Recommended Reading

This book begins with that 'A-ha!' moment, addressing the many questions that follow. What do the symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder look like in adults? Is getting a diagnosis worth it? What does an assessment consist of and how can you prepare for it?

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, author Bell Hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood.

This book is a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behaviour.

The first self-help book about emotional neglect: an invisible force from your childhood that you can't see, but which may be affecting you profoundly to this day.

Author Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts.

Stories of trauma and transformation. Author Bruce Perry explains what happens to the brain when children are exposed to extreme stress and trauma and reveals his innovative (non-medicinal) methods for helping to ease their pain and allowing them to become healthy adults.