

Marielle Mershart, LCSW
Psychotherapy & Consultation
By seeking help, one embraces hope and is on the path toward health

This is, by no means, a comprehensive list, but includes books of compelling interest
& have stood the test of time.
I update this list from time to time, so check back again to see what's new on this page.
Classics
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Babies And Their Mothers by D. W. Winnicott
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Love's executioner, and other tales of psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
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The Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud, M. D., edited by Peter Gay
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The Interpersonal World of the Infant: a View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
by Daniel Stern, M.D. -
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
by Daniel Siegel, PhD -
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Memoir
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An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, M.D.
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Gratitude by Oliver Sacks, MD
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The Noonday Demon byAndrew Solomon
Parenting
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The Magic Years by Selma Frieberg
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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
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The Teenage Brain by Frances Jensen
Self Help
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Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
by Dr Sue Johnson -
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love
by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller -
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers
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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irving D. Yalom