Where the Client Is

What therapy books have had the biggest impact on the way you practice?  What books do you most often, and most confidently, recommend to your clients?  Let’s put together a list.

Submit your favorites in two categories–books “For Therapists” and books “For Everyone.” The first category is meant to include professional books; the second set is intended for more readable, general audience-type books, good for clients and clinicians both.

Making your nominations for best-ever in both categories is easy.  Use email,  comments (below), or–more lively–twitter (be sure to add the hashtag #therapybooks to nomination posts).

In the near-ish future, I’ll post lists of the nominations followed by a vote to find WTCI readers’ top picks x 2.

To spice it up some, let’s make this all a contest:  Submit the winner in either category and WTCI will send a copy of the book you nominated, in your name, to the program or agency of your choice.  (Or to you–but assuming if you love it, you already have it).

Here, to get the lists going, some ideas in both categories.

For Therapists

• Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, Judith Beck
• Motivational Interviewing, William Miller and Stephen Rollnick
• Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Irvin Yalom

For Everyone

• Getting the Love You Want, Harville Hendrix
• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner

All nominees will be added to the WTCI Bookstore (Amazon affiliate site).

What therapy books do you love? Let everyone know. Write/comment/tweet away!