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    What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  From Deep Within  by  Susan Lewis, Ph.D., J.D.  From Joni West on Amazon: Rarely do we have a chance to see inside the mental health system, especially the parts where criminal justice is involved. Dr. Lewis takes us inside and right up close to a variety of her patients as we sit across the table from perpetrators of horrific crimes with her and learn her thought process as she assesses them for the courts. Her calm, open, and practical approach to the people

  In a recent column for  Psychology Today , by Susan Lewis ( From Deep Within ), makes the point that mental illness is an illness, but the stigma associated with it thwarts its treatment. Read the complete article HERE . To read more posts by and about Susan and her book, click   HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

  In a recent column for Psychology Today , by Susan Lewis ( From Deep Within ), makes the following points: Pilots have the same rights to mental health care as the general population without worrying about their jobs. Mental health care should be left to the professionals who deliver it rather than the FAA. The FAA's system of care may be causing present-day pilot shortages. Read the complete article HERE . To read more posts by and about Susan and her book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to

 \ What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  From Deep Within  by  Susan Lewis, Ph.D., J.D.  From Renee Sorrentino on Amazon: Dr. Lewis’s book gives a compelling account of her deeply rich experience working with severely mentally ill population, some of whom are involved with the legal system. Her stories are an opportunity to peer into the experiences rarely encountered by most people, lay or professionals. As a psychiatrist I work with a similar population and Dr. Lewis’s recounting is thought provokin

What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  From Deep Within  by  Susan Lewis, Ph.D., J.D.  From Wayne Stiska on Amazon: For the novice psychologist this is an excellent book. The unwanted and untouchables are Dr. Lewis's patients. Society really doesn't want to deal with them and jails are not the place to be. We really don't want to be around them....too violent....to passive....sometimes needing desparate help but receiving little. We laugh at the term NORMAL but there is a reality it exists.

  What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  From Deep Within  by  Susan Lewis, Ph.D., J.D.  From Shannon Brennan on Amazon: This book was so very well written. The doctor’s thoughts and feelings laid bare. Her fears and doubts admitted and her empathy inspirational. I heard an interview with Dr. Lewis on a podcast and immediately bought this book and I’m so glad I did. I’m much less articulate about this than I would like to be, but I’m still bawling because the last chapter was so beautiful it brought me

  Asking and answering the question of whether brain scan data should be used in the courtroom, Dr. Susan Lewis (JD, PhD), author of From Deep Within , suggests that brain scan data should be admitted when criminal responsibility is being used as a defense. Read the article HERE . For more posts about Susan and her book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

  In her most recent column for Psychology Today , MSI Press author of From Deep Within , Susan Lewis, asks if there are better ways to use the insanity defense. See the article HERE . For more posts about Susan and her book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

  Excerpt from From Deep Within ; selection from Kew Gardens: The grounds of the mental health center were lovely, but the patients who wandered them seemed lost. The dangers of smoking were not yet known, and everyone in the hospital smoked, including me. The patients’ fingers were tainted yellow from the tar, their fingernails were long and unattended, and their clothing was mismatched and tattered. My heart broke watching them shuffle around. I chose to go onto the locked, dingy units and keep patients company as they ate their lunch. It was all about relationships to me. The room was filled with groaning people and the constant leg movements of tardive dyskinesia. Most patients knew me by my first name. “Susan, are you eating with us today?” they would ask.   Then, in 1973, one of the psychiatrists at the center was shot and killed by a patient while I was in the next building. I heard the gunshot, but no one knew what had happened. As the information trickled down that someone had

  Today's book back story is about Susan Lewis's book, From Deep Within . From the author --  I studied many years in school to become a psychologist. I participated in hours and hours of clinical internships with close supervision before becoming qualified to take my licensing exam in the state I resided in. So began my clinical career.   What I didn’t realize was the horror that some of the people I was trying to help had experienced. Both women and men who had been sexually abused by parents who had little care and loving when they were children.   Some would never have a pillow to lie on in a room they called their own. Others resided in a hospital and repeatedly returned because we don’t have the facilities to house them and the staff to help them. Some were homeless because they’re thinking was too disorganized to find a place to stay. Many ate in food kitchens. There was no family or table filled with plenty.   I am so touched by their struggles I felt I want

Readers who care about people, who wonder why so many go astray while others live a good and productive lives, will gobble up the pages of this book faster than they would a psychological thriller. From Deep Within is chilling; its characters are unforgettable. More importantly, they are real: you couldn't create more complicated characters. Susan J. Lewis shares their stories, not with a clinical distance or intellectual analysis, but with compassion and understanding. An absolutely compelling and highly recommended read. So says MidWest Book Review. Read the rest of the book review HERE .

Is there anything that makes an author's heart beat a little faster than having a book land in the top 100 bestselling Amazon books? How about coming close...in the second 100? Beat...beat...beat...will it tip over the top or not? Please, please...! This week, we have two books in this position. Take a look below. The Wilcoxes' book, Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain , has floated around #114 and flirted with the border at #108. can it make it to 100, 99, or less next week? There are two authors hoping it can. Winner, Best Indie Book Award Gold medal, Literary Titan   Susan Lewis's compelling book (call it a real-life psychological thriller), From Deep Within , just dropped into the second 100 by four points: #196. We are cheering for 96 more points to take her down to the gold ring: #100. Gregg Bagdade's book, Mental Health Mayday , has been on the Top 100 list many times, Right now, though, it is at #104. Fingers crossed, as we watch, that it once a

  Today's Publisher's Pride is From Deep Within by Susan Lewis, which was recently #166 on the Amazon list for biographies of social scientists and psychologists. For more posts about Susan and her book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. Want to communicate with one of our authors? You can! Find their contact information on our  Authors' Pages .