Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill

by
Lawrence H. Diller (Author)

In a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to Distraction, a physician speaks out on America’s epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin.

In 1997 alone, nearly five million people in the United States were prescribed Ritalin–most of them young children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Use of this drug, which is a stimulant related to amphetamine, has increased by 700 percent since 1990. And this phenomenon appears to be uniquely American: 90 percent of the world’s Ritalin is used here. Is this a cause for alarm–or simply the case of an effective treatment meeting a newly discovered need? Important medical advance–or drug of abuse, as some critics claim?

Lawrence Diller has written the definitive book about this crucial debate–evenhanded, wide-ranging, and intimate in its knowledge of families, schools, and the pressures of our speeded-up society. As a pediatrician and family therapist, he has evaluated hundreds of children, adolescents, and adults for ADD, and he offers crucial information and treatment options for anyone struggling with this problem.

Running on Ritalin also throws a spotlight on some of our most fundamental values and goals. What does Ritalin say about the old conundrums of nature vs. nurture, free will vs. responsibility? Is ADD a disability that entitles us to special treatment? If our best is not good enough, can we find motivation and success in a pill? Is there still a place for childhood in the performance-driven America of the late nineties?

THE ILLUSION OF THE CYBER INTELLIGENCE ERA

The book is the result of my two academic interests. On a professional level I have too often found that there is a lot of misleading information being dished out on the reasons behind some of the most high profile cyber attacks. Both the media and the so called security experts end up in a blame game without factual evidence or a clear understanding of what lies behind the obvious. My research focuses on proposing a model for Cyber Criminal Psychology & Profiling that incorporates multiple intelligence, Interviewing Techniques, Cyber Criminal Psychology, Cyber forensics and Offender Profiling. The traditional model of offender profiling does not incorporate the human side of the profiler nor the offender. A better profile of a Cyber-Criminal will help in speeding up the investigation process and ensuring better identification of the Cyber-Criminal.

On a personal level, especially after going through a traumatic cancer struggle, I have found that people around me are missing vital things in life. Some out of ignorance and some out of misinterpretation of facts.

The book is a collection of 31 articles, which took almost three years of constant effort. The book is split into five chapters, each representing a unique theme, each with multiple articles of interest. Chapter 1 focuses on Cyber Forensics, Chapter 2 on Profiling, Chapter 3 on Interview Techniques, Chapter 4 on Forensics Psychology and Chapter 5 on Multiple Intelligences. Although the chapters are in a certain order, each article can be read on its own in any order.

The one thing I learnt in preparing the articles is how valuable knowledge of the self and surroundings are in figuring out better solutions for oneself and in the workplace. I hope you enjoy reading these articles as much as I enjoyed writing them. I also hope you find them useful.

Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.

Malhotra identifies three broad approaches for breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts, and draws out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting of the US Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and NHL, and beating the odds in complex business situations. But he also shows how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether you are making corporate deals, negotiating job offers, resolving business disputes, tackling obstacles in personal relationships, or even negotiating with children.

As Malhotra reminds us, regardless of the context or which issues are on the table, negotiation is always, fundamentally, about human interaction. No matter how high the stakes or how protracted the dispute, the object of negotiation is to engage with other human beings in a way that leads to better understandings and agreements. The principles and strategies in this book will help you do this more effectively in every situation.

Dr. Bob’s Drugless Guide to Balancing Female Hormones

Ladies, there are a few essentials in life. Chanel No. 5, a black dress, Sean Connery, and this book. You have hormones; Dr. Bob knows how to bring clarity to what you experience. A must read for you, your girlfriends, and your family.

Book Takeaways:
– Restore hormonal function without medication
– How to prevent osteoporosis
– Ignite your desire for sexual intimacy
– Reverse heavy menstrual issues

Dr. Berg’s New Body Type Guide: Get Healthy Lose Weight & Feel Great

Dr. Berg’s New Body Type Guide: Get Healthy Lose Weight & Feel Great Hardcover – October 24, 2017

by Eric Berg Alexandria (Author)

The New Body Type Guide by Eric Berg, DC, is a major upgraded and improved version of his best selling book, The 7 Principles of Fat Burning. In his recent years, many new discoveries and observations prompted Dr. Berg to come out with a new version to bust through any slow metabolism. Dr. Berg will teach you how to take your results to a whole new level and get your body into super health state. Also added is several additional chapters on acupressure techniques to rid stress, pleasure food recipes that are healthy and how to stick to your plan no matter what comes up. But the major change is in what you are going to be eating. Forget about cravings, blood sugar imbalances and the numerous continued problems people have when they struggle to lose weight. This is your personal guild to customize your results based on your body type – let the adventure begin!
(Eric Berg, DC)

Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People Hardcover – April 25, 2017

by Vanessa Van Edwards

Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date, or your mother-in-law? You need to know how people work.

As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive our behavior patterns in her lab—and she’s cracked the code. In Captivate she shares a wealth of valuable shortcuts, systems and behavior hacks for taking charge of their interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren’t the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on human behavior and a completely new approach to building connections.

Just like knowing the right formulas to use in chemistry, or the right programming language to write code, the hacks in this book are simple ways to solve for people. For example:

· The Social Game Plan: Every party, networking event and social situation has a predictable map – discover how to work a room and the sweet spot for making the most connections.
· The 7 Microexpressions: Learn how to speed-read the 7 universal facial expressions and how they can be used to predict people’s emotions.
· Conversation Sparks: All conversations can be hacked—if you know how certain words generate dopamine in the people you meet.

When you understand the laws of human behavior you can get along with anyone, and your influence, impact, and income will increase as a result. What’s more, you will improve your interpersonal intelligence, make a killer first impression, and build rapport quickly and authentically in any situation—negotiations, interviews, parties, and pitches. You will never interact in the same way again.

Practical Female Psychology: For the Practical Man

Practical Female Psychology: For the Practical Man Kindle Edition

by Joseph South (Author), David Clare (Author), Franco (Author)

Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man is a unique examination of women and relationships in an era of material equality between the sexes. Despite vast gains in the welfare of women, especially in the modern West, both men and women are finding relationships ranging from dating to marriage increasingly difficult. The authors draw upon cutting edge science in evolutionary biology, and neuropsychology, and vast personal experience with women to distill some simple and practical principles men will find useful for creating and maintaining relationships with emotionally compatible women.

Transformational Energy Coaching as per Karen

Transformational Energy Coaching

Transformational Energy Coaching is a unique combination of Reiki energy healing and transformational coaching that assist clients on their journey to understanding their life’s purpose and bring it openly into the world in their personal and professional lives. By threading a tether on which clients can move between their spiritual and human aspects they can explore their spirituality as well as examine their daily lives in reality. The tether allows clients to move easily from the human day to day into the ethereal aspect of their spiritual selves. Awareness of being both human and spirit creates balance and knowing. This in turn brings peace and understanding into the lives of those who experience this type of energy coaching.

Energy is everywhere. In that energy is information. Using a transformational coaching conversation and combining it with healing energy that is always present, clients open in a way that he/she can see themselves, their behaviors, and places where they are stuck. Through this awareness comes transformational healing and growth on all levels. A shift occurs and a new way of being appears.

Working one-on-one and through workshops and seminars, Transformational Energy Coaching moves clients to their own truth and freedom. Filled with love and compassion, clients are held in a non-judgmental way, embracing everything as the teacher, while creating a container of safety to explore even the darkest thoughts in an empowering way.

Benefits of Transformational Energy Coaching

Resolving life long issues
Making meaningful life decisions
Discovering life purpose
Becoming self aware
Escalated spiritual Growth
Resolving Family/Relationship issues
Becoming aware of life skills and talents
Freedom and Resourcefulness
Getting in touch with inner wisdom
Letting go of guilt and shame
Letting go of negative thoughts
Embracing what serves you
Know your truth
Decide how you to live and work in the world
For more refer to www.tabularasacoaching.com

Psychology of Emotion: Self Discipline by Conscious Emotional Continence

Psychology of Emotion: Self Discipline by Conscious Emotional Continence Hardcover – June, 1971

by John M. Dorsey (Author)

It has been my intention to write as a psychologist seeking to study the nature of the functioning of my mind without appealing to any discipline other than that of my mind for evidence, without introducing observation from any so-called “non-psychological” source. I word my research “the psychology of physiology” instead of “the physiology of psychology.” I find my psychology is strictly my most comprehensive biological interest, hence its vital process or performance is the ideal subject for study. Since it is exclusively the individual biological functioning of mind with which I am concerned, I have viewed my province of psychology as including investigation of the organic functioning of my mind. Every original investigator eventually must run the awful risk of seeming to lead a school of followers thereby hypostatizing a so-called impersonal “movement.” It is my experience that this unconscious development of everyone devoted to “the movement” invariably results in all of the dire consequences of overlooked individuality in leader and follower alike. In a book scientifically oriented I can take nothing for granted. Least of all can I assume that my reader will have the faintest feeling for the one and only datum making sense of all of it, namely that it is merely about me. Therefore at the very outset I wish to heed this self-evident truth of truths underlying the factuality of all of the positing that follows, namely, that I solely, am the whole of my subject… [From the Author’s Introduction]

Fight Club: A Novel

Fight Club: A Novel Paperback – October 17, 2005

by Chuck Palahniuk

The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.

In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist. Fight Club‘s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight “as long as they have to.” A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the core of our modern world.

However, as per the The Resident @ RT ‘Fight Club’ author Chuck Palahniuk is taking credit for the term “snowflake” that is being used for “liberals” who are seemingly melting down after the 2016 election. He wrote in the book, ” You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.”

–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK1bSzrAkkg