Titles by Dr. Charles L. Whitfield, MD - (email me for more information).

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The Truth about Mental Illness: Choices for Healing - In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Whitfield provides clinicians, patients and their families with a most crucial guide to mental illness, including information on new treatment options. This unique approach also answers questions on the role unresolved trauma plays in mental illness.
 

Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families - In this bestselling book, Dr. Whitfield describes the journey of discovery and healing our fears, confusions and unhappiness. This book begins where many others describing adult children of alcoholics have left off. It also describes and develops the concept of adult children of troubled or dysfunctional families in general, rather than focusing only on the alcoholic family. Members of Twelve-step Self-help groups and Adult Children Self-help groups will find this book especially useful in their own recovery work, both within and outside of their meanings.

Review of Healing the Child Within and A Gift to Myself by Erin O’Shaughnessy

The Truth about Depression: Choices for Healing - In this bold new book, renowned physician, psychotherapist and bestselling author Charles Whitfield offers new hope. Through revealing description, case studies, cutting-edge research and illustrative charts, Dr. Whitfield explores the risks, side effects and high costs of treating these disorders with drugs alone, and offers several other effective healing aids. This book offers a lifeline for those who have been held hostage by depression and provides clinicians with effective new treatment solutions.

My Recovery: A Personal Plan for Healing - To get somewhere, it is useful to know where you are going. This can be especially difficult for people struggling with issues of addiction, compulsion, physical or mental illness. In this simple yet effective three-part program, best-selling author Charles Whitfield helps readers chart their own treatment plan and find a way out of the often confusing vortex of recovery work. Through illustrative charts and graphics he shows readers how to write their own recovery plan, including how to identify core issues and how to integrate those issues into a personalized plan.

Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting, and Enjoying the Self -
Much more than about personal boundaries, this book is about relationships--healthy and unhealthy ones. here, bestselling author, physician, and psychotherapist Charles Whitfield blends theories and dynamics from several disciplines into practical knowledge and actions that you can use right now in relationships. this comprehensive book opens with clear definitions and descriptions of boundaries, a self-assessment survey and a history of our accumulated knowledge. Going deeper, it describes 10 essential areas of human interaction wherein you can improve your relationships.

 

Co-Dependence: Healing the Human Condition - A concise and stimulating book with all the essential features and more about the nearly universal condition of co-dependence. Bestselling author Dr. Charles Whitfield discusses in detail how co-dependence is a major manifestation of being an adult child of a dysfunctional family, and provides specific psychotherapeutic and recovery methods to help heal its wounds.

A Gift to Myself: A Personal Workbook and Guide to Healing My Child Within - This is a gentle and effective workbook and guide to Healing the Child Within. It can be used with or without having already read Healing the Child Within. Using numerous experiential exercises that the reader can do at their own pace, physician and author Charles Whitfield takes us on a healing journey into our inner and outer life. Once a reader starts this book, the healing process begins -- even if they rarely do any of its exercises.
 

  Review of Healing the Child Within and A Gift to Myself by Erin O’Shaughnessy

Memory and Abuse: Remembering and Healing the Effects of Trauma: In this groundbreaking book Charles Whitfield, voted by his peers as being one of the best doctors in America, brings his clinical experience and knowledge about traumatic memory to us. He examines, explores and clarifies this critical issue that threatens to invalidate the experience of survivors of trauma and handcuff the helping professionals who assist them as they heal. This thorough, insightful work provides crucial information for anyone affected by a traumatic experience.
 

Titles by Charles and Barbara Whitfield - (email me for more information).

The Power of Humility - We all experience conflict on a daily basis, whether it’s with another person like a coworker or boss, or in a "triangle" with two other people such as in a family relationship. Dealing with strife isn't easy because most of us don't clearly understand one of the most critical yet overlooked skills to successful relationships: humility - and how to best express it. Now there's a new approach to solving the conflicts that cause us both physical and emotional stress. Bestselling author Charles Whitfield and three leading experts explain that having humility doesn’t mean being a doormat or turning the other cheek - it's about being authentic, open and understanding.

Titles by Barbara Harris Whitfield - (email me for more information).

Spiritual Awakenings: Insights of the Near-Death Experience and Other Doorways to Our Soul - In this book, Barbara Harris Whitfield shares her own story and the stories of others who have encountered near-death experiences (NDEs) to show readers how and why NDEs have such a transformative effect on individuals. She shares the latest research on the subject and gives readers assistance in achieving the same powerful experience without risking their lives.  
 

Final Passage: Sharing the Journey as This Life Ends - In this groundbreaking book on the meaning of death, Barbara Harris Whitfield shares her near-death experiences and the stories of individuals who have left this life with dignity--assisted by her loving help. These accounts will inspire readers, allow them to accept death more easily, and reveal the connection to the Spirit that embraces and guides us as we die. Whitfield demonstrates how it is possible for terminal patients to be fully present, even in their deepest pain, so that they can spread kindness, compassion and forgiveness to their loved ones.

Full Circle: The Near Death Experience and Beyond - More than a personal memoir, Full Circle chronicles a remarkable occurrence shared by over eight million Americans, its profound impact on their lives, and includes the latest scientific research supporting this phenomenon. Harris explores her own near death and its classic after-effects, providing comfort for those who have lived through Near Death Experiences as well as their families. For all who are curious about this astounding event, Full Circle recounts an extraordinary journey toward a new understanding of death--and of life.