Recommended Books

Faculty favorites for Lifelong Learners

Success in Relationships: Finding and Keeping Friends and a Life Partner

Daniel Merlis LICSW
Unlock the key to thriving relationships with Success in Relationships: Finding and Keeping Friends and a Life Partner. This insightful guide offers proven strategies to help you enhance your relationships, whether you’re looking to improve friendships, find a romantic partner, or strengthen emotional bonds. With practical advice from an experienced psychotherapist, you’ll gain the tools needed to cultivate meaningful connections that last.

Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal

by Michael Baldwin & Deborah Korn Psy.D.
An introduction to EMDR, a proven trauma therapy with the power to heal, cowritten by a world-renowned therapist and a patient who experienced transformative relief through EMDR therapy.

EMDR Therapy Treatment for Grief and Mourning: Transforming the Connection to the Deceased Loved One

Roger Solomon Ph.D.
In this book, Roger M. Solomon guides the EMDR therapist through the treatment process by understanding grief reactions and the mourning process, providing an overall model of EMDR treatment for grief and mourning, and highlighting how EMDR can help a mourner experience a positive sense of connection through heartfelt, meaningful memories. 

EMDR and Group Therapy: Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond

Reg Morrow Ed.S. & Safa Kemal Kaptan Ph.D.
This innovative handbook is the first to present EMDR Group Therapy as a pragmatic approach to trauma care that enables practitioners to scale up mental health services while ensuring cost and time efficiency. It delivers step-by-step guidance―supported by real-life case examples―for practicing this safe, effective, and culturally adaptable modality in a wide range of situations and conditions.

EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation

James Knipe PhD
This innovative resource for therapists trained in Standard EMDR delivers a powerful set of EMDR-based “Tools” - useful strategies for helping difficult-to-treat clients with complex emotional problems.

An EMDR Therapy Primer

by Barbara Hensley
This book is written as a primer and companion to Francine Shapiro’s EMDR texts. It is a step-by-step overview of the foundations of EMDR therapy presented in easily accessible, conversational language, and helps both new and experienced clinicians to maximize their preparation and skills in using EMDR safely, confidently, and effectively. By providing concise coverage of the AIP model and EMDR principles, protocols, and procedures, and by addressing the types of targets accessed during the EMDR process, the book expertly summarizes the eight phases of EMDR with myriad examples so core content can be easily grasped.

Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy

Jamie Marich & Stephen Dansinger
Do you know about EMDR therapy and how it can successfully treat addiction? This book offers a holistic and integrative approach to addiction treatment that combines EMDR therapy with other specialized treatment protocols.

EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology

by Arielle Schwartz & Barb Maiberger
This book offers an integrative model of treatment that teaches therapists how to increase the client's capacity to sense and feel the body, helps the client work through traumatic memories in a safe and regulated manner, and facilitates lasting integration.

Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders: A Practical Guide for Clinicians Second Edition

Ulrich Schnyder & Marylene Cloitre
This book provides easily digestible, up-to-date information on the basic principles of traumatic stress research and practice, including psychological and sociological theories as well as epidemiological, psychopathological, and neurobiological findings.The full range of trauma and stress related disorders is covered, including Acute Stress Reaction, Complex PTSD and Prolonged Grief Disorder, reflecting important anticipated developments in diagnostic classification.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

By Dr. Francine Shapiro
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book--now revised and expanded--has been translated into 10 languages.

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