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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing
an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by Jonathan Haidt. THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into
the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big
tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
“Erudite, engaging, combative, crusading.” —New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Words that chill the parental heart… thanks to Mr. Haidt, we can glimpse the true
horror of what happened not only in the U.S. but also elsewhere in the English-speaking
world… lucid, memorable… galvanizing.” —Wall Street Journal
“[An] important new book... The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical
world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls.”
—Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents
plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose
sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen
mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the
nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration
to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood”
began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of
the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms
by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social
and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention
fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism.
He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing
from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves,
their families, and their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective
action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set
us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments
can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities
polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public
health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting
our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
4.7 out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 978-0593655030. Call #: HQ792.U5 H23 2024 |
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American
children
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that
of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions
for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not
helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing
up. What’s gone wrong with America’s youth?
In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn’t
the kids—it’s the mental health experts. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with child
psychologists, parents, teachers, and young people, Shrier explores the ways the mental
health industry has transformed the way we teach, treat, discipline, and even talk
to our kids. She reveals that most of the therapeutic approaches have serious side
effects and few proven benefits. Among her unsettling findings:
• Talk therapy can induce rumination, trapping children in cycles of anxiety and depression
• Social Emotional Learning handicaps our most vulnerable children, in both public
schools and private
• “Gentle parenting” can encourage emotional turbulence – even violence – in children
as they lash out, desperate for an adult in charge
Mental health care can be lifesaving when properly applied to children with severe
needs, but for the typical child, the cure can be worse than the disease. Bad Therapy is a must-read for anyone questioning why our efforts to bolster America’s kids have
backfired—and what it will take for parents to lead a turnaround. 4.6 out of 5
Stars, ISBN-13 : 978-0593542927. Call #: RJ504.S538 2024 |
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For your own good by Alice Miller. For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences
parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works
by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.
With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal
stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals
to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her
conclusions―on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or
a Hitler―offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far
from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects.
This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world―indeed, of the
ever-more-violent world―that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing,
with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful
solutions in this regard―namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been
trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in
repression. 4.5 out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 978-0374522698. Call #: HQ769.M531613 2002 |
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The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap by Ross Rosenberg . The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap completely rewrites what we know and understand about codependents, narcissists,
and the predictable resulting narcissistically abusive relationships. It is an invaluable
and much-heralded breakout book for laypeople and mental health professionals.
It is a codependency staple for both mental health professionals and the general public/layperson.
Since its original publication, it has sold over 150,000 copies while being published
in 12 languages. Its success is the driving force behind Ross Rosenberg’s successful
YouTube channel, accumulating over 23 million views and 250,000 subscribers.
Since the dawn of civilization, people seeking intimacy have been magnetically and
irresistibly drawn into romantic relationships, not by what they see, feel, and think,
but more by invisible forces. Human Magnet Syndrome compelled relationships predictably
begin with a dreamlike “love explosion,” which predictably unfolds into a painful
“seesaw” of love, pain, hope, and disappointment. Then, like clockwork, the codependent’s
soulmate dream lover predictably and inevitably transforms into the narcissist of
their nightmares.
With the Human Magnet Syndrome explanations, romantic chemistry’s impossible-to-escape
irresistible love force finally has an answer! Ross Rosenberg brilliantly provides
irrefutable and common-sense reasons for this rampant and seemingly impossible perfect
storm of dangerous love.
Rosenberg’s brilliant explanations for why patient and sacrificing codependents/Self-Love
Deficients fall head over heels in love with beautiful, charismatic, sexy, and exquisitely
attractive lovers, who, only after the trap is set, do they safely display their true
narcissistic selves.
Ross Rosenberg gives “codependency” and “codependent” their much-needed retirement
in this edition. Antiquated, inaccurate, and unnecessarily limiting, these shaming
terms cause more harm than help. Rosenberg also adds new information, updates, and
refinements. 4.5 out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 979-8812446369. Call #: RC569.5.C63 R67 2018 |
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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES.
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological
sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population,
emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle
schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had
never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out
story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of
trans “influencers.”
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans
YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing
interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and
puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans
epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors
who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly
regret what they have done to themselves.
Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds,
but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She
offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.
A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand
what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to
retrieve her from this dangerous path. 4.8 out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 978-1684512287. Call #: HQ77.9.S47 2021 |
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It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from clinical psychologist and expert in narcissistic relationships Dr.
Ramani Durvasula, a guide to protecting and healing yourself from the daily harms
of narcissism
AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER
It’s not always easy to tell when you’re dealing with a narcissistic person. One day
they draw you in with their charm and charisma, the next they gaslight you, wreck
your self-esteem, and leave you wondering, What should I have done differently? As
Dr. Ramani explains in It’s Not You, the answer is: absolutely nothing.
Just as a tiger can’t change its stripes, a narcissist will not stop manipulating
and invalidating you, no matter how much you try to appease them. The first step toward
healing from their toxic influence—and to protect yourself from future harm—is to
accept that you are not to blame for their behavior.
