This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Carlos Singer and Stephen G. Reich, is devoted to Parkinson Disease. Articles in this issue include: Parkinson Disease: An overview of epidemiology, pathology, genetics and pathophysiology; Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Parkinson Disease; Tremor in the Elderly: Is it Parkinson Disease?; Management of Early Parkinson Disease; Management of Advanced Parkinson Disease; Orthostatic Hypotension in Parkinson Disease; Management of Urological and Sexual Dysfunction in Parkinson Disease; Gastrointestinal Care of the Parkinson Patient; Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Parkinson Disease; Depression and Anxiety in Parkinson Disease; Hallucinations, Delusions, and Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson Disease; Sleep Disorders in Parkinson Disease; Orthopedic Care of the Parkinson Patient; Driving in Parkinson Disease; Palliative Care in Parkinson Disease; Multidisciplinary Care of Parkinson Disease: Fall prevention, fatigue, exercise, rehabilitative therapies, caregiver strain; and Hospitalization of the Patient with Parkinson Disease.

Anger and Rage Addiction & the Self-Pact: New Lights on an Old Nemesis presents a close look at the dynamics of anger and rage, as viewed through the lens of Addiction Theory-drawing on discriminating, diagnostic criteria derived directly from the world of alcoholism and drug addiction. The insights and, more importantly, the ramifications for treatment of Anger and Rage Addiction that result, are profound. They depart decisively from hackneyed, and insufficient, "mitigation, modification and management" strategies that have long been in vogue as the standard approach for treatment of anger and rage "disorders." Moving beyond such rationally based interventions, a new approach, called the Self-Pact, draws completely on the Addiction model to establish its foundation and efficacy. The Self-Pact is presented in detail. The Self-Pact holds considerable promise in both curtailing the mayhem that untreated Anger and Rage Addiction looses on the outer world, and emboldening those afflicted with Anger and Rage Addiction to embark on their own odyssey, replete with discoveries, adventures, reconciliation with self and others, and personal encounters with "whole" states of being.

Pathfinding Through Multiple Personality: A Comprehensive Treatment Handbook for Dissociative Identity Disorder presents a panoramic, comprehensible approach to the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder, from pre-diagnosis through (and beyond) final integration, covering, in detail, all stages along the way. The tone of this handbook is meticulously and painstakingly didactic. All the material and lines of approach presented herein are experientially derived from clinical work. With this book in hand a practitioner, whether seasoned or novice, stands a reasonable chance of being able to facilitate salutary outcomes for this very compelling and demanding treatment population. Also of note, the Handbook contains an orienting chapter featuring sections on trance and dissociation. The dynamics of these seminal concepts are presented in broad generic terms. These seasoned perspectives and the clinical techniques that build on them contribute to the establishing of lines of resonance between therapist and client, a "must" for successful treatment. The Handbook is also written for all those who, while perhaps not clinically involved with multiplicity, are, nonetheless, students of human consciousness. The Handbook will contribute greatly to an understanding of the remarkable flexations of human consciousness as it responds to traumatic events and, subsequently, to opportunities to heal from them.

Who's At Home In Your Body (When You're Not)? is comprised of a series of essays based on naturalistic observations on the nature, phenomenology, and functional capacities of unexceptional states of everyday consciousness across a range of domains. The text is rich with observations that carry intimations of transcendent underpinnings for so many apparently mundane flexations of consciousness, the significance of which, in their unnoticed state, being routinely passed over by the unobservant or uninquiring mind. Emboldening its readers to embark on a path leading to wonder and personal enrichment, Who's At Home . . . encourages both a spirit of serious and playful inquiry, combined with the sense of delight that arises from the alchemy of personal discovery.

The Living Oracle: Wisdom & Divination for Everyday Life -- a contemporary oracle designed to introduce the venerable tradition of oracular consultation to a much wider readership. This work features an original, pristine oracular text, contains helpful, fascinating chapters on consulting methodology and "why oracles work," as well as a chapter in which the Oracle prognosticates as to its own future as an oracle "The Oracle Speaks (...about itself...)"]. A "Table of Correspondences," linking oracular passages to passages from the venerable I Ching, is also included. The Living Oracle can facilitate remarkably fruitful forays into the realm of soul and psyche on the part of its readers and consulters.

Outside Time: My Friendship with Wilbur -- the stirring account of a friendship forged, over the course of many, many winters, on river ice, between a much younger, questing man and an older, atheistic "river wizard." In the fullness of time this unlikely association led, inexorably, to a post-death pact that was, most wonderfully, honored. The narrative is written as both a paean to a special kind of friendship, and a discriminating inquiry into the whole question regarding the possible continuation of personal consciousness beyond what we call "death."

When You Lose What You Can't Live Without: Identity Death and Renewal in the Wake of Calamity is a concise, muscular yet poetic text addressing the sequence of calamity, identity death, life "in the wilderness," renewal and restoration -- an ordeal that most of us are obliged to encounter over the course of our lives (usually more than once). These stages are presented in the context of a novel theory of calamitous loss, presented as both unbidden and "bidden." For many, this difficult passage is being compounded by the crushing effects of an economy in peril. When You Lose... offers a road map, and a vision of hope, for all those who are encountering unanticipated rupture and loss, as these may arise in any area of life.