Recommended Books For Mental Health

Trauma, Attachment & Mental Health

 The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
 What Happened to You? — Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
 The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog — Bruce Perry
 When the Body Says No — Gabor Maté
 The Myth of Normal — Gabor Maté
 The Choice — Edith Eger
 Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
 Born to Rise — Debbie Kennedy

Addiction & Substance Use

 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Gabor Maté

Addiction & Recovery

 Dreamland — Sam Quinones (listed as D. Randall in image)
 Memoirs of an Addicted Brain — Marc Lewis

ADHD & Neurodiversity

Scattered Minds — Gabor Maté
(also published as “Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You
Can Do About It”)

Family Systems, Relationships & Codependency

 Hold On to Your Kids — Gabor Maté
 Peoplemaking — Virginia Satir
 Co-Dependent No More — Melody Beattie
 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus — John Gray

Anxiety, OCD & Emotional Regulation

 The Worry Trap — Chad LeJeune
 Brain Lock — Jeffrey M. Schwartz
 Anger Management — Gary Chapman

 How to Stop Worrying and Start Living — Dale Carnegie
 DARE — Barry McDonagh

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Thinking Patterns

 Feeling Good — David D. Burns
 The Art of Thinking Clearly — Rolf Dobelli

Mindfulness, Spiritual Growth & Personal Development

 The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
 A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
 The Big Questions in Life — Om Swami
 The Law of Attraction — Esther & Jerry Hicks

Brain, Neuroscience & Human Development

 The Female Brain — Louann Brizendine

Emotional Intelligence, Mindset & Personal Growth

 Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
 Mindset — Carol Dweck

Psychology, Decision-Making & Human Behavior

 Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
 Blink — Malcolm Gladwell
 Talking to Strangers — Malcolm Gladwell

Sociology, Success & Cultural Trends

 Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
 The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
 David and Goliath — Malcolm Gladwell

Medical Humanities & Healthcare

 Better — Atul Gawande
 The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
 Complications — Atul Gawande

Human Development & Lifespan Psychology

 The Life Span — Patricia Broderick & Pamela Blewitt

Fiction & Literary Psychology

 The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
 Trapeze — Simon Mawer