While treating patients for depression, anxiety, and ADHD, Dr. Slavit has also authored several books, including
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Cure Your Money Ills: Improve Your Self-Esteem Through Personal Budgeting
He has multiple works currently in progress, including a book entitled A Brief History of the Universe, the Earth and Life (Illustrated with Limericks)
Train Your Wandering Mind: Cope with ADHD
Authored by Michael Slavit Ph.D.
We live in a highly over-stimulating world. Daily life places enormous demands on us to process and respond to information. It is no wonder that ADHD is such a rapidly growing diagnosis—with children and adults of all ages coping with the disruptive forgetfulness, frustration, and organizational issues of this modern-day epidemic.
For many patients with attention deficit disorder, medication is considered the remedy of choice. But what if you had the power to cope with the symptoms of ADHD more effectively? What if all it required was a selection of mental exercises along with your own motivation and effort?
Drawing upon decades of experience as a board-certified psychologist, Michael R. Slavit, PhD, knows that the ability to train your mind is real—and through the twenty unique exercises in Train Your Wandering Mind, he is here to show you how.
Whether you are dealing with adult attention deficit disorder yourself, or parenting a child with ADHD, this book will help. It is filled with expert advice and specific exercises that will help patients change their perceptions, thoughts, and behaviors in order to achieve more organized and successful lives.
Embracing Fitness
Lessons From Desiderata
For nearly a century, Max Ehrmann’s famous poem “Desiderata” has inspired people. But what do you do with stirring words? How do you act on the insights they provide? How can they change your life in an enduring way?
Rather than presenting an interpretation of the poem, psychologist Michael R. Slavit, PhD, shares his practical and psychological perspectives on how to live its truths. Organizing the poem into nineteen offerings, he suggests concrete ways you can practice Ehrmann’s wisdom in your everyday life.
From being on good terms with all people, to speaking your truth quietly and clearly, to keeping peace in your soul, the lessons covered in this poem are all encompassing. Though “Desiderata” serves as a springboard, this guide draws from Dr. Slavit’s forty-year career in human services and provides proven principles for happiness as well as ways to recognize and refute typical irrational beliefs.
Grounded in psychology, philosophy, and science, Lessons from Desiderata helps you achieve the peace and joy the poem encourages as you learn to “be gentle with yourself” and “be cheerful”—no matter what life throws your way.
Your Life: An Owners Guide
First, organize your life around your basic values, goals and dreams. Then, learn to conquer stress and anxiety, and to cycle quickly out of depressions or slumps. Next, incease your competence at handling “the nuts and bolts” of daily life. Find out how to avoid faltering on your exercise regimen. Learn the easiest and most effective way to manage your money. Acquire the skill to beat the pitfalls of clutter and disorganization.
This book is the product of more than thirty years of the author’s experience. He has helped people – individually and in groups – to escape their feelings of being stuck aimlessly meandering through life without a full sense of competence and mastery. After learning these methods and skills, clients describe their lives as feeling “crisp” rather than lifeless, zestful and not tiring, with better focus, competence and joy.
Read, and begin your journey toward a happier and more focused, organized future.