Louella Chapman, MA, MFT 310.902.9223

"I have never known any distress that
an hour's reading did not relieve."
- Montesquieu

Children and Parenting:

"Touchpoints", "Infants and Mothers", "Earliest Relationship" by T. Berry Brazelton
"The Magic Years" by Selma Fraiberg
"Playground Politics", "The Challenging Child" by Stanley Greenspan
"Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" by Dan Kindlon
"Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls" by Mary Pipher
"Oneness and Separateness", "Adolescence" by Louise Kaplan
"The Roller Coaster Years" by Charlene C. Giannetti 
"Children: The Challenge" by Rudolf Dreikurs
"Positive Discipline" by Jane Nelsen
"Teaching Your Children Sensitivity" by Linda and Richard Eyre
"The Unmotivated Child" by Natalie Rathvon
"Talking With Your Child about Sex" by Mary Calderone
"Raising Children with Character" by Elizabeth Berger
"The Moral Life of Children" by Robert Coles
"The Drama of the Gifted Child" by Alice Miller
"The Psychology of Harry Potter" by Neil Mulholland

Divorce:

"Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way" by Gary Neuman
"The Good Divorce" by Constance Ahrons


Relationships:

"Mixed Matches" by Joel Crohn
"The Intermarriage Handbook: A Guide for Jews & Christians" by Judy Petsonk
"Passionate Marriage" by David Schnarch
"Dance of Intimacy" by Harriet Lerner
"Mating in Captivity" by Esther Perel
"How To Get Married After 35" by Helena Rosenberg


Emotions and the Brain:

"Molecules of Emotion" by Candace Pert
"Emotional Intelligence", "Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
"The Developing Mind", "Parenting from The Inside Out" by Daniel Siegel
"The Emotional Brain" by Joseph Ledoux
"The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy" by Luis Cozolino

Neurofeedback:

"A Symphony in the Brain" by Jim Robbins
"ADD: The 20 Hour Solution" by Mark Steinberg and Siegfried Othmer