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Daniel Amen books: every book Daniel Amen wrote and recommended
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Daniel Amen appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Daniel Amen
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Healing ADD
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The End of Mental Illness
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Windows into the A.D.D. mind
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Memory Rescue
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Feel Better Fast and Make It Last
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Your Brain Is Always Listening
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Sex on the Brain
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Magnificent Mind at Any Age
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
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Use your brain to change your age
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Unleash the Power of the Female Brain
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Stones of Remembrance
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You, Happier
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30% Happier in 30 Days
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Conquer Your Negative Thoughts
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Healing Anxiety and Depression
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The brain warrior's way
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Conquer Worry and Anxiety
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Change Your Brain Every Day
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Captain Snout and the Super Power Questions
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Time for Bed, Sleepyhead
Daniel Amen’s most recommended books
- It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn
- The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child by Tana Amen
- Loving what is by Byron Katie
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Healing A.D.D. at Home in 30 Days by Daniel G. Amen
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton
- Thrilled to Death by Archibald D. Hart
- Thrilled To Death by L. J. Sellers
- Tiny Habits by Bj Fogg
Daniel Gregory Amen is an American celebrity doctor who practices as a psychiatrist. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amen Clinics, as well as the founder of Change Your Brain Foundation, BrainMD, and Amen University, and a twelve-time New York Times best-selling author as of 2023. Amen appeared on podcasts such as The Tucker Carlson Show, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, and The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, where he recommended several books. He recommended Mark Wolynn's It Didn't Start with You when discussing generational trauma, and suggested his wife Tana Amen's cookbook Healing ADD at home through food and her book The Brain Warrior's Way as resources for healthy recipes and diet management. Amen also mentioned BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits regarding daily routines and personal change, recommended L.J. Sellers's or Archibald D. Hart's Thrilled to Death to illustrate how certain stimuli stimulate brain pleasure centers, mentioned Robert I. Sutton's The No Asshole Rule when talking about workplace culture and eliminating toxic behavior, and referenced Tana Amen's The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child while discussing adverse childhood experiences.
Books recommended by Daniel Amen
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It Didn't Start with You
It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn is a psychological exploration of how inherited family trauma and unresolved ancestral pain shape our lives and how individuals can break these generational cycles.
Recommended“There's a book I love called It Didn't Start with You.”
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The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child
The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child by Tana Amen is a deeply personal memoir detailing the author's journey through severe childhood trauma and her subsequent healing and recovery.
Discussed“My wife, and she wrote a book about this called The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child, has eight out of 10.”
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Loving what is
Loving What Is by Byron Katie is a transformative self-help guide that introduces a practical method of inquiry called The Work, designed to help individuals identify and question the painful thoughts causing their emotional suffering.
Recommended“and i got this technique from my friend byron katie she wrote a brilliant book called loving what is brilliant”
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The Power of Now
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual guide designed to help readers transcend their analytical minds and find inner peace by fully embracing the present moment.
Discussed“and and a lot of people love the book the power of now and i actually love the book but i hate the title”
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Healing A.D.D. at Home in 30 Days
Healing A.D.D.
Recommended“My wife Tana wrote a cookbook, Healing ADD at home through food or The Brain Warrior's Way. That's her big cookbook. It's been reprinted like 53 times.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Recommended“my favorite book or at least it's in the top five is man's search for meaning by victor franklin”
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The brain warrior's way
The brain warrior's way by Daniel G.
Recommended“My wife Tana wrote a cookbook, Healing ADD at home through food or The Brain Warrior's Way. That's her big cookbook. It's been reprinted like 53 times.”
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The No Asshole Rule
The No Asshole Rule by Robert I.
Recommended“So there's a book by a Stanford professor called The No Asshole Rule. Love that book.”
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Thrilled to Death
Thrilled to Death by Archibald D.
Recommended“Uh, there's a a book I love called Thrilled to Death. Uh, it's continually pressing on your nucleus accumbens that produces dopamine.”
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Thrilled To Death
Thrilled to Death by L.J.
Recommended“There's a book I love called 'Thrilled to Death.' It continually presses on your nucleus accumbens, which produces dopamine, continuously pressing on the pleasure centers in your brain.”
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Tiny Habits
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg is a practical self-help guide that revolutionizes personal growth by teaching readers how to build lasting changes through remarkably small, manageable behavioral adjustments rather than relying on overwhelming willpower.
Recommended“and um I worked with my friend BJ fog who wrote a wonderful book called tiny habits and he's the um director of Stanford's persuasive technology lab”
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Change Your Brain Every Day
Change Your Brain Every Day by Daniel G.
