Bibliotherapy book list
All these books are available in LJMU Libraries. Please see the library catalogue for more details.
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Abortion
A Season to Heal - Luci Freed (2001)
Addiction
Back from the Edge: Mental Health and Addiction in Sport - Luke Sutton (2019)
The Insanity of Gambling - Christopher Raddings (2019)
How to break up with your phone - Catherine Price (2018)
The 28 Day Alcohol-Free Challenge: Sleep Better, Lose Weight, Boost Energy, Beat Anxiety - Andy Ramage and Ruri Fairbairns (2017)
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober - Catherine Gray (2017)
Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and The Emerging Science of Addiction - Gary Wilson (2015)
Cyber Junkie - Kevin Roberts (2010)
Facing The Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery - Patrick Carnes (2010)
A mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness and addiction - Mark S Bauer (2009)
No Need for Weed: Understanding and Breaking Cannabis Dependency - James Langton (2008)
Rational Recovery - Jack Trimpey (1996)
Adoption
The Primal Wound: Understanding the adopted child - Nancy Verrier (2009)
Anger
Anger Management: Understanding. Healing. Freedom. - John Crawford (2016)
Overcoming Irritability and Anger - William Davies (2016)
Overcoming Anger in Your Relationship: How to Break the Cycle of Arguments, Put-Downs and Stoney Silences - W Robert Nay (2010)
Anxiety and Stress
How I Learned to Live with Panic: an honest and intimate exploration on how to cope with panic attacks - Claire Eastham (2022)
How to Survive the End of the World (When it’s in Your Own Head) - Aaron Gillies (2019)
The Fear Bubble - Ant Middleton (2019)
Anxiety at University: Student Wellbeing Series - Dominique Thompson (2019)
Notes on a Nervous Planet - Matt Haig (2019)
First, we make the beast beautiful: A new story about anxiety - Sarah Wilson (2019)
Overcoming Depression - Get Happy Again: A Self-Help Workbook for Understanding Depression, Anxiety and Panic Attacks - Matthew Jack Parker (2019)
Managing Stress - Kate Joseph (2018)
This too will pass - Richard Martin (2018)
Me and My Mate Jeffrey - Niall Breslin (2015)
Overcoming Health Anxiety - David Veale (2009)
Overcoming Health Anxiety: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques - David Veale and Rob Wilson (2009)
When Panic Attacks - David Burns (2007)
Coping with Stress at University: A Survival Guide - Stephen Palmer and Angela Puri (2006)
Overcoming Anxiety: A Self Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques - Helen Kennerley (1997)
Assertiveness and Self Esteem
Public Speaking Without Fear - Claire Cairns (2019)
The Courage to be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness - Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (2019)
Stop People Pleasing - Patrick King (2019)
If women rose rooted - Sharon Blackie (2019)
The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown (2018)
Boundaries: How to Draw the Line in Your Head, Heart and Home - Jennie Miller and Victoria Lambert (2018)
When it’s Never About You: The People Pleasers Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom - Ilene Cohen (2017)
Assert Yourself - Gael Lindenfield (2014)
Develop Your Assertiveness - Sue Bishop (2013)
Overcoming Low Self-Esteem - Melanie Fennell (2009)
Women Who Run with The Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes (2008)
Feel the fear and do it anyway - Susan Jeffers (2007)
Bereavement
Letters from the grief club: How we live with loss - Beth French and Kate Moreton (2022)
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother. - Emma Kennedy (2022)
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole - Susan Cain (2022)
Love Interrupted: Navigating Grief One Day at a Time - Simon Thomas (2019)
Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide - Beverley Cobain (2018)
A Clear Blue Sky - Jonny Bairstow (2018)
A Manual for Heartache: How to Feel Better - Cathy Rentzenbrink (2017)
When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent - Rebecca Abrams (2013)
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families - Elisabeth Kubler Ross (2009)
Gift of Tears: A Practical Approach to Loss and Bereavement in Counselling and Psychotherapy - Susan Lendrum (2004)
The Orphaned Adult - Alexander Levey (2000)
Cultural Issues
My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System - Sandra Igwe (2022)
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery - David Harewood (2021)
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition - Emma Dabiri (2021)
Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma - Guilaine Kinouani (2021)
A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love - Mohsin Zaidi (2021)
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience: An anthology - Tarana Burke and Brene Brown (2021)
It’s Not About the Burqa: Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race - Mariam Khan (2020)
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit - Mary Francis Winters (2020)
I Will Not Be Erased: Our stories about growing up as people of colour - Gal - Dem (2019)
Bess: Now That I Have Found the Words - Rose Thomas (2018)
The Colour of Madness - Samara Linton (2018)
>em>Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible - Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene (2018)
A Change Is Gonna Come - Darren Chetty (2017)
The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla (2017)
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write - Sabrina Mahfouz (2017)
