Reading List

Boundaries. (1992) by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Drs. Cloud and Townsend explain the concept on boundaries and offer help on how to set and enforce healthy boundaries from a Christian perspective.

Reinventing Your Life: How to Break Free from Negative Life Patterns and Feel Good Again. (1993) by J. Young and J. Klosko. New York: Plume.

This book takes a cognitive schema perspective and is particularly useful for people whose problems have been present since their teens. Sometimes people have long term ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that contribute to relationship problems, depression, and anxiety. The authors of this book help you to discover and break free from these negative life patterns. The eleven life traps they describe are abandonment, mistrust and abuse, emotional deprivation, social exclusion, dependency, vulnerability, defectiveness, failure, subjugation, unrelenting standards, and entitlement.