Ron Neff: 5 books

Dr. Neff points out that we are culturally programmed to love by romantic scripts. The dominant theme in all categories of Western literature and music, these scripts provide a massive and detailed instruction in how to fall (and fall “madly”) for exactly the wrong person. Loving Well offers an...

Your Inner Mammal takes on anxiety, anger and depression -- the major emotional maladies that afflict us in the cold, impersonal and threatening modern world. To do that, Dr. Neff builds on the concept of “your inner child.” That concept has served us well in mental health for many years. If you...

Goodbye, My Love provides a step-by-step guide to mending your broken heart, beginning with exactly what a broken heart is -- and why it feels the way it does. Lost love is grief, grief has stages, and hence your feelings keep changing along the way. So does what you need to do -- to quickly and effectively...

Frank Brinton, the ingenious inventor and great showman, that dashing figure on all the posters, finds himself upstaged by an equally ingenious schoolmarm. Enter the schoolmarm, Indiana Putman, beautiful, refined and classically educated. Soon Frank starts half-scolding himself that he is acting like...

Admittedly Logan had been SPEEDING – and not mildly so. It was amazing he’d made that last corner at all, but that stunning red sports car wasn’t just FAST; she could really hug the curves. Logan would be slow to realize that his mania – highly energized madness – was a matter of ANGER ....