Peter J. Favaro Ph.D
Bad People Bible:
How to Identify, Deal With, and Remove Toxic Individuals From Your Life
Have you ever left a conversation or relationship feeling emotionally drained or confused? If you've been on the receiving end of manipulative, controlling, or emotionally harmful behavior, this book is your guide to breaking free from the toxic cycle.
Bad People Bible is not just another book of vague advice—this is a practical, experience-driven manual designed to help you sharpen your instincts and set strong boundaries. Written by forensic psychologist Peter J. Favaro, Ph.D., this book combines real-life stories, psychological insights, and actionable strategies to help you recognize toxic individuals and protect your peace of mind.
Staying in Love:
Secret Recipes for Making Love Last
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love requires dedication, work, and each partner fortifying the relationship with newness. Peter Favaro (Dr. Peter)--a psychologist, author, and educator--has spent the last thirty-eight years of his career watching relationships fall apart and helping people find new beginnings. Staying in Love is about reconnection, rebuilding, and creating recipes for success.
Dr. Peter draws on his love of love as well as his love of food to create metaphors for creating the banquet of a lifetime. Dr. Peter's folksy and humorous writing style makes understanding the complexities of love and relationships a quick and wholesome experience. Join him at his table and learn about what makes love last a lifetime.
Navigating the Civility High Road:
Strategic Advice for Managing Difficult Co-Parents and Adversarial Relationship
The Center for Improved Human Relationships, LLC, located in Midtown Manhattan, offers evaluations and programs for parents and families in conflict. The center is owned and operated by Peter J. Favaro, PhD, who has been developing programs for families in crisis for more than thirty years and who has been assigned to evaluate or provide services in more than six thousand cases. The center concentrates on civility training and conflict resolution and offers alternatives to litigated custody conflicts.
On Long Island, the center is known as SmartParenting: The Family Center.
Foundation 7:
A manual and guide for mental health self
Foundation 7 is a practical, straight-talking guide to emotional self-care written by Dr. Peter J. Favaro. Instead of treating mental health through the lens of sickness, the book teaches readers that “you don’t have to be sick to get better.” Emotional wellness is a skill set that anyone can learn and strengthen.
The book introduces the seven selves that shape how we navigate life:
Self-Awareness, Self-Reliance, Self-Soothing, Self-Evaluation, Self-Control, Self-Preparedness, and Self-Doubt.
Each chapter breaks down how these capacities function, how they get weakened by stress or habit, and how to rebuild them through practical tools from CBT, DBT, grounded thinking, and real-life habits.
Coming Back to Here:
Perspectives on Mindfulness
Coming Back to Here is a practical guide to mindfulness for real life, not retreats, not perfection, and not escaping your responsibilities.
Written by psychologist Peter J. Favaro, Ph.D., this book helps you understand how your thoughts, emotions, and reactions work together, and how to create space between feeling and reacting so you can respond with clarity instead of impulse. Through simple insights and everyday examples, you will learn how to manage stress, quiet mental noise, stay centered around difficult people, and reconnect with yourself in the middle of a busy, demanding world.
Hate and the Destruction of Empathy in our World
Why do we hate? Where does it come from, and can empathy survive in a world increasingly shaped by division?
In Hate and the Destruction of Empathy in Our World, forensic psychology expert Peter J. Favaro, Ph.D. explores one of humanity’s most powerful and destructive forces: hatred. Drawing from decades of clinical experience, psychology, neuroscience, developmental science, and social research, Dr. Favaro examines how hate develops, how it spreads, and why it can become so deeply rooted in the human mind.
