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Subject Catalog

ABUSE
ANXIETY
DEPRESSION
INSPIRATION & PERSONAL GROWTH
MEDICINE
MENTAL ILLNESS
MISCELLANEOUS
NUTRITION
PEER SUPPORT
PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS
RECOVERY
SUBSTANCE ABUSE &ADDICTIONS

 

ABUSE

Bass, Ellen & Davis, Laura
(1988)
The courage to heal:  a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse
New York:  Harper & Row

Bass, Ellen & Davis, Laura
(1994)
The courage to heal:  a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse:  featuring “Honoring the truth:  a response to the backlash”
New York:  HarperPerennial

Copeland, Mary Ellen & Harris, Maxine
(2000)
Healing the trauma of abuse:  a women’s workbook
Oakland, CA:  Harbinger Publications

Davis, Laura
(1991)
Allies in healing:  when the person you love was sexually abused as a child
New York:  Harper

Davis, Laura
(1990)
The courage to heal workbook:  for women and men survivors of child sexual abuse
New York:  HarperPerennial

Herman, Judith Lewis
(1997)
Trauma and recovery
New York:  Basic Books

Levine, Peter A.
(1997)
Waking the tiger:  healing trauma:  the innate capacity to transform overwhelming
experiences
Berkeley, CA:  North Atlantic Books

Sanford, Linda T.
(2005)
Strong at the broken places:  building resiliency in survivors of trauma
Holyoke, MA:  Neari Press

 

ANXIETY

Amen, Daniel G.
(1998)
Change your brain, change your life:  a breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger, and impulsiveness
New York:  Three River Press

Barlow, David H. & Craske, Michelle G.
(2007)
Mastery of your anxiety and panic workbook
Oxford:  Oxford University Press

Bassett, Lucinda [video]
(2003)
Attacking anxiety & depression:  vol. 1
Oak Harbor, OH:  Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety

Bassett, Lucinda [video]
(2003)
Attacking anxiety & depression:  vol. 2
Oak Harbor, OH:  Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety

Bassett, Lucinda [video]
(2003)
Attacking anxiety & depression:  vol. 3
Oak Harbor, OH:  Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety

Bassett, Lucinda [video]
(2002)
Jump-start:  the road to recovery:  5 essential ways to feel better fast!
Oak Harbor, OH:  Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety

Burns, David D.
(1999)
The feeling good handbook
New York:  Plume

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2003)
The worry control workbook
Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Sapolsky, Robert M.
(2004)
Why zebras don’t get ulcers
New York:  H. Holt

 

DEPRESSION

Burns, David D.
(1980)
Feeling good:  the new mood therapy
New York:  Avon Books

Colbert, Ty C.
(1995)
Depression and mania:  friends or foes?:  a new “non-drug” model of hope for depression, mania, and compulsive disorders
Santa Ana, CA:  Kevco Publishers

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2001)
The depression workbook:  a guide for living with depression and manic depression
Oakland, CA:  New Harbinger Publications

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(1994)
Living without depression & manic depression:  a workbook for maintaining mood stability
Oakland, CA:  New Harbinger Publications

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2007)
The loneliness workbook:  a guide to developing and maintaining lasting connections
Dummerston, VT:  Peach PresS

Hayes, Rudy
(2000)
Stuart Perry’s journey for life
Americus, GA:  Rudy Hayes

Jamison, Kay Redfield
(1993)
Touched with fire:  manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament
New York:  Free Press Paperbacks

Katie, Byron
(2002)
Loving what is:  four questions that can change your life
New York:  Three Rivers Press

Levine, Bruce E.
(2007)
Surviving America’s depression epidemic:  how to find morale, energy, and community in a world gone crazy
White River Junction, VT:  Chelsea Green Publishing Co.

