Introducing our Book Club!
Are you a clinician who loves to read? Do you ever read great books and wonder how to use them with clients? Every month it seems another book is published in our industry or our close cousin, the self-help industry. It is hard enough to find time to read these books, and if you can, it can be confusing to incorporate the material into your clinical practice. We've got you.
Join our monthly club of fellow clinicians on zoom as we take a deep dive into each book.
Please invite your friends and colleagues. The more the merrier 🎉
Did we mention it's FREE!!
Upcoming Free Book Club Events
May 19, 2024
June 30, 2024
June 30, 2024
August 11, 2024
Click on a book event above to register.
Learn more about the club and each book pick below.
WHAT TO EXPECT
First you register for each monthly event. (Come to all of them!). Then you read the book!
Then you join us on zoom, prepared to discuss the following three questions:
General Impressions?
What were your impressions of the book? Did you generally like it or not? What were specific parts, theories, or examples that were impactful? What do you think could have made a better book?
Inform your Practice?
Would you use this book to inform your practice, and if so how? Do you believe it will be an aide to how you run your practice, what theoretical orientation you use, or in any other way?
Clinical Tool?
Would you share this book or passages within it with clients directly? If yes, in what circumstances and conditions? How would you use it as a tool? If not, why not?
May 2024 Pick:
The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno
The conventional view of grieving--encapsulated by the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance--is defined by a mourning process that we can only hope to accept and endure.
In The Other Side of Sadness, psychologist and emotions expert George Bonanno argues otherwise. Our inborn emotions--anger and denial, but also relief and joy--help us deal effectively with loss. To expect or require only grief-stricken behavior from the bereaved does them harm. In fact, grieving goes beyond mere sadness, and it can actually deepen interpersonal connections and even lead to a new sense of meaning in life.
‘Fascinating and readable . . . a sensitive and sensible view of loss...’
– THE NEW YORK TIMES
‘There are a lot of books on bereavement and now you can throw them all away. Bonanno carefully assembles scientific evidence to show that most of what we thought we knew is just plain wrong. The Other Side of Sadness is a game changer. There’s nothing else like it. If you want to know the truth about the human experience of loss, there’s only one book on the shelf.’
– DANIEL GILBERT, Harvard University, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Check out this website for more information about this book.
June 2024 Pick:
You Are the One You've Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz
A groundbreaking approach for practicing courageous love and resilient intimacy―from the creator of Internal Family Systems therapy
Do loving relationships end because couples lack communication skills, struggle to empathize, and fail to accommodate each other’s needs? That’s a common belief within and outside of the therapeutic world… but what if it’s all wrong? In You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For, Dr. Richard Schwartz, the celebrated founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, offers a new way―a path toward courageous love that replaces the striving, dependent, and disconnected approach to solving relationship challenges.
The breakthrough realization of IFS is that our psyche contains multiple parts, each with a life of its own. Most problems in relationships arise because we unknowingly burden our partner with the task of caring for our disowned and unloved parts.
“This highly original book offers critical new insights into obstacles to the dance of intimacy. Most of us have inner exiled parts that carry burdens of shame and abandonment from our past. These interfere with our capacity for intimacy. Dick Schwartz shows us how to use the exiles our partners trigger in us to find and heal the source―our original attachment injuries. This releases our capacity to be fully alive in relationships.”
– BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD, Medical Director, The Trauma Center
Check out this website for more information about this book.
July 2024 Pick:
The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself.
Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have them--in order to achieve work/life balance, cope with toxic people, and enjoy rewarding relationships with partners, friends, and family. But what do "healthy boundaries" really mean--and how can we successfully express our needs, say "no," and be assertive without offending others?
Licensed counselor, sought-after relationship expert, and one of the most influential therapists on Instagram Nedra Glover Tawwab demystifies this complex topic for today's world. In a relatable and inclusive tone, Set Boundaries, Find Peace presents simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life. Rooted in the latest research and best practices used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), these techniques help us identify and express our needs clearly and without apology--and unravel a root problem behind codependency, power struggles, anxiety, depression, burnout, and more.
“The book on boundaries we've all been waiting for!"
– VIENNA PHARADON, LMFT
“This is the boundary bible."
– ALEXANDRA ELLE author of After the Rain
Check out this website for more information about this book.
August 2024 Pick:
August by Judith Rossner
Our "Old School Pick!" One month a year we will read a book from the past to see how it measure up to today. Have fun with this one!
From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar— the story of two women, a psychoanalyst and her patient who help each other through very different periods in their lives.
When Dawn Henley, the beautiful, talented Barnard College freshman steps into psychoanalyst Dr. Lulu Shinefeld’s office, she’s immediately intrigued. What could have driven this girl to such extreme levels of depression? Over the course of five years, Dawn’s bizarre and tortured childhood is drawn out, and both women are inevitably changed.
"This is one of the all-time, hands-down, best novels ever written about psychoanalysis."
The story told is a masterpiece of psychotherapy-writing and should be included as a required text in psychotherapy institutes' training programs.
Check out this website for more information about this book.
Previous Selections
Check out what you missed. Be sad. Then make sure you don't miss another one!
