It’s the ‘60s and twenty-year- old Ali Abrams is ahead of her time. Way ahead. Not willing to be a secretary or housewife, she’s a hopeless romantic and her own worst enemy. Ali’s transformation from college girl to career woman is a racy ride through that explosive era of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. From the sun-soaked, beaches of Fire Island to cutthroat Madison Avenue, Water Baby is a sparkling New York coming of age story steeped in glamour and sixties counterculture. It’s a hilarious, brutally honest tale of breaking hearts and breaking rules, about looking for love in all the wrong places and finding oneself along the way.

Classifying love as an addiction to the unavailable "valentine of their dreams," psychologist Macavoy and "recovered" lovesick Israelson here call on the tragic romantic life of actress Marilyn Monroe and the popular movie Fatal Attraction to illustrate their theory, freely adapting the step-by-step addiction recovery program of Alcoholics Anonymous for their own purposes. The authors contend that, like alcoholics and other victims of addictions, most of the emotional problems of lovesick men and women stem from early experiences in dysfunctional families. Along with support groups, this self-help book--full of simplistic, coy, headlined dos and don'ts, "trust game" tests, and physical and visualization exercises--is intended to help the lovesick replace self-hate with self-esteem as a prerequisite for entering into a long-term, fulfilling relationship.

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HEART / MIND / BODY MAKEOVER
INTERACTIVE SELF - HELP
FROM THE SELF - HEALTH WORKBOOK
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY
SUSAN ISRAELSON