Campbell, B. M. (2005). 72 Hour Hold. Anchor Books.
Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder. Frightened by her own child, Keri searches for help. She signs on for an illegal intervention known as The Program. In the upheaval that follows, she is forced to confront a past that refuses to stay buried, even as she battles to secure a future for her child.

Frankl, V. (1992). Man's search for meaning: An introduction to logotherapy (4th). Beacon Press.
Descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz. Frankl's theory – known as logotherapy – holds that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.

Lamb, W. (1992). She’s come undone. Washington Square Press.
Hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Lamb, W. (2008). This much is true. Harper Perennial.
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.

Pipher, M. (2203). Letters to a young therapist. Basic Books.
A candid reveal of the triumphs and tribulations of nearly thirty years of experiences as a clinical psychologist.

Steel, D. (1998). His bright light: The story of Nick Traina. Dell Publishing
An extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death, to share the story, pain, courage, love, manic-depression, and living through it.

Wall, J. (2005). The glass castle. Charles Scribner's Sons.
The unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing Jeannette Wall and her siblings had at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents and her father’s long held intention of building his dream house, a glass castle.

Whitaker, C. & Napier, A. (2011). The family crucible. Harper Collins
Scenarios of one family’s therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families—stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity—and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.

Yalom, I. D. (1996). Lying on the couch. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
A provocative exploration exposing the many lies that are told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, giving readers a tantalizing, almost illicit, glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions.

Yalom, I. D. (2002). The gift of therapy: An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients. HarperCollins.
An acclaimed psychological thinker provides wisdom and insights for successful therapy.

Yalom, I. D. (2012). Love’s executioner. Basic Books.
Uncover the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. With insight and sympathy, get a rare and enthralling glimpse into the personal desires and motivations of ten of patients.