New Self Help Books Archive
April 2011
We've added exciting new self help book titles to The Guide for April 2011.
Check the sections below to see what's new -- or just scroll down to browse through all the new books.
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New Self Help Book Listings in Addictions
The Porn Trap: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography
In this highly acclaimed self help recovery guide, renowned sex and relationship therapists Wendy and Larry Maltz shed new light on the compelling nature and destructive power of today’s instantly available pornography. Weaving together poignant real-life stories with innovative exercises, checklists, and expert advice, this groundbreaking resource provides a comprehensive program for understanding and healing porn addiction and other serious consequences of porn use. 2009, Harper Paperbacks
New Self Help Book Listings in Anger Management
Anger Management For DummiesThis friendly self help guide to managing your anger offers a host of practical, proven techniques for understanding emotions, dealing with angry feelings constructively, and letting it go. You'll see how to deal with anger before it happens, thwart an angry outburst, keep your cool, and adopt a new, healthier perspective. 2006, For Dummies
The Anger Management Sourcebook
Follow this straightforward program and in just seven weeks discover the levelheaded parent, spouse, coworker, and friend you've always known was buried beneath your surly surface. Packed with practical tips, this guide helps you recognize anger triggers, choose effective alternatives, and constructively channel your energy. In these pages, you'll find a variety of approaches for managing this complex emotion, including: anticipating and defusing volatile situations; handling criticism without flying off the handle; calming down with meditation and imagery techniques; getting enough sleep, nutrition, and exercise; keeping an anger journal; and replacing bitterness with empathy and forgiveness. 2002, McGraw-Hill
Rage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Explosive Anger
Rage can be calmed and controlled with good advice and a practical, effective plan for change. From renowned anger expert Ronald Potter-Efron, this self help book breaks down rage into four types: In survival rage, anger is triggered by a sense of danger or threat; feelings of helplessness can trigger impotence rage; the third type, abandonment rage, is triggered by a fear of losing a cherished relationship; and shame rage occurs when someone feels very disrespected. Potter-Efron briefly discusses how the brain functions during extreme emotion, and then it turns to the task of helping you stop episodes of rage--right now! Rage offers no-nonsense, step-by-step anger management tools that really work. 2007, New Harbinger
When Anger Hurts Your Relationship: 10 Simple Solutions for Couples Who Fight
Psychologists Paleg and McKay pinpoint pain and a resulting sense of helplessness as the roots of anger. By outlining individuals' and couples' basic cycles of hurt and anger, the authors show how to break the old cycles. Focusing on preventing escalation, managing anger when it arises and repairing the situation after an old pattern takes hold, they suggest a one-day-at-a-time process of swearing off anger (via tension-release exercises, practicing empathy and identifying defensiveness), learning de-escalation tools (a Repair Checklist, an Anger Coping Plan) and regaining trust (by changing speech habits and concertedly giving pleasure). 2001, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listings in Anxiety and Panic Disorder
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program
With this self help book, you'll develop a personal plan to recognize your anxiety triggers, develop skills to stop anxious thoughts before they get out of control, and stop needless fears from coming back. The powerful tools in this book will help you: silence the irrational thoughts that trigger anxiety; create a personal plan to overcome excessive fears and worries; stop expecting perfection from yourself and start feeling confident; calm yourself when panic takes hold; defeat depression and other conditions that often occur with anxiety; build self-esteem; and track your symptoms and maintain your progress. 2008, New Harbinger
Conquering Depression and Anxiety Through Exercise
This self help volume summarizes the data that exercise can be an antidote to depression, as well as advantageous to one’s general wellness. It presents experimental studies and case studies that track the role of exercise in raising mood, as well as studies comparing the effect of exercise along with other treatment options, such as talk therapy and medication. Johnsgard acknowledges that exercise alone is not always enough to cope with depression or anxiety and examines ways to motivate oneself to exercise, how to exercise well, and how to manage the possible risks of exercise.2004, Prometheus Books
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress ToleranceResearch shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas--distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This book, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers straightforward, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this self help workbook. 2007, New Harbinger
Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents
All kids get scared, but some fears can escalate into paranoias with long-term ramifications. This step-by-step self help guide tackles the why, how, and what now of anxiety disorders. Written in everyday language, it describes in detail strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self help program for managing a child's worry while building confidence and self-control. 2000, New Harbinger
Women Who Worry Too Much: How to Stop Worry & Anxiety from Ruining Relationships, Work, & Fun
Women are more likely than men to develop anxiety disorders, and to worry more about things like social problems, work, and finances. Women Who Worry Too Much addresses the fundamentals of worry and offers strategies for overcoming it that include monitoring personal worry triggers, breaking worry-provoking habits, and avoiding avoidance—a major aggravating factor for all anxiety disorders. From it, you’ll learn to use mindfulness techniques to avoid ruminating on the past or the future and how to use progressive relaxation to cope with worrisome situations. 2005, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listings in Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar 101: A Practical Guide to Identifying Triggers, Managing Medications, Coping with Symptoms, and moreFollowing the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, you desire straightforward advice. Bipolar 101 is a clear-cut self help guidebook to understanding bipolar disorder. It provides necessary information which will help you control your symptoms and live a better life. Authored by both a psychologist and a mental health expert who has bipolar disorder herself, this pocket guide offers ten simple--yet not always easy--essential steps readers need to take to deal with this serious and challenging condition. 2009, New Harbinger
Overcoming Bipolar Disorder: A Comprehensive Workbook for Managing Your Symptoms and Achieving Your Life GoalsOvercoming Bipolar Disorder was designed to assist the bipolar patient to take charge of their disorder, learning about bipolar disorder in addition to exploring their experiences with it, including beliefs, first onset, triggers, cycles, feelings of stigma, effects of the disorder on social and spiritual facets of life, and effective coping strategies. This self help workbook allows the individual living with bipolar disorder to become an authority on his or her disorder, and to make a change in the direction of controlling their symptoms and coping with the effects of bipolar. 2009, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listing in Body Image
The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
This revised edition of The Body Image Workbook offers a unified method of dealing with body image issues. It provides new research that verifies the effectiveness of its cognitive-behavioral approach. This self help workbook presents fresh discussions of cosmetic surgery, weight loss, and other body-fixing options, in addition to guidance for those who have physically disfiguring conditions. Also new in this edition is an emphasis on mindfulness and acceptance practices. 2008, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listings in Depression
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
This slender, powerful self help book offers a sure-to-be controversial alternative to the recent cottage industry of high-brow happiness books. Prof. Wilson claims that Americans today are too interested in being happy. (He points to the widespread use of antidepressants as exhibit A.) It is inauthentic and shallow, charges Wilson, to relentlessly seek happiness in a world full of tragedy. While he does not want to romanticize clinical depression, Wilson argues forcefully that melancholia is a necessary ingredient of any culture that wishes to be innovative or inventive. 2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Conquering Depression and Anxiety Through Exercise
This self help volume summarizes the data that exercise can be an antidote to depression, as well as advantageous to one’s general wellness. It presents experimental studies and case studies that track the role of exercise in raising mood, as well as studies comparing the effect of exercise along with other treatment options, such as talk therapy and medication. Johnsgard acknowledges that exercise alone is not always enough to cope with depression or anxiety and examines ways to motivate oneself to exercise, how to exercise well, and how to manage the possible risks of exercise.2004, Prometheus Books
Research shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas--distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This self help book, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers straightforward, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this self help workbook. 2007, New Harbinger
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
Science writer and psychotherapist Greenberg offers a witty and often very personal investigation into the roles doctors, drug companies, and patients themselves have played in casting depression as “the common cold” of American mental illness. Greenberg covers a wide swath of the history of melancholy, from Freud to shock therapy to the more recent discovery of such neurotransmitters as serotonin. He offers a measured dose of philosophy in contemplating whether unhappiness should be regarded as a disease or instead as an essential part of being human. Ultimately, his book is a sobering critique of the marketing wizards who have overhyped the dubious benefits of antidepressants. 2010, Simon & Schuster
