This book is based on, an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Law, Psychology and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC. During this wide-ranging conversation, Elyn Saks candidly shares her personal experiences with schizophrenia and discusses the intersection of law, mental health and ethics: the legal and ethical implications surrounding mental...

Be Invincible: A Playbook for Reaching Your Full Potential is a must-have guide to living your life to the fullest, regardless of the challenges you face - financial, health-related, relationship-oriented, or any other potential roadblock. When you have the tools and techniques to be invincible, you can overcome anything. Vince and Janet share with you: • How health, attitude, and discipline work together to pay dividends • Their secrets...

At the current rate, nearly 50 percent of us will experience mental illness during our lifetimes. Fortunately, we can help friends, family, and coworkers to adopt proactive mental health attitudes and behaviors that reduce the chances of being afflicted with anxiety, depression, substance abuse, bipolar affective disorder, dissociation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, paranoia, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis, and schizophrenia. We must proactively...

One of America's most beloved writers shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times.

"The author of the bestselling French Women Don't Get Fat shares the secrets and strategies of aging with attitude, joy, and no surgery. With her signature blend of wit, no-nonsense advice, and storytelling flair, Mireille Guiliano returns with a delightful, encouraging take on beauty and aging for our times. For anyone who has ever spent the equivalent of a mortgage payment on anti-aging lotions or procedures, dressed inappropriate for their age,...

Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.

"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...

"For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane,...

Meal by Meal is a book of comfort, guidance, and insight for anyone with an unhealthy relationship with food. Its power is in its approach: each day is a self-contained journey of conscious eating to help people nurture new and sustainable attitudes and practices. Although bad habits cannot be changed overnight, the author — Buddhist devotee Donald Altman — shows how to find peace by focusing on food issues one meal at a time. He shares inspirational...

The beloved actor and YouTube sensation gets personal about everything from mental health to drunken debaucheries.