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Vicki Berkus


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Dr. Vicki Berkus is currently in private practice in Tucson, Arizona. She has a PH.D in Biochemistry and is Board Certified in Psychiatry. She serves on the Boards of IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorders Professional) and Monarch Health Sciences.

Dr. Berkus is also a speaker for Tekada, Cephalon and Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pharmaceutical Companies and consults with coaches in addressing various psychological aspects of healthy eating. Dr. Berkus completed a psychiatry residency at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. She is board-certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. She has headed an in-patient eating disorders program for eight years.

Ten Commitments to Mental Fitness

Vicki Berkus, MD, PhD
Robert D. Reed Publishers (2005)
ISBN 1931741617
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/06)

Ten Commitments to Mental Fitness will improve your mental fitness by helping you understand some of the same principles that can be learned in psychotherapy. Experts have provided an abundance of information about how to attain physical fitness, and most of us already know how to eat healthy foods, exercise, and stop smoking and drinking. However, many people do not know how to improve their mental fitness.

" Ten Commitments to Mental Fitness" provides answers, and will empower readers to have the courage to examine their mental fitness, learn how to identify and keep behaviors that makes sense, and let go of behaviors that do not. This book provides the "nuts and bolts" that people need to help them achieve mental fitness. Exercises are fun and challenging and examples are used which helps the individual realize their issues.