Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
Looking at research from SPECT scan imaging which explains behavior related to the functions of different parts of the brain.  In this breakthrough bestseller, you`ll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be relation to how specific structures in your brain work.  You`re not stuck with the brain you`re born with.  Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen`s surprising and effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life:  To Quell Anxiety and Panic - Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil.  To Fight Depression - Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) To Curb Anger - Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage. To Stop Obsessive Worrying - Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises.
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Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
Good overview of sixteen temperament types, complete with assessment tool.  Begin by completing the questionnaire on page five.  Then read a picture of your way on pages 167-206.  Professor Keirsey is a long time clinical psychologist of the gestalt-field systems school.  After 30 years of treating hundreds, of teaching, parenting, marriage and management problems, Dr. Keirsey now challenges the reader to "Abandon The Pygmalion Project", that endless and fruitless attempt to change the other into a carbon copy of oneself.  "It`s ok", he says, "to marry your opposite and beget children who are far from being chips off the old block, but is not ok to make marriage and parentage as license to sculpt spouse and child using yourself as a pattern to copy".
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Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last
Psychologist John Gottman has spent 20 years studying what makes a marriage last.  Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, and maintain your own long-term relationship.  This breakthrough book guides you through a series of self-tests designed to help you determine what kind of marriage you have, where your strengths and weaknesses are, and what specific actions you can take to help your marriage.  Some of the things that you will learn are:  More sex doesn`t necessarily improve a marriage, frequent arguing will not lead to divorce, financial problems do not always spell trouble in a relationship, wives who make sour facial expressions when their husbands talk are likely to be separated within four years, and there is a reason husbands withdraw from arguments -  there`s a way around it.  Dr. Gottman tells you how to recognize attitudes that doom a marriage - contempt, criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling - and provides practical exercises, quizzes, tips, and techniques that will help you understand and make the most of your relationship.
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