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Penguin Putnam Inc Difficult Conversations
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Oxford University Press How to Be Childless
Book SynopsisIn How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children, Rachel Chrastil explores the long and fascinating history of childlessness, putting this often-overlooked legacy in conversation with the issues that childless women and men face in the twenty-first century. Eschewing two dominant narratives, that the childless are either barren and alone, or that they are carefree and selfish, How to Be Childless instead argues that the lives of childless individuals from the past can help all of us expand our range of possibilities for the good life. In uncovering the voices and experiences of childless women from the past five hundred years, Chrastil demonstrates that the pathways to childlessness, so often simplified as choice and circumstance, are far more complex and interweaving. Balanced, deeply researched, and richly realized, How to be Childless will empower readers, parents, and childless alike, to navigate their lives with purpose.Trade ReviewThis masterful book will engage, fascinate, and challenge readers whether they are childful or childless. To understand childlessness, Chrastil takes the reader through a deeper underlying analysis of human flourishing. She uses this concept as the instrument for assessing the choice to have children, examining essential questions, such as what does it mean to live a good life and to be a good citizen? * Michael D. Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History, Vanderbilt University *How to Be Childless is wonderfully engaging and thoughtful. Chrastil takes on the most talked-about aspects of life without children, as well as the most profound issues, and offers something new and important each time. The book is an intellectual treat. * Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: How to Talk about Childlessness Chapter 1: Delay Chapter 2: Whispers Chapter 3: Interlude: The Baby Boom Chapter 4: Shouts Chapter 5: Flourishing Chapter 6: Regret Chapter 7: Home and Hearth Chapter 8: A Better World Chapter 9: Old and Alone Chapter 10: Legacy Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Masters of Small Worlds
Book SynopsisIn this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region''s powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practised in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry''s deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the centrTrade Review"Masters of Small Worlds...is of interest not only for the local matter of South Carolina, but as one test of whether `race, class, and gender' can...make a history and not just a battlecry....McCurry offers an abundance of insight, information and anecdote. She is a gifted historian, engaging large questions."--The Times Literary Supplement"...a well-researched and detailed study....Masters of Small Worlds is an extremely valuable work....a bold and convincing history...that will clearly be required reading for Southern historians, women's historians, and American social historians."--Southern Historian"The subtlety and texture of her interpretations offer a model for future studies of this class elsewhere in the antebellum South."--American Historical Review"Stephanie McCurry's superb study of antebellum South Carolina deserves a place on the shelves and reading lists of all historians of the South and the Civil War....This is one of the best books on Southern social history I have ever read. Sophisticated in technique and subtle in analysis, Masters of Small Worlds carries that analysis into politics to produce strikingly original insights that will have an impact on Southern historiography for years to come."--H-Net Book Review Project"Masters of Small Worlds is a strikingly original work, one which manages to say important new things about subjects that have attracted the attention of generations of scholars--the foundations of proslavery thought and the road to the Civil War. It is difficult to think of a work of American history that more successfully integrates the "public" and "private" realms of life, or that demonstrates more persuasively the centrality of gender as a category for understanding American political thought."--Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Person with a Price 1. The Chattel Principle 2. Between the Prices 3. Making a World Out of Slaves 4. Turning People into Products 5. Reading Bodies and Marking Race 6. Acts of Sale 7. Life in the Shadow of the Slave Market Epilogue: Southern History and the Slave Trade
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Oxford University Press Social Support Measurement and Intervention
Book SynopsisSurgery and pharmaceuticals are not the only effective procedures we have to improve our health. The natural human tendency to care for fellow humans, to support them with social networks, has proven to be a powerful treatment as well. This book, will provide the most up to date research on the effects of social support interventions on physical and mental health.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book - well produced, first class content and heavily referenced. Buy it! * Journal of Public Health Medicine *Table of ContentsContributors Part I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 1: Sheldon Cohen, Benjamin H. Gottlieb, and Lynn G. Underwood: Social Relationships and Health Part II. Social Support Measures 2: Brian Lakey and Sheldon Cohen: Social Support Theory and Measurement 3: Ian Brissette, Sheldon Cohen, and Teresa E. Seeman: Measuring Social Integration and Social Networks 4: Thomas A. Wills and Ori Shinar: Measuring Perceived and Received Social Support 5: Harry T. Reis and Nancy Collins: Measuring Relationship Properties and Interactions Relevant to Social Support Part III. Social Support Interventions 6: Benjamin H. Gottlieb: Selecting and Planning Support Interventions 7: Vicki S. Helgeson and Benjamin H. Gottlieb: Support Groups 8: John Eckenrode and Stephen Hamilton: One-to-One Support Interventions: Home Visitation and Mentoring 9: Carolyn E. Cutrona and Valerie Cole: Optimizing Support in the Natural Network Part IV. Implications 10: Karen S. Rook and Lynn G. Underwood: Social Support Measurement and Interventions: Comments and Future Directions Index
