Resources

Books

The noonday demon: An atlas of depression (2001)
Andrew Solomon

Why can’t we sleep? (2019)
Dorian Leader

Shame: The power of caring (1992)
Gershen Kaufman

Are you my mother? (2012)
Alison Bechdel

The lies we tell ourselves: How to face the truth, accept yourself, and create a better life (2017)
Jon Frederickson

On earth we were briefly gorgeous (2019)
Ocean Vuong

Neuroses and human growth: The struggle toward self-realization (1991)
Karen Horney

Trauma and recovery: The aftermath of violence (1997)
Judith Herman

Getting the Love You Want (2001 [1988])
Harville Hendrix

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A proven way to accept yourself, build inner strength, and thrive (2018)
Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer

Podcasts

Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations
The Hilarious World of Depression

Free Mental Health Apps

Insight Timer Mediations for Apple and Android
SuperBetter

Free Programs

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Palouse Mindfulness

Hotlines

National Suicide Hotline: 800-273-8255
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233)
Trans LifeLine: 877-565-8860
OC WarmLine: 877-910-9276
Crisis Text Line: 741-741
Befrienders Worldwide: https://www.befrienders.org/

On race and psychoanalysis:

Black Psychoanalysts Speak

Black Psychoanalysts Speak (2012), an IPTAR documentary.

Racial Melancholia

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation (2019) by Shinhee Han and David Eng, a book that explores Asian American race and racial identity experiences from a psychoanalytic perspective.  Academic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han first met in the mid-1990s when they were brought together by their collective sorrow by a spate of student suicides at Columbia University.

Psychoanalysis and race

Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016) by Pratyusha Tummala-Narra.
Anton Hart speaks with Usha Tummala-Narra about her recent co-authored study — recently published in Psychoanalytic Psychology — on the ways that cultural competence is conceptualized by psychoanalytic psychologists.