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression & Create a Life Worth LivingThe Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression will show you, step-by-step, how to stop the recurring cycle of depression, feel more energized, and involve yourself in pleasurable and fulfilling activities that will help you work through, rather than avoid, aspects of your life that are depressing you. Use the techniques in this book to evaluate your own depression and create a personalized treatment plan. You'll enrich your total life experience by focusing your energy not on fighting depression, but on living the life you want. 2008, New Harbinger
Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life BackBehavioral activation therapy offers effective, fast relief from depression. This powerful and progressive therapy views depression as a signpost pointing directly at the things that need to change in one's life. Engaging exercises make it easy for you to This simple, profound process will connect you with naturally occurring rewards, which are powerful antidotes to feelings of depression. With this foundation, go on to change how you approach your day-to-day life-your daily activities, the choices you make, and the way you cope with life's ups and downs. 2004, New Harbinger
Queer Blues: The Lesbian and Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression
Queer Blues is a groundbreaking book for any gay or lesbian person who struggles with depression. This self help book really is gay specific -- the authors are a gay man and a lesbian who work as psychotherapists in San Francisco. They address the impact of internal as well as external homophobia, paying particular attention to negative and homophobic self-talk. The book includes many case studies which cover a variety of life stages and circumstances, and there is frank discussion of the different kinds of medications used in treating depression. 2001, New Harbinger
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Unholy Ghost is a collection of 22 modern essays about depression by writers who know their subject intimately. Their words wrestle to express their vision, their gloom, their attempts to cope, their interactions, their isolation, and, often, their reactions to medications. Some attempt to analyze their depression; others just want you to know what it's like. The writers' descriptions of "dwelling in depression's dark wood" (William Styron) are disturbing and haunting, laden with vivid imagery. If you want to know depression from the inside, from thoroughly gifted writers, you'll find it here. 2002, Harper Perennial
Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
Drawing on forty years of pioneering work, Unstuck is Dr. Gordon's seven-stage program for relief through food and nutritional supplements; Chinese medicine; movement, exercise, and dance; psychotherapy, meditation, and guided imagery; and spiritual practice. The result is a remarkable guide that puts the power to change in the hands of those ready to say "no" to suffering and drugs and "yes" to hope and happiness. 2009, Penguin
New Self Help Book Listings in Gay and Lesbian Issues
Is It a Choice? Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay & Lesbian People
If you find that your child, student or friend is lesbian, bisexual or gay, this is the first book you should turn to for those basic questions you might have. It will help you get over that first speed bump and you will have a much clearer idea about what homosexuality really is--a normal expression of a human being's sexuality. It is never too late to learn to leave your prejudices behind. This book is a special life-saver for students who are discovering their sexual identities. 2005, HarperOne
Queer Blues: The Lesbian and Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression
Queer Blues is a groundbreaking book for any gay or lesbian person who struggles with depression. This book really is gay specific -- the authors are a gay man and a lesbian who work as psychotherapists in San Francisco. They address the impact of internal as well as external homophobia, paying particular attention to negative and homophobic self-talk. The book includes many case studies which cover a variety of life stages and circumstances, and there is frank discussion of the different kinds of medications used in treating depression. 2001, New Harbinger
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us
Newman, the publisher at Cleis Press since 1980, covers oral, manual, anal, and insertive-vaginal techniques with loving care. She includes a whole chapter on breast play, addresses safety repeatedly and thoroughly, and discusses transgender and bisexual orientations, SM, group sex, masturbation, and sex toys--all while acknowledging that some women prefer monogamy, some polygamy. Even though this book is aimed at lesbians, it's extremely suitable for heterosexual women (to enhance their own eroticism) and men (to tell them what turns women on).
