r/therapists · 2019

Most-mentioned books in r/therapists during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/therapists within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2019

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

3 in 2019

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Janina Fisher

A trauma therapist argues the parts of you that feel broken are actually surviving, and gives you a framework to stop fighting them.

1 in 2019

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist survives three concentration camps and concludes the ones who lived weren't the strongest, they were the ones who still had a reason to.

1 in 2019

The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin Yalom's clinical manual for group therapy, built from decades of practice, covering everything from curative factors to termination.

1 in 2019