The following list of books may be helpful in augmenting ERP/ACT treatment for OCD, however they are not a substitute for therapy with an OCD Specialist. For a comprehensive list of books available on the topic of OCD, please visit the IOCDF complete book listing here. It is a very comprehensive list!
Self-Help and Work Books on OCD
- Freedom From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Jonathan Grayson, PhD
- Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts, Jon Hershfield, MFT
- Everyday Mindfulness for OCD: Tips, Tricks & Skills for Living Joyfully, Jon Hershfield, MFT and Shala Nicely, LPC
- Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD
- Healing from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Mindfuless-Enhanced CBT Approach to Regaining Control and Restoring Peace of Mind, David J. Keuler, Ph.D.
Coloring Books for Exposure Work
- Color Your Fears: A Workbook Using Exposures to Combat OCD Obsessions, Molly Fishback & Morgan Rondinelli of Not Alone Notes
- An OCD Exposure Coloring Book: Coloring Exposures for Sexual, Harming, Relationship, Religious, and Scrupulous Intrusive Thoughts, Amanda Petrik-Gardner, LCPC
- An OCD Exposure Coloring Book Volume 2, Amanda Petrik-Gardner, LCPC
- An OCD Exposure Coloring Book Volume 3 For Kids, Amanda Petrik-Gardner, LCPC
Books for Parents and Families
- Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD, Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD
- The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD
- When a Family Member Has OCD: Mindfulness & Cognitive Behavioral Skills to Help Families Affected by Obsessive – Compulsive Disorder, Jon Hershfield, MFT
Books for Kids and Teens
- What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What-to-do Guides for Kids) Dawn Huebner, PhD
- What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD (What-to-Do Guides for Kids) Dawn Huebner, PhD
- Outsmarting Worry (An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety) Dawn Huebner, PhD
- Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children’s Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment, Aureen P. Wagner
- The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD, Patricia Zurita Ona
- Stuff That’s Loud: A Teen’s Guide to Unspiraling When OCD Gets Noisy (The Instant Help Solutions Series), Ben Sedley, PhD and Lisa W. Coyne, PhD
Memoirs and Lived Experience
- Is Fred in the Refrigerator?: Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life, Shala Nicely, LPC
- Life in Rewind: The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered Over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him by Terry Weible Murphy, Michael A. Jenike, and Edward E Zine
- The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
by David Adam - Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Fletcher Wortmann
Books on ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living, a Guide to ACT, Russ Harris
- Living Beyond OCD with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Patricia Zurita Ona