Psychotherapy Resources

You may find valuable information at the following links:

Anxiety Disorders

• Overview of Anxiety Disorders
• Does This Sound Like You?
  
  
• Types of Anxiety Disorders
  
  
  • What is panic disorder and agoraphobia?
  • What is generalized anxiety disorder?
  • What is social anxiety?
  • What is post traumatic stress disorder?
  • What are specific phobias?
  • What is obsessive compulsive disorder?

Mood Disorders

• What is depression?
• What is bipolar disorder?

Relationships

• Marriage and Couples Self Help and Quiz
• Gay and Lesbian Self Help and Quiz

LGBT Mental Health

• LGBT resources
• Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)
• Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples
• LGBT bibliography

Parenting and Children

• Emotion Coaching
• Your Child's Emotions and Behavior
• Positive Parenting
• Kid's Health.org
• Dealing With Feelings
• Growing Up
• Ways to Get Help
• Teen's Health.org

Mental Health Links

• Websites
• Resources

Here are some additional places to find information about issues of concern to you. You can follow the links to the websites of these organizations, of which I am a professional member.

Helpful organizations:

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America
• Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
• Trichotillomania Learning Center (TLC)
• International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation (IOCDF)

The following books have been useful for some people thinking about the issues that you are reading about here. Helpful resources are very individual so they may or may not be useful for you. Click on the title of any book listed below to purchase a new or used copy at Amazon.

ANXIETY

• The Agoraphobia Workbook by C. Alec Pollard, PhD and Elke Zuercher-White, PhD
• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger, PhD, and Christine A. Padesky, PhD
• Shyness and Social Phobia Workbook: Proven Techniques for Overcoming Your Fears by Martin M. Antony, PhD.
Also co-written by the author
• Overcoming Animal & Insect Phobias: How To Conquer Fear Of Dogs, Snakes, Rodents, Bees, Spiders & More
• Overcoming Medical Phobias: How to Conquer Fear of Blood, Needles, Doctors, And Dentists
• 10 Simple Solutions to Shyness: How to Overcome Shyness, Social Anxiety & Fear of Public Speaking
• 10 Simple Solutions to Panic: How to Overcome Panic Attacks, Calm Physical Symptoms, & Reclaim Your Life
• Anxious 9 to 5: How to Beat Worry, Stop Second Guessing Yourself, And Work With Confidence
• Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety and Phobia by Barbara G. Markway, PhD, et. al.
• Freeing Your Child from Anxiety by Tamar Chansky, PhD
• Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks by R. Reid Wilson, PhD (available through the ADAA website)
• Taking the Anxiety Out of Taking Tests: A Step-By-Step Guide by Susan Johnson
• It’s Not All in Your Head: How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick-and What You Can Do about It by Gordon Asmundson, PhD, and Steven Taylor, PhD
• Flying Without Fear by Duane Brown, PhD.
• The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry and Anxiety Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Chad Lejeune.
• The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety by John Forsyth and Georg Eifert.

• Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life by Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD.
• The Imp Of The Mind: Exploring The Silent Epidemic Of Obsessive Bad Thoughts by Lee Baer, PhD
• Tormenting Thoughts & Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Ian Osborn, MD
• Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD
• The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Bruce M. Hyman, PhD and Cherry Pedrick, RN
• Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save and How You Can Stop by Fugen Neziroglu, PhD, et. al.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well by Fred Penzel, PhD
• Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Tamar Chansky, PhD
• What to Do When Your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions by Aureen Pinto Wagner, PhD.
Also by the author
• Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment
• Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser (young adult fiction)
• Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: How to Gain Control of Your OCD by Christine Purdon, PhD and David A. Clark, PhD
• Freedom From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living With Uncertainty by Jonathan Grayson, PhD
• Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding & Compulsive Acquiring by Michael Topkins and Tamara Hartl.
• Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding by David Tolin, Randy Frost and Gail Steketee.
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee.

• Help for Hair Pullers: Understanding and Coping with Trichotillomania by Nancy J. Keuthen, PhD, et. al.
• The Hair-Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania by Fred Penzel, PhD
• The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones by James Claiborn PhD and Cherry Pedrick RN

• The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder by Katharine A. Phillips, MD
• The BDD Workbook: Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Body Image Obsessions by James Claiborn, PhD and Cherry Pedrick, RN
• Feeling Good About the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems by Sabine Wilhelm, PhD

• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Also by the author
• Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life and Mindfulness for Beginners (Audio CD)

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
Also by the authors
• Siblings Without Rivalry
• Love and Logic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years by Charles Fay, PhD, and Jim Fay.
Also by Jim Fay
• Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants: Parenting Styles and the Messages They Send
• Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Child Approach by Howard Glasser, MA, and Jennifer Easley, MA.
• Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
• Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real Life Parenthood by Camille Peri and Kate Moses of Salon.com
• The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life by Harriet Lerner, PhD
• Why Parents Disagree: How Women and Men Parent Differently and How We Can Work Together by Ron Taffel, PhD
• Love Works Like This: Traveling Through a Pregnant Year by Lauren Slater
• Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective

• Never Good Enough: Freeing Yourself from the Chains of Perfectionism by Monica Ramirez Basco
• When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism by Martin M. Antony and Richard Swinton

• We Love Each Other But...: Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last by Ellen Wachtel, JD, PhD
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, PhD, and Nan Silver
• The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate by Harriet Lerner, PhD.
Also by Harriet Lerner
• The Dance of Intimacy
• The Dance Of Fear
• Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch
• The Truth About Love: The Highs, the Lows, and How You Can Make It Last Forever by Patricia Love, EdD
• Talk to Me Like I’m Someone You Love: Relationship Repair in a Flash by Nancy Dreyfus.

• Hot Monogamy: Essential steps to more passionate, intimate lovemaking by Patricia Love, EdD and Jo Robinson
• The New Male Sexuality: The Truth about Men, Sex and Pleasure by Bernie Zilbergeld, PhD
• Sex and Love for Grownups: A No-Nonsense Guide to a Life of Passion by Sallie Foley, MSW.
Also by this author and Sally Kope, MSW
• Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self
• The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz, MSW
• Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel, MA

• Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last by Betty Berzon, PhD
• 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives by Joe Kort, MSW
• Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships by D.Merilee Clunis and G. Dorsey Green
• True Secrets of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships by Renate Stendhal
• The Lesbian Couples Guide by Judith McDaniel
• The Gay and Lesbian Self-Esteem Book: A Guide to Loving Ourselves by Kimeron Hardin, Ph.D.
• The Lavender Couch: A Consumer’s Guide to Psychotherapy for Lesbians and Gay Men by Marny Hall, Ph.D.
• Queer Blues: The Lesbian & Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression by Kimeron Hardin and Marny Hall.
• Accepting Ourselves and Others: A Journey into Recovery from Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors for Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals by Sheppard and Kathyrn Kominars

• The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women by Lauren Slater et. al.
• Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Also
• Our Bodies, Ourselves Menopause
• The New Ourselves, Growing Older
• Changing Bodies, Changing Lives [for teens]

• The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent by Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD
• Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents: What Care Receivers Want by Cheryl A. Kuba
• Changing Places: A Journey with My Parents into Their Old Age by Judy Kramer
• Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even If They Didn't Take Care of You by Roberta Satow, PhD
• Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders by Mary Pipher, PhD

• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger, PhD, and Christine A. Padesky, PhD
• Breaking the Patterns of Depression by Michael D. Yapko, PhD
• Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life by Bill O’Hanlon
• Winter Blues, Revised Edition: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder by Norman E. Rosenthal