCC

Experience Has Taught Us 175 Missing Pieces: An Explorer's Guide; Developing a Handbook on Life Book One, Second Edition, Neil Douglas-Tubb, RCC

Experience Has Taught Us: Searching for the Willingness to Change; The First Five Steps, Neil Douglas-Tubb, RCC

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Francine Shapiro (1995). Basic principles, protocols and procedures.

Facing Death, Robert E. Kavanaugh. Here is a new look at our unrealistic attitudes toward dying. It shows that a growing awareness of what we hope to achieve in life can bring peaceful resignation when death approaches.

Failures in Family Therapy, Sandra B. Coleman, ed. Family therapists present a series or unsuccessful clinical cases.

Fairy Tales in Psychotherapy: The Creative Use of Old and New Tales, Erich Franzke. This book describes methods of using fairy tales and their psychotherapeutic influence.

Families & Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin. Combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy.

Family Based Services: A solution-focused approach, Insoo Kim Berg (1994). “By applying the principles of brief, solution-focused therapy to family-based services, social service workers can deliver treatment that is cost-effective, humane, and empowering to families.” 

Family Constellation: Its effects on personality and social behavior, Walter Toman (1974). “…offers more than sixty prevailing types of relationships between siblings, spouses and children, vis-à-vis parents…”

The Family Crucible: One family’s therapy – an experience that illuminates all our lives, Augustus Y. Napier with Carl A. Whitaker (1985)

The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery, John Bradshaw. Focuses on the dynamics of the family, how the rules and attitudes learned while growing up become encoded within each family member.

Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, Murray Bowen, MD

Family Therapy Techniques, Salvador Minuchin, H. Charles Fishman (1981)

Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating, Geneen Roth (1982). How to overcome emotional hungers that lie behind secret food binges and obsessions.

Feminine Psychology: Previously uncollected essays, edited and with an introduction by Harold Kelman, MD, Karen Horney (1973). “In this collection of papers, many previously unavailable in English, [the author] brings to the subject of femininity her acute clinical observations and a rigorous testing of both her own hypotheses and those formulated by Freud.”

Femininity Lost and Regained, Robert A. Johnson. (1990). “explores the loss of feminine energy in modern culture and its devastating impact on personal lives.”

Feminist Family Therapy: A Case Book, Cheryl Rampage, Barbara Ellman and Kris Halstead. Through the case example, the authors most tellingly reveal how gender role stereotypes constrict the desires, behaviors, and development of all family members.

Final Analysis: The making and unmaking of a psychoanalyst, Jeffrey Masson (1990). “The first insider’s account of the endemic abuses that reach out to every analysis and to psychotherapy in general.”

Finding our Fathers: How a man’s life is shaped by his relationship with his father, Samuel Osherson (1986). “… Harvard psychologist Samuel Osherson shows how a man’s ‘unfinished’ business with his father affects his relationships with his wife, children, friends, and boss – and how it can lead to a profound sense of loneliness, vulnerability, and rage.”

Fire in the Belly: On being a man, Sam Keen (1991)

Focusing, Eugene T. Gendlin (1978). “[a] technique of self therapy that teaches you to identify and change the way your personal problems concretely exist in your body.”

For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence, Alice Miller. A ground-breaking study of the origins of violence.

Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell, Margaret J. Black (1995). A history of modern psychoanalytic thought.

Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming, Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey, W. Harold Grant, Magdala Thompson and Thomas E. Clarke. Correlates Carl Jung’s psychological types with Gospel themes and Christian values.

From Psyche to System: The Evolving Therapy of Carl Whitaker, John R. Neil and David P. Kniskern eds.

Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, David C. Howell

Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud (1961)

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships, Eric Berne, MD

Gender, Ivan Illich

Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, Frederick S. Perls (1992). An action approach to deepening awareness and living fully in the Here and Now, as experienced in workshops at Esalen Institute.

The Girl Within: A groundbreaking new approach to female identity, Emily Hancock (1989). “… examines female development in a way that is radical and at the same time immediately recognizable.” 

Goddesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women, Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD. A breakthrough book, blends mythology and psychology to provide women with a new way of understanding their inner selves, life-roles and relationships.

