After more than two decades as the essential guide to borderline personality disorder (BPD), this new edition now reflects the most up- to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder as well as connections between BPD and substance abuse, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress syndrome, ADHD, and eating disorders. Both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic advancements point to real hope for success in the treatment and understanding of BPD.

World-renowned meditation teacher Tara Brach shares a simple four-step practice to awaken compassion and release the grip of painful emotions. Heartfelt and deeply practical, Radical Compassion teaches us to find healing and freedom through the sources of love, courage and deep wisdom alive within us all.  

Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of 12 marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships - all of which eventually led to doctors' belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder 20 years later. The Buddha and the Borderline is a window into this mysterious and debilitating condition, an unblinking portrayal of one woman's fight against the emotional devastation of borderline personality disorder.

For more than 30 years, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has been used effectively to treat mental and behavioral health problems such as anxiety and depression. It has also been demonstrated to support workplace success, sports performance, weight loss, social change, and more. In this complete audio learning program, the originator of ACT teaches us its essential principles. 

From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them?

Lori Gottlieb erforscht als Therapeutin in Los Angeles die innersten Geheimnisse im Leben ihrer Klienten - ein narzisstischer Hollywood-Produzent, eine sterbende junge Frau, eine ältere Dame, die mit Suizid droht, eine Mittzwanzigerin, die sich immer in die falschen Männer verliebt. Als Lori Gottlieb selbst in eine existentielle Krise gerät, sucht sie sich bei einem erfahrenen Therapeuten Hilfe. In ihrem emotionalen Memoir - auf der Couch und als Zuhörerin - erzählt sie mit Humor, Mitgefühl und Tiefe von dem, was den Menschen ausmacht.

In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look.

The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom's more than 35 years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. The best-selling author of Love's Executioner shares his uniquely fresh approach and the valuable insights he has gained - presented as 85 personal and provocative "tips for beginner therapists".

On The Power of Vulnerability, Dr. Brown offers an invitation and a promise - that when we dare to drop the armor that protects us from feeling vulnerable, we open ourselves to the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Here she dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and reveals that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.

Anger, fear, sadness and shame are notoriously difficult emotions to manage as nature has forged their purpose purely to protect us. Sometimes trauma can interfere with your ability to regulate your emotions, amplifying them and generating devastating effects for yourself and for others...Dialectical Behavior Therapy, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for the range of mental health conditions that are rooted in out-of-control emotions.

Kristin Neff, PhD is a professor in human development whose 10 years of research forms the basis of her timely book. Self Compassion offers a powerful solution for combating the current malaise of depression, anxiety and self criticism that comes with living in a pressured and competitive culture. Through tried and tested exercises, listeners learn the three core components that will help replace negative and destructive measures of self worth and success with a kinder and nonjudgmental approach in order to bring about profound life change and deeper happiness.

Können wir begehren, was wir schon haben? Insgeheim kennen viele Paare das Problem: Die Liebe nimmt zu, doch das Begehren schwindet; man teilt den Alltag, doch die heißen Nächte werden weniger. Wieso ist es eigentlich so schwer, Liebe und Leidenschaft unter einen Hut zu bringen? Die bekannte Beziehungsexpertin und Therapeutin Esther Perel hat mit zahlreichen Paaren gearbeitet und ihre Frustrationen, geheimen Wünsche und Sehnsüchte erforscht.

Immer wieder macht man dieselben Fehler, tappt in dieselben Fallen - denn bestimmte Lebensmuster sind hartnäckig und schwer zu verändern. Die Schematherapie hilft, solche Muster zu erkennen und sie so zu verändern, dass man sich besser fühlt und besser für sich und seine Bedürfnisse sorgen kann. Auf dem Hörbuch behandeln Laura Seebauer und Gitta Jacob drei große "Lebensthemen": Wie hat mich die Beziehung zu meinen Eltern geprägt, was habe ich von ihnen übernommen?

In this audiobook, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma - which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.

Einleitung, Kapitel 1: Identifizierungen totalisieren, Kapitel 2: Der Raum der Erlaubnis, Kapitel 3: Nach der Anerkennung kommt die Beziehung, Kapitel 4: Selbstsabotage, Kapitel 5: Heb' deine verdammte Hand, Kapitel 6: Das Bauchgefühl als Kompass, Kapitel 7: Das Marionettentheater, Kapitel 8: Die Erleuchteten vergessen, Kapitel 9: Die "Technik" der Radikalen Erlaubnis, Kapitel 10: Die Wächter und "Hijacking", Kapitel 11: Emotionales Sperrgebiet und Trauma.