Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A refreshing, counter-cultural book on promoting independence in children.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 13, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Relationships, Family, Child, Humor, Supportive, Parenting, Parent, Independence, Resilience, Development, Anxiety, Children, Culture, Kids, Learning, Play, UnconventionalComment

Book Review – Raising Good Humans Every Day

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A helpful parenting book on using mindfulness strategies in parenting children.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDOctober 13, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Kids, Family, Parenting, Relationships, Children, Child, Parent, Mindfulness, Reframing, Meditation, Compassion, Communication, Breathing, Natural, Gratitude, Play, Forgiveness, Special Time, Inner Critic, Emotions, Emotional, Love, Shame, Skills, AnxietyComment

Book Review – When Worry Works

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book that addresses the maladaptive patterns that parents can experience when reacting to anxiety over their adolescent’s academic achievement.

Book Review – Let It Go

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent self-help book on effectively downsizing, decluttering, and dealing with the emotions stirred up in the process.

Book Review – Mental Health and the Church

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.

Book Review – I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDFebruary 1, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Depression, Stigma, Thoughts, Emotions, Relationships, Suicide Prevention, Memoir, AnxietyComment

Book Review – The Self-Healing Mind

Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An encouraging book that primarily addresses complementary, natural strategies for improving mental health and depressive symptoms.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDSeptember 16, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Psychiatry, Psychiatric, Mental Health, Dietary, Yoga, Breathing, Sleep, Exercise, Resilience, Holistic, Natural, Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness, Meditation, SpiritualityComment

Book Review – The Overload Syndrome

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A Christian book that looks at the problems of overconsumption and unrealistic expectations from several different viewpoints and continues to explore the theme of overload and margin that the author introduced in his earlier book Margin.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDMarch 16, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Anxiety, Stress, Financial, Margin, Overload, Burnout, SimplicityComment

Book Review – I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A Christian book on anxiety and depression that outlines strategies that predominantly rely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 9, 2021The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Stigma, Depression, Thoughts, Pain, Five Areas, CBT, Cognitive, AnxietyComment

Book Review – The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A great workbook on acceptance and commitment strategies and exposure and response prevention for teens with OCD.

Book Review – The OCD Workbook for Teens

Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, engaging self-help workbook on research-proven strategies for combatting OCD.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJuly 3, 2021The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Cognitive, Behavior, Activation, Behavioral, Exercise, Emotions, Skills, Mental Health, Thoughts, Mindfulness, OCD, Anxiety, CBT, Adolescent, Teen, Workbook, Obsessions, Compulsions, Mental Illness, Sexual, Girls, Boys, Kids, Mental Disorder, Stress, Avoidance, Family, Exposure, ERP, Stigma, Shame, CompassionComment

Book Review – Control Your Depression

Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A dated yet solid book on strategies and exercises for improving depression that includes an excellent chapter on behavioral activation strategies.

Book Review – Dare to Lead

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on leadership that introduces the concept of vulnerability as the foundation of developing strengths, such as courage, integrity, authenticity and connection.

Book Review – Feeling Good

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on using CBT skills to identify and correct thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 28, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Behavior, CBT, Cognitive, Natural, Depression, Emotions, Review, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Thoughts, Therapy, Anxiety, Anger, Empathy, Relationships, LoveComment

Book Review – Margin

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent book that describes the causes of and solutions for overcommitment and burnout.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 27, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Relationships, Social, Burnout, Overload, Simplicity, Margin, Stress, Anxiety, Review, Spirituality, Christian, NaturalComment

Book Review – Feeling Great

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An exceptional book on identifying and correcting thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 23, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Behavior, CBT, Cognitive, Natural, Depression, Emotions, Review, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Thoughts, Therapy, Anxiety, Anger, Empathy, Relationships, LoveComment

Book Review – Manage Your Depression through Exercise

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A solid book on improving depressive symptoms through physical exercise.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 21, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Exercise, Behavior, CBT, Cognitive, Natural, Depression, Discipline, Emotions, Review, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Weight loss, Thoughts, Therapy, Anxiety, Anger, ObesityComment

Book Review – The Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A revolutionary book when published in 1984 as the first book dedicated to supportive psychotherapy but is now most useful as historical reference.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 16, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Empathy, Self-actualization, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Emotions, Therapy, Mental Disorder, Psychotherapy, SupportiveComment

Book Review – Doing Supportive Psychotherapy

Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, approachable, and succinct book on supportive psychotherapy, and it might be the only book a clinician needs in getting started doing supportive psychotherapy.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 5, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Empathy, Self-actualization, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Emotions, Therapy, Mental Disorder, Psychotherapy, SupportiveComment

Book Review – Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid book on a variety of topics related to the practice of psychiatry.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDApril 15, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Emotions, Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mental Disorder, Psychiatric, Psychiatry, AdvocacyComment