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Self-Help Books. Great reading material to help with your therapy.

The Chimp Paradox

The Chimp Paradox

Professor Steve Peters

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The Chimp Paradox is an incredibly powerful mind management model that can help you become a happy, confident, healthier and more successful person. Prof Steve Peters explains the struggle that takes place within your mind and then shows how to apply this understanding to every area of your life 

Book. It's all in Your Head by Suzanne O'Sullivan

It's All in Your Head
Suzanne O'Sullivan
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Neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan in which she shares her past experiences in diagnosing patients with psychosomatic disorders. The book focuses on the culture of medicine and societal views on psychosomatic illness, physical symptoms that stem from the mind

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps The Score
Bessel Van Der Kolk

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.

The End of Overeating

The End of Overeating
David Kessler

Kessler reveals how our appetites have been and are increasingly hijacked by hyper-palatable foods that encourage us to keep eating - all the time. With a special focus on the growing problems in the UK and Europe, Kessler lays out a clear plan and vital tools for reclaiming control over our cravings. 

The Road Less Travelled

The Road Less Travelled
M Scott Peck

Dr M. Scott Peck suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding.

A Leg to Stand on by Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On
Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks’ ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.

The Gift of Therapy

The Gift of Therapy
Irvin Yalom

A book aimed at enriching the therapeutic process for a new generation of patients and counsellors, Yalom's Gift of Therapy is an entertaining, informative, and insightful read for anyone with an interest in the subject.

The Wim Hof Method

The Wim Hof Method
Wim Hof

The 'Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Showing us that we all have the ability to be stronger, healthier and happier than we've ever imagined.  Wim Hof  shares his simple three-pillar approach that anyone can use. 

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Mindset
Carol Dweck

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.

Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.

Overcoming Health Anxiety by Rob Willson

Overcoming Health Anxiety
David Veale & Rob Wilson

How you can stop worrying about your health and enjoy life. Using an accessible structured, step-by-step approach the authors explain how the problem develops, how to recognize what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it. 

Sick and Tired by Nick Read

Sick and Tired
Dr. Nick Read

Dr Read cites numerous case studies and patients' stories to show how the disintegration of family units, job pressures and the sheer pace of modern life can trigger debilitating physical symptoms. SICK AND TIRED reveals the extraordinary extent to which your mind can affect your body.

Inventing Ourselves by Sarah Jayne-Blackmore

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Sarah Jayne-Blakemore

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Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. 

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