Xavier Amador

XAVIER AMADOR has a brother, Henry, who has chizophrenia. Dr. Amador is the Director of Psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is a world renown expert on the problem of poor insight into illness in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He has published over 60 scientific articles and his work in this area has been translated into 16 languages by scientists world-wide. Dr. Amador has appeared on numerous television programs as an expert in this area and on mental illness more generally (NBC's Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, NBC Dateline, Fox News Channel, Court TV, A&E Network, Discovery Channel and PBS among others). He has been interviewed by the New York Times, U.S.A. Today, Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, The New Yorker, and many other publications. He has consulted to the National Institute of Mental Health, Veteran's Administration, the U.S. Attorney General's Office and other government agencies involved in mental health research. He is a practicing psychotherapist in New York City and has published three previous books: When Someone You Love is Depressed: How to help your loved one without losing yourself (Simon & Schuster); Being Single in a Couples' World (Simon & Schuster); and Insight and Psychosis (Oxford University Press).