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Oxford University Press The Burden of Sympathy
Book SynopsisWhat are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person''s troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw boundaries of sympathy to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one. Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiating an appropriate level of involvement with the mentally ill loved one while maintaining enough distance for personal health. Throughout the narratives, Karp sensitively expTrade Review"An enriching companion book for anyone seeking advice adn solace fro handling the issues that arise from loving someone with a mental illness as well as a commentary on the moral values of contemporary society."--Booklist"In this excellent, riveting work, David Karp explores the quandary of familial caregivers and how ethical obligations to those with emotional disturbances shed light on the ties that bind the whole of humanity together. I found in this remarkable book a clear moral vision ensconced in a series of page turning portraits depicting the mentally ill and of those who love them."--Lauren Slater, author of Prozac Diary and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir"David Karp has captured the essence of caring and caregiving in his fine book. For family members of individuals with schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness, and severe depression, he accurately describes 'the social tango between emotionally ill people and those who try to help them.' This will be a useful book for families of mentally ill individuals.... I strongly recommend it."--E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Executive Director, Stanley Foundation Research Programs, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Research Institute, and author of Surviving Schizophrenia"David Karp is a great ethnographer of disrupted lives, offering profound truths in clear prose, combining empathy with analysis. Burden of Sympathy gives eloquent voice to care givers; I know no other book that tells their story with such respect. This brilliant study offers personal validation, a model study of suffering and moral decision making, and a profound challenge to policy makers."--Arthur W. Frank, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary and author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness and The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and EthicsTable of Contents1. Illness and Obligation ; 2. Bearing Responsibility ; 3. Managing Emotions ; 4. Family Ties ; 5. The Four Cs ; 6. Surviving the System ; 7. Caring in Postmodern America
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Oxford University Press Inc Parenting by Men Who Batter New Directions for Assessment and Intervention Interpersonal Violence
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Oxford University Press, USA The Family
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the question of what world history looks like when the family is at the center of the story. People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically over time and across cultures. The family is not a natural phenomenon--it has a history. And family life is not limited to the realm of the private or the strictly personal; the family is a force of history. Gender and generational differences affect how individual family members relate to each other and how the family operates in changing historical times. For example, youth rebellion against repressive elders fed into choices about conversion to Christianity in colonial Kenya in the early twentieth century and also into the May Fourth rebellion against traditional rule in China in 1919.These are the sorts of examples that drive the narrative of The Family: A World History. Maynes and Waltner begin their story more than 10,000 years ago with various projects of domestication around the globe -Trade ReviewA thoughtful work that is part of an exciting series, the New Oxford World History. This is very much an American series and reflects the energy of that historical community. Pledged to offer a comprehensive world history that looks over a long timespan, this series provides the basis for an account of the family that begins in 10,000 BCE ... the scholarship is up to date, the judgments pertinent and the writing good. An impressive volume. * Jeremy Black, The Historian *This welcome addition to the New Oxford World History series examines both the history of the family as a social institution from Paleolithic times to the present, and the ways in which the family has been an agent of historical change ... excellent * Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsEditors' Preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Domestic Life and Human Origins ; Chapter 2: The Birth of the Gods: Family in the Emergence of Religions and Cosmologies ; Chapter 3: Ruling Families: Kinship at the Dawn of Politics (3000 BCE to 1450 CE) ; Chapter 4: Family Dynamics in a Global Frame (1400-1750) ; Chapter 5: Families in Global Markets (1600-1850) ; Chapter 6: Families in Revolutionary Times (1750-1920) ; Chapter 7: Powers of Life and Death: Families in the Era of State Population Management (1880 to the Present) ; Epilogue: The Future of the Family ; Chronology ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Websites ; Index