Manning, Martha
(1994)
Undercurrents:  a life beneath the surface
San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco

Shenk, Joshua Wolf
(2005)
Lincoln’s melancholy:  how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness
Boston:  Houghton Mifflin

Spungen, Deborah
(1994)
And I don’t want to live
New York:  Ballantine Books

Thorne, Julia
(1993)
You are not alone:  words of experience and hope for the journey through depression
New York:  HarperPerennial

Whelchel, Mary
(2007)
Why do I always feel guilty?:  breaking free from what weighs you down
Eugene, OR:  Harvest House Publishers

 

INSPIRATION & PERSONAL GROWTH

Be here now
(1978)
New York:  Hanuman Foundation:  Distributed by the Crown Publishing Group

Bjorklund, Paul
(1983)
What is spirituality?
Center City, MN:  Hazelden

Dyer, Wayne W.
(2006)
Inspiration:  your ultimate calling
Carlsbad, CA:  Hay House

Johnson, Alexandra
(2001)
Leaving a trace:  on keeping a journal:  the art of transforming a life into stories
Boston, MA:  Little, Brown

Kelleher, Bob
(2006)
Winning the game of life:  the Ten Commandments in today’s world
Shrewsbury, MA:  Full Court Press

Parnell, Charlotte
(2001)
Meditation:  a beginner’s guide
New York:  Barnes & Noble Books

Shainbaum, Barry
(2003)
Hope & heroes:  portraits of integrity & inspiration
Toronto, ON:  London Street Press

 

MEDICINE

Edelman, Eva
(2001)
Natural healing for schizophrenia and other common mental disorders
Eugene, OR:  Borage Books

Kalish, Daniel
(2005)
Your guide to healthy hormones
Vista, CA:  The Natural Path

Starlanyl, Devin & Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2001)
Fibromyalgia & chronic myofascial pain:  a survival manual
Oakland, CA:  New Harbinger Publications

Weil, Andrew
(1995)
Spontaneous healing:  how to discover and enhance your body’s natural ability to maintain and heal itself
New York:  Ballantine Books

Wiley, T. S. & Formby, Bent
(2001)
Lights out:  sleep, sugar, and survival
New York:  Pocket Books

 

MENTAL ILLNESS

Bassman, Ronald
(2007)
A fight to be:  a psychologist’s experience from both sides of the locked door
Albany, NY:  Tantamount Press

Beam, Alex
(2001)
Gracefully insane:  life and death inside America’s premier mental hospital
New York:  PublicAffairs

Beard, Jean J. & Gillespie, Peggy
(1990)
Nothing to hide:  mental illness in the family
New York:  New Press

Beers, Clifford Whittingham
(1981)
A mind that found itself:  an autobiography
Pittsburgh, PA:  University of Pittsburgh Press

Caplan, Paula J.
(1995)
They say you’re crazy:  how the world’s most powerful psychiatrists decide who’s normal
Da Capo Press

Colbert, Ty C.
(1996)
Broken brains or wounded hearts:  what causes mental illness
Santa Ana, CA:  Kevco Publishing

Corrigan, Patrick & Lundin, Robert
(2001)
Don’t call me nuts!:  coping with the stigma of mental illness
Tinley Park, IL:  Recovery Press

“Crazy talk”:  tales of perseverance and perspective in poetry and prose
(2007?)
[Boston, MA?]:  L.E.A.A.D. Group of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network

Frattaroli, Elio
(2001)
Healing the soul in the age of the brain : why medication isn’t enough
New York, NY:  Penguin Books

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
(1997)
“The yellow wallpaper” and other stories
Mineola, NY:  Dover Publications

Goffman, Erving
(1961)
Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates
New York:  Anchor Books

Gosden, Richard
(2001)
Punishing the patient:  how psychiatrists misunderstand and mistreat schizophrenia
Melbourne, Australia:  Scribe Publications

Horwitz, Allan V.
(2002)
Creating mental illness
Chicago:  University of Chicago Press

Kaysen, Susanna
(1993)
Girl, interrupted
New York:  Vintage Book

Laing, R. D.
(1990)
The divided self:  an existential study in sanity and madness
London; New York:  Penguin Books

Lewis, Mindy
(2002)
Life inside:  a memoir
New York:  Washington Square Press

Plans, Miriam L.
(2004)
Mental health:  a layman’s guide:  a self-help roadmap through the bewildering maze of diagnoses, therapies, and treatments
Victoria, B.C., CAN:  Trafford Publishing

Plath, Sylvia
(2005)
The bell jar:  a novel
New York:  Harperperennial Modern Classics

