 | Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2008/2009 Edition (Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology) by John C. Norcross Phd
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $15.94 The MOST important resource for prospective graduate school applicants. Ranks all APA universities that fall under the category of counseling/clinical psychology. Gives 1 to 7 scales for every school on a basis of practice orientation versus research orientation.
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 | Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics) by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.99 Various sessions of therapy by Dr. Yalom, M.D.
Invaluable examples of clients needing therapy, while also experiencing passionate love for another.
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 | Cracked: Life on the Edge in a Rehab Clinic by Drew Pinsky
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $2.95 Enlightening, insider's account of life in a rehabilitation clinic. Delves into the deep lives of drug addicts and those that treat them.
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 | Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.28 Intense and often violent interactions between therapist and client. A telling story about a man's abuse and the relationships that suffer because of it.
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 | Scientific American Mind
Buy new: $19.95 Light reading in psychology. Brief news and research updates.
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 | Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients by Robert U. Akeret
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.98 More stories and case studies of therapy. Book also dives into the unethical realm of revisiting clients after therapy. Akeret tip toes across the line to reconnect with past clients, as his own curiosity begs for answers about the health and well-being of his past clients.
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 | When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs by Drew Pinsky
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.03 Short read on the dangers of painkillers and the great potential for addiction.
It may be older, but the information and applicability is still highly relevant and necessary.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.40 Powerful movie about psychological disorders and the stigmas that are carried with them.
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 | Numb
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $0.48 One of the best examples of Depersonalization Disorder.
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 | In Treatment: The Complete First Season
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $28.99 One of the most realistic media portrayals of therapy. Wonderful acting and a pace that is reminiscent of therapy.
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 | In Treatment- The Complete Second Season
Buy new: $38.99 One of the most realistic media portrayals of therapy. Wonderful acting and a pace that is reminiscent of therapy.
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 | Confessions of a Street Addict by James J. Cramer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.06 Addiction and obsessive thoughts can manifest themselves in various ways. This book is a great example of someone's addiction to the world of business, money, and finance. It leads Cramer to drink, become angry, and otherwise neglect the ones he cares about most.
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 | Memento
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.01 A man suffering a combination of short-term memory loss coupled with some symptoms of a dissociative fugue state.
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 | What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $8.95 A fundamental component of therapy is paying close attention to a client's body language--it can be highly insightful when a client doesn't explicitly say their feelings.
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 | Stories From The Couch: And Other Telling Tales by Mark Benn
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $8.74 Poignant stories that address our fundamental natures as humans. Each story is applicable to one's own life.
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 | Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.24 A second hand account of a son's addiction with meth.
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 | Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self by Daphne Simeon
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $14.29 One of the only books that addresses the topic of depersonalization disorder. Pulls back the curtain of ignorance to an understudied disorder.
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