The Origin of Others - Toni Morrison (2017)
Black Bodies White Gazes - George Yancy (2016)
Orphan of Islam - Alexander Khan (2012)
Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness - George Yancy (2012)
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims - Scott Sirg Al-Haqq Kugle (2010)
The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton - Sathnam Sanghera (2008)
Beloved - Toni Morrison (2007)
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens - Alice Walker (2005)
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression: A Memoir - Meri Nana–ama Danquah (1998)
Dementia
What Dementia Teaches Us About Love - Nicci Gerrard (2019)
Depression
The Comfort Book - Matt Haig (2022)
Overcoming Depression - Get Happy Again: A Self-Help Workbook for Understanding Depression, Anxiety and Panic Attacks - Matthew Jack Parker (2019)
Depression at University: Student Wellbeing Series - Dominique Thompson (2019)
Remember This When You're Sad - Maggy Van Eijk (2018)
Boys Don't Cry - Tim Grayburn (2018)
Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate - Susan Calman (2016)
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig (2015)
Overcoming Depression: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques - Paul Gilbert (2009)
I Had a Black Dog - Matthew Johnstone (2007)
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness - Mark Williams (2007)
Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison - Dorothy Rowe (2001)
Diagnostic Mental Health
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing - Horatio Clare (2022)
Mind On Fire: Memoir of Madness and Recovery - Arnold Thomas Fanning (2019)
Bring Me to Light: Embracing My Bipolar and Social Anxiety - Eleanor Seagall (2019)
The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia - Nathan Filer (2019)
Eating Disorders and Body Image
You Are Not a Before Picture: How to Finally Make Peace with Your Body, for Good - Alex Light (2022)
The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal - Cara Lisette (2022)
Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia - Hope Virgo (2018)
Starving In Search of Me: A Coming of Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance - Marissa La Roca (2018)
Body Positive Power: How to Stop Dieting, Make Peace with Your body and Live - Megan Jayne Crabbe (2017)
Body Image Problems - Lauren Callaghan et al (2017)
Anorexia Nervosa: A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and Friends - Janet Treasure and June Alexander (2013)
Overcoming Binge Eating, Second Edition: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop - Christopher Fairburn (2013)
Tyranny - Lesley Fairfield (2011)
The Invisible Man: A Self-help Guide for Men with Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia - John Morgan (2008)
The Body Image Workbook: An Eight Step Programme for Learning to Like Your Looks - Thomas F Cash (2008)
Self-esteem and body image - Craig Donnellan and Lisa Firth (2006)
General
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve - Vicky Pattison (2022)
Why has nobody told me this before? - Julie Smith (2022)
You've Got This: A Student’s Guide to Well-being at University and Beyond - Rachael Alexander (2022)
How to live when you could be dead - Deborah James (2022)
Life is Sad and Beautiful - Hussain Manawer (2022)
Therapy is Magic - Jo Love (2021)
Lowborn: Growing up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns - Kerry Hudson (2020)
My Sh*t Therapist & other mental health stories - Michelle Thomas (2020)
Be Well, Learn Well: Improve Your Wellbeing and Academic Performance: 94 (Macmillan Study Skills) - Gareth Hughes (2020)
Do Pause: you are not a To Do list - Robert Poynton (2019)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - Charlie Mackesy (2019)
How to Grow a Grown Up: Prepare your teen for the real world - Dominique Thompson and Fabienne Vailes (2019)
How To Fail Everything: Everything I've Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong - Elizabeth Day (2019)
Poems to Live Your Life By - Chris Riddell (2018)
Atomic Habits - James Clear (2018)
With a Splash of Triumph - Writing on the Wall (2018)
The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything - Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin (2018)
Resilient: Find your inner strength - Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson (2018)
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2017)
Stuff That Sucks: A teens guide to accepting what you can't change and committing to what you can - Ben Sedley (2017)
Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge (2017)
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew P Walker (2017)
Mental Health and Me 2016 - Writing on the Wall (2016)
If I Could Just Tell You One Thing: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice - Richard Reed (2016)
The little book of resilience - Matthew Johnstone (2015)
The Chimp Paradox - Steve Peters (2012)
I'm Ok, You're Ok - Thomas A Harris (2012)
Flip It: How to get the best out of everything - Michael Heppell (2011)
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. - Spencer Johnson (2002)
Health and Illness
Menopausing: The positive roadmap to your second spring - Davina McCall (2022)
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Mate (2022)
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence - Gavin Francis (2022)
Preparing for the Perimenopause and Menopause: No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller - Louise Newson (2021)
