IS YOUR FORMER SPOUSE AN IDIOT? While the characters and events in this book are fictitious, most people will point to at least one story and say, "That happened to me" or "That's my former spouse." WHY BUY THE BOOK? Here are some sample lessons that the divorced idiot can learn: Practice makes perfect. A secondary lesson being that a dead ex-spouse limits your liability. Don't just infect your former spouse; infect a whole population. Deny everything and then make counter-allegations. While the marriage may be over, the divorce will never be over until death. When you don't feel inclined to discuss religion and politics with your future spouse, then a divorce may turn your head, especially if your former spouse is into Voodoo. A rumor has to contain just enough truth to be believable. Never miss the opportunity to bury the hatchet. Dating your soon-to-be former spouse's attorney ensures a speedy trial. If your former spouse is an idiot, then this book will hopefully provide some insight into the making of a divorced idiot and in the process provide some laughter.

HAVE YOU EVER MET AN IDIOT DRIVER? While the stories contained in the current book are fictitious, the reader will quickly point to the stories and exclaim, "That happened to me" and "That IDIOT tried to run me off the road." WHY BUY THE BOOK? Have you ever felt abused, victimized, or traumatized after taking a drive? The current book presents stories, as though IDIOT drivers would actually apply the lessons presented. Sample lessons include: If you wear the right attire, no one will notice your bad driving. A vehicle is an effective means of extracting revenge. Don't let road conditions influence your decision-making. When appropriately utilized, a radio can tune out complaints.

Have you ever dated an Idiot? Have you ever felt abused, victimized, and traumatized, after a date? This book offers insight into the making of idiot daters.

HAVE YOU EVER MET AN IDIOT DRIVER? While the stories contained in the current book are fictitious, the reader will quickly point to the stories and exclaim, "That happened to me" and "That IDIOT tried to run me off the road." WHY BUY THE BOOK? Have you ever felt abused, victimized, or traumatized after taking a drive? The current book presents stories, as though IDIOT drivers would actually apply the lessons presented. Sample lessons include: If you wear the right attire, no one will notice your bad driving. A vehicle is an effective means of extracting revenge. Don't let road conditions influence your decision-making. When appropriately utilized, a radio can tune out complaints.

HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED HEALTHCARE TREATMENT FROM AN IDIOT? While the stories contained in the current book are fictitious, the reader will quickly point to the stories and exclaim, "That happened to me" and "That idiot treated me." WHY BUY THE BOOK? Have you ever felt abused, victimized, or traumatized after receiving healtcare treatment? Have you ever felt that your healthcare provider wasn't treating you as a real person? The current book presents stories as though idiot healthcare providers would actually apply the lessons presented. Sample lessons include: A job doing once is worth doing twice. While the customer is always right, the patient is always wrong. Attorneys are your friends. When you control time, you control patients. When in doubt, prescribe medicine. Get to the source of all ailments; the patient's head. Only you, as the healtcare provider, knows what is best for the patient. Laughter is the best medicine, especially when you're laughing at the patient. What a patient doesn't know, won't hurt them. The current book provides humourous insight into the making of an idiot healthcare provider.

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves-they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains-including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems-and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.

In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.