Books by Peter D. Ladd

The Experiential Therapist steps outside of the medical model to explore alternative ways of thinking about mental health disorders. Peter D. Ladd argues that successful treatment results from an informed understanding of a patient's experience, not an ability to name and categorize difficult experiences as classical disorders.

In The Talk Therapy Revolution, Peter D. Ladd demonstrates how neuroscience, combined with human experience, impacts the practice of talk therapy. Ladd explores how this combination can dramatically transform a therapist's understanding of successful therapy.

This book is an interactive workbook where clients, students and everyday people can understand and find step by step solutions for regulating of their emotions. Twelve different emotions are covered in the workbook giving the reader those emotions most commonly needing regulation in everyday living.

Mediation, Conciliation, and Emotions: The Role of Emotional Climate in Understanding Violence and Mental Illness, the revised edition of the groundbreaking Mediation, Conciliation, and Emotions: A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding Emotions in Dispute Resolution, discusses the under-researched topic of emotional climate, and emphasizes the importance of considering climate or environment when trying to understand violence and mental illness, as well as its impact on our society. Ladd and Blanchfield describe how an effective mediator, conciliator, or peacemaker should approach these conflicts. New features include updated references, a discussion of contemporary violence and mental health, and comparisons between culture and climate when determining how conflicts evolve into violent acts.

This book proposes that some people may actually be 'addicted' in an unhealthy manner to specific emotions. Ladd contends that emotional addiction operates under similar criteria to a physical addiction, with both forms of addiction showing characteristics of denial, compulsive behavior, dependency, tolerance, addictive thinking, and withdrawal symptoms.

Emotions impact any practitioner of dispute resolution; yet, there are very few programs with courses that explore the emotional side of disputes. In Mediation, Conciliation, and Emotions, Peter Ladd outlines the emotions found in disputes and how these emotions function in dispute resolution.