Discussed“and he actually wrote a book called change Your Brain before 25 and he opens the book with the story of his scan”
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, serves as the standard classification and diagnostic handbook used by mental health professionals.
Discussed“So the DSM the diagnostic and statistical manual its fourth version changed the diagnostic criteria. hugely significant book, huge.”
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Life After Life
Life After Life by Raymond A.
Discussed“as 1977 i read a book called life after life by ray moody and it was about people who had near-death experiences”
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Love and Survival
Discussed“I was with Dean Ornish. Do you know Dean Ornish? He's a internist, but he's written a lot of work on diet and health and he wrote this one book called Love and Survival. And it's one of my favorite books I ever read”
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Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a profound psychological and philosophical work by a Holocaust survivor that explores how human beings can confront extreme suffering and find profound purpose in life.
Discussed“my favorite book or at least it's in the top five is man's search for meaning by victor franklin”
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The Daniel plan
Discussed“in fact i had one woman we should talk about the daniel plan at some point it's this massive program i did at saddleback church”
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Appearances
Other mentions (35: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“I have a new book coming out in December, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain. And I talk about this in the book.”
“And I wrote a book many years ago called Preventing Alzheimer's and got no end of grief from it. Published it the year Reagan died.”
“So David is the founder of the Hate Ashberry Free Clinic in San Francisco. He's the considered the father of addiction medicine. And um we wrote a book together called Unchain Your Brain: Breaking the Addictions That Steal Your Life.”
“I have a book called Your Brain Is Always Listening.”
“I have a book called Raising Mentally Strong Kids, which I'm very happy about. Um and it starts with what kind of dad do I want to be and what kind of child do I want to raise.”
“And I wrote a book called Healing Anxiety and Depression and like here's the seven things I see as an imager.”
“So we studied it. I have a book called You Happier, and it was right as the pandemic was ending.”
“I wrote a book called Feel Better Fast and Make It last. And it's like, I want you to do things that help you feel good now and later as opposed to now but not later.”
“And this is actually my Alzheimer's prevention program. I wrote a book about it called Memory Rescue.”
“So, I wrote another book. How can you have a healthy mind without healthy brain called the end of mental illness, and I've really dived into each of these 11 risk factors.”
“And so, my book Healing ADD, I talk about see and heal the seven types.”
“so there's an ex exercise I talk about in the book that I love so much that you know all the things I've recommended to my patients over the last 45 years when I decided to be a psychiatrist 45 years ago special time it's magic”
“and 19 um no 2005 I wrote a book called preventing Alzheimer's and got no end of grief from my colleagues. They're like no you can't do that and I'm like no you can do it.”
“I love it so much I wrote a book called you happier and I start with his idea that happiness is a moral obligation”
“um I I have a book called healing add and I write about my own personal experience being married to someone who has ADHD and having several of my kids who have it”
“and since 2005 I wrote a book with my friend Rod Shankle called preventing Alzheimer's”
“and I updated it in 2017 with memory rescue”
“and since 2005 I wrote a book with my friend Rod Shankle called preventing Alzheimer's and I updated it in 2017 with memory rescue”
“and since 2005 I wrote a book with my friend Rod Shankle called preventing Alzheimer's and I updated it in 2017 with memory rescue”
“and I came up with I wrote a book with David Smith called unchain your brain breaking the addictions that steal your life and like giving everybody proacs and say right there many different ways to get depressed”
“You know, Prince Harry's book Spare.”
“You know Prince Harry's book, 'Spare'? Well, in a Lebanese family, the oldest son is golden, and the second son is irrelevant.”
“So she got parenting with Love and Logic and then took everything they ever created. One night when it finally clicked that I've done second grade, she told Chloe, she'd never again ask her to do her homework.”
“Then Tana got a program; I co-wrote the book with Charles Fay, who is president of the Love and Logic Institute, so she got Parenting with Love and Logic. Then one night, when it finally clicked that 'I've done second grade,' she told Chloe she'd never again ask her to do her homework.”
“Actually, I have a child's book called Captain Snout and the superpower questions, where I wrote specifically to teach kids to question their automatic thoughts.”
“I have another really fun book called Time for Bed, Sleepyhead, which is a hypnotic bedtime story for children.”
“and if you read my book healing add I talk about the Ring of Fire ADD”
“and in um my new book change your brain every day there's actually pictures of Noel Nelson”
“because it's yeah in my book the end of mental illness I did something it was very fun for me to do”
“Now, if you want a shortened version, read my book, The End of Mental Illness, cuz there's a whole section on toxins with about 100 scientific references.”