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 Gift of Empathy

Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A helpful book on developing empathy skills and considering opportunities to express empathy to others.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJanuary 27, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Emotions, Christian, Relationships, Cognitive, Empathy, Supportive, Mercy, BoundariesComment

Book Review – Searching for Sunday

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 3, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Emotions, Christian, Relationships, Compassion, Empathy, Identity, Anger, Advocacy, Justice, Authenticity, Burnout, Existential, Grief, Humor, Loss, Love, Memoir, Pain, Shame, Unconventional, SufferingComment

Book Review – Precision Psychiatry

Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A visionary book on the future of understanding and treating mental disorders through the lens of measurement-based, personalized psychiatric care.

Book Review – Boundaries for Your Soul

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book on accepting and managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and memories by using a Christian-oriented application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches and interpersonal boundary setting.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 1, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Emotions, Boundaries, Internal Family Systems, Christian, Relationships, Cognitive, Compassion, Empathy, Identity, Skills, ShameComment

Book Review – Games People Play

Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book on transactional analysis that is most useful as a historical reference.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDOctober 1, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Relationships, Marriage, Transactional, Analysis, Emotions, Family, Games, Insecurity, Intimacy, Insight, Shame, HistoricalComment

Book Review – Out of the Cave

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJuly 18, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Depression, Stigma, Thoughts, Emotions, Logotherapy, Relationships, Natural, CBT, Behavioral, Activation, IdentityComment

Book Review – Broken Minds

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on personal accounts of depression from a Christian perspective.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJuly 17, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Depression, Stigma, Thoughts, Emotions, NoutheticComment

Book Review – Get Out of Your Head

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book written for Christian women about addressing negative thoughts by using the strategy of thought replacement.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJuly 16, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Depression, Stigma, Thoughts, Emotions, CBT, CognitiveComment

Book Review – Empty Out the Negative

Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A positive book from a Christian perspective on improving happiness and confidence.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJanuary 2, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, Emotions, Growth, Identity, Relationships, Success, Shame, Thoughts, ValuesComment

Book Review – Emotions: Can You Trust Them?

Len's Star Rating: 1 out of 10. A disappointing book with Christian theological perspectives on guilt, anger, romantic love, and God’s will.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 12, 2021The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Christian, Spirituality, EmotionsComment

Book Review – A Helping Hand

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on depression and end-of-life issues from a Christian perspective that decreases stigma and provides rational biblical support to people struggling with depression and those who care for them.