Professional Organizations (links)

Valley Neuropsychology Group
American Psychological Association
Pennsylvania Psychological Association
Lehigh Valley Psychological & Counseling Association

Recommended Books by Topic

Personal Growth and Self-Understanding​

• The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck, M.D.
• Necessary Losses: The loves, illusions, dependencies, and impossible expectations that all of us have to give up in order to grow - Judith Viorst

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• How Psychotherapy Really Works: How it works when it works and why sometimes it doesn't - Willard Gaylin, Ph.D.
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner's guide - Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. (academic audience)
• Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process - Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. (academic audience)

Marriage and Relationship Issues

• Hold Me Tight: Seven conversations for a lifetime of love - Sue Johnson, Ph.D.
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman, Ph.D. & Nan Silver
• The Science of Trust: Emotional attunement for couples - John Gottman, Ph.D.
• After the Affair: Healing the pain and rebuilding trust when a partner has been unfaithful - Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D.​

Families and Parenting

• Parenting From the Inside Out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive - Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell
• Parenting with Love and Logic - Foster Cline, M.D. & Jim Fay

History of Trauma

• Healing the Child Within: Discovery and recovery for adult children of dysfunctional families - Charles Whitfield, M.D.
• The Courage to Heal: A guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse - Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
• The Body keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.