How To Feel Better - Frances Goodhart and Lucy Atkins (2015)
LGBTQ+
Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health - Alexis Caught (2022)
Gender Euphoria: stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers - Laura Kate Dale (2021)
Sexuality: A Graphic Guide - Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele (2021)
Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities - Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, Kat Gupta (2020)
Life isn't binary: on being both, beyond and in between - Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi (2020)
Gender: A Graphic Guide - Meg John-Barker (2019)
Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us - CN Lester (2018)
Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame - Matthew Todd (2018)
You and your gender identity: A guide to discovery - Dara Hoffman-Fox (2017)
What's Your Pride Story - Writing on the Wall (2017)
Proud - Gareth Thomas (2015)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson (2012)
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims - Scott Sirg Al-Haqq Kugle (2010)
Mindfullness
The Student Guide to Mindfulness - David Mair (2019)
Calm: Working through life's daily stresses to find a peaceful centre - Fearne Cotton (2018)
Take a moment: Refocus, recentre and relax wherever you are - Mind (2018)
Mindfulness for Students - Stella Cottrell (2018)
The Power of Now: Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle (2016)
Mindfulness For Carers: How to Manage the Demands of Caregiving Whilst Finding Peace for Yourself - Cheryl Rezek (2015)
Mindfulness For Dummies - Shamash Alidina (2014)
Sane New World - Ruby Wax (2014)
Mindfulness in Eight Weeks: The revolutionary 8-week plan to clear your mind and calm your life - Michael Chaskalson (2014)
Full Catastrophe Living: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation - Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013)
Become More Mindful in A Day for Dummies - Shamash Alidina (2012)
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World - Mark Williams and Danny Penman (2011)
Facing the Storm: Using CBT, Mindfulness and Acceptance When Your Worlds Falling Apart - Ray Owen (2011)
Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation - Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2011)
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness - Mark Williams (2007)
Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness - Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005)
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life - Jon Kabat-Zinn (2004)
Heal Thyself: Lessons on mindfulness in medicine - Saki Santorelli (2000)
Money and Debt
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store - Cait Flanders (2019)
The No Spend Year: How you can spend less and live more - Michelle McGagh (2018)
The Meaningful Money Handbook: Everything you need to KNOW and everything you need to DO to secure your financial future - Pete Matthew (2018)
Spare Change: How to Save More, Budget and Be Happy with Your Finances - Iona Bain (2016)
How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously*: Based on the Proven Principles and Techniques of Debtors Anonymous - Jerrold Mundis (2003)
Neuro Diversity and Neuro Developmental Conditions
Wired Differently – 30 Neurodivergent People You Should Know - Joe Wells (2022)
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You - Jenara Nerenberg (2021)
The Subtle Spectrum: An Honest Account of Autistic Discovery, Relationships and Identity - Joanna Grace (2021)
The Adult Side of Dyslexia - Kelli Sandman-Hurley (2021)
Taking charge of adult ADHD - Russell Barkley (2021)
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder - Gabor Mate (2019)
The Reason I Jump: one boy’s voice from the silence of autism - Naoki Higashida (2014)
The Autistic Brain - Temple Grandin (2014)
The Girl with the curly hair: Asperger's and Me - Alis Rowe (2013)
The gift of Dyslexia - Ronald D. Davis (2010)
Coming Out Asperger: Diagnosis, Disclosure and Self-Confidence - Dinah Murray (2006)
Living with Dyspraxia - Mary Colley (2006)
Obsessions and Compulsions
Is Fred in the Refrigerator? Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life - Shala Nicely and Reid Wilson (2018)
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts - Sally Winston and Martin Seif (2017)
Mad Girl: A Happy Life with A Mixed Up Mind - Bryony Gordon (2016)
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: The Truth About OCD - David Adam (2015)
Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - David Veale and Rob Wilson (2009)
The Thought That Counts: A first hand account of one teenager's experince with obsessive-compulsive disorder - Jared Douglas Kant and Martin Franklin (2008)
Touch and go Joe: An Adolescents Experience of OCD - Joe Wells (2006)
Relationships
Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns and Come Home to Yourself - Sheleana Aiyana (2022)
Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from the Therapist's Couch - Susanna Abse (2022)
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single: Locating unattached happiness - Catherine Gray (2018)
The Relationship Handbook: A Simple Guide to Satisfying Relationships - George Pransky (2017)
The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm (2013)
Facing The Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery - Patrick Carnes (2010)
Overcoming Anger in Your Relationship: How to Break the Cycle of Arguments, Put-Downs and Stoney Silences - W Robert Nay (2010)
Self Acceptance