Drawing on more than two decades of studying the landscape of narcissism and working
with survivors, Dr. Ramani explores how narcissists hijack our well-being and offers
a healing path forward. Unpacking the oft-misunderstood personality, she reveals the
telltale behavioral patterns that indicate you may be dealing with a narcissist. Along
the way, you’ll learn how to become gaslight resistant, chip away at the trauma bonds
that keep you stuck in the cycle, grieve the loss of these painful relationships,
create and maintain realistic boundaries, discern unhelpful behaviors from narcissistic
behaviors, and recover your sense of self after constant invalidation.
Thriving after, or even during, a narcissistic relationship can be challenging, but
It’s Not You shows you it is possible. Dr. Ramani invites you to stop blaming yourself
and trying to change the narcissistic person, and to start giving yourself permission
to let go of their hold on you and finally embrace your true self. 4.9
out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 978-0593492628. Call #: BF575.N35 D877 2024 |
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Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Codependency and Complex PTSD (4 Books
in 1): Workbook and Guide to Overcome Trauma, Toxic ... and Recover from Unhealthy
Relationships) by Linda Hill. This groundbreaking, therapist-recommended book includes four books
(workbooks and guides) that will teach you from start to finish, everything you need
to know about Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Codependency and Complex PTSD, as well
as how to recover from each one of them.
Book 1: Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
✔️ Learn about different types of narcissists, their personalities, and how they behave
so you can spot them.
✔️ Discover what manipulation tactics narcissists and other toxic people practice
to keep you close and how to break free.
✔️ Learn how to transform your mindset so you have strength to remove yourself from
the toxic relationship.
✔️ Understand how to recover from the trauma caused by the relationship with a narcissist.
✔️ Identify strategies to get on, and stay on, the recovery path and become mentally
tough.
✔️ Learn how to stop attracting narcissists to ensure any future relationships are
healthy ones.
✔️ And much, much more...
Book 2: Gaslighting
✔️ Understand what gaslighting, love bombing and other tactics of abuse the narcissist
uses.
✔️ Learn how to break free and recover from narcissistic abuse.
✔️ Read real-world scenarios and phrases between the narcissist and the victims in
romantic relationships, friendships, families, the workplace, and more.
✔️ Identify the 10 stages of gaslighting which are used to gain control of the victim
– how and why it works.
✔️ Understand simple yet effective strategies to protect yourself from being manipulated
and abused.
✔️ Learn important ways to heal and move on in your relationships regardless of what
has happened.
✔️ And much, much more...
Book 3: Codependency Recovery Workbook
✔️ Investigate the 5 primary causes of codependency that may be the root of your symptoms
and powerful strategies to deal with them.
✔️ Understand “The Giver” and “The Taker” roles and how they contribute to the unhealthy
dynamic of the relationship.
✔️ Read common scenarios of codependent relationships and dialogues to help you understand
what it looks like in real life.
✔️ Take the Codependency Quiz so you can look at your relationship and find codependent
tendencies, change your behaviors, and build better relationships.
✔️ Learn what the 6 types of boundaries are, how to set them without feeling guilty,
and how not to relapse.
✔️ Discover the 7-step plan and learn powerful strategies that will help you recover
from being in a codependent relationship
✔️ And much, much more…
Book 4: Complex PTSD Workbook
✔️ Learn what Complex PTSD is, where it comes from, and how it differs from PTSD.
✔️ Discover examples and exercises designed to teach you effective strategies to uncover
and overcome past traumatic events.
✔️ Learn tools to help you rewire your mind so you can overcome the fear and pain
that accompany distressing situations.
✔️ Read insightful prompts and reflections to help you work through C-PTSD and regain
emotional control.
✔️ Learn how to stop avoidance techniques you are subconsciously using in daily life
which only keep you from progressing.
✔️ And much, much more…
Recognizing the problem is the first step towards recovery, but you must take action,
and you must take it now. This workbook and guide will help change your mindset so
that you can set yourself free but only you can take action.
"As a Licensed Psychotherapist specializing in trauma, I’ve helped clients heal in
various settings such as substance abuse treatment centers and even their homes...This
book will help you understand what you’ve been through and help you lay the foundation
for reclaiming your life. A true “must read” for any trauma survivor." -Trauma Psychotherapist
John Boswell, MSW, LCSW
4.6out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 979-8352823040. Call #: BF637.H55 R43 2022 |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s lessons for surviving
and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling
talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug
“Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth
century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future.”—Shepard Fairey, artist
and activist
Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism,
to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty
include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4:
Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything
for yourself and to the fullest extent (“11: Investigate”), a point to use personalized
and individualized speech rather than clichéd phrases for the sake of mass appeal
(“9: Be kind to our language”), and more.
In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging—at
once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of
memories—to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder’s riveting historical references,
turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination.
In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants
in resistance. 4.8 out of 5 Stars, ISBN-13 : 978-1984859150. Call #: COMING SOON |
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What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro, Paul Costanzo, et al. He says that's his best offer. Is it?
She says she agrees. Does she?
The interview went great - or did it?
He said he'd never do it again. But he did.
Listen to this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former
FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains
how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls,
and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence
what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:
• The ancient survival instincts that drive body language
• Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings
• What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives
• The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments
• Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust
• Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority
Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book
offers a powerful new way to navigate your world. 4.6 out of 5 Stars, 250 pages, ISBN-13
: 978-1435156166 Call #: BF637.N66 N38 2008 |
