books about: compulsive     books:     Compulsive      Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal ... Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, ... New Harbinger Publications, 2007 A must have for therapists in clinical practice I have found this workbook to be an invaluable resource in working with clients that struggle with distress tolerance. Not only useful for BPD clients, but also clients with addictions and other self harming behaviors. Everyone that I have used this with has found it ...             Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery James Patterson, Hal Friedman, ... Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what ...             Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder Edward M. Md Hallowell, John J. Md Ratey Ballantine Books, 2005 Eye Opening Sent this book to my daughter as she is adhd, and she was enthralled with the info it contained and I think helped her in many ways...she found it valuable to her in many areas she said.             Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings---And 7 Steps to End Them Naturally Neal D. Barnard St. Martin's Griffin, 2004 Food Awareness from a Chemical Standpoint Being a medical doctor and nutritionist, Neal Barnard explains the chemical reactions that take place in our brain and cause our bodies to crave or even worse become addicted to certain unhealthful foods. His remedy is most importantly, eating a proper breakfast with ...             What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD (What-to-Do Guides for Kids) Dawn Huebner Magination Press, 2007 Easy to read and offers great ideas I thought this was a great book for kids and teens with OCD. I am a therapist and I will recommend it to all my clients with OCD.             Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick The Guilford Press, 2002 Motivated The book is written by academics for academics, but I think it is well written for the layperson who is interested in the topic. This is a good book for anyone who is interested in methods for changing behavior.             What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What to Do Guides for Kids) Dawn Huebner Magination Press, 2005 End of Worries My daughter had chronic stomachaches which we had checked out medically. We were assured that they were stress related. This book was just what we needed. She loved being able to actually write in and draw in the book about her worries. It was engaging and empowering ...             Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder Marsha M. Linehan The Guilford Press, 1993 DBT Group made easy This manual is fantastic! Not only does it provide succinct guidelines on how to teach the core Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills, but it stands alone quite well too. The additional text (Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Peronality Disorder), ...             Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Back Bay Books, 2006 Great even if you don't get everything I didn't, like one reviewer here suggested, look up every word I didn't know in the dictionary (and there were a lot. Antinomy?) I didn't even read all the footnotes, because after a while this was, even though it was a great book, one of those books where you start ...             Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think Dennis Greenberger, Christine Padesky The Guilford Press, 1995 it helped me This book was recommended by my phychologist. He couldn't have been more right on. This is the first real help I have had in solving a lot of anxiety and stress in my life. It is so down to earth on what we know but what we so easily overlook in our fix for the human ...             Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 didn't know I have OCD-thought I was just an "accumulator" First time ever to see a psychologist. She recommended this book. IT IS a TREASURE!! Some of the exercises are hard to do, but they sure open "doors" I didn't know I HAD!! A collector collects thing of VALUE; an accumulator saves EVERYTHING--Just In Case!!             Breaking Free from Emotional Eating Geneen Roth Plume, 2003 the right book at the right time I don't usually write reviews but I felt like I had to for this one. "Breaking Free" goes beyond just food to explore the essentials: emotions, shame, forgiveness, sexuality. Truly a special book--Roth's voice is very genuine and the personal experiences she relates ...             Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Bantam, 2007 thought provoking and effective I bought this book, along with The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!, about two years ago. When I went for my last physical, I discovered that I had lost 28 pounds over the ...             One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps Kevin Griffin Rodale Books, 2004 Makes perfect sense to me. As I've been going through the Steps, I have my sponsor, AA support, and many books as my guides. When I compare the steps in each of the books (Big Book, 12x12, etc.) to One Breathe at a Time, this is the one that speaks in a language I can understand, that helped me ...             The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Bruce M. Hyman, Cherry Pedrick New Harbinger Publications, 2005 Great tool to use with proper CBT I use this book in conjunction with CBT and also the book Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior. The triumvirate is very important. You can do this on your own, I do however recommend a licensed therapist to assist you. This is brain surgery on a ...          products you might be interested in search for books effectiveness, interpersonal, interviewing, mindfulness, motivational, obsessive-compulsive      toavi.com    web we recommend Great even if you don't get everything randomly chosen book: Parasite Pig