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Oxford University Press Minimizing Marriage
Book SynopsisEven in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features - promise, commitment, care, and contract - with surprising results. In Part One, De-Moralizing Marriage, essays on promise and commitment argue that we cannot promise to love and so wedding vows are (mostly) failed promises, and that marriage may be a poor commitment strategy. The book contends with the most influential philosophical accounts of the moral value of marriage to argue that marriage has no inherent moral significance. Further, the special value accorded marriage sustains amatonormative discrimination - discrimination against non-amorous or non-exclusive caring relationships such as friendships, adult care networks, polyamorous groups, or urban tribes. The discussion raises issues of independent interest for the moral philosopher such as the possibilities and bounds of interpersonal moral obligations and thTrade ReviewThis is an important book, a meticulous, thorough, and innovative work of moral and political philosophy applied to a pressing contemporary dilemma. ... It is one of the most rigorous, comprehensive, and compelling political liberal treatments of the marriage question out there if not the best. * Tamara Metz, Social Theory and Practice *provides fresh insight into a controversial topic and makes bold but thoughtful proposals that deserve consideration. * Natasha McKeever, Res Publica *Brake's clearly argued thesis is a powerful alternative to more standard feminist views that would eliminate marriage as an institution. The author makes a very important contribution to all aspects of the current marriage debates. Highly recommended * CHOICE *This a terrific book for anyone interested in "what happens next" in the field of marriage law. It is provocative, clear in its argument, well-grounded philosophically, and engages a wide range of recent books and articles on marriage. It aims at being controversial, and it succeeds. ... Brake sharpens understanding of the issues and possible paths forward in the ongoing debates about marriage and family law. * Mary L Shanley, TPM *This is an engaging, stimulating and provoking work of political and ethical philosophy that approaches its central issue from a number of angles. * Ruth Abbey, Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marriage and Philosophy ; Part One. De-Moralizing Marriage ; 1. The Marriage Promise: Is Divorce Promise-Breaking? ; 2. How to Commit Marriage: A Conceptual Guide ; 3. Marriage, Sex, and Morals ; 4. Special Treatment for Lovers: Marriage, Care, and Amatonormativity ; Part Two: Democratizing Marriage ; 5. Critiques of Marriage: An Essentially Unjust Institution? ; 6. Defining Marriage: Political Liberalism and the Same-Sex Marriage Debates ; 7. Minimizing Marriage: What Political Liberalism Implies for Marriage Law ; 8. Challenges for Minimal Marriage: Poverty, Property, Polygyny
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Connecting Self to Society Belonging in a Changing World
Book SynopsisVanessa May is Lecturer in Sociology at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include the self, belonging, lone motherhood, and qualitative and mixed methods. She edited Sociology of Personal Life and has published in journals including Sociology, Sociological Review, International Journal of Research Methods, and Narrative Inquiry.Table of ContentsPART I: SELF AND SOCIETY IN SOCIAL THEORY 1. Introduction 2. Where it All Began: The Sociological Classics 3. The Loss of Tradition: Diminished or Reflexive Selves? 4. The Relationship between Self and Society 5. Everyday Personal Life PART II: SELF, BELONGING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 6. Belonging: A Window into Social Change 7. Cultural Belongings 8. Relational Belongings 9. Sensory Belongings 10. Conclusion: Self and Belonging in a Changing World.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Adolescence in Modern Irish History Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
Book SynopsisThis edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the experience of Irish young adults from the 'affective revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the 1960s.Trade Review“As the first academic study to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history, this volume is therefore a welcome addition to a developing field. … it remains a valuable publication and one that marks out a new area of historical enquiry.” (Virginia Crossman, Childhood in the Past, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2017) Table of Contents1. Robert Hyndman's toe: romanticism, schoolboy politics and the affective revolution in late Georgian Belfast; Jonathan Wright 2. 'A sudden and complete revolution in the female': female adolescence and the medical profession in post-Famine Ireland; Ann Daly 3. The 'wild Irish girl' in selected novels of L. T. Meade; Sandra McAvoy 4. 'The most dangerous, reckless, passionate ... period of their lives': the Irish borstal offender, 1906-1921; Conor Reidy 5. An Irish nationalist adolescence: Na Fianna Eireann, 1909-23; Marnie Hay 6. 'Storm and stress': Richard Devane, adolescent psychology and the politics of protective legislation 1922-35; Susannah Riordan 7. 'How will we kill the evening?': 'degeneracy' and 'second generation' male adolescence in independent Ireland; Bryce Evans 8. A powerful antidote? Catholic youth clubs in the sixties; Carole Holohan 9. The emergence of an Irish adolescence: 1920s to 1970s; Mary E. Daly
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ABC-CLIO Lasting Marriages
Book SynopsisBased on in-depth interviews by skilled clinicians with husbands and wives who have been married more than 20 years, Mackey and O'Brien explore how spouses adapt to each other from the early years of marriage, through the parenting years, and into the post-parenting or empty-nest years.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Looking Back: Initial Attraction Relationship Conflict Intimacy Decision-Making Parenting Marital Satisfaction Appendix A: Characteristics of Respondents Appendix B: Methodology Appendix C: Interview Guide Appendix D: Code Sheet Bibliography Index
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ABC-CLIO OutofWedlock Births
Book SynopsisAbrahamson focuses on the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in the United States during the last half of the 20th century.Table of ContentsPreface Background and the Contemporary U.S. Marriage and Parenthood U.S. Data and Rates Nonmarital Births: Who, How and When Comparative Case Studies County of Essex, England: 1590-1625 Madrid, 1760-1800 Jamaica, 1950-1985 Some Conclusions about the U.S. A Theoretical Overview Welfare Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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Yale University Press The Future of Marriage
Book SynopsisDr. Bernard examines recent research findings on the present nature of the marriage commitment and predicts a less restrictive role for women in future marriages.
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Yale University Press The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
Book SynopsisWorking mothers in the 1990s face the challenge of being both nurturing and unselfish at home while engaged in child rearing, and competitive and ambitious at work. This text argues that an ideology of "intensive mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tension working mothers face.
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Springer Making Peace with Your Adult Children A Guide to Family Healing
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Springer Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods A Contextual Approach
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Springer Globalization and Children Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth
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Random House USA Inc You Say More Than You Think A 7Day Plan for Using
Book SynopsisNow You’re Talking!Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is wrong, and, as a result, your actions may be hurting, not helping, you. With sass and a keen eye, media favorite Janine Driver teaches you the skills she used every day to stay alive during her fifteen years as a body-language expert at the ATF. Janine’s 7-day plan and her 7-second solutions teach you dozens of body language fixes to turn any interpersonal situation to your advantage. She reveals methods here that other experts refuse to share with the public, and she debunks major myths other experts swear are fact: Giving more eye contact is key when you’re trying to impress someone. Not necessarily true. It’s actual
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Random House USA Inc Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
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Random House USA Inc Mindwise
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Zondervan Hidden Keys of a Loving Lasting Marriage
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Picador USA Price of Motherhood Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued Anniversary
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Back Bay Books Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about
Book SynopsisMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author.A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free PressHow did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, and the death of Sandra Bland&md
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Little Brown and Company What Women Want
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers The Gift of Not Belonging
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Poppy Books Klika
Book SynopsisMean Girls meets Middle School in The Clique... The only thing harder than getting in, is staying in. Enter Claire Lyons, the new girl from Florida in Keds and two-year-old Gap overalls, who is clearly not Clique material. Unfortunately for her, while they look for a new home, Claire''s family is staying in the guesthouse of the one and only Massie Block -- Queen Bee of Octavian Country Day School. Claire''s future looks worse than a bad Prada knockoff. But with a little luck and a lot of scheming, Claire might just come up smelling like Chanel No. 19. Meet the rest of the Clique: Massie Block - With her glossy brunette bob and laser-whitened smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of The Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day School, an exclusive private girls'' school in Westchester County, New York. Massie knows you''d give anything to be just like her. Dylan Marvil - Massie''s second in command who
