Book Review – Healing
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An exceptional book on problems and solutions for the US mental health system.
Book Review – Fires in the Dark
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A fascinating book that explores healing and healers of trauma and mental illness.
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 – 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 – What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do: Discouragement & Depression
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A short, positive book on dealing with sadness and depression from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – Downcast
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A comprehensive book on depression written by psychiatrists from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – I'm OK-You're OK
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A thought-provoking and hope-inspiring book on how transactional analysis approaches can improve life and relationships.
Book Review – Man's Search for Meaning
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. Man’s Search for Meaning, while written 75 years ago, is startlingly relevant to the world we live in today. It is a superb look at surviving, forgiving and finding meaning and is a reminder and warning of atrocities that we collectively must oppose.
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 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 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 Review – Guiding the Child
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book that was progressive when published in 1930 as it provided information about new ways of parenting and educating troubled children but is now most useful as a historical reference.
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 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 Review – Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (2nd Edition)
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. The best self-help book on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adults.
Book Review – The Gift of Therapy
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent book about providing or receiving high-quality psychotherapy.
Book Review – A Guide to Rational Living
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), an effective approach to dealing with negative thoughts and emotions.