<p>Utilizing in-depth research and analysis, this volume debunks the quick fixes and simplistic explanations of Dr. Phil McGraw. While he’s watched and revered by millions, no critique exists for his daytime advice—and like much of “pop psychology,” his counsel is often ineffective, leaving people feeling like failures and that something is wrong with them. Readers will easily identify with the guests and stories from actual Dr. Phil episodes, on topics ranging from anger, sex, addictions, and dieting to domestic violence, race, and gender. A powerful, love-based alternative psychology is then offered, basing itself on the belief that there is profound meaning in people’s struggles. Story after story shows how people’s difficulties are seeds of their unique beauty, power, and intelligence, elevating rather than diminishing their esteem. The insight and compassion for people’s humanity provided here cuts through the easy soundbites and will leave people feeling a genuine love for who they really are.</p>

Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology

Bedrick J.D., David

Self-Help

Belly Song Press

<p>Many forms of activism live within the margins of conventional strategies such as marching, speaking out, and fighting for one’s political representatives. This book of essays highlights, celebrates, and broadens the vision of activism to include the intersection between people and the social and political world, while encouraging dialogue across diverse viewpoints and exhorting psychology to become a social-change agent. The author deconstructs racism by looking at white denial and divergent views of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and he deconstructs sexism by critiquing the diet industry and the way women feel about their bodies. He brings this same psychological eye to understanding societal problems, national celebrities, and popular psychology’s failure to create sustainable change. Whether used in a classroom or with a group, a friend, or alone, this book provokes critical thinking, feeling, and dialogue.</p>

Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

<p><div>What if your hunger--that force that beckons you to the ice cream aisle, and guides your hands to take seconds when you didn't even feel like having firsts--was the misunderstood sage of your body, rattling its cage inside the fortress of your soul? What if your resistance to dieting were actually a message of self-love? What if your body size and shape also held intelligence and protection? In <i>You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover</i>, you'll read seventeen stories of women who opened the doors to their souls in therapeutic sessions with David Bedrick: stories of shame and self-love, fear and hope, being small and being big. These are the inside stories of the transformation, from bodies impacted by sexism and racism, rape and harsh criticism, and the deepest hungers for an authentic life. You'll recognize your own pains and abuses, resistance to weight loss, your hungers...and power. Get ready to be inspired. Get ready to see everything differently. Get ready to meet the life-changing secrets held within your body's rebellion to living in a society that fetishizes thinness and shames authenticity.</div></p>

You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption

Women's Health

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Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology

Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change

You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption