Books
I’m Right, You’re Wrong, Now What?
They happen everyday— those circular “I’m right, you’re wrong!” arguments. At home, at work, in courtrooms or on the street, people lock horns about all kinds of things. These situations frustrate both parties, stall progress, and hurt relationships. But they don’t have to. In his book on using LEAP for all kinds of relationships, Dr. Amador shows you how to turn even toxic arguments into healthy disagreements that strengthen relationships and get you what you need. Available in Print & e-Book.
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I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!
In this new edition of Dr. Amador’s best selling book, you will learn why so many people with serious mental illness are in “denial” and refuse treatment. Whether you are a health care professional, family member or friend, you will learn how to build trust and succeed at helping someone with mental illness to accept treatment and services. Available in Print & e-Book.
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If you’re dealing with bipolar disorder, you already know that it’s more than a cycle of “ups” and “downs.” You may also have difficulty with depression and irritability, as well as problems with weight gain, memory, and fatigue. Dealing with these day-to-day problems can sometimes seem like too much to bear. Drawing on the latest research in bipolar disorder, stress, and health, this step-by-step guide offers a complete selection of livable, workable solutions to manage bipolar disorder and helps you:
- Identify your symptoms
- Explore your treatment options
- Stabilize your moods
- Sharpen your mind
- Achieve your goals
This isn’t a one-size-fits-all guide. It’s a uniquely personal approach to your bipolar disorder that covers the full spectrum of the disease and its symptoms. You’ll be able to find successful ways to regulate your moods, relieve your stress, improve your thought processes, and break the bipolar cycle–for a happier, healthier life.
When Someone You Love is Depressed
In this authoritative and compassionate book, psychologists Laura Epstein Rosen and Xavier Amador explain the mechanisms of depression that can cause communication breakdown, increase hostility, and ultimately destroy relationships. Through compelling real-life stories and step-by-step advice, the authors teach concrete methods that you and your loved one can use to protect yourselves and your relationship from depression’s impact. Drawing on their own innovative research, the give sensitive guidance about how to recognize your needs, how to provide the best kind of support, and how to encourage the depressed person to seek treatment. Whether you are the partner, parent, friend, or child of a depressed person, you’ll find this book and invaluable companion in you journey back to health.
Being Single in a Couples World
Whether you are actively looking for a mate or have decided that marriage isn’t what you want right now, psychotherapists Xavier Amador and Judith Kiersky can help you deal with the problems that come from being single in a couples’ world.
Drawing on years of clinical experience and research with both single and married clients, Amador and Kiersky have identified the five common stumbling blocks that can get in the way of enjoying singlehood. Taking a careful look at the obstacles that cause single people the most pain, the authors have developed a four-step plan to help you achieve balance and happiness — whether or not you stay single. And the first and most challenging step is to stop buying into old-fashioned ideas about singlehood and marriage.
Reis’s Pieces
Professor Reis Welling’s life is idyllic. A respected professor of botany at Cornell, he’s been granted early tenure, has received a grant to carry out field research in the Adirondack Forest, and has met Ellen, the love of his life. Everything is perfectthat is until the forest turns its back on him, department heads start spying on him, Ellen starts lying to him, and all start transmitting thoughts into his head. Herein lies Reis’s slow and insidious descent into a vicious and damaging world of mental illness. Reis’s Pieces uncompromisingly explores one man’s struggle for his place in an altered world and two women’s search for their place in his. Welcome to the life of Reis Welling and all his pieces, an engrossing and provocative world of love, loss, and schizophrenia.
50 Shades of Grey
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.
Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.
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