Helpful books about :

Psychotherapy:

The Art of Psychotherapy by Anthony Storr, MD

The Gift of Therapy: an Open Letter to the New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom, MD

On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Adam Phillips

Love, Hate and Reparation by Melanie Klein and Joan Riviere

Trauma:

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman, MD

Strong at the Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford

Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective by Jody Messler Davies

Women/Girls and Psychotherapy:

Women, Girls and Psychotherapy. Reframing Resistance by Carol Gilligan, Annie Rogers & Deborah L. Tolman

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope by Martha B. Strauss

Psychotherapy and Buddhism:

The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism by Anthony Molino

Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue, edited by Jeremy D. Safran

Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck