As an unknown author, John Ruskan decided to not even
try making the rounds of agents and publishers to get his book out,
but opted to self-publish. From a quiet release in Spring of '93,
EMOTIONAL CLEARING has gone on to already become a top-seller in New
Age stores across the country. It has been picked up nationally by
the Barnes and Noble chain, and John has received an offer from one
of the largest New York publishers, Random House, who will be putting
out a hardcover, revised edition in Spring 2000.
The Random House advance of $150,000 is one of the
largest to a new author, and reflects their committment to promote
the book. Additional advances from six foreign publishers have brought
the total advance money to well over $200,000.
What makes it even more fascinating is that this is
John's first book, in a field where he has no formal training. EMOTIONAL
CLEARING is a self-help psychology book that describes an approach
to working with and releasing negative feelings and emotions as a
means to personal fulfillment and optimal health. Instead of going
to school to learn about psychology, John invented and wrote a book
about a new kind of psychotherapy that he calls Integrative Processing,
which can be used both as a self-therapy or with a therapist.
Part of the book's success is probably due to the impressive
list of enthusiastic and sincere-sounding professional endorsements
that are printed on it, including quotes from Dr. Harville Hendrix,
author of the best-selling "Getting The Love You Want;"
Dr. Robert Hall, M.D., a well-known psychiatrist; and Dr. Richard
Moss, M.D., a popular New Age psychologist and writer.
EMOTIONAL CLEARING is based on an East/West approach
to psychological work. This is the same kind of approach that Bill
Moyers has made popular in his recent TV series, "Healing and
the Mind." John feels that his book takes up where the Moyers'
series leaves off, by offering a specific, in-depth system for releasing
negative feelings. John's system is actually a new synthesis of proven
Eastern and Western psychological principles.
John says that his system evolved from his own work
on himself. He became interested in psychology in his early twenties,
and has been an avid student and practitioner ever since. John feels
that his lack of formal training in psychology is an asset. "I
could never have written this book if I had a Ph.D. in psych. My mind
would have been too full of the psychological establishment to have
seen the new." There is no lack of brainpower, however. John
has been a member of the prestigious Mensa, and his IQ tests in the
top 1%.
"I believe that Integrative Processing can become
another type of widely accepted psychotherapy such as Gestalt, Transactional
Analysis, NLP, or Bioenergetics. The time is right for an East/West
therapy, and people are responding strongly," says John. In order
to make this vision real, he has formed The Institute For Integrative
Processing, through which he offers workshops and professional certification.
