Suggested Reading

Addiction and Recovery

  • Get your loved ones sober: alternatives to nagging, pleading and threatening. Robert Meyers and Brenda Wolfe

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  • The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-free Life, Catherine Grey

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  • Stopping Anxiety Medication. Michael Otto and Mark Pollack.

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  • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Allen Carr.

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  • The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook, Glasner-Edwards et al.

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  • Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention: Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician's Guide, Neha Chawla and Sarah Bowen

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  • Unhooked: How to Quit Anything, Susan Shapiro and Frederick Woolverton

Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score. Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Bessel van der Kolk.

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  • Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation, Sandra Paulsen

Depression

  • The Mindful Way Workbook. John Teasdale, Mark Williams and Zindel Segal.
     

  • Mind over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think. Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky.

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  • Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl.

Anxiety/Anger

  • Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry. Michelle Craske, David Barlow.
     

  • Stopping Anxiety Medication. Michael Otto and Mark Pollack.

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  • Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner

Mindfulness

  • One Breath at a Time. Buddhism and the Twelve Steps. Kevin Griffin.
     

  • Thoughts without a Thinker. Mark Epstein.
     

  • The Mindful Way Workbook. John Teasdale, Mark Williams and Zindel Segal

General Psychotherapy

  • Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model. Richard Schwartz.

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  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Lori Gottlieb.

Obesity and Eating Disorders

  • The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance. Sylvia Karasu and Byram Karasu.

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  • Cookie Rosenblum website/podcast/book. realweightlossrealwomen.com

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  • Overcoming Binge Eating. Christopher Fairburn.

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  • Brain over Binge Recovery Guide. Kathryn Hansen.

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  • Binge No More: Your Guide to Overcoming Disordered Eating -  Joyce D. Nash

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  • The Body Image Workbook - Thomas F. Cash 

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  • The Learn Program for Weight Management – KD Brownell

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  • The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Weight Management: A Step-by-Step Program Laliberte, McCabe, & Taylor

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  • Food Addiction, Obesity, and Disorders of Overeating, Claire Wilcox

Multiple Topics

© Claire Wilcox, MD, Placitas, New Mexico

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Wellness, Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry