Updated
03/10/08
1). Cloud,
Henry. Changes That Heal: How to Understand Your Past to Ensure a
Healthier Future. Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1990.
This
book and its workbook will lead the reader through the dynamics of maturing in healthy togetherness with others and healthy
separation from others.
2). Cloud,
Henry. Changes That Heal Workbook: How to Understand Your Past to
Ensure a Healthier Future. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994.
3). Cloud, Henry, John Townsend.
Boundaries In Marriage. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 1999.
This
book will give you specific guidance on what healthy boundaries in a marriage are and are not.
4). Cloud, Henry, John Townsend. Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When
to Say No,
To Take Control on Your Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1992.
This is a basic introductory book to the whole idea of boundaries.
5). Cloud, Henry, John Townsend. Boundaries Workbook: When to Say
Yes, When
to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life.Grand Rapids,MI:Zondervan,1995.
6). Forward,
Susan. Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear,
Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You. NY: Harper-Collins Publishers,
1997.
7). Hemfelt, Robert, Frank Minirth, Paul Meier. Love is a Choice. Nashville:
Thomas
Nelson Publishers, 1989.
8). Hemfelt, Robert, Frank Minirth,
Paul Meier, Deborah Newman, Brian Newman.
Love Is A Choice Workbook. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers,1991.
These
two books address the co-dependency that many family members and friends of the mentally ill struggle
with.
9). Kreger, Randi,
with James Paul Shirely. The Stop Walking on Eggshells
Workbook Review.
10). Kreger, Randi,and
Kim A. Willams-Justensen. Love and Loathing: Protecting
Your Mental Health and Legal Rights When Your Partner Has
Borderline Personality Disorder.
11). Lawson, Christine Ann, Ph.D. and Jason Aronson. Understanding the Borderline
Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and
Volatile Relationship
Dealing with this mental illness within a family calls
for wise and firm boundaries. This book offers practical insights and instruction where Stop Walking on Eggshells only
touches on lightly. The two books together make an awesome pair. This book is quoted at length in the workbook for SWOE.
I’ve
used this book in counseling with adult children of a “Mommy Dearest” type. It is not only descriptive of the
four types of these mothers but also prescriptive in how to relate with each type within healthy boundaries. Some may find
a surprising insight about fibromyalgia and other auto-immune deficiency diseases in this book.
12).
Mason, Paul T., Randi Kreger,
and Larry J. Siever. Stop Walking on
Eggshells; Coping When Someone You Care about Has
Borderline
Personality Disorder New Harbinger Pubns (July 1998)
While this book
is written specifically for dealing with one mental illness,
I find its principles
solid and transferable to help anyone to stop walking
on eggshells around
them and reclaim their own life.
13). Melville, Lynn. Breaking Free From Boomerang Love: Getting
Unhooked From Borderline Personality Disorder Relationships
14). Roth, Kimberlee and Freda B.
Friedman. Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to
Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self Esteem.
Oakland, CA: New Harbinger
Publishers, Inc., 2003.Review.
15). Tinman, Ozzie. One Way Ticket to Kansas: Caring about Someone
with Borderline Personality Disorder and Finding a Healthy You
16)
Whitfield, Charles L. Boundaries and Relationships. Deerfield, FL: Health
Communications, Inc., 1993.
This
is a very thorough book on much more than just personal boundaries. (my favorite!!!)
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