High Conflict
Amanda Ripley
From Amanda Ripley.com
“If I could make everyone read one book, it would be this book.” — Hank Green, New York Times bestselling author, science communicator, co-founder of Crash Course and SciShow
How do good people lose their minds in soul-crushing conflicts with co-workers, neighbors, grown siblings or even national politicians they’ve never met? Through the stories of half a dozen conflict survivors in three countries, journalist Amanda Ripley reveals how humans can help one another break out of destructive feuds–and generate healthy, useful conflict instead.
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An experienced, licensed therapist will guide you through the reading of this book. We will read the above-named book over the course of 6 weeks with discussion sessions on 6 Sundays from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM on Zoom. Reading requirement will be about 1 1/2 hours per week. This is manageable even for the busiest people.
Schedule
- July 26: Introduction, Chapter 1 (94 min)
- August 2: Chapter 2 and “This Is a Personal Attack” (109 min)
- August 9: Chapter 3 and “The Telling” (116 min)
- August 16: Chapter 4 and “What if We Had Become Friends 30 Years Ago?” (86 min)
- August 23: Chapters 5 and 6 (86 min)
- August 30: Chapter 7 and Appendices (103 min)
Fee: $90
The Zoom link will be sent after payment is received.

Upcoming Books (in no particular order):
- How to Win Friends and Influence People/Carnegie
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People/Covey
- The Courage to Be Happy/Kishimi and Koga
- Radical Acceptance/Tara Brach
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think/Nguyen
- Atomic Habits/Clear
- Ikigai/Garcia, Dixon, et al.
- The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work/Gottman
- Feeling Good Together/Burns
- The Coddling of the American Mind/Lukianoff and Haidt
- Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)/Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Is there a book you would like added to the list? Please email me:
