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Athena Consulting
1720 West End Avenue
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Nashville, TN 37203
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Suggested Reading
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I Hate You Don't Leave Me
Jerold J. Kreisman
For years BPD was difficult to describe, diagnose, and treat. But now, for the first time, Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and health writer Hal Straus offer much-needed professional advice, helping victims and their families to understand and cope with this troubling, shockingly widespread affliction. |
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The Bipolar
Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know
David Miklowitz
This essential resource will help you and your family members come to terms with the diagnosis, recognize early warning signs of manic or depressive episodes, cope with triggers of mood swings, resolve medication problems, and learn to collaborate effectively with doctors and therapists. |
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melodie Beattie
Melodie Beattie talks about her drinking problem, her recovery and her work as a counselor. She combines real-life stories with clear explanations of the codependent syndrome. this book is helpful not only for those who struggle with loved ones who are addicts, but those who find themselves lacking boundaries and hanging on to dysfunctional relationships. |
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Ten Days to Self-Esteem
David Burns
Dr. Burns presents innovative, clear and compassionate methods to help the reader identify the causes of mood slumps and develop a more positive outlook on life. Ten Days to Self-esteem offers a powerful new tool that provides hope and healing in ten easy steps. The methods are based on common sense and are not difficult to apply. Research shows that they really work!. |
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Don’t Call It Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction
Patrick Carnes
Here is a ground-breaking work by the nation's leading professional expert on sexual addiction, based on the candid testimony of more than one thousand recovering sexual addicts in the first major scientific study of the disorder. This essential volume includes not only the revealing findings of Dr. Carne's research with recovering addicts but also advice from the addicts and co-addicts themselves as they work to overcome their compulsive behavior. |
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Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You
Richard O’Connor
For some people, depression has been a part of their experience for so long that they've begun to believe it's what they are. They become experts at "doing" depression--hiding it, working around it, even achieving great things (but at the price of great struggle, and little satisfaction). In this book, psychotherapist Richard O’Conner shows us how to "undo" depression, by replacing depressive patterns of thinking, relating, and behaving with a new and more effective set of skills. |
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