books about: estrangement
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Estrangement
Heal and Forgive II: The Journey from Abuse and Estrangement to Reconciliation
Nancy Richards
Blue Dolphin Publishing
, 2008
A Must For Anyone Considering Reconciliation With Estranged Relatives
In Heal and Forgive II, Nancy Richards picks up where Heal and Forgive left off, taking us through the aftermath of divorcing a parent, from the judgment of friends and strangers, to the betrayal and abandonment of other relatives, from the shock to our equilibrium and ...
Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge.
Richard Moran
Princeton University Press
, 2001
Admiring yourself for despising yourself and so on
Imagine you have to finish off a piece of work tonight, or in any case it would be good if you did - if only for the relief of having got it over with. You have seen yourself lose heart and fail at similar tasks before, though they were by no means impossible to ...
FRAGMENTED FAMILIES: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation
Ellen Sucov
Southern Hills Press
, 2006
A valuable resource and a source of inspiration
This review was written by Meyer Sonis, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh. "Fragmented Families" is "a splendid blend of theoretical insights, cultural awareness, and practical advice. The author's ideas come through clearly, ...
Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography
Peter A. Dorsey
Pennsylvania State University Press
, 1993
I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation
Laura Davis
Harper Paperbacks
, 2003
A must read for those estranged from family and good friends!
After reading this book I realized that much of what she had to say is common sense but when you live with the anger and hurt feelings daily. Common sense goes out the window nor do you always want to be the bigger stronger person. It has been very helpful for me. ...
Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia ...
Duke University Press
, 2001
Learning from Other Worlds provides both a portrait of the development of science fiction criticism as an intellectual field and a definitive look at the state of science fiction studies today. Its title refers to the essence of ?cognitive estrangement? in relation to science fiction and utopian fiction?the assertion that by imagining strange ...
Family Estrangements: How They Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope with Them
Barbara Lebey
Bantam
, 2003
A Necessary Book
I have read almost every book on this subject of family estrangements, and this is the first one that gave me the necessary tools to mend my estrangement with my brother. Instead of beating him over the head with the reason for our three year disconnect, I bought ...
Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
David J. Lieberman
St. Martin's Griffin
, 2003
Make Peace with Anyone :Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
This is an excellent book. It really is helpful as far as solving disagreements between people. It doesn't matter whether it is a spouse, friend or just an acquaintance whom you are having difficulty getting along with. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants ...
Heal & Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse
Nancy Richards
Blue Dolphin Publishing
, 2005
A Must-Read For All Victims Who Feel Pressured To Forgive Prematurely
Heal and Forgive is the best book I've read in a very long time. As the director of Luke 17:3 Ministries for adult children of abusive, controlling or abandoning birth-families, I would be hard-pressed to come up with a more helpful book to recommend. It is unique in ...
Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement (Series in Contemporary Ethnography)
Dan Rose
University of Pennsylvania Press
, 1991
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement
Ian Gregson
Palgrave Macmillan
, 1996
This book confronts the conflict between 'mainstream' poetry and forms of modernist poetry which have had to survive outside the establishment. The first section uses the concept of the 'dialogic' to show how the mainstream has evolved a vivid poetry that multiplies voices and perspectives, drawing on resources from the novel alongside those of ...
Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and ...
Douglas Robinson
The Johns Hopkins University Press
, 2008
Drawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo Tolstoy's theory of infection, Douglas Robinson studies the ways in which shared evaluative affect regulates both literary familiarity -- convention and tradition -- and modern strategies of alienation, depersonalization, and malaise. This book begins with ...
The Estrangement of Black Male Youth: from a teacher\'s perspective
Jerald McNair
Lulu.com
, 2006
This book takes a hard look into how black males are being raised in the black community and the negative impact fatherless homes have on them. The author, who is a teacher, writes about his experiences teaching these students and the challenges he faced in mentoring and guiding them to do their best. The author outlines fourteen factors that he ...
Splitting Up: Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce
Alvin Pam
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Judith Pearson
The Guilford Press
, 1998
Pam & Pearson have really captured a phenomenon here- GREAT!
This is a GREAT book. I have a Ph.D. in psychology, but did not pick this book up out of academic interest. I picked it up when my husband of six years (partner of nine)decided to leave me and our 17-month old daughter for another woman and another life. As I began ...
Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
Sonia Ryang
Routledge
, 2008
This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be kept analytically ...
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