Nobody knew Bernie like I did, and nobody knows about me… Sheryl Weinstein met Bernie Madoff when she was just shy of forty, and went on to have a twenty-year secret, intimate relationship with the man now known as an evil mastermind, a villain of the greatest proportions. It was 1988 and Sheryl was facing a huge dilemma. Bernie Madoff was paying her a great deal of attention. She was in the midst of a rocky marriage and feeling vulnerable,...

In this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people in America currently battling with this addiction. Growing up in LA, Erin Khar hid behind a picture-perfect childhood filled with excellent grades, a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmother's expired painkillers,...

Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera's influential body of work. This new volume collects the author's plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Sueño and Sonnets for an Old Century, the author's most recent work, which recently premiered in Los Angeles.

This book is aimed towards those who are interested in coaching, counselling, and psychotherapy, and those outside these professions that are merely interested in human nature, and how therapy can work in transforming lives. It provides an inside view of what can happen in the therapy room, turning points in therepeutic conversatins, and the brillance and creativity of clients as they respond to the therapeutic alliance and collaborate for a successful...