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Splitting America is for anyone who is disturbed by the current political situation and wants to do something about it!
List of contents
Chapter 1: What’s Happening to Us?
Chapter 2: How Did Divorce Get So Ugly?
Chapter 3: How “Splitting” Generates Hatred
Chapter 4: How High-Conflict Politicians Turn Peace into War
Chapter 5: Super PACs as Negative Advocates
Chapter 6: How the News Media Mirrors Family Court
Chapter 7: A Nation of Alienated Voters and Children
Chapter 8: Healing a Split Nation
Appendix: High-Conflict Politician Scorecard
About the author
Bill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator and the President of High Conflict Institute. He developed the "High Conflict Personality" theory (HCP Theory) and has become an international expert on managing disputes involving high-conflict personalities and personality disorders. He provides training on this subject to lawyers, judges, mediators, managers, human resource professionals, businesspersons, healthcare administrators, college administrators, homeowners’ association managers, ombudspersons, law enforcement, therapists and others. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 25 states, several provinces in Canada, Australia, France and Sweden.
As an attorney, Bill is a Certified Family Law Specialist in California and the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. Prior to becoming an attorney in 1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years’ experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years and he is on the part-time faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College.
