Gildiner, Catherine
Summary: "Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist who practiced privately for 25 years. This book focuses on five brave men and women who overcame enormous trauma--in her view, heroes who should be celebrated. With a novelist's storytelling gift, Gildiner recounts the details of her patients' struggles and their paths to recovery and weaves in her own tale of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2019
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Summary: "Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist--an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks Michelle in a cage, tortures her repeatedly, and uses her to quench his voracious and deviant sexual whims....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEVENS, MICHELLE STERobotham, Michael
Summary: When a former student bungles the investigation of a mother-daughter double murder, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin discovers a link between the case and a series of escalating attacks. A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote coastal home, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince. When a former student...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBStout, Carder
Summary: Psychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs for the Shoreline Crips, surviving homelessness, escaping a murder plot, and finding redemption in the most unlikely of places. Dr. Carder Stouts clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOUT, CARDER STOFrankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil)
Summary: Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 HOFJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Summary: Presented here in English for the first time are letters that provide a rare look at the development of Jung's psychological theories from the 1930s onward as well as the emerging self-confidence of another towering twentieth-century intellectual who was often described as Jung's most talented student. Neumann was one of the few correspondence partners of Jung's who was able to challenge him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 JUNKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: Psychologist Alex Delaware joins forces with brothers Moe Reed and Aaron Fox as they seek to uncover secrets in high places that could explain the fate of an outwardly innocent young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KELLuhning, Holly.
Summary: Quiver tells the story of Danica, a forensic psychologist who works at a former insane asylum-turned-forensic hospital. One of Danica's mental patients is Malcolm Foster, who is imprisoned for murdering a fourteen-year-old girl. Foster is a menacing but fascinating patient and Danica begins to suspect that Foster may have been the head of a gothic cabal idolizing Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUHTurkle, Sherry
Summary: "MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TURKLE TURWhite, Stephen
Summary: The brilliant, determined murderer Michael McClelland has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital--and he's coming after Alan Gregory's family. The timing couldn't be deadlier; like a wounded animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland holds the most powerful weapons of all: secrets from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHISummary: Ram Dass shares the essence of his core wisdom through his iconic humor, joy, and honesty. Historical footage compliments an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto as they explore the life experiences that helped to free Ram Dass from the attachment to his "somebody-ness" a journey that transformed him into the radiant soul who now inspires a new generation. It is the quintessential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BECEger, Edith Eva
Summary: Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an internment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chamber by Joseph Mengele soon after they arrived at the camp. Hours later Mengele demanded that Edie dance a waltz to 'The Blue Danube' and rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EGER, EDITH EVA EGEFord, Christine Blasey
Summary: On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an alleged sexual assault by the Supreme Court nominee that took place at a high school party in the 1980s. Her words and courage on that day provided some of the most credible and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LIttle, Brown and Co. 2007
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Summary: "From the bestselling author of 'Women Rowing North' and 'Reviving Ophelia,' a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she looks inward in 'A Life in Light' to what shaped her as a woman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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Summary: A survivor of the Holocaust describes how he learned through his darkest experiences of the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances, and later used that knowledge to help underprivileged youth in Boston for more than forty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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Summary: Forest fires are reducing chunks of the Boulder Valley to tinder and ash; Colorado clinical psychologist Alan Gregory's colleague and close friend, still recovering from a terrible trauma, appears to be approaching a psychological breakdown; and new evidence in an old case causes Alan to reexamine decisions he made in the past, putting his entire career at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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Summary: "I HAD A MISCARRIAGE is Dr. Jessica Zucker's account of her miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy, and her journey of recovery following it. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, this book uses Zucker's and other women's experiences to explore grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZUCKER, JESSICA ZUCLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science LewisEvans, Richard I. (Richard Isadore)
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.413 EVALamb-Shapiro, Jessica.
Summary: "Raised by a child psychologist who was himself the author of numerous self-help books, as an adult Jessica Lamb-Shapiro found herself both repelled and fascinated by the industry: did all of these books, tapes, weekend seminars, groups, posters, t-shirts and trinkets really help anybody? Why do some people swear by the power of positive thinking, while others dismiss it as so many empty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAMB-SHAPIRO, JESSICA LAMMa-Kellams, Christine
Summary: "The biting literary satire of The Sellout meets the pulsing thrill of Mouth to Mouth in this darkly humorous, surreal debut about a seductive, but problematic bond between an unhappily married therapist and the cancelled K-Pop idol she meets at a Los Angeles H Mart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: Documents people that are successfully coping with Asperger's and Autism. Parents, doctors, therapists, psychologists, and children talk about Asperger's and their challenges and victories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strawbelly Jerry Films 2008