RECOMMENDED READING
These are books I return to when thinking about therapy, trauma, play, personality, relationships, and what might be happening beneath the behavior. This is not a required reading list. It is simply a place to share books that have shaped the questions I ask.
One of the foundational texts for understanding child-centered play therapy. Landreth keeps the therapeutic relationship at the center and offers a practical way to think about how children communicate, test safety, and work through experience in play.
View on AmazonA thoughtful guide to understanding personality beyond a checklist of symptoms. McWilliams makes psychodynamic ideas readable and clinically useful while keeping the individual person, their defenses, relationships, and internal world in view.
View on AmazonThis book offers an accessible shift from asking what is wrong with someone to becoming curious about what they have experienced. It is especially useful for thinking about how early relationships, adversity, and development can shape behavior long after the original experience.
View on AmazonA widely read introduction to the ways traumatic experiences can affect the brain, body, memory, relationships, and sense of safety. I would read it as one important voice in the trauma literature rather than as the final word on trauma treatment.
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This page can grow beyond books. Scholarly articles, episode references, research summaries, and topic-specific reading lists can be added here as The Why Between Us develops.