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…Does it not all come to the fact that it is a man's world… Why should they [women] be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of infants, feeder of soul, body and pride of man? From the moment I was conceived I was doomed… to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery… God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can, I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night… 

 – Sylvia Plath, 1957

• Adams, Carol (Ed.). (1996). The Soul Unearthed: Celebrating Wildness and Personal Renewal Through Nature. Jeremy 
  
• P. Tarcher/Putnam Book.
  
• Adams, Carol & Donovan, Josephine. (Eds.). (1995). Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Duke University Press.
  
• Adams, Kathleen (1998). The Way of the Journal: A Journal Therapy Workbook for Healing. Sidran Press.
  
• Arrien, Angeles. The Second Half of Life: The Blossoming of Your Creative Self. Audio Cassette. Sounds True.
  
• Bass, Ellen and Davis, Laura (3rd edition). The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Harperperennial Library.
  
• Bass, Ellen and Thronton, Louise (1991 reprint). I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Harper Collins.
  
• Bass, Ellen and Kaufman, Kate. (1996). Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth - And Their Allies. Harper Collins.
  
• Bedard, Jim (1999). Lotus in the Fire: The Healing Power of Zen. Shambhala.
  
• Belenky, Mary, Clinchy, Blythe, Goldberger, Nancy, & Tarule, Jill. (1986). Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. Basic Books.
  
• Belenky, Mary; Clinchy, Blythe; Goldberger, Nancy; & Tarule, Jill (1996). Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowing. Basic Books.
  
• Breggin, Peter (1991). Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry". St. Martins Press.
  
• Brown, Laura & Ballou, Mary (1992). Personality and Psychopathology: Feminist Reappraisals. The Guilford Press.
  
• Brehony, Kathleen (1997). Awakening at Mid-life: A Guide to Reviving Your Spirit, Recreating Your Life, and Returning to Your Truest Self. Riverhead Books.
  
• Burstow, Bonnie (1992). Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence. Sage Publications.
  
• Cameron, Julia (1999). The Right to Write: An invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life. JP Tarcher.
  
• Capacchione, Lucia (1988). The Power of Your Other Hand: A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain. Newcastle Publishing.
  
• Caplan, Paula (1995). They Say You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
  
• Carlson, Trudy (1995). Suicide Survivor's Handbook: A Guide to the Bereaved and Those Who Wish To Help Them. Benline.
  
• Chesler, Phyllis (1997 reprint). Women and Madness. Four Walls Eight Windows.
  
• Chodorow, Nancy (1999 reprint). The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California Press.
  
• Chodorow, Nancy (1999). The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture. Yale University Press.
  
• Chodron, Pema (1997). Awakening Compassion: Meditation Practice for Difficult Times. Audio Cassette. Sounds True.
  
• Chodron, Pema (1998). Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles. Audio Cassette. Sounds True
  
• Chodron, Pema & Walker, Alice (1999).  Pema Chodron and Alice Walker: In Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy. Audio Cassette. Sounds True.
  
• Chodron, Pema (1999). Good Medicine: How To Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation. Audio Cassette. Sounds True.
  
• Collett, Merrill (1997). Stay Close and Do Nothing: A Spiritual and Practical Guide To Caring For The Dying At Home. Andrews McMeel Publishing.
  
• Davis, Margie (2000). The Healing Way, A Journal for Cancer Survivors. Element.
  

• Delaney, Gayle (1998). All About Dreams: Everything You Need to Know About Why We Have Them, What They Mean, and How to Put Them to Work For You. Harper.
  
• Desalvo, Louise (1999). Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transform Our Lives. Harper.
  
• Dinnerstein, Dorothy (1999 reprint). The Mermaid and The Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise. Other Press.
  
• Dworkin, Andrea (1989). Letters from a War Zone; Writings 1976-1989. E.P. Dutton.
  
• Faludi, Susan (1991). Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Doubleday.
  
• Flinders, Carol Lee (1999). At The Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst. Harper.
  
• Gendlin, Eugene (1982). Focusing. Bantam.
  
• Gilligan, Carol (1982). In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Harvard University Press.
  
• Glendinning, Chellis (1994). My Name is Chellis & I'm In Recovery From Western Civilization. Shambhala.
  
• Glendinning, Chellis (1999). Off The Map: An Expedition into Imperialism, the Global Economy, and Other Earthlywhereabouts. Shambhala.
  
• Goetting, Ann (2000). Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men. Columbia University Press.
  