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Do Fathers Matter
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc My Two Italies
Book SynopsisThe child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Labor of Love
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Springer Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods A Contextual Approach
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WW Norton & Co Narcissism and Intimacy Love and Marriage in an Age of Confusion
Book SynopsisIn our culture we demand a great deal from our intimate relationshipsand we are often disappointed.Trade Review"Marion Solomon's wisdom and warm humanity, together with her wide understanding and successful integration of systems ideas with both American mainstream and British object relations psychoanalytic thought and technique, make this book vital reading for all those concerned with the restoration and improvement of couple relationships in this 'age of confusion.' Her elegant style and her ability to present complex issues in simple language without 'writing down' make it a pleasure to read. I recommend it heartily." -- A. C. Robin Skynner, M.D., The Group-Analytic Practice, London "A uniquely well-articulated and scholarly exploration of the complexities of narcissism. In clarifying the relevance of difficult theoretical concepts to interpersonal relationships, Solomon has written a 'must' book for clinicians who work with couples and families." -- Althea Horner, Ph.D., author of Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy
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W. W. Norton & Company Love on Trial An American Scandal in Black and White
Book Synopsis"Too important to be ignored…A fascinating look at America's obsession with race, pride, and privilege." —EssenceTrade Review"Compellingly probes an enduring American dilemma." -- Bliss Broyard - Washington Post"A compelling read…More than a story of love gone wrong, this book concerns the prickly nature of racial identity, how it is defined, and what it means to be black or white—or both—here." -- Boston Globe"A great story…Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone tell it very well, retaining much of the drama that riveted the American public [almost a century] ago." -- Ann Fabian - Chicago Tribune
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing UserFriendly Family Therapy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Equal Partners Good Friends
Book SynopsisMarriage as an equal partnership is the goal of amny couples in the western world today and yet equality is often limited by the ways that power and gender interact in the relationship, leading to dissatisfaction and ultimately the break up of the marriage. In Equal PArtners - Good Friends Claire Rabin examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress. Drawing on extensive research and personal interviews in the UK, USA and Israel, she stresses the role of friendship in establishing a truly equal relationship. Focusing on issues of gender, sex roles and power, she provides a new clinical treatment model for therapists working with couples which is much needed in today''s climate of change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: a change in perspective 1 Gender, power and contemporary relationship tension 2 The egalitarian alternative. What is it? Is it worth the effort? 3 Friendship: the basic condition of equal partnership 4 Shared power: the road to mutual empowerment 5 Towards an integrative model of treatment goals for couples 6 Assessment 7 Types of couples seeking therapy 8 Creating an egalitarian therapeutic system Analyzing therapist-couple interactions as an assessment tool 9 The treatment model: individual interventions and education about equality 10 Couple interventions 11 Treatment of the traditional couple: putting the wife in charge 192 12 Treatment of the transitional couple: overt and covert power struggles 13 Issues in training and supervision
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Capacity to Care Gender and Ethical
Book SynopsisWendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children create the capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations. Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a consideration of what constitutes a good enough' family.<Trade Review'This book is significant for its scholarly exploration of psychological aspects of caring and compassion, marking an important development in the field.' - Dr Ann Weatherall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'Building on her ground-breaking earlier work on gender, subjectivity and method, Wendy Hollway's new book makes an exciting intervention in recent debates about care. It is a wonderful example of how psychoanalytic perspectives can transform social scientific, feminist and public understandings.' – Sasha Roseneil, University of Leeds, UK'Wendy Hollway, one of the foremost psycho-social thinkers of our time, weaves psychic and social reality together in a fascinating account of the development and vicissitudes of the capacity to care.' - Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School, USA'The Capacity to Care provides a thought-provoking and complex analysis of a subject both long neglected and oversimplified. Hollway creates an urgency to take this topic seriously.' - Leanne R. Parker, PsycCRITIQUESThis book is significant for its scholarly exploration of psychological aspects of caring and compassion, marking an important development in the field. - Dr Ann Weatherall, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of