Recommended Reading

"Remember that consciousness is power." -Yuri Kochiyama


On depression:  The Noonday Demon, by Andrew Solomon


On PTSD:  The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit, by Donald Kalsched


On Internal Family Systems: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, by Richard Schwartz, PhD


On psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration by Stanislav Grof

The Healing Journey - New Approaches to Consciousness, by Claudio Naranjo


On bipolar illness:  An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Jameson, PhD


On anxiety: My Age of Anxiety, by Scott Stossel


On parenting:  Parenting From the Inside Out, by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel


On severe and persistent mental illness: The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn R. Sacks


On race and oppression: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Joy DeGruy 

Only What We Could Carry, The Japanese Internment Experience, Lawson Fusao Inada


On therapy: Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, by Irvin D. Yalom

A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy, by Annie G. Rogers


On relationships: Mating in Captivity, by Esther Perel
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy, by Jessica Fern


On pregnancy loss: The Brink of Being; Talking about Miscarriage, by Julia Bueno