Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=7107&N=3+5773+4294967200 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736371 The co-author of the best-selling Nudge and regulatory advisor to President Obama draws on cutting-edge work in behavioral psychology and economics to trace behind-the-scenes, life-saving policy changes that reflect smarter and simpler government practices while preserving freedom of choice for everyday people in areas ranging from mortgages and student loans to food labeling and health care. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684988 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713184 A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give me everything you have chronicles the authors strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled verbal terrorist, who began trying, in her words, to ruin him. Hate mail, much of it violently anti-Semitic, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696412 A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the authors strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled verbal terrorist, who began trying, in her words, to ruin him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629443 The popular indie rock performer describes her battle against the hereditary mental illness that decimated her mothers health and prompted the author to engage in a self-destructive downward spiral before discovering her musical talent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582577 Subject Areas/Keywords: addictions, adolescents, alcoholism, assessments, binge drinking, campus, college students, counseling, developmental psychology, drugs, interventions, marijuana, prevention, public health, public policy, screening, substance abuse, underage drinking, young adults Description: Substance use among college students can result in serious academic and safety problems and have long-term negative repercussions. This state-of-the-art volume draws on the latest research on students alcohol and drug use to provide useful suggestions on how to address this critical issue on college campuses. Leading researchers from multiple disciplines examine the prevalence and nature of substance use by students; biological and neuropsychological considerations; psychological and social aspects; prevention; and policy. Exemplary programs are presented--including brief interventions, comprehensive prevention programs, and recovery support programs--enhancing the utility of the book for campus-based clinicians and administrators--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554159 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621997 Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and diagnosis of various learning disabilities and other conditions that impact learning, along with facts about early intervention and the special education process, advice for coping at home and school, and handling the transition to adulthood. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668382 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667968 A look how social scientists and renegade thinkers are imposing a new data-driven order on the American political campaign--an industry previously run on gut instinct-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376639 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392324 Written in conjunction with the documentary Rebirth, a full decade in the making, an uplifting look at the lives of nine individuals whose lives were forever changed by the events of September 11, 2001. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1278269 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364536 The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1236569 From the New York Times-bestselling author of Manic: A Memoir comes a gripping and eloquent account of the awakening and unfolding of Cheneys bipolar disorder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297796 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1362493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280566 Recounts the authors decision to leave the professional world to experiment with the norms and conventions of society, an effort that prompted him to don womens skirts and espadrilles as part of an effort to define himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110267 Reporter Laurie Abraham documents the painful and frustrating, but ultimately successful, journey of five couples through group marriage counseling. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133010 Rush crystallizes just how pervasive and pandemic Negrophilia really is-- and the best way to treat it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522509 A social history of the treatment of the mentally ill in America, this survey reveals the various methods of treatment from the 17th century to today: spinning, chilling, lobotomizing, and electroshock therapy, to name a few. Whitakers position is skeptical when he compares the treatment of the mentally ill in America to those affected in other countries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304947 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059841 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153869 A blisteringly honest chronicle of the consequences of anger displaced and the balm of anger discovered by the author of Smashed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114344 This is a remarkable story of life beyond despair and hope that triumphs over tragedy. Kristen Anderson thought she had the picture perfect life until strokes of gray dimmed her outlook: three friends and her grandmother died within two years. Still reeling from these losses, she was raped by a friend she thought she could trust. She soon spiraled into a seemingly bottomless depression. One January night, the seventeen year old decided she no longer wanted to deal with the emotional pain that smothered her. She lay down on a set of cold railroad tracks and waited for a freight train to send her to heaven and peace. But Kristens story doesnt end there. In this book, this remarkably joyful young woman shares the miracle of her survival, the agonizing aftermath of her failed suicide attempt, and the hope that has completely transformed her life, giving her a powerful purpose for living. Her gripping story of finding joy against all odds provides a vivid and unforgettable reminder that life is a gift to be treasured. This book includes notes of encouragement Kristen wishes she had received when she was struggling most. