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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?  Here’s your in-progress list.  Nominate more!  Use email,  comments (below), or twitter (be sure to add the hashtag #therapybooks to nomination posts). Stay tuned for a vote for best of the best-ever.

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For Therapists

• Shouldn’t I Be Feeling Better Now? Yvonne Bates

• Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, Judith Beck

• A CBT Practitioners Guide to ACT, Joseph Ciarrochi & Ann Bailey

• Resolving Sexual Abuse, Yvonne Dolan

• Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, Albert Ellis

• The Transforming Power of Affect, Diana Fosha

• Consuming Psychotherapy, Ann France

• Reality Therapy, William Glasser

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change, Hayes, Strosahl, and Wilson

• Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erikson, MD, Jay Haley

• Direct Social Work Practice, Hepworth…

• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence, Judith Herman

• Play Therapy – The Art of the Relationship, Garry Landreth

• Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder, Marsha Linehan

• Where to Start, What to Ask, Susan Lucas

• Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, Nancy McWilliams

• Motivational Interviewing,  William Miller and Stephen Rollnick

• Listening with the Third Ear, Theodor Reik

• Don’t Lose Your Patients, Herbert Strean

• The Gift of Therapy, Irvin Yalom

• Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Irvin Yalom

For Everyone

• The Good Divorce, Constance Ahrons

• Dibs in Search of Self, Virginia Axline

• Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach

• Feeling Good, David Burns

• The Art of Happiness, Dalai Llama

• The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Davis, Eshelman, McKay, and Fanning

• The Complete Single Mother, Andrea Engber & Leah Klungness

• The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, John Forsyth and Georg Eifert

• Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

• Trapped in the Mirror, Elan Golomb

• The Seven Principles of Making a Marriage Work, John Gottman

• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Steven Hayes

• Getting the Love You Want, Harville Hendrix

• Hold Me Tight, Sue Johnson

• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn

• If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him, Sheldon Kopp

• The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck

• On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

• The Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner

• Today I Will Do One Thing, Tim Mc

• The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller

• For Your Own Good, Alice Miller

• The Divided Mind, John Sarno

• Passionate Marriage, David Schnarch

• Parenting from the Inside Out, Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell

• The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression, Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson

• The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

• After the Honeymoon, Daniel Wile

• Love’s Executioner, Irvin Yalom

All titles are listed and available at the Where the Client Is Bookstore (Amazon affiliate).