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RECOMMENDED READING LIST |
On Therapy and Personal Growth:
Love’s Executioner—by Irvin Yalom The Road Less Traveled—by M. Scott Peck Telling Secrets—by Frederick Buechner The Hero with a Thousand Faces—by Joseph Campbell Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis—by Stephen A. Mitchell Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women’s Experience—by Ellyn Kaschak Changes that Heal—by Henry Cloud The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity—by Julia Cameron
On Marriage & Relationships:
Passionate Marriage—by David Schnarch Wounds of Passion—bell hooks The Dance of Intimacy—by Harriet Lerner The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing
the Patterns of Intimate Relationships Bold Love—by Dan Allender How to Survive the Loss of a Love—by Peter McWilliams The Battered Wife: How Christians Confront Family Violence—by Nancy Nason-Clark Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Take Control
of Your Life Safe People—by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
On Parenting:
Parenting with Love & Logic—by Foster Cline and Jim Fay Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls —by Mary Pipher Raising Cain: Protecting the
Emotional Life of Boys—by Dan Kindlon and Michael
On Living Through Change:
Transitions: Making Sense of
Life’s Changes—by William Bridges
On Narcissism:
Trapped in the Mirror—by Elan Golomb Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
On Borderline Personality Disorder:
Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship—by Christine Ann Lawson
On Sexual Addiction:
False Intimacy—by Harry Schaumburg Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction—by Patrick Carnes Don’t Call it Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction—by Patrick Carnes
On Sexual Abuse:
The Courage to Heal—by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis Allies in Healing—by Laura Davis The Wounded Heart—by Dan Allender
For Women:
Here All Dwell Free: Stories to Heal the Wounded Feminine—by Gertrud Mueller Nelson In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s
Development Toward a New Psychology of Women--by Jean Baker Miller The Allure of Hope—by Jan Meyers Redeeming Eve—by Heather Webb Wise Woman Archetype: Menopause as Initiation—by Jean Shinoda Bolen Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary—by Louise Kaplan
For Men:
Real Boys - by Willam Pollack I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret
Legacy of Male Depression
On Spirituality:
The Magnificent Defeat—by Frederick Buechner The Weight of Glory—by C.S. Lewis The Dance of the Dissident Daughter—by Sue Monk Kidd The Beginning of Desire—by Avivah Zornberg The Journey of Desire—by John Eldredge The Post-Evangelical—by Dave Tomlinson
On Feminism/Feminist Theology: (contact Susan
for a more extensive Bibliography)
Texts of Terror—by Phyllis Trible God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality—by Phyllis Trible Feminist Interpretation of the Bible—by Letty Russell Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology,
Feminism, and Religion Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology—by Rosemary Radford Ruether In Memory of Her—Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza The Creation of Patriarchy—by Gerda Lerner No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women —by Estelle B. Freedman A Room of One’s Own—by Virginia Woolf Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media—by Susan J. Douglas The Second Sex—by Simone de Beauvoir Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic
Futures
Other Favorites/Important Novels:
The Color Purple—by Alice Walker The Brothers K—by David James Duncan The Poisonwood Bible—by Barbara Kingsolver The Road from Coorain—by Jill Kerr Conway I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—by Maya Angelou The Chosen—by Chaim Potok
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