A Good Enough Parent, Bruno Bettelheim (1988). A book on child rearing.

Group Counselling: Strategies and Skills, E. Jacobs, R. Harvill, R. Masson. (1988)

Group Development, Edited by Leland P. Bradford

Groups: Theory and Experience, 2nd Edition, Rodney W. Napier and Matti K. Gershenfeld

A Guide for the Perplexed, E.F. Schumacher

Guiding Free Expression in Children’s Art, Helen Merritt

Harpur’s Heaven and Hell, Tom Harpur. In revising his most popular and provocative articles, Harpur has been able to speak more frankly than he could as a journalist. Yet even at his most outspoken, he writes as one who is himself in the midst of a spiritual pilgrimage. His subjects range from sexual morality to political activism in the churches, from current religious trends to matters of theology and faith, such as the problem of evil. Interviews with Mother Teresa and Jean Vanier, among others, and two popular series arising from his travels to the Arctic and the Holy Land, will interest readers of all religious convictions.

Healing and Wholeness, John A. Sanford

Healing the Addictive Mind, Lee Jampolsky, Ph.D. Divided into two parts, this book begins by offering an understanding of what addiction is and how it affects our lives. In the second section, daily lessons are presented that are designed to help us choose peace more consistently in our lives.

Healing Fiction, James Hillman (1983). “… Hillman’s main analysis of analysis. He asks the basic question, ‘What does the soul want?’ With insight, humour, and lots of learning, he answers, ‘It wants fictions that heal.’ ”

Healing Into Life and Death, Stephen Levine (1987). “Stephen Levine deals directly with the choice and application of treatment, offering original techniques for working with pain and grief.”

Healing the Shame That Binds You, John Bradshaw. In an emotionally revealing way Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super achieve, resulting in the breakdown in the family system and our inability to go forward with our lives.

The Healing and Wholeness, John Sanford (1966)

The Helping Interview, Alfred Benjamin. The Helping Interview emphasizes genuine dialogue and the vision of the interviewer as empathic listener rather than a mere technician; examines in depth the uses and abuses of questions; recording the interview; new interviewing styles; physical conditions for the interview. Combines theory and practice with appealing and illuminating anecdotes; lists and explores the successful leads and responses.

The Helping Relationship: Process and Skills, Lawrence M. Brammer. The two keys to the helping process are the helper as a person and his skills. This book focuses largely on the helper’s task of developing into a more aware and effective person.

Helplessness: On Depression, Development and Death, Martin E.P. Seligman. Helplessness presents Dr. Seligman’s new theory of anxiety and depression, the result of a ten-year search for the causes and cures of these widespread disorders.

The Herder Symbol Dictionary, Translated by Boris Matthews (1988). Symbols from art, archaeology, mythology, literature, and religion.

Here I Am, Wasn’t I! The inevitable disruption of easy time, Sheldon Kopp (1986). “There is no Nirvana without Samsara, no joy without sorrow.”

Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology: 12th edition, R.L. Atkinson, R.C. Atkinson, E.E. Smith, D.J. Bem. S. Nolan-Hoeksema (1996)

The History of Sexuality: Volume 1, an introduction, Michel Foucault (1980). “… a dazzling, iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the question of what we are to what our sexuality is.”

Home is Where we Start From: Essays by a psychoanalyst, D.W. Winnicott (1986)

Honest Business, A superior strategy for starting and managing your own business. 

How to Live with Your Teenager, Peter H. Buntman, M.S.W., ACSW & Eleanor M. Saris, MEd (1979). A Survivor’s handbook for parents.

Human Sexual Inadequacy, William H. Masters & Virginia E. Johnson. An authentic account of the physical reactions that occur when the human male and female respond to sexual stimulation.

I Come from Behind Kaf Mountain, Murat Yuagan (1984). The author’s “spiritual autobiography.”

I Don’t Know what to Say, Robert Buckman (1988). How to help and support someone who is dying.

The I That Is We: Awakening to Higher Energies Through Unconditional Love, Richard Moss, MD

Ideas for Therapy with Sexual Abuse, Michael Durrant, Cheryl White (ed.) (1992)

The Illness That we Are: A Jungian critique of Christianity, John P. Dourley (1984). “Here is a thoughtful and comprehensive exploration of Jung’s attitudes by Catholic priest and Jungian analyst.”