Porter, Roy
(2002)
Madness:  a brief history
Oxford:  Oxford University Press

Rogers, Carl R.
(1995)
On becoming a person:  a therapist’s view of psychotherapy
Boston:  Houghton Mifflin

Schiller, Lori & Bennett, Amanda
(1994)
The quiet room:  a journey out of the torment of madness [Audio]
Los Angeles, CA:  Time Warner AudioBooks

Schreiber, Flora Rheta
(1995)
Sybil
New York:  Grand Central Publishing

Slater, Lauren
(1996)
Welcome to my country
New York:  Anchor Books

Styron, William
(1990)
Darkness visible:  a memoir of madness
New York:  The Modern Library

Szasz, Thomas
Insanity:  the idea and its consequences
Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press

Szasz, Thomas
(2003)
The myth of mental illness:  foundations of a theory of personal conduct
New York:  Perennia

Vincent, Norah
(2008)
Voluntary madness:  my year lost and found in the loony bin
New York:  Viking

Whitaker, Robert
(2002)
Mad in America:  bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill
New York:  Basic Books

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Bloom, Sandra L. & Reichert, Michael
(1998)
Bearing witness:  violence and collective responsibility
New York:  Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press

Gardner, Howard
(2004)
Frames of mind:  the theory of multiple intelligences
New York:  Basic Books

Harris, Leah Ida
(2007)
Poems of mass construction
[Washington, DC?]:  L. Harris

Lamb, Wally
(1992)
She’s come undone
New York:  Pocket Books

Maguire, Jack
(1998)
The power of personal storytelling:  spinning tales to connect with others
New York:  J. P. Tarcher/Putnam

McNiff, Shaun
(1992)
Art as medicine:  creating a therapy of the imagination
Boston:  Shambhala

Robert, Henry M.
(1989)
Robert’s rules of order
New York:  Berkley Books

Rosenberg, Marshall B.
(2003)
Nonviolent communication:  a language of life
Encinitas, CA:  Puddle Dancer Press

Szasz, Thomas
(1996)
The meaning of mind:  language, morality, and neuroscience
Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press

 

NUTRITION

Chek, Paul
(2004)
How to eat, move and be healthy!:  your personalized 4-step guide to looking and feeling great from the inside out
San Diego, CA:  C.H.E.K. Institute,

Enig, Mary G.
(2000)
Know your fats:  the complete primer for understanding the nutrition of fats, oils, and cholesterol
Silver Spring, MD:  Enig Associates

Pfeiffer, Carl C.
(1987)
Nutrition and mental illness:  an orthomolecular approach to balancing body chemistry
Rochester, VT:  Healing Arts Press

Price, Weston A.
(1970)
Nutrition and physical degeneration
La Mesa, CA:  Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

Schlosser, Eric
(2005)
Fast food nation:  the dark side of the all-American meal
New York:  Harper Perennial

 

PEER SUPPORT

Chamberlin, Judi
(1977)
On our own:  patient-controlled alternatives to the mental health system
Lawrence, MA:  National Empowerment Center

Mead, Shery
(2005)
Intentional peer support:  an alternative approach
Plainfield, NH:  S. Mead

Voices of transformation:  developing recovery-based statewide consumer/survivor organizations
(2007?)
Lawrence, MA:  National Empowerment Center
“You can!”:  a human rights video [video]

 

PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS

Breggin, Peter R.
(1991)
Toxic psychiatry:  why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the “New Psychiatry”
New York:  St. Martin’s Press

Breggin, Peter R. & Cohen, David
(2000)
Your drug may be your problem:  how and why to stop taking psychiatric medications
Cambridge, MA:  Da Capo Life Long

Jackson, Grace E.
(2005)
Rethinking psychiatric drugs:  a guide to informed consent
Bloomington, Ind.:  AuthorHouse

Kramer, Peter D.
(1993)
Listening to Prozac :  a psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self
New York:  Viking

Norden, Michael J.
(1996)
Beyond Prozac:  brain-toxic lifestyles, natural antidotes & new generation antidepressants
New York:  ReganBooks

PDR 2009 edition nurse’s drug handbook
(2008)
Montvale, NJ:  Thomson Reuters

Valenstein, Elliot S.
(1988)
Blaming the brain:  the truth about drugs and mental health
New York:  Free Press