WellingtonBuilding on her ground-breaking earlier work on gender, subjectivity and method, Wendy Hollway’s new book makes an exciting intervention in recent debates about care. It is a wonderful example of how psychoanalytic perspectives can transform social scientific, feminist and public understandings. – Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of LeedsWendy Hollway, one of the foremost psycho-social thinkers of our time, weaves psychic and social reality together in a fascinating account of the development and vicissitudes of the capacity to care. - Lynne Layton, Faculty, Harvard Medical SchoolTable of Contents1. Introducing the Capacity to Care 2. Care, Ethics and Relational Subjectivity 3. Intersubjectivity In Self Development 4. Maternal Subjectivity and The Capacity to Care 5. The Gender of Parenting, The Gender of Care 6. Difference, Ethics and The Capacity To Care 7. Conclusions. Self, Morality and Acquiring the Capacity to Care
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Penguin Putnam Inc Too Good to Leave Too Bad to Stay
Book SynopsisThere are many books that promise to help you fix a bad relationship. This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should even try—or if you need to go.Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of research and her work with real-life couples to help you make the right decision. She shows you how to diagnose your unique situation with self-analysis and questions like these, which get to the very heart of your problems:• What sins are forgivable and which ones are unpardonable?• Is your partner questioning your opinions to the point where you doubt yourself?• What is your sex life really like, and how important is it?• Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable?Mira Kirshenbaum provides expert guidelines that are the key to making all your choices, concrete steps that you can implement right now, and the ultimate way to determine your personal bottom line—what you need to be happy. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship—and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing.Trade ReviewPraise for Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay“Brilliant.”—Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report“A powerful self-help resource for anyone caught in a web of relationship distress… Excellent.”—Christopher L. Hayes, author of Our Turn: Women Who Triumph in the Face of Divorce “Few have written with such common sense and clarity about how to come out of the trap of ambivalence in marriage. I’ve recommended the book to colleagues and clients.”—Cloé Madanes, co-founder, The Family Therapy Institute“A wise, compassionate, and very readable book. It will bless many lives.”—Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “Kirshenbaum’s expertise allows her to pinpoint the pertinent questions…. And threaded through the book, which is written in a sympathetic, chatty, accessible style, are validating anecdotes that dramatize how other people have experienced and responded to the same problems the reader is going through.”—Publishers Weekly “Braving her detailed questions about power, betrayal, communication, respect, intimacy, and love can transform the frustration of being stuck into a decision that feels right.”—Booklist “Packed with meaty case histories.”—New York Daily News “No fairy dust here, but a real chance for healing what Kirshenbaum calls ‘the pain and waste of relationship ambivalence.’”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Interesting reading and helpful in the way a good therapist can be helpful—by asking the right questions, by clarifying the answers.”—Olga Silverstein, family therapist, author of The Courage to Raise Good Men
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Basic Books Milan Systemic Family Therapy Conversations In Theory And Practice
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited book is the first to offer a complete and clear presentation of the therapy of the Milan Associates, Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin. Based on cybernetic theory, their work has had dramatic success in helping families change behaviour. This practical and enlightening book uses clinical cases and the fascinating conversations among the four authors to examine the relationship between Milan theory and practice.Transcripts of sessions conducted by Boscolo and Cecchin,which include a family that is hiding a history of incest and one dominated by an anorectic girl,provide vivid examples of family interaction and therapeutic imagination. In the accompanying conversations with Boscolo and Cecchin about these sessions, Hoffman and Penn take us behind the scenes to show how the therapists think through and conduct their therapy. These highly readable conversations clarify the essentials of the therapy, including hypothesizing, circular questioning, positive connotation, aTable of Contents* From Psychoanalysis to Systems The Crying Boy * Introduction * The Case: Consultation and Conversation The Family With A Secret * Introduction * The Case: Consultation and Conversation The Anorectic Store * Introduction * The Case: Consultation and Conversation The Girl Who Got Stuck To Her Mother * Introduction * The Case: Consultation and Conversation
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Random House USA Inc Social Intelligence The revolutionary new science
Book SynopsisEmotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to connect” and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives.Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies—down to the level of our genes—for good or ill. In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a “neural ballet” that connects us brain to brain with those around us.Our
