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Siri Dalsmo Berge is a mother of four, specialist in general medicine and has a couples therapist degree. Outside her job as a general practitioner, she researches how doctors approach their patients’ relationship issues in their consultations, as well as lecturing about relationships and health.

Sold to: Hungary (Mind Kiado)

Excerpt from Instruction Manual for Couples:

Over the last few years there have been many studies which confirm that troubled relationships affect people’s health. Trouble in romantic relationships is more or less as dangerous for the health as smoking! Some would say that’s an exaggerated claim, some would say it’s scaremongering, but it is actually true. Researchers from Harvard University have followed more than 700 people from the beginning of their 20s and throughout their adult lives.

The numbers are clear: What matters the most for how long we live is not genes, obesity, smoking or physical activity, but the quality of our closest relations. As an adult the relationship between a couple is often the most important one.

This made me think. How do I approach this knowledge as a GP for my patients? How do other colleagues do it? How well-known is this connection between relationship quality and health?

These questions have led to a PhD-project where I research how trouble in relationships is handled in GP consultations. As a GP we meet 70 percent of the population each year. Through a secure relation and a wholesome approach to the health problems the patients arrive with, we have a unique opportunity to pick up on the relationship problems and show them the way forward, so that they can get help before the patterns of behaviour become too rigid.

Kristin Leer ADHD

Seven Roads to Fresh Understanding

ADHD is often defined as a psychiatric disorder, but physician and author Kristin Leer, who has ADHD herself, as well as children with ADHD, cannot see ADHD as the diagnosis of a disease. For the author, it was a relief to find out that she had ADHD. Had she realised earlier that the cause of so many challenges and sorrows – at school, in her professional career, in personal relationships – could be summed up in four simple initials, she would have been spared much frustration and anxiety. ADHD is something you can live with. What’s more, it can sometimes have some surprisingly positive sides. However, ADHD may also make life feel like an uphill struggle, and the range of functional impairments can be extensive.

The book offers a new perspective on how to understand ADHD, reviews diagnostic criteria and treatments, and offers excellent everyday coping strategies. A better life is possible when ADHD is diagnosed than when it isn’t.

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Kristin Leer studied medicine in Warsaw and did her residency at Oslo University Hospital, Aker. This is where she discovered her interest in psychiatry and abandoned her dream of becoming a surgeon. Kristin is a specialist in psychopharmacology and psychiatry, has extensive experience of addiction psychiatry and has taught nurses, and community and social workers about ADHD.

Rights sold to: Poland (Wydawnictwo Znak), Denmark (EC Edition)

Cecilie Benneche WHAT DO YOU FEEL NOW?

Our emotions are natural, yet we humans have long tended to think and manage ourselves away from them. It seems far from natural to us to experience what we’re actually feeling – or grasp who our emotions are directed at.

In this book, you’ll learn to clear away some of the obstacles blocking your emotions and allow your feelings to ‘run off’ on their own, without you having to think about them so much. It will free up your strength and create inner peace.

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Sara Lossius GOOD MORNING

Good Morning helps you to establish good and meaningful morning routines that can give you inner peace, extra motivation and support—no matter how busy you are.

In this book, Sara Lossius gives inspiring insight into how simple habits and short rituals and exercises first thing in the morning can make a big difference to your day and your life.

Good Morning provides 75 specific routines and reflection tasks, all of which take between two and 30 minutes.