Unleashing the Power of Respect: The I-M Approach

 Have you ever wondered why someone is behaving the way they do? Whether it’s a loved one, a stranger, even yourself - human behavior can be puzzling. Our actions can seem counterintuitive, destructive, shocking and even frightening. Yet each of us is a window into the other, when we are willing to look without judgment. When you wonder instead of worry.

In “Unleashing the Power of Respect: The I-M Approach” (Feb. 19, 2022, Books Fluent), Dr. Joseph Shrand illustrates through his patients' stories that no one is broken. We’re all doing the best we can, with the potential to change in the very next moment.

We are living at our current maximum potential—our I-M.

Our inner critic may be the best we can do, but if we don’t like it we can change it and move to a different I-M. Dr. Shrand gives us the tools we need to make that change a reality.

“Unleashing the Power of Respect” takes the chaos of life and organizes it into four manageable domains that help us understand who we are and why we do what we do. Dr. Shrand’s method gives us a clear, actionable path where respect leads to value, and value leads to trust. You control no one but influence everyone, and you get to choose the kind of influence you want to be. All of us want the same thing—to be valued by others. This book is your roadmap to unleashing that power of respect.

Dr. Joseph Shrand is Chief Medical Officer of Riverside Community Care headquartered in Dedham, Mass. He has been a Lecturer of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct Faculty of Boston Children's Hospital. He is triple Board certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Shrand hosts a weekly radio show on WATD 95.9 FM, The Dr. Joe Show: Exploring who we are and why we do what we do. He is the author of Manage Your Stress: Overcoming Stress in the Modern World, Outsmarting Anger: Seven Strategies to Defuse our most Dangerous Emotion, the winner of the 2013 Books for a Better Life Awards, 2013 Psychology self help category, The Fear Reflex: Five Ways to Overcome it and Trust your Imperfect Self, and Do You Really Get me? Finding Value in Yourself through Empathy and Connection. Outsmarting Anger has recently been republished in paperback due to demand. Among colleagues and staff, he is affectionately called “Doctor Joe,” as he was “Joe” in the original children’s cast of the PBS series “Zoom.”