The Bridge - Donna Lancaster (2022)
How to Be You: Stop trying to be someone else and start living your life - Jeffrey Marsh (2022)
Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World - Anita Moorjani (2021)
How to come alive again: A guide to killing your monsters - Beth McColl (2019)
Help Me!: One Woman's Quest to Find Out if Self-help Really Can Change Her Life - Marianne Power (2019)
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single: Locating unattached happiness - Catherine Gray (2018)
Parent Yourself Again: Love Yourself the Way You Have Always Wanted to be Loved - Yong Kang Chan (2018)
How Not to Be a Boy - Robert Webb (2017)
The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships and Live Their Fullest Lives - Lewis Howes (2017)
Authentic: How to be yourself and why it matters - Stephen Josepth (2016)
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves - Stephen Grosz (2014)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won't Stop Talking - Susan Cain (2013)
The Art of Being - Erich Fromm (2013)
The Compassionate Mind - Paul Gilbert (2010)
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure - Robert de Board (1998)
Self Care
Things I got wrong, so you don't have to: 48 lessons to banish burnout and avoid anxiety for those who put others first - Pooky Knightsmith (2022)
This is for You: A Creative Toolkit for Better Self Care - Ellen M Bard (2019)
This Book Could Help (Men's Head Space) - Rotimi Akinsete (2019)
Self-Care for the Real World: Practical self-care advice for everyday life - Nadia Narain and Katia Narain Phillips (2017)
Self Harm and Suicide
When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It - Rory O'Connor (2021)
Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide - Beverley Cobain (2018)
Healing the Hurt Within: Understanding Self-Injury and Self-Harm and Heal the Emotional Wounds Within - Jan Sutton (2007)
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the language of pain - Marliee Strong (2005)
Shame
Confronting Shame: How to Understand Your Shame and Gain Inner Freedom - Ilse Sand (2022)
Shame: The Power of Caring - Gershen Kaufman (1992)
Sleep Issues
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read - Nick Littlehales (2016)
The sleep book: how to sleep well every night - Guy Meadows (2014)
Overcoming Insomnia and Sleep Problems: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques - Colin Espie (2006)
Spirituality
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff (2018)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (2001)
The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace - His holiness the Dalai Lama (1998)
Trauma and Abuse
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing - Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry (2022)
Finding Frank: A Memoir - Rachel Townsend (2020)
Healing Your Lost Inner Child: How to Stop Impulsive Reactions, Set Healthy Boundaries and Embrace an Authentic Life - Robert Jackman (2020)
Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors: overcoming internal self-alienation - Janina Fisher (2017)
Time To Go: Leaving Emotional Abuse and other forms of Abusive Relationships - Norva Semay Abiona (2015)
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma - Bessel Van Der Kolk (2015)
Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Child Sexual Abuse - Mike Lew (2014)
New Shoes: Stepping Out of the Shadow of Sexual Abuse and Living Your Dreams - Rebecca Mitchell (2011)
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing - Dena Rosenbloom (2010)
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing - Babette Rothschild (2010)
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - Ellen Bass and Laura Davies (2002)
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle (1997)
University Specific
Managing your Mental Health during your PhD: A Survival Guide - Zoe Ayres (2022)
You've Got This: A Student’s Guide to Well-being at University and Beyond - Rachael Alexander (2022)
Be Well, Learn Well: Improve Your Wellbeing and Academic Performance: 94 (Macmillan Study Skills) - Gareth Hughes (2020)
Anxiety at University: Student Wellbeing Series - Dominique Thompson (2019)
Depression at University: Student Wellbeing Series - Dominique Thompson (2019)
The Student Guide to Mindfulness - David Mair (2019)
Mindfulness for Students - Stella Cottrell (2018)
The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything - Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin (2018)
Coping with Stress at University: A Survival Guide - Stephen Palmer and Angela Puri (2006)
Writing for Wellbeing
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page - Cathy Rentzenbrink (2022)
Writing for Resilience: Finding the Courage to Bounce Back - Charmaine Pollard (2021)
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott (2020)
Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development - Gillie Bolton (2018)
The Writer's Key: Introducing Creative Solutions for Life - Gillie Bolton (2014)
49 Ways to Write Yourself Well: The Science and Wisdom of Writing and Journaling - Jackee Holder (2013)
Write Yourself: Creative Writing and Personal Development - Gillie Bolton (2011)
Poetry and Story Therapy: The Healing Power of Creative Expression - Geri G. Chavis (2011)
Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice - Laraine Herring (2007)
Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write - Gayle Brandeis (2002)
Walking In This World. Practical Strategies for Creativity - Julia Cameron (2002)