Incorporating

Mayo Recovery College,
REGARI (Roscommon & East Galway) Recovery College
and Galway Recovery College

Books

  1. Barker P and Buchanan-Barker P 2005 The Tidal Model: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, Brunner-Routledge, London and New York
  2. Bates, Tony 2011, Coming Through Depression, Gill and MacMillan, Dublin
  3. Beck, Aaron T. 1989, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders, Penguin, London
  4. Bracken, Patrick and Thomas, Philip 2006 Post psychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World, Oxford University Press, Oxford
  5. Brampton, Sally, 2008, Shoot the Damn Dog, Bloomsbury Publishing, London
  6. Breggin, Peter, 1993, Toxic Psychiatry, Harper Collins, London
  7. Burke Harris, Dr Nadine 2018, The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, Bluebird
  8. Byrne Lynch, Anne; Saunders, John; Seager, Pat; Thompson Coyle, Kahlil 2008, Talking about talking therapies: psychotherapy and psychosis, Shine (formerly Schizophrenia Ireland) Dublin
  9. Chamberlin, Judi, 1978, 2012, On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, National Empowerment Centre, Lawrence, MA
  10. Davies, James, 2014, Cracked – Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good, Icon Books, London
  11. Dweck Dr Carol S., 2006, Mindset, Random House Inc., New York
  12. Lois Einborn, 2006, Forgiveness and Child Abuse, Robert D. Reed Publishers, Bandon, OR 97411
  13. Frances, Allen, 2013, Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, Harper Collins, New York
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  15. Gijbels, Harry, Sapouna, Lydia and Sidley, Gary: 2019, Inside Out, Outside In: Transforming Mental Health Practices, PCCS Books, Monmouth
  16. Grof, Christina and Stanislav, 1997. The Stormy Search for the Self, Jeremy P Tarcher
  17. Hari, Johann 2018, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions, Bloomsbury
  18. Johnstone, Lucy, A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis, 2014, PCCS Books, Monmouth
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  21. Levine, Peter A., Ph.D, 2005, Healing Trauma, Sounds True, Boulder, Colorodo
  22. Lynch, Terry, 2004, Beyond Prozac, PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, UK
  23. Lynch, Terry, 2011, Selfhood, Mental Health Publishing, Limerick, Ireland
  24. Lynch,Terry 2015, Depression Delusion Volume One: The Myth of the Brain Chemical Imbalance, Mental Health Publishing, Limerick
  25. Maté, Gabor, 2003(2019 kindle edition), When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, knopf, Canada
  26. Maté, Gabor, 2008, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Vermilion, London
  27. Moncrieff, Joanna, 2009, A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, UK
  28. Moncrieff, Joanna, 2008, The Myth of the Chemical Cure, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK
  29. Peck, M. Scott, 1978, The Road Less Travelled, Rider,
  30. Pilgrim, David 2009, A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychological Treatments for Mental Health Problems, PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, UK
  31. Read, John and Sanders, Pete 2010, A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems, PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, UK
  32. Rogers, Annie 2007, The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma, Ballantine Books, New York
  33. Rogers, Annie 1996, Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy, Penguin
  34. Rowe, Dorothy, 1996, Depression The way out of your prison, Second Edition, Routledge, London
  35. Szasz, Thomas S. 2010 (first published 1974), The Myth of Mental Illness, Harper Perennial, New York
  36. Wampold, Bruce E. 2001, The Great Psychotherapy Debate, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, Mahwah, New Jersey
  37. Watson, Jo, 2019, Drop the Disorder, Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis, PCCS Books Ltd, Monmouth
  38. Whitaker, Robert 2010, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Broadway Books, New York

Contact

Recovery College West
County Clinic
Castlebar
Co. Mayo

T: 086 0294901
E: [email protected] 

 

Our Vision

The Purpose of Recovery College West is to create a culture of recovery, to improve quality of life and promote social inclusion by empowering people with mental health challenges, their families, friends and the community through co-produced education and learning together.