The Great Coharie River, named for an Indian tribe, became a place of retreat and solitude for author James A. Smith. This was where he felt at ease and could become one with nature. It was the place where he was accepted without criticism. And it was his safe place, away from beatings he had come to expect.

The Great Coharie: Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is Smith's personal account of the severe abuse he experienced as a child. Raised in poverty by a bootlegger, Smith endured physical and emotional child abuse as well as impossible work demands. This is the story of how he coped with the situation and how he continues to cope even today with deep and traumatic scars.

This personal history also seeks to offer hope. Smith makes vulnerable youth aware of the brutality he suffered while simultaneously acknowledging ways to possibly avoid uninvited harshness. He helps people realize they do not have to accept the label of "victim" and that they do not have to be defined by their childhoods. There is help available for those in need. Seek this help without fear of retaliation, and you, too, can be a survivor.

Have you ever sought professional help for an emotional problem and were shocked to find yourself diagnosed as mentally ill? Are you being pressured to take psychiatric medications by a doctor who barely listens to you?
If you are one of the millions of consumers of professional mental healthcare in America today, the answer to both questions is most likely yes-and it's just as likely the treatment isn't working. In "Psychiatryland," Dr. Phillip Sinaikin teaches you why mental healthcare in America has come to be totally dominated by the so-called medical model of mental illness and how this can be dangerous to both your mental and physical health. Geared toward consumers, Sinaikin shows that psychiatry as it is practiced today is not a progressive medical science, but rather a multibillion-dollar business, run for profit by pharmaceutical companies, the insurance industry, and mainstream psychiatry.
Dr. Sinaikin provides the tools to empower you and to help you learn how to take personal control of your mental healthcare and begin to make well-informed and rational decisions about the emotional well-being of yourself and the people you love.

Mi libro se trata de una historia real, donde encontraras de todo. Se trata de una mujer que vivio muchos anos, EL DOLOR DE UN RECUERDO. Una mujer que fue maltratada, violada, humillada, pero que al final pudo romper todos los traumas que la envolvian, y hoy es una mujer nueva, diferente. En este libro encontraras no solamente una historia mas, sino tambien encontraras consejos, como ayudarte a salir de la depresion, de los traumas, ya que Daniela, fue traumatizada desde que era muy pequena. Encontraras consejos para los padres, y tambien encontraras poesia. No es un libro en su totalidad religioso, pero tambien habla de las maravillas y bondades de nuestro Dios. Habla de como Daniela fue liberada de todas aquellas ataduras. Y el proposito de escribir este libro, es poder ayudar a otros a salir de todas esas depresiones y que puedan confiar en ellos mismos.