Below is a recommended reading list of books which may be relevant to the development of the practitioner’s interests and support the requirements of particular areas of knowledge that arise within a practitioners or participants Inner Child experience. Please speak to your practitioner in order for them to recommend where to begin.
Practitioner's Library
The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology
Alfred Adler
The Science of Living
Alfred Adler
Understanding Human Nature: The Psychology of Personality
Alfred Adler
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Dan B. Allender
Practicing Radical Honesty: How to Complete the Past, Live in the Present, and Build a Future with a Little Help from Your Friends
Brad Blanton
Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love That Heals Fear and Shame
Tara Brach
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child
John Bradshaw
Alchemical Active Imagination
Marie-Louise von Franz
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria & A Young Girl’s Diary – Email us for a copy
Sigmund Freud
The Ever-present Origin: The Foundations and Manifestations of the Aperspectival World
Jean Gebser
The Continuum Concept
Jean Liedloff
The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology
James Hillman
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling
James Hillman
The Courage to Heal
Ryan Holiday
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
C. G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections – Jung’s autobiography
C. G. Jung
Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche – Volume 8 of the Collected Works
C. G. Jung
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
Donald Kalsched
Trauma and the Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption
Donald Kalsched
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Heinz Kohut
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Maté
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
Gabor Maté
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Alice Miller
The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
Alice Miller
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
Caroline Myss
Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child
Margaret Paul
The Psychology of the Child
Jean Piaget
Developing Spiritual Intelligence: The Power of You
Altazar Rossiter Phd
Partnering with Spiritual Intelligence
Altazar Rossiter Phd
The Four Agreements (Toltec Wisdom Book)
Don Miguel Ruiz
Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering From Childhood Trauma
Pete Walker
Deprivation and Delinquency
D. W. Winnicott
Home is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
D. W. Winnicott
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Paulo Coelho
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Merlin Trilogy
Mary Stewart
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
J. R. R. Tolkien
Sigmund Freud
Dora
J. W. T. Redfearn
Dreams of Nuclear Warfare
Warren Colman
Synchronicity and the meaning-making psyche