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).