MARK PLETCHER

RESOURCES

Here are some materials to help you wherever you are. They can help in any phase of therapeutic work, beginning or advanced. You can read these before we meet or we can go through them during our work together. I find that resources like these really increase awareness and keep the therapeutic process going between sessions. During sessions I can work with you to unpack and understand your reactions, and also to apply the principles to your life in a deeper and more productive way.

I find www.half.com to be a great place to start for book purchases, along with the new/used section at www.amazon.com.

• For Everyone:
  
  Conscious Loving by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks

• For Couples’ Issues:
  
  Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendrix
  You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For by Richard C. Schwartz

• General Individual Work:
  
  Curious? by Todd Kashdan
  Awareness by Anthony De Mello
  The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
  Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  The Mindful Way through Depression by Mark Williams, et al.
  Anger by Thich Nhat Hanh
  Escape from Intimacy by Anne Wilson-Schaef
  Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
  Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  How We Believe by Michael Shermer
  The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

• Healthy Self-Parenting:
  
  Self-Parenting (and Workbook) by John Pollard
  Healing Your Aloneness (and Workbook) by Erika Chopich and Margaret Paul
  Children of the Self-Absorbed by Nina Brown
  Giving the Love that Heals by Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt

• Healing from Sexual Trauma:
  
  The Sexual Healing Journey by Wendy Maltz
  Betrayed as Boys by Richard Gartner
  Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck

• Specifically GLBT self-esteem and GLBT struggles with religion:
  
  The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs
  Empowering the Tribe by Richard Pimenthal-Habib
  Loving Ourselves by Kimeron Hardin
  Coming Out of Shame by Gershen Kaufman
  Outing Yourself by Michelangelo Signorile
  Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me by Michael Thomas Ford
  Fairy Tales by Peter Cashorali
  Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
  The New Testament and Homosexuality by Robin Scroggs
  Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell
  For the Bible Tells Me So documentary (2008)
  And anything by Dan Savage

• Eating Issues:
  
  When Food is Love by Geneen Roth
  Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
  It Was Food versus Me. . .and I Won by Nancy Goodman
  America the Beautiful documentary (2010)

• Recovery:
  
  Mindful Recovery by Thomas Bien and Beverly Bien
  Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
  The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Healing from Trauma:
  
  Trauma and Recovery by Judith Hermann
  Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
  The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
  I Can’t Get Over It by Aphrodite Matsakis

• Be Awake at Work:
  
  The Heart Aroused by David Whyte

• EEG Biofeedback:
  
  A Symphony in the Brain by Jim Robbins
  www.brainpaint.com

• EMDR:
  
  EMDR: The Breakthrough "Eye Movement" Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma by Francine Shapiro and Margot Silk Forrest
  www.emdr.org
  www.emdria.org