If you have read a book or listened to a tape that has helped you in your recovery, please let others know so that they will be aware of the materials that are out there to help them with their own healing.
Email me with the titles (and authors, if possible) and I will keep a continuous list going on this page.
Thank you for your contribution.
The following is a list of books and tapes kindly submitted by those who have benefitted by them.
I hope they will help you with your healing......
*The Highly Sensitive Person
by Elanine N. Aron, PhD
Broadway Books, New York
Soft cover $17.95 CDN, $13.00 US
Anon's thesis is that a percentage of the population is more aroused by stimulus in their environment. Consequently they become overwhelmed,frazzled, and need to be alone.
*The Alphabet Soup Book on PD.
It contains everything from definitions to self-diagnoses to cognitive behavior training, desensitization exercises, etc...
*Your Sacred Self
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Harper Collins
Available in most libraries.
Dyer's most important message in this book is, "...I am not my body....Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself..."
*Transitions
by William Bridges,
Adison Wesley
Soft cover $16.50 CDN, $12.00 US
Bridges' concern is with the stages of change. Particularly interesting is 'The Neutral Zone', that area between endings and new beginnings which he calls the period of "...disorientation... unproductive time out...emotionally disconnected to the present...a period of reorientation..."
*O Prisioneiro do Medo (The Prisoner of Fear)
Portugese language
by Silvana A. Prado Silva
Email: [email protected]
*Peace from Nervous Suffering
by Dr. Claire Weekes
*Simple, Effective Treatment of Agoraphobia
by Dr. Claire Weekes
*Hope And Help For Your Nerves
by Dr. Claire Weekes
*Triumph Over Fear
by Jerilyn Ross
*The Twelve Steps of Phobics Anonymous
by Marily Gellis PhD & Rosemary Muat, M.A.
*The Feeling Good Handbook
by Dr. David Burn
*Your Erroneous Zones
by Wayne Dyer
*Living Fear Free
by Melvin D. Green
*The Relaxation Response
by Herbert Benson, MD.
*The House Without The Door
by Maryanne Garbowsky
*Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
by Edmund J. Bourne
*Your Phobia
by Manuel D. Zane
*Prozac Nation
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
*Darkness Visible
*Life With The Panic Monster
by Evelyn Barkely Stewart
*Secrets of Inner Peace
by Donald Walters
*Creeds To Live By, Dreams To Follow
by Susan Polis Schultz
*From Panic To Power
by Lucinda Bassett
*Fantasma Do Medo - Sindorome Do Panico -
Uma Historia Real
(The Ghost Of Fear - Panic Attack - A Real History)
by Maria Adelaide Daudt D'Oliveira
*Books by Louisa Hayes
*Attacking Anxiety
15 Week Course/Self Help Program from Midwest Center, Oak Harbor, Ohio
*Feel The Fear...And Do It Anyway
by Susan Jeffers, PhD.
(also available as Book on Tape)
*The Castle Of The Pearl
by Christopher Biffel
(Tells a story where you fill in the blanks)
*Anxiety, Panic Attacks And Agoraphobia
Information For Support People, Family And Friends by Kenneth V. Strong
2nd Edition © 1997 ISBN0929028-10-4
(www.pacificcoast.net/~kstrong/ken.html)
*Anxiety And Panic Attacks, Their Cause And Cure
by Robert Handley with Pauline Neff
(Fawcett Crest Books)
*The Fear Book, Facing Fear Once And For All
by Cheri Huber
(Keep It Simple Books)
*Happiness - The TM Program Psychiatry And Enlightenment
by Harold M. Bloomfield MD & Robert B. Kory
*TM Discovering Inner Energy And Overcoming Stress 1976
*Educational Psychology, Theory Into Practice
by Robert E. Slavin
The following are not self-help books but depict lone figures facing life head-on, armed only with courage and will-power:
*The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
by John Le Carre
*Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
*James Bond books by Ian Fleming
*Ulysses by Tennyson
*Invictus by Henley
*The Odyssey by Homer
*The Aeneid by Virgil
*The Silva Method by Jose Silva
*Accepting Change - Moving On by Emmiett
E. Miller, MD.
(415-328-7171 for information)
*Guided Imagery Tapes/Affirmations
by Bellaruth Naparstek
*Misty Forest Morning by David & Steve Gordon
1982 Seqoia Records
*Let The Ocean Worry
Relaxation Co. Inc.
Have one you would like to add?.........