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Horizon Psychological Services Breaking the MirrorOvercoming Narcissism
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Unlearning Shame
Book SynopsisLearn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism.Systemic Shame is the socially engineered self-loathing that says we are solely to blame for our circumstances. It tells us that poverty is remedied by hard-working people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, that marginalized people are personally responsible for solving the problem of their own oppression, and that massive global crises like climate change can be solved with individual action. Feeling overwhelmed? That’s your problem, too. The more we try and ultimately fail to live up to impossible societal standards of moral goodness, the more shame we feel—and the more we retreat into isolation and despair.Social psychologist Dr. Devon Price knows firsthand the destructive effects of Systemic Shame; he experienced shame and self-hatred as he grappled with his transgender identity, feeling as if his suffering was caused by his own actions rather than systems like cissexism. And it doesn’t just end with internal feelings of anguish. It causes us to judge other people the same way we fear being judged, which blocks us from seeking out the acceptance and support we need and discourages us from trying to improve our communities and our relationships.In Unlearning Shame, Dr. Price explores how we can deal with those hard emotions more effectively, tackling the societal shame we’ve absorbed and directed at ourselves. He introduces the antidote to Systemic Shame: expansive recognition, an awareness of one’s position in the larger social world and the knowledge that our battles are only won when they are shared. He provides a suite of exercises and resources designed to combat Systemic Shame on a personal, interpersonal, and global level through rebuilding trust in yourself, in others, and in our shared future.By offering a roadmap to healing and a toolkit of actionable items, Unlearning Shame helps us reject hopelessness and achieve sustainable change and personal growth.
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Penguin Publishing Group Women Who Love Too Much
Book SynopsisIs having “somebody to love” the most important thing in your life? Do you constantly believe that with “the right man” you would no longer feel depressed or lonely? Are you bored with “nice guys” who are open, honest, and dependable? If being in love means being in pain, this book was written for you. Therapist Robin Norwood describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts and behavior, which certain women develop as a response to problems from childhood. Many women find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships with men. They then struggle to make these doomed relationships work. This bestselling book takes a hard look at how powerfully addictive these unhealthy relationships are—but also gives a very specific program for recovery from the disease of loving too much.
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Random House Publishing Group The Tech Exit
Book SynopsisA road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood?by a leading tech policy expertIt?s no secret that addictive digital technologies like smartphones and social media apps are harming a generation of kids socially, mentally, and even physically. But a workable solution seems elusive. After all, don?t kids need phones, and won?t they be vulnerable or socially isolated without tech?Clare Morell, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of its Technology and Human Flourishing Project, argues that the answer is no. She exposes the lies parents have been sold about managing the dangers of tech through parental controls and screen-time limits, and demonstrates that another way is possible?even if your children are already using smartphones or social media.The Tech Exit maps a doable pathway to freedom from digital technology for families, local communities, and society. Drawing on dozens of interviews with experts and with families who have gone tech-free, as well as Morell?s own work as a policy expert, The Tech Exit shows how digital technology is anything but necessary for children to live happy, healthy, and socially full lives.The Tech Exit is essential reading for any parent who has felt stuck between an awareness of the dangers of digital technology for kids and the feeling that tech is necessary and inevitable. Clare Morell?s message is simple and compelling: You and your family can be free. The life you want for your children is within reach.
£20.70
Penguin Publishing Group The Balancing Act
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iUniverse Monsters from the Id A Study of Emotional Deprivation and Its Impact On Society
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iUniverse Fragments of a Lesson Plan
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iUniverse Individual Society and the World 1 Behind the Masks 2 Where Should We Be Going
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iUniverse The Bachelors Guide To Life Answers To Common and NotSoCommon Questions Every Single Guy Often Asks Answers Answers To Common and NotSoCommon Questions Every Single Guy Often Asks
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iUniverse CURBSIDE CONSULTING
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