Dr. Xavier Amador: Insight, Love & LEAP

Xavier was a senior in college when he got a panicked call from his big brother. This was his closest brother whom he deeply admired, and he was telling Xavier that he had killed their dad. It would take Xavier nearly a decade to truly repair his relationship with his brother, though not for the reasons you would expect. But in the process, what he discovered would change the entire approach to schizophrenia for him, and then millions of others. 

The Episode Producer was Boen Wang whose other work can be found at boen.cool.

Learn more about Dr. Amador and the LEAP approach at www.LeapInstitute.org. Dr. Amador’s books on LEAP can be found here and his research on insight, anosognosia, and the LEAP approach is here.

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