Book recommendations/reviews and favorite quotes from guests

[MentalMel]

I would love to have a list of books recommended by Paul, his guests and the listeners.

I can't write the titles down when I am driving, and that's when I listen to the podcasts.

Also, there are some brilliant quotes from guests, and it would be fun to share our favorites.

Nandi's "Abusement" park metaphors were amazing!

[Paul Gilmartin]

We had one before the forum got screwed up. I'll create a thread again. Thanks for the reminder.

hug,

Paul

[LimitedAdventure]

I've just started Facing Love Addiction by Pia Mellody, and it is great! I didn't think it would apply to me, but it does. I love Pia's compassionate writing style and the structure of the way she lays out the information so it's very easy to understand. Stirling Gardner mentioned this book on his episode, #209.

I also love Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by Dr. David Burns

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

[LimitedAdventure]

Also Facing Codependence by Pia Mellody. Very informative about me, especially me, and some people in my life.

[MentalMel]

The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David Burns is an oldie and still a goodie. I just dug mine out and started using it again, and sent copies to my daughter (after her first hospitalization and bipolar diagnosis) and a good friend (in the middle of nasty divorce).

I also like the books by Kay Redfield Jamison, a Johns Hopkins professor who is bipolar and has written about mental illness. Her books are well written, interesting, with personal stories and clinical information and statistics.

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Creative Temperament (1993)
An Unquiet Mind: Memoir of Moods and Madness (1995)
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (1999)
Exuberance: The Passion for Life (2004)
Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir (2009)

I have to remember to try the Eckhard Tolle books.

Thanks for all the recommendations

[EmeraldArcher]

In the Jeff Rosenthal episode, Paul recommends Shadows of Survival by Kristine Keese. It's a memoir of the Holocaust.