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Recommended Reading List

This reading list is not comprehensive nor is it meant as a substitute for psychotherapy.  It does represents some of the books that Dr. West has found most helpful to her patients.   
 
Alcohol Related Disorders:
  • Lifework: A Workbook for Adult Children of Alcoholics (Coleman and Donley, 1992) 
 
Anxiety Related Disorders:
  • The Anxiety  & Phobia Workbook: Fourth Edition (Bourne, 2005)
  • Be Happy Without Being Perfect (Domar and Kelly, 2008)
  • Freedom From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living with Uncertainty (Grayson, 2003)
  • Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents (Eisen and Engler, 2006)
 
Parenting Issues: 
  • The New Strong Willed Child: Birth Through Adolescence (Dobson, 2004) 
  • Raising Your Spirited Child (Kurcinka, 2006) 
  • Why Do They Act That Way? Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen (Walsh, 2004) 
 
Personality Disorders:
  • Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grownup's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents (Brown, 2001)
  • Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder (Mason and Kreger, 1998)
 Relationship Issues:
  • Obsessive Love: When It Hurts Too Much to Let Go (Forward and Buck, 1991)
  • How Can I Forgive You: The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To (Spring, 2004)
 
Other:
  • An Adult Child's Guide To What's "Normal" (Friel and Friel, 1990)
  • The Unteethered Soul (Singer, 2007)

 
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