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About this Book
A revolutionary proposal for raising
responsible and happy
teenagers.
Visit Dr. Epstein's website for
self-tests and other interesting material:
DrRobertEpstein.com
Listen to Dr. Epstein's weekly radio show "Psyched" on Sirius Satellite
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This groundbreaking book
argues that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are
better off without. Robert Epstein, former editor–in–chief of Psychology
Today, shows that teen turmoil is caused by outmoded systems put in
place a century ago which destroyed the continuum between childhood and
adulthood.
Where this continuum still exists in other countries,
there is no adolescence. Isolated from adults, American teens learn
everything they know from their media-dominated peers—“the last people
on earth they should be learning from,” says Epstein.
Epstein explains that our teens are highly capable—in
some ways more capable than adults—and argues strongly against
“infantilizing” young people. We must rediscover “the adult in every
teen,” he says, by giving young people adult authority and
responsibility as soon as they can demonstrate readiness.
This landmark book will change the thinking about teens
for decades to come.
} A landmark book.~
—Drew Pinsky
} ...a profoundly important book.~
—Dr. Joyce Brothers
} ...a vital book for parents and policy
makers on the state and federal levels.~
—Leon Botstein
} ...one of the most revolutionary books I
have ever read.~
—Albert Ellis (from the Foreword)
About the
Author
Robert Epstein, Ph. D. is
the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today magazine, a
contributing editor for Scientific American Mind, and the host of
"Psyched!" on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Currently a Visiting
Scholar at the University of California San Diego, Dr. Epstein is the
founder and Director Emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral
Studies in Massachusetts. A Ph.D. of Harvard University, he has
published more than 100 articles and 11 books.
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