On Your Own Again The Down-to-Earth Guide to Getting Through a Divorce or Separation and Getting on with Your Life

Every year, more than two million North Americans experience the trauma of separation and divorce. Now, at last,On Your Own Againprovides down-to-earth help for readers seeking to survive a shattered relationship and build a new life.Written in Dr. Anderson's own personable, reassuring voice, this guide explains the four emotional stages undergone during and after separation and gives every reader the feeling, "He's talking about me." Dr. Anderson offers compassionate, practical, step-by-step advice. In no-nonsense language, often leavened with humour,he provides tools that can be used by readers male or female, young or middle-aged, straight or gay, in or recently out of a troubled relationship, to help cope with the loss and to speed recovery so that they may lead rich, rewarding lives on their own again.

Dr. Keith Anderson has been a practising psychiatrist for thirty years. He is in private practice in Ottawa, where he is also affiliated with the Ottawa Civic Hospital. He has two adult children from his first marriage and recently celebrated his twentieth anniversary with his second wife, Judith Anderson.

Roy MacSkimming is a professional writer and consultant and the author of six books.