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945900 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001355 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=831432 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003305 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1100780 In the age of 9/11, the War on Terror, financial collapse, and around-the-clock coverage of child abductions, our society is defined by fear. Glassner shows that it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of risk, and he exposes the price we pay for social panic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=760776 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=880333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688966 With GAINING, Aimee Liu shatters commonly held beliefs about eating disorders while assembling a puzzle that is as complex and fascinating as human identity itself. Through cutting-edge research and the stories of more than forty interview subjects, readers will discover that the tendency to develop anorexia or bulimia has little to do with culture, class, gender - or weight. Genetics, however, play a key role. So does temperament. So do anxiety, depression, and shame. Clearly, curing eating disorders involves more than good nutrition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=660964 This book is designed as a quick-reference resource for counselors, social workers, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, R.N.s and medical staff, victim advocates and legal personnel, and all those engaged in supporting or helping victims of violence.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=736462 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=718164 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688577 John Sedgwicks novels introduced readers to the rarified enclave of Brahmin Boston, in which privilege and elitism, handed down from one generation to the next, come at a price. He discovered for himself just how great that price can be when, while writing his second novel, he spiraled into a profound depression that threatened his life. This crisis provoked him to search for the source of his malaise. Did it begin with him, or did it begin before, possibly even long before, with previous generations whose genes he bore? If so, how had the family illness, as he came to think of it, shaped their lives, and come to define his? To find the answers, he launched into a full-scale investigation of his familys history - one of the oldest, and fully documented in America. It was, at once, a very personal journey of self-discovery, and a broader retracing of his familys evolution, as he pored over the many extraordinary Sedgwicks who had gone before - from the protean early Speaker of the House Theodore Sedgwick through to Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhols muse and the 1960s It Girl. Both a brimming family saga and a courageous narrative, the book paints a startlingly candid portrait of a man and an eminent American family.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614510 In See Jane Hit, Dr. James Garbarino shows that the rise in girls violence is the product of many interrelated cultural developments, several of which are largely positive. Girls have learned to express themselves physically in organized sports - thirty years ago, the number of boys playing organized sports was over ten times greater than the number of girls; now the ratio is almost at one to one. In a number of other ways too, the cultural foot binding that has kept girls from embracing their own physical power has been removed, which is largely to be celebrated. But nothing happens in isolation, and theres rarely such a momentous societal shift with absolutely no downside. One problem is that girls arent being trained to handle their own physical aggression the way boys are: our cultures methods of child-rearing include all sorts of mechanisms for socializing boys to express their violence in socially acceptable ways, but with girls we lag very far behind. At the same time, the culture has become more toxic for boys and girls alike, and girls sexuality is linked with violence in new and disturbing ways. Ultimately this brilliant, far-reaching examination of physical aggression and the new American girl shows us there is much we can do differently. See Jane Hit is not just a powerful wake-up call; its a clear-eyed, compassionate prescription for real-world solutions.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642270 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611519 Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwells book, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of Americans. Somewhere along the line, the Age of Reason morphed into the Age of Emotion; this systemic erosion is costing time, money, jobs, and lives in the twenty-first century, leading to less fulfillment and growing dysfunction. Far from perpetuating the stereotype of the complacent American, LeGaults no-holds-barred analysis asks more of us than any other societal overview: America can fulfill its greatest potential starting today, and we need smart teachers, smart health care workers, smart sales representatives, smart students, smart mechanics, and smart leaders to make it happen. Now is the time to Think! - because a mind truly is a terrible thing to waste.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614528 Much has been written about what women want from their relationships and marriages. But what men want has remained a mystery--until now. Chethik spent two years traveling across the country, talking with men of different ages, religions, and ethnic backgrounds, in urban centers and rural towns, married for anywhere from a few weeks to 72 years. He notes the enormous changes in American marriage since the 1960s and explores how men have tried to adjust to them--sometimes successfully, often not. He finds that most men are not commitment-phobic, dont have sex on their minds all the time, and are willing to talk frankly about their relationships--just not in the same way women do. This book demonstrates that despite their many differences, most husbands and wives ultimately want the same thing: a trusted fellow traveler in their journey through life.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651648 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=676647 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=669412 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654436 Recognizing that young people have the power to be suicide preventers, this book offers positive, practical, step-by-step advice that can save lives.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=587379 Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life. Though happy as a social worker and teacher, he knew something wasnt right. Then he made some changes. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong doses of testosterone, Kailey began his journey toward becoming a man. As his body morphed and his voice dropped, Kailey began noticing subtle shifts in the way he was treated. Men suddenly stopped offering to change flat tires for him but insisted on talking to him about women and bodily functions. Women got nervous when he baby-talked to their infants but routinely asked him to move heavy things around the office. In these everyday exchanges, Kailey recognized the many ways we define what it means to be male. He also realized that, with few role models, he had to learn to accept himself as a person between two genders. As he writes about his transition from female to male, Kailey answers all the questions youve ever had about what its like to live as a transsexual. From the fear of public restrooms to deciding whether to pack his pants, Kailey explains what the world looks like from his new vantage point - a position more people are discovering as gender transitions become increasingly common. More than a memoir, Just Add Hormones is full of sound advice for those who may be questioning their gender. And through his story, Kailey offers valuable insights to the families and friends of those who have started a transition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=581964 In Stressed-out Girls, bestselling author and clinical psychologist Roni Cohen-Sandler provides an inside look at how the achievement frenzy is hurting this generation of girls. Trying desperately to shine academically, juggle hectic extracurricular activities, become popular, look great, and get into elite colleges, teenage girls feel compelled to hide their distress from the teachers and families they want to please-and often become disconnected from their true selves in the process. The pressure to do it all becomes debilitating-diminishing girls self-esteem and motivation, their health, and ultimately, undermining their ability actually to be successful. Stressed-out Girls pinpoints the early warning signs of chronic stress and offers strategies to help boost girls resilience and confidence-before they become vulnerable to serious problems like depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse. Based on her clinical work, interviews, and a comprehensive survey of thousands of teens, Roni Cohen-Sandler offers a clear framework for understanding: What is really going on with girls when they underachieve or seem bored by school, Why teen girls think being good means being extraordinary, What makes them quit their extracurricular activities, Why teen girls feel more stressed out than boys, The five most common at-risk groups: girls in transition, square pegs, insecure girls, perfectionist girls, and girls distracted by personal or family problems, Why parents and teachers well-intentioned efforts to help often backfire, and what they can really do to facilitate girls success. Written with authority and passion and filled with eye-opening, real-life stories, this ground-breaking book provides a rare and candid glimpse into the inner lives of girls today. Essential reading for girls, parents, educators, and therapists, Stressed-out Girls illuminates an important and timely issue facing this generation, arming anyone who is concerned about a teenage girl with the tools to help her flourish.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=581784 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=519868 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550661 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=452220 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392133 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470190 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=464372 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=467916 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478879 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=463924 Drawing on research from the social sciences and studies on the brain to answer questions and exploring what they mean for social policy and child and family development, this book offers recommendations for child care and development based on current brain research and its implications. Topics include the benefits of family leave, child care, home visitation programs, child abuse, and nutrition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418588 In this groundbreaking book, a domestic violence expert uses his unique perspective as a therapist to take women inside the minds of abusive and controlling men to teach them how to free themselves from the chains of abuse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433025 We take it for granted today that we should kiss our children, hug our friends, and comfort our partners. But until recently, the experts thought otherwise. In fact, in the early 20th century, affection between parents and children was very much discouraged - psychologists thought it would create needy and demanding offspring; doctors were convinced it would spread infectious disease. It took a revolution in psychology to overturn these beliefs, and prove that a loving touch not only didnt harm babies but in fact ensured their emotional and intellectual growth. In Love at Goon Park, Deborah Blum charts this profound cultural shift by tracing the story of the man who made it possible: a brilliant, alcoholic, work-obsessed psychologist named Harry Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow arrived at his conclusions by conducting experiments - some beautiful, some profoundly troubling - on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory. Paradoxically, his darkest experiments may have the brightest legacy: By studying neglect and its life-altering consequences, Harlow confirmed loves central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. The more children experience affection, he discovered, the more curious they become about the world. Love, it turns out, makes people smarter. But as this meticulously researched and masterfully written book shows, there was a side of Harlow as dark as some of his experiments. An eccentric, driven scientist with a fondness for alcohol, he was a difficult husband and a distant father who spent precious little time with his own children, even as he preached the importance of bonding. Yet Harlows legacy is truly monumental - and his reputation, in Blums hands, is at last restored. The biography of both a man and an idea. Love at Goon Park weaves the dramatic story of Harlows life into the first in-depth examination of his work, illuminating a post-War culture in the throes of change. Through the lens of Harry Harlow, Blum ultimately invites us to examine ourselves - the way we love others and are loved in return.