In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan (1982). Psychological theory and women’s development.

Individuality in Pain and Suffering, Asenath Petrie. Valuable insights for researchers and practitioners in medicine, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences.

In the Middle of this Road We Call Our Life: The courage to search for something more, James W. Jones, (1995). “This is a beautiful exploration of the spiritual search as a way to answer our deepest longings and find our true selves.” 

Inner Work, Robert A. Johnson (1986). Using dreams and active imagination for personal growth.

Inner Work in the Wounded and Creative: The dream in the body, David Roomy (1990). “Pursuing networks of dreams and body signals and symptoms, he gains access to the organizing principles behind his subjects’ lives…”

The Inner World of Choice, Frances G. Wickes, (1978). “Wickes analyzes how the inner development of the individual psyche is a function of a series of inner choices, conscious or unconscious, imposed on the individual by personal and collective experiences, from childhood traumas to universal archetypes.”

In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment in Couples Therapy, Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. & Peter T. Pearson, Ph.D. In this highly innovative volume on the treatment of couples in therapy, the authors present a clear and exciting conceptual framework for understanding the evolution of the couple’s relationship as a dynamic unit. 

Integrating Sex and Marital Therapy: A clinical guide, Gerald R. Weeks, Larry Hof (ed.) (1987). “… by integrating sex and marital therapy, the authors give therapists the opportunity to develop treatment programs that draw from several specific approaches to therapy, ranging from individual to interactional to intergenerational therapies.”

Internal Family Systems Therapy, Richard C. Schwartz (1995). “… illuminates how parts of a person can form paralyzing inner alliances resembling the destructive coalitions found in dysfunctional families, and provides straightforward guidelines for incorporating the IFS model into treatment.”

Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication, Ronald B. Adler, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld and Neil Towne

Intimacy: The Essence of Male & Female, Shirley Gehrke Luthman. This extremely practical volume demonstrates how people can dig down into their inner selves, discover what they really think and feel and learn to become “themselves”.

The Intimacy Paradox, Donald S. Williamson (1991). Personal authority in the family system.

The Intimate Circle: The sexual dynamics of family life, Miriam Ehrenberg, Otto Ehrenberg (1988). “Over forty candid interviews with American family members. A four-part classification of family sexual types. Sex education for parents.”

The Intimate Hour, Susan Baur (1997). Love and sex in psychotherapy.

An Introduction to Jung’s Psychology, Frieda Fordham

The Invincible Partners, John A. Sanford (1980). How the male and female in each of us affects our relationships.

The Invisible Web: Gender patterns in family relationships, Marianne Walters, Betty Carter, Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein (1988). “… this ground-breaking work is an excellent text for courses in family therapy and women’s studies, an invaluable guide for mental health practitioners, and an insightful read for anyone who wishes to explore the invisible web of gender patterns in families.”

Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusive, Alan Jenkins (1997)

Iron John: A Book About Men, Robert Bly

Jocasta’s Children: The imprint of the mother, Christiane Olivier (1989). “…an account of the development of masculinity and femininity at the deepest levels, an account which is rooted in the relationship between the developing child and its mother.”

Joining Together, David W. Johnson, Frank P. Johnson (1997). Group theory and group skills (6th edition).

Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton (1973). “…written to help the author through a personal depression.”

A Joyful Meeting: Sexuality in Marriage, Drs. Mike and Joyce Grace

Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey, W. Brugh Joy, MD An introduction to the potentials for healing with body energies.

Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice, James A. Hall, MD Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to an understanding of dreams in light of the basic principles of Jung’s Analytical Psychology.

The Jungian Experience: Analysis and individuation, James A. Hall (1986). “This book is… addressed to three types of readers: 1) those considering entering Jungian analysis, 2) those already engaged in the Jungian experience, either as analysts or analysands, and 3) those therapists of other theoretical backgrounds who wish to better understand the clinical application of the classical Jungian approach.”

Jung’s Typology, Marie-Louise von Franz