Books by David H. Wever, M.A., LMFT

Books for the work beneath the work

Clinical depth, compassionate parenting, Real Self development, neurodivergent selfhood, defenses, abandonment depression, internal leadership, and the human work of becoming more real.

New book · Parenting and the Real Self

The Child Behind the Behavior

A Compassionate Guide for Parents of ADHD, Autistic, Anxious, and Emotionally Intense Children

A compassionate, depth-oriented guide for seeing beyond behavior and understanding what a child may be trying to communicate through anxiety, intensity, shutdown, defiance, meltdowns, masking, or overload.

This book is for you if you love a child who is bright, sensitive, intense, neurodivergent, anxious, easily overwhelmed, or often treated as the problem when their behavior is telling a deeper story.

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The Real Self Series

The Neurodivergent Self

ADHD, Autism, Masking, Shame, and the Emergence of the Real Self

A compassionate, depth-oriented guide to the neurodivergent nervous system, protective parts, masking, shame, sensory overload, executive-function pain, and the slow emergence of the Real Self.

This book is for you if you have spent years being misunderstood, corrected, overloaded, praised for masking, or privately wondering why functioning can cost so much.

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The Real Self Series

Developing the Real Self

Personality, Defenses, Abandonment Depression, and the Life That Is Actually Yours

A compassionate, depth-oriented guide to the Real Self, False Self adaptation, protective defenses, abandonment depression, and the emergence and development of authentic feeling, desire, choice, grief, boundaries, intimacy, creativity, and calling.

This book is for you if you have functioned while hidden, adapted while aching, and begun to wonder whether the life you built is the same thing as the life that is actually yours.

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Leadership and psychology

The Internal C-Suite

Identify, Develop, Align, and Lead the Executive Team Within

The Internal C-Suite offers a psychologically grounded model for understanding the inner leadership system that shapes judgment, trust, conflict, self-protection, relational patterns, and pressure inside organizational life.

Written for leaders and leadership teams, it translates depth psychology and parts-based insight into practical language for decision-making, self-leadership, and human complexity.

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