David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is an educator, counselor, and attorney, having taught in organizations including the U.S. Navy, 3M, the American Society of Training and Development, and the Process Work Institute. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Arnold Mindell, PhD, is a therapist in private practice and the author of 20 books, including Dreambody, Quantum Mind, and The Shaman's Body.
"A breath of fresh air to those who have been hurt and put down by
the righteous morality and shame of popular psychology. Bedrick, in
daring to pull back the veil of the status quo, reveals an approach
that invites self-discovery, finds meaning and purpose in problems,
and values the social challenges of our times. Anyone who longs for
the freedom of their own individual path of heart will be uplifted
by this book." --Dawn Menken, PhD, author, Speak Out! Talking about
Love, Sex and Eternity
"At last someone is taking on Dr. Phil with good sense and great
humor. Life isn't a sixty-minute show where people just come in for
the laying on of hands. Life is about working it all out with
family, community, and love. Good for Mr. Bedrick to decide to pull
off the gloves and have an emotional slugfest with an
over-the-high-school bully. Talking Back to Dr. Phil is a must
read. But not at dinnertime . . . you'll be laughing too hard to
eat." --Nikki Giovanni, author, Love Poems
"David Bedrick contrasts mainstream psychology with a new approach
based on love and radical belief. Mainstream psychology tells us we
are sick, bad, or wrong. But for Bedrick our fatigues, aches,
pains, anxieties, low moods, and even the difficulties we encounter
in our jobs and relationships are all growing opportunities without
which we would not develop more awareness. I agree with Bedrick
that our sickness deserves our love because it contains the
medicine toward our wholeness and well-being." --Pierre Morin, MD,
PhD, coauthor, Inside Coma
"David Bedrick gets it right. He isn't talking back just to Dr.
Phil but to a whole century of normative psychology, an approach to
mental health that has more to do with socialization than with
well-being. Bedrick adds a crucial missing piece to the equation:
love. Not just ordinary love but love of our uniqueness, diversity,
and struggles--a kind of love sorely missing in mainstream
psychology. A modern-day Walt Whitman, Bedrick sings the beauty of
our humanity and exhorts us to do the same, to prize the deepest
levels of our diversity and express the many wonderful, crazy, and
colorful ways there are of being human." --Julie Diamond, PhD,
coauthor, A Path Made by Walking
"David Bedrick takes on Dr. Phil in an intelligent, sensitive way
that readers will find enlightening and validating. He uses Dr.
Phil as a foil to give expression to a deeper, more comprehensive
understanding of hot issues like race, gender, diet, sex, and power
relationships. Here is the anti-Dr. Phil--at last, someone who can
stand up knowledgeably to Dr. Phil's suave bullying." --Robert W.
Fuller, PhD, author, Somebodies and Nobodies
"David Bedrick understands that real change or transformation
requires challenging accepted dogma and then approaching problems
with compassion and curiosity. A great advocate for stopping the
madness of body hatred and dieting." --Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol
H. Munter, authors, Overcoming Overeating
"For many women, it is revolutionary to realize that what will
silence the accusatory inner body-image voice isn't losing weight
but rather listening to the body's wisdom. It could definitely be
said that the essays on diet and body image in this book are a work
of spirit through and through." --Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD,
assistant professor of Christian thought, Berry College
"This groundbreaking book demystifies mainstream psychology by
calling out Dr. Phil, showing not only the limitations of his
approach, which seeks to restore and maintain 'normal' behavior,
but how it perpetuates a mode of psychologizing that reinforces the
very pathology it purports to heal. David Bedrick reveals symptoms
as allies assisting in growth and insight rather than as signs of
sickness or deviations from a norm. And rather than focus only on
individuals, he demonstrates how society fosters disturbances that,
when processed, contribute to transforming not only the individuals
but their relationships, groups, and potentially society itself. As
such, Bedrick offers new directions for addressing some of the most
perplexing issues of our time, from lying and pornography to
addiction and racism." --Herbert D. Long, ThD, Dipl. PW, former
dean and Francis Greenwood Peabody lecturer, Harvard University
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