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By Rich Simon It seems astonishing that even just two or three decades ago, parents not only pretty much knew what was expected of them to turn their offspring into civilized adults, but they could actually count on society to back them up. Even more astounding, kids seemed to understand this, too. Even if they rebelled against, yelled about, or sullenly resented how “unfair” adults were, they seemed to acknowledge adult authority and realize that they would just have to wait until they turned 18 to get for themselves the keys to the kingdom of grown-up independence.
Spontaneous HappinessAndrew Weil is the world’s leading proponent of integrative medicine, an emerging vision of healthcare that unites the fields of alternative and conventional medicine. He’s brought his healing-oriented, mind-body-spirit approach to broad public consciousness through such bestselling books as Spontaneous Healing,
Facing the Challenge of 21st-Century ActivismEver since she first achieved prominence with her bestseller Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher has devoted herself to illuminating the connections between the broad social and cultural issues that engulf us, our clients, and our communities. Through such widely read and broadly influential books
Does Understanding the Brain Make Us Wiser?
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who’s had more influence on integrating brain science with psychotherapy than clinician, researcher, and author Daniel Siegel. With his generative books, including The Developing Mind, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, and The Mindful Therapist, he’s brought a new breadth of understanding and insight to the reciprocal connections