Dr. Margy Sperry
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
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Here’s a list of some additional resources that might support you on your journey. Enjoy!
Some Books I Recommend
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love
Robert Karen, New York: Oxford Press. (1994)
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Alice Miller, New York: Basic Books (1996)
Tiny, Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed, New York: Random House (2012)
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Florence Williams, New York: WW Norton and Company (2017)
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron, Boulder: Shambhalya Publications (1997)
Books for Couples
Can Love Last? The Fate of Romance over Time
Mitchell, Stephen A., New York: WW Norton and Company (2002)
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Perel, Esther, New York: Harper Press (2006)
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Johnson, Sue, New York: Little Brown and Company (2008)
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Gottman, John and Nan Silver, New York: Random House (2015)
Books on Parenting
I’ll Never Do to My Kids What My Parents Did to Me
Eileen Paris and Thomas Paris, Warner Books (1992)
Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell, New York: Penguin Books (2014)
Some Videos I Recommend
Some Inspirational Quotes
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief develops the powers of the mind.”
– James Thurber
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
– Carl Gaustav Jung
“To look hard at something, to look through it, is to transform it, convert it into something beyond itself, to give it grace.”
– Charles Wright, from Bye-and-Bye Selected Late Poems
“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
– Albert Einstein
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
“We must let go of the life we had planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples”
– Mother Teresa