Marielle Mershart, LCSW

This is, by no means, a comprehensive list, but include books of compelling interest and 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.

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Classics
 

• Babies And Their Mothers by D. W. Winnicott

• Love's executioner, and other tales of psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

• The Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud, M. D., edited by Peter Gay

• 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

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, M.D.

• Gratitude by Oliver Sacks, MD

• The Noonday Demon byAndrew Solomon
   

Parenting

 

• The Magic Years by Selma Frieberg

• Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

• 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

• Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irving D. Yalom