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Depression, Women's Issues, and Other Self-Help books personally recommended by grrlgoddess. Purchase books online or just browse!
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Cognitive Therapy
Beyond Prozac: Brain-Toxic Lifestyles, Natural Antidotes & New Generation Antidepressants
Hypericum (St. John's Wort) and Depression,
Listening to Prozac
Winter Blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder: What It Is and How to Overcome It
How to Heal Depression
The Feeling Good Handbook: Using the New Mood Therapy in Everyday Life
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Silencing the Self: Women and Depression
The New Assertive Woman
The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independance
The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
Creative Visualization
Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts
Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School--but Didn't
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
I Could do Anything if I Only Knew What it Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
Intimate Connections: The Clinically Proven Program for making Close Friends and Finding a Loving Partner,
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought: A Book for people with Any Life-Threatening Illness--Including Life
The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, To Work, To Play Life in the Balance
When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within,
Relaxation Response
Depression Titles:
Aaron Beck, M.D.
He's the one who developed it!
Michael J. Nordon, M.D.
The drug Prozac, while useful for millions, supplements a process that occurs naturally in all humans. In this book, Norden, a pioneer in developing applications for Prozac, looks at natural processes to supplement or replace the drug in the treatment of depression.
Peter McWilliams, et al.
Everything you need to know about this herbal remedy.
Peter D. Kramer.
This is an important work which gives a different perspective on the popular drug.
Norman E. Rosenthal
Everything you need to know about SAD.
Harold H. Bloomfield and Peter McWilliams, Prelude Press: 1994.
David D. Burns, M.D.
A good accompanyment to the next book.
David D. Burns, M.D., Avon books: 1980.
Cognitive Therapy theory described and how to use it in a self-help context.
An important contribution to the fields of psychology and women's studies, Silencing the Self is a startling treatise on the roots of female depression that draws on new understandings of the importance of relationships in women's lives.
Women's Issues Titles:
Lynn Z. Bloom, Dell Publishing, 1980.
A sociological perspective on assertiveness in women along with help on how to be more assertive.
Collette Dowling
Why women crave dependance and wish to be rescued. How we can overcome these tendencies. This is a great book!
Naomi Wolf
Explores the phenomenon of the violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement.
Glenn A. Gaesser
Exposes the myth that thin equals healthy.
Consider these facts: there is no connection between fat-clogged arteries and obesity ... for millions of Americans, weights above those recommended by height-weight tables are actually above average or better for health and longevity statistics ... weight fluctuations or yo-yo dieting may ultimately be fatal ... dieting may be the reason for your weight gain.Other Self-Help Titles:
Shakti Gawain, Bantam Books: 1979.
I love this book!
John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
Part of The Life 101 Series. A good book to help people overcome procrastination and set life goals.
Peter McWilliams.
Full of good stuff and quotes.
Nathaniel Branden
I haven't read it, but it seems to be the book to read on the subject.
Barbara Sher
How to find out what you want in life and then go get it. Excellent goal-setting techniques!
Barbara Sher
This book helps you rediscover your dream.
David D. Burns, M.D., Signet: 1985.
Use Cognitive Therapy to overcome loneliness and low self-esteem.
Neil Fiore, Ph.D., St. Martin's Press: 1989.
John-Roger and Peter McWilliams, Prelude Press: 1988.
How to focus on the positive in life.
Paul Pearsall
I love the Aloha concept. Put some joy back in your life.
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., New Harbinger Publications: 1989.
Herbert Benson
How to meditate. Read this if you are always anxious.
