Marielle Mershart, LCSW

​By seeking help, one embraces hope and is on the path toward health

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This is, by no means, a comprehensive list, but include books of compelling interest and have stood the test of time. 

I update this list from time to time, so check back again to see what's new on this page. 

Classics

  • Babies And Their Mothers by D. W. Winnicott
  • Love's executioner, and other tales of psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
  • The Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud, M. D., edited by Peter Gay
  • The Interpersonal World of the Infant: a View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
    by Daniel Stern, M.D.
  • The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
    by Daniel Siegel, PhD
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Memoir

  • An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, M.D.
  • Gratitude by Oliver Sacks, MD
  • The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

Parenting

  • The Magic Years by Selma Frieberg
  • Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • The Teenage Brain by Frances Jensen

Self Help

  • Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
    by Dr Sue Johnson
  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love
    by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
  • Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers
  • Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irving D. Yalom

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