• Goldberg, Natalie (1986). Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Shambhala.
  
• Goldman, Connie & Mahler, Richard (2000). Tending the Earth, Mending the Spirit: The Healing Gifts of Gardening. Hazelden Information Education.
  
• Greenspan, Miriam (1993). A New Approach to Women and Therapy. Tab Books.
  
• Griffin, Susan (1978). Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York: Harper & Row.
  
• Herman, Judith (1993). Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence From Domestic Abuse To Political Terror. Basic Books.
  
• Heron, Ann (1995). Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings By Gay & Lesbian Youth. Alyson Publishers.
  
• Jordan, Judith; Kaplan, Alexandra; Miller, Jean Baker; Stiver, Irene; and Surry, Janet (1991). Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center. Guilford Press.
  
• Kaschak, Ellen (1992). Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience. HarperCollins.
  
• Kennedy, Alexandra (1999). Losing a Parent: Passage to a New Way of Living. Harper.
  
• Knapp, Caroline (1999). Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. Dial Press.
  
• Laing, R.D. & Esterson, Aaron (1964). Sanity, Madness and the Family. Penguin Books.
  
• Levine, Peter and Frederick, Ann (1997). Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences. North Atlantic Books.
  
• Levine, Peter (1999). Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of the Body. Audio Cassette. Sounds True.
  
• Levine, Stephen (1989). Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed. Anchor Books/Doubleday.
  
• Levine, Stephen (1989). Healing into Life and Death. Anchor Books.
  
• Levy, Barrie (1998). In Love and Danger: A Teen's Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships. Seal Press Feminist Pub.

• Lewis, Denise (1998). Breathing as a Metaphor for Living. Audio Cassette. Sounds True.
• Loehr, James; Agel, Jerome; Midow, Jeffrey (1999). Breathe in and Breathe Out: Inhale Energy and Exhale Stress by Guiding And Controlling Your Breathing. Timelife. 
  
• Luepnitz, Deborah (1988). The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Family Therapy. BasicBooks.
• Mander. Jerry (1991). In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. Sierra Club Books.
  
• Miller, Jean Baker (1987). Toward a New Psychology of Women. Beacon Press.
  
• Miller, Jean Baker; Stiver, Irene; Hooks, Tisha (1998). The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life. Beacon Press.
  
• Mirkin, Marsha (1994). Women in Context: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Psychotherapy. The Guilford Press. 
  
• Murphy-Milano, Susan (1996). Defending Our Lives: Getting Away from Domestic Violence and Staying Safe. Anchor Books.
  
• Nabhan, Gary & Trimble, Steven (1994). The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Beacon Press.
  
• Nelson, John and Nelson, Andrea (1996). Sacred Sorrows: Embracing and Transforming Depression. JP Tarcher.
  
• Pennebaker, James (1997). Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. Guilford Press.
  
• Perkins, Rachel and Kitzinger, Celia (1994). Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature.) New York University Press
  
• Progoff, Ira (1992). At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability (Inner Workbook). JP Tarcher.
  
• Quinn, Paula (1995). Shadow On My Soul: Overcoming Addiction To Suicide. Knowledge, Ideas, & Trends.
  
• Rainer, Tristine (1979). The New Diary: How To Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity. JP Tarcher.
  
• Rainer, Tristine (1998). Your Life As Story: Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing Memoir As Literature. Putnam Pub Group.
  
• Ray, Catherine (1997). I'm With You Now: A Guide Through Incurable Illness for Parents, Families, and Friends. Bantam.
  
• Rico, Gabriele (1991). Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal Crisis. JP Tarcher.
  
• Rinpoche, Sogyal (1992). The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Harper San Francisco.
  
• Rodriguez, Stephanie (1994). Time to Stop Pretending: A Mother's Story of Violence, Homelessness, Poverty and Escape. Pauls Erikson.
  
• Russell, Diana (1999). The Secret Trauma: Incest In the Lives Of Girls and Women. Basic Books.
  
• Szasz, Thomas (1984 reprint). The Myth Of Mental Illness: Foundations Of a Theory Of Personal Conduct. Harper Collins.
  
• Shepard, Paul (1998). Nature and Madness. Sierra Club Books.
  
• Shiva, Vandana (1997). Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. South End Press.
  
• Staudacher, Carol (1994). A Time To Grieve: Meditations For Healing After The Death Of a Loved One. Harper San Francisco.
  
• Zinn, Howard (1999). A People's History Of The United States: 1492 To the Present. HarperCollins.