With an ever-growing industry of self development, life coaching and mental health awareness it can be a challenge to wade through the plethora of material and select high quality, well researched reads on mental health and psychology.

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We’ve outlined below a short-list of recommended materials to help in your discovery of knowledge and access authors of good regard.

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

“In our culture, we spend so much time nurturing our IQ that we tend to ignore our EQ,” according to John Duffy, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author of the book The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens. But it’s our emotional intelligence that contributes greatly to making us successful in all areas of our lives, including work and relationships, he said. “The book is simple and easy to understand, and priceless.”

 

Being and Loving by Althea Horner

In his practice, clinical psychologist Ryan Howes, Ph.D, regularly sees “the conflict between being a whole self and being in intimate relationships with other people.” This book, he said, gives readers guidance on what to do about this common conflict.