Walker, Sydney
(1996)
A dose of sanity:  mind, medicine, and misdiagnosis
New York:  Wiley & So
Weil, Andrew
(2004)
The natural mind:  a revolutionary approach to the drug problem
Boston:  Houghton Mifflin

 

RECOVERY

Armstrong, Moe
(2005)
The hip pocket recovery workbook
Boston, MA:  Boston University

Copeland, Mary Ellen & Mead, Shery
(2006)
Community links:  pathways to reconnection and recovery:  program implementation manual
Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Copeland, Mary Ellen [DVD]
(2002)
Creating wellness:  a workshop with Mary Ellen Copeland
Brookline Village, MA:  Mental Illness Education Project

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2006)
Plan de Accion para la Recuperacion del Bienestar “WRAP”(por sus siglas en ingles)
W. Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2002)
Wellness Recovery Action Plan:  a system for monitoring, reducing and eliminating uncomfortable or dangerous physical symptoms and emotional feelings
West Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Copeland, Mary Ellen & Mead, Shery
(2004)
Wellness Recovery Action Plan & peer support:  personal, group and program development
Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2003)
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for people with dual diagnosis
W. Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(2007)
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for veterans and people in the military
West Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Copeland, Mary Ellen
(1999)
Winning against relapse:  a workbook of action plans for recurring health and emotional problems
West Dummerston, VT:  Peach Press

Dorman, Daniel
(2003)
Dante’s cure:  a journey out of madness
New York:  Other Press

Mooney, Al J., Eisenberg, Arlene, & Eisenberg, Howard
(1992)
The recovery book
New York:  Workman Publishing

Ridgway, Priscilla [et al.]
(2002)
Pathways to recovery:  a strengths recovery self-help workbook
Lawrence, KS:  University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

 

SUBSTANCE ABUSE & ADDICTIONS

Alcoholics Anonymous:  the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism
(1976)
New York:  Alcoholics Anonymous World Services

As Bill sees it
(1967)
New York:  Alcoholics Anonymous World Services

Cameron, Julia & Bryan, Mark
(1992)
Money drunk/money sober:  90 days to financial freedom
New York:  Ballantine Wellspring

Covington, Stephanie S.
(1994)
A woman’s way through the twelve steps
Center City, MN:  Hazelde

Covington, Stephanie S.
(2000)
A woman’s way through the twelve steps workbook
Center City, MN:  Hazelden

The dual disorders recovery workbook:  a twelve step program for those of us with addiction and an emotional or psychiatric illness
(1993)
Center City, MN:  Hazelden

Fanning, Patrick & O’Neill, John T.
(1996)
The addiction workbook:  a step-by-step guide to quitting alcohol & drugs
Oakland, CA:  New Harbinger Publications

Gravitz, Herbert L. & Bowden, Julie D.
(1985)
Recovery:  a guide for adult children of alcoholics
New York:  Simon & Schuster

Hamilton, Tim & Samples, Pat
(1995)
The twelve steps and dual disorders workbook:  a framework of recovery for those of us with addiction and an emotional or psychiatric illness
Center City, MN:  Hazelden

An introductory guide to Narcotics Anonymous
(1992)
Chatsworth, CA:  Narcotics Anonymous World Services

Mc, Tim
(1995)
Today I will do one thing:  daily readings for awareness and hope for those of us with addiction and emotional or psychiatric illness
Center City, MI:  Hazeldon

Narcotics Anonymous
(1988)
Van Nuys, CA:  World Service Office

Schaef, Anne Wilson
(1987)
When society becomes an addict
San Francisco:  HarperCollins

Twelve steps and twelve traditions
(1981)
New York:  Alcoholics Anonymous World Services

The Twelve steps for everyone
(1990)
Minneapolis, MI:  CompCare Publishers

Wilmes, David J.
(1988)
Parenting for prevention:  how to raise a child to say no to alcohol/drugs:  for parents, teachers and other concerned adults
Minneapolis, MN:  Johnson Institute Books

Woititz, Janet Geringer
(1983)
Adult children of alcoholics
Pompano, FL:  Health Communications

Working step four in Narcotics Anonymous
(1988)
Van Nuys, CA:  Narcotics Anonymous World Services