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Behind the Therapy Door: Simple Strategies to Transform Your Life

Randy Kamen · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

From the unique vantage point of the inner sanctum of a psychologist's office, readers have a front row seat for the therapeutic process, witness the benefits of mind/body strategies, and gain insight from the experiences of others.Randy Kamen guides six women through a variety of life...
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Under My Helmet: A Football Player's Lifelong Battle with Bipolar Disorder

Keith O'Neil · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

An athlete's battle with mental illness. Ever since he was a child, Keith O'Neil wanted to play football. Born on the same day that his father, Ed O'Neil, was cut from the New England Patriots, football was all Keith could think about . . . aside from his anxiety. Offered a scholarship...
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Seeing What Others Cannot See: The Hidden Advantages of Visual Thinkers and Differently Wired Brains

Thomas G West · Prometheus Books
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback

For over 25 years, Thomas G. West has been a leading advocate for the importance of visual thinking, visual technologies and the creative potential of individuals with dyslexia and other learning differences. In this new book, he investigates how different kinds of brains and different...
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory

Julia Shaw · Random House UK
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Memories make us who we are - yet the truth is they are far from being the accurate record we like to think they are. We can all admit to occasional memory lapses, but what if we have the potential for more profound errors of memory, even verging on outright fabrication and self-deception?...
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

Jen Waite · Plume
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When "it could never happen to me" does happen to you? These are the questions facing Jen Waite when she begins to realize that her loving husband - the father of her infant daughter,...
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

Naoki Higashida · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of life as a young adult with autism Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international...
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Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

Joanne Cacciatore · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

If you love, you will grieve - and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable - especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, "NO!" with every fiber of our body. The process...
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays

MANDY LEN CATRON · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they...
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When Colorblindness Isn't the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race

Anthony B Pinn · Pitchstone Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The future of the United States rests in many ways on how the ongoing challenge of racial injustice in the country is addressed. Yet, humanists remain divided over what if any agenda should guide humanist thought and action toward questions of race. In this volume, Anthony B. Pinn makes...
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

Jennifer Latson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,...
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