My husband has bipolar disorder. I finally got tired of not understanding him and got this book to better understand what is going on inside his head. I loved that this book offered a great set of steps to treat him, but there were a few elements that left me a bit shaky.

I found the plan that he did to be good. As a spouse of a man with bipolar disorder, I can safely say it's not easy to deal with all the emotional problems people with bipolar disorder encounter. It is quite easy to become a helicopter spouse where your life becomes a secondary concern. The authors discourage such behavior, especially when the bipolar person is balanced enough to take care of himself. 

Part of the treatment plan was to treat the disorder holistically. Some of this is quite logical, such as looking at dietary triggers such as caffeine when coupled with stress. Unfortunately, the authors also advocate usage of alternative treatments such as homeopathy and acupuncture, neither of which has been proven to help in any capacity. I find this to be disturbing and dangerous in the hands of someone who distrusts doctors and medicine. 

This lists a pretty good list of crazy things people actually believe and examples of people throughout history who have perpetuated these myths and pseudosciences. He especially takes Sylvia Browne and the writers of Chariots of the Gods to task, which I definitely agree with, but I would rather have seen less bashing and more proving the myths and pseudoscience wrong.

This book contains so much nonsense it's not even funny. The author actually believed that there was a conspiracy to keep the population down in order to lower the probability of producing a person who could see the higher planes of existence, that people can have innate skills from their past lives, and atheists cannot access these so-called higher planes because "you can't know yourself without believing in god."

The complete and utter nonsense in this book is ludicrous, and the misuse of scientific terminology is such that any mildly scientifically literate person can see straight through it. Such terms as "the next stage of human evolution" is one that is used in a lot of New Age books and displays a complete lack of scientific literacy among people in the New Age movement. I may not be as scientifically literate as I should, but at least I know that evolution is graduated, and not some ridiculous punctuated equilibrium that so many think it is.