Making Your Crazy Work for You: From Trauma and Isolation to Self-Acceptance and Love

From the authors of the Irrelationship series comes an insightful guidebook for enhancing the most vital relationship in every person's life—the one they have with themselves.

Making Your Crazy Work for You adopts the irrelationship model to present a step-by-step program for self-understanding and catalyzing change. Our "crazy" refers to our unique reaction to our own pain, fear, and anxiety brought on by isolation from others and ourself. This unrecognized isolation can occur even when we are surrounded by other people in our daily lives. However, by learning to listen to our craziness, we can use it as a tool for ending isolation and opening up to love.

Drawn from the authors' personal experience and clinical practice, each chapter features new case studies, exercises, and tools to help readers to 

• reverse unhealthy behavior patterns
• learn to access their genuine emotions, needs, and ideas
• create better relationships
  

Mark B. Borg, Jr., PhD, is a community psychologist and psychoanalyst, founding partner of The Community Consulting Group, and a supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute. He’s also the author of Don’t Be A Dick: Change Yourself, Change Your World.

Grant H. Brenner, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is on faculty at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital and the CEO and cofounder of Neighborhood Psychiatry. 

Daniel Berry, RN, MHA, has practiced as a registered nurse in New York City since 1987. He is currently the Assistant Director of Nursing for Risk Management at a public hospital.