For Depression:

 

The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David D. Burns. Penguin Books, 1999.

 

An Unquiet Mind: a Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison. Vintage/Knopf, 1995.

An excellent book about personal experiences with bipolar disorder from a top researcher in the field.

 

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know by David J. Miklowitz Guilford Press, 2002.

 

How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout by Anne Sheffield. Harmony Publishing.

 

Living Without Depression and Manic Depression: A Workbook for Maintaining Mood Stability 1994 by Mary Ellen Copeland. New Harbinger Publications.

 

Antidepressant Skills Workbook by Dan Bilsker, PhD & Randy J. Paterson, PhD. BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, 2006. Available for free download at: www.UBCmood.ca and at: www.CARMHA.ca/publications

 

Dealing with Depression: Antidepressant Skills for Teens by Dan Bilsker, PhD, Merv Gilbert, PhD, David Worling, PhD, and E. Jane Garland. MD Ministry of Children and Family Development, 2006. Available for free download at: www.UBCmood.ca and at www.CARMHA.ca/publications

 

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

 

Readings for Anxiety: The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Bourne, Edmund J.

 

 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:

 

Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions by Edna B. Foa and Reid Wilson

 

Treating and Understanding Crippling Habits by Levenkron, Steven

 

Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies by Charles H. Elliot, Laura L. Smith. Wiley Publishing, 2003.

 

Anxiety and Its Treatment by Griest, Jefferson, and Marks.

 

When Panic Attacks: the New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life by David D. Burns. Morgan Road Books, 2006.

 

 

ADHD/ADD:

 

Facing AD/HD: A Survival Guide for Parents of Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by
Morris, J. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

 

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Barkely, Russell A.

 

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy? by Kelly, Kate and Ramundo, Peggy.

 

 

ODD:

 

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Greene, R. W. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

 

 

For Couples:

 

The Truth About Love by Pat Love.

 

Hot Monogammy by Pat Love.

 

The Relationship Cure by Gottman, John.

 

The Seven Principals for Making Your Marriage Work by Gottman, John.

 

The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.

 

After the Affair by Janis Abrhams-Spring.

 

 

Sexual Abuse:

 

The Courage to Heal by Bass, E. and Davis, L.

 

The Courage to Heal Workbook by Davis, L.

 

Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal by Naparstek, Bellruth.