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Ellis Amdur has balanced two careers through most of his life, that as a crisis intervention specialist and as a 50+ year practitioner of traditional Japanese martial arts. His writing meets right in the middle. His books are considered unique in that he uses his own experiences, often hair-raising or outrageous, as illustrations of the principles about which he writes, but it is also backed by solid research, and boots-on-the-ground experience.
He has published seventeen, profession-specific books on crisis intervention and de-escalation. These include books for law enforcement and corrections, business, social services, and families. A new book, entitled The Good Stranger: Managing Highly Problematic Situations Within Social Services & Medical Professionals is pending publication.
Amdur has also published Body and Soul: Toward a Radical Intersubjectivity in Psychotherapy, a combination of a lyrical description of how phenomenology and dialogal philosophy can be applied to psychotherapy, followed by two heart-wrenching accounts showing how these abstract principles are embodied in the real world.
He has published three books on martial arts: the iconoclastic Dueling with Osensei: Old School, a work on classical martial traditions and most recently, Hidden in Plain Sight, on esoteric knowledge within various Japanese martial traditions. All three of these books, in revised, expanded editions have been released by by Freelance Academy Press. A fourth book entitled Root Still Cracking Rock: A Testament To Fifty Years Within Classical Japanese Martial Arts is pending publication.
Along with authors Neal Stephenson, Charles Mann & Mark Teppo and artists Robert Sammelin and Dean Kotz, Ellis has released the Jet City Comics graphic novel, the Cimmaronin.
He has also edited & reworked the book, Final Chapters: A Hospice Social Worker’s Stories of Courage, Heart and Power, written by Evelyn & Shelley Amdur, his mother and sister.
His novels, The Girl with the Face of the Moon, Lost Boy and Little Bird & The Tiger are published through Amazon. A sequel to the latter, entitled The Tiger's Cub, is currently in progress.
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