One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds, we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to so many. This is not simply a man's life story, Yalom's reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the origins of our own selves and the meanings of our lives.

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a 2017 book by journalist and evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright. As of August 2017, the book had peaked at The New York Times No. 4 bestseller in hardcover nonfiction.
In Why Buddhism is True, Wright advocates a secular, Westernized form of Buddhism focusing on the practice of mindfulness meditation and stripped of supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation. He further argues that more widespread practice of meditation could lead to a more reflective and empathetic population and reduce political tribalism. In line with his background, Wright draws heavily on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology to defend the correctness of Buddhism's diagnosis of the causes of human suffering. He argues the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman).

The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom's more than thirty-five 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 bestselling author of Love's Executioner shares his uniquely fresh approach and the valuable insights he has gained—presented as eighty-five personal and provocative "tips for beginner therapists," including: Let the patient matter to you Acknowledge your errors Create a new therapy for each patient Do home visits (Almost) never make decisions for the patient Freud was not always wrong A book aimed at enriching the therapeutic process for a new generation of patients and counselors, Yalom's Gift of Therapy is an entertaining, informative, and insightful read for anyone with an interest in the subject.

《心理咨询的伦理与实践》以一种简洁、浅显易懂的方式，试图拓宽伦理研究中的传统观点，纳入一些与学生和临床工作者的个人奋斗和专业需要患息相关的课题。专业伦理中一些传统的金科玉律在书中得到了详细的讨论：保密、知情同意、权力的使用、胜任力以及专业职责等。《心理咨询的伦理与实践》相当详细地涉及了专业伦理传统的核心精华--保密、知情同意、利益冲突与界限、胜任力，还倡导咨询机构的人事部门把伦理问题视为个人发展与专业发展的挑战这样一种观点。《心理咨询的伦理与实践》还深入讨论了咨询师们在日常工作中已经碰到或即将碰到的一些重要问题，比如组织伦理、美德伦理，并以一种扩展的视角看待多元文化的伦理问题--既关注团体价值观，也关注宗教和灵性问题。学习促进者推动读者学习和记忆是《心理咨询的伦理与实践》的另外一个基本特征。每一章都包括了学习目标、大量的案例、关键概念和术语的定义、图表，以及包括重要术语的词典（附录B）。每一个章节都超越了专业伦理守则，即其他教科书的传统焦点，强调咨询师和治疗师能够在个人及专业生活中成长并达致卓越的方法。这本书还涉及了组织伦理--其他教材没有提到的话题，因为诊所、机构或者第三方付费的组织动力会显著影响咨询师与治疗师的伦理行为。《心理咨询的伦理与实践》还特别关注对灵性和宗教问题的伦理思考，以及在咨询和治疗中可供选择的干预方法，包括使用灵性和其他干预方法可能带给咨询师和治疗师的法律诉讼。

这是一本让人爱不释手的经典教材。本书几乎囊括了心理咨询初学者所需要了解的关于面谈的一切事情：从临床面谈的基本理论到各种实践技术，从非指导性的技术到各种高级的指导性技术，从一般的面谈过程和阶段到与特殊群体的面谈……更有大量的实际案例与临床趣闻。经过全面的修订，新版对咨询面谈的阐释更加透彻、深刻，文笔更加精彩、简洁。新版主要特色包括：
● 更强调将科学研究与临床实践紧密结合。
● 增加全新的一章，主要是关于特别不愿意参与临床面谈的来访者和灾后抚慰等对临床面谈提出特殊要求的情境。
● 增加了有关动机面谈、焦点解决以及建构主义方法的全新内容。
无论是心理咨询的初学者，还是已具有相当临床经验的心理健康工作者，阅读本书都能让你获益良多。

众所周知，培养一个优秀的心理咨询师需要付出艰辛的努力，花费巨大的成本。培训过程中，咨询师本人的成长更具有挑战性；忽略这一方面，仅仅提供一些课程，则容易得多。其实，心理治疗要想取得成功，咨询师必须具备敏锐的洞察、成熟的情感和坚定的信心——这些素质都是至关重要的；然而，对知识的死记硬背和对技术的生搬硬套却被大多数培训项目当作重点。结果，咨询师自身的成长被轻视甚至忽略了。《心理咨询师的14堂必修课》一书正是为了扭转这一趋势，向研究生或者初级咨询师奉献一本旅行手册，帮助我们踏上重要的内心旅程。
作者在反思自己从业早期的经历时，为我们提供了一种独特的视角来观察这位资深咨询师的思考和情感。不仅如此，《心理咨询师的14堂必修课》一书还包含了实用的建议、日常工作中的智慧以及坦率的自我剖析，心理卫生从业人员发现这些内容对他们的进一步学习非常有帮助。