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=371352 In Brazeltons warm, funny, empathic tone, he listens to the childs perspective on emotional issues while also showing characteristic compassion for the parents feelings. Photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=328895 Dr. Lynn Ponton, a psychiatrist who specializes in counseling troubled teens and their parents, provides readers with the rare opportunity to step into the therapists office and hear what teens have to say about their sexual lives. In frank and honest language, they relate their fears, expectations, and knowledge - or lack thereof - about sex. Teenagers and parents alike have a voice here, and Dr. Ponton helps them come to terms with emerging sexual identities. She opens a dialogue that explores teens sometimes risky behavior and addresses controversial topics such as pregnancy, abortion, masturbation, fantasies, internet dating, sexual orientation, and gender roles.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=325630 Examines the history, nature, effects, and dangers of such designer drugs as Ecstasy, PCP, fentanyl, and meperidine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=352624 Chicago-based journalist Kamen (womens studies, Northwestern U.) argues that Monica Lewinskys ambition and audacity are characteristic of a whole generation of women now in their 20s. She chronicles the sexual evolution of young women over the past decade. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313539 To find out what every man needs to know about sex, romance, passion and and pleasure, the authors interviewed 2,513 women. Bechtel and Stains share their information, using entertaining guy talk and amusing analysis. 36 illustrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=300691 Make Love, Not War is the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on firsthand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful 50s to the first tremors of rebellion in the early 60s to the heady heyday of the revolution.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275358 In response to the bestselling Reviving Ophelia, this extraordinary book captures in poignant and provocative prose the candid voices of Ophelias coast to coast on issues both public and private. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=355643 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=271799 In Freuds Answer, Martin Wain provides the first coherent view of the roots of Freudian psychoanalysis. In the new urban industrial age of the late nineteenth century, Mr. Wain shows, Freud and his colleagues were social, political, and economic therapists in the broadest sense. Their patient was modern Western culture at a time of disorder and maximum danger. The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution had overturned the old order but had left the new masses of individuals on their own, lacking the certainties of the old life. Now that authority in the form of the king, the church, and the family had lost its power, the new liberal democracies needed new means of control. Freud and the other pioneers of psychoanalysis provided the way. Their treatment - designed to preserve a form of government they found highly desirable - was a set of theoretical concepts and practices so effective that for a hundred years they held sway, powerfully affecting a myriad of endeavors. Freuds Answer for the first time clearly illuminates one of the major intellectual phenomena of our age.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=242038 Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustained both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs, and, ultimately, any sense of what it meant to be normal. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she recreates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. Maryas story gathers intensity with each passing year. By the time she is in college and working for a wire news service in Washington, D.C., she is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Down to fifty-two pounds and counting, Marya becomes a battlefield: the death instinct at war with the drive to live, mind and body locked in mortal combat.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466177 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=65820 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131344 This contribution to the debate over euthanasia is one which only a person who has lived through the experience with a loved one can provide. It drives home the hotly-contested question of whether we have the right to end life in the wake of intense suffering. When Carol Lovings talented, athletic, college student son Nicholas disclosed late one night that he was having difficulty grasping a football, uttering certain sounds, and moving his body, and feared hes becoming paralyzed, she rushed him to a hospital. After a myriad of tests, he was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative illness - Lou Gehrigs disease. Carol devoted herself to caring for Nick. Mother and son fought the debilitating effects, gallantly. However, within eighteen months, Nick was unable to walk, feed himself or speak clearly. Moreover, they knew the worst was yet to come. After failing at suicide three times, Nick pleaded with his mother to help him die. Reaching the most heart-wrenching decision she would ever have to make, Carol agreed. Frantically searching for the means, Carol canvassed friends, pigeonholed medical and government personnel and scoured the streets. No one would help end her sons agony. Finally, Carol contacted their last hope, the renowned advocate of assisted suicide, Dr. Death - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, begging for his deliverance. From Carol Lovings unique vantage point, as the public controversy rages, we meet and get to know the private man never revealed by the media barrage surrounding him. We learn why he believes aiding the dying is his mission.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=229143 On a humid July day in 1993, White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park in suburban Virginia. One of the nations highest-ranking federal officers, Foster was a boyhood friend of President Bill Clinton and a close confidant of First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton. His death sent shock waves through the White House and the nations capital. The death was quickly pronounced a suicide. According to the official story that soon emerged, Foster was depressed, angry, and isolated. With nowhere else to turn, he went to a secluded park near the Potomac River, put a gun in his mouth, and killed himself. But is this what really happened? In this compelling and fully documented report, investigative journalist Christopher Ruddy answers that critical question. Ruddy, who has covered the case almost from the start, details the disturbing inconsistencies surrounding Fosters alleged suicide, chronicles the botched investigations, documents the frenzied illegal activity in the White House in the hours after Fosters death, and notes the persistent failure of mainstream media to ask the right question.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=180194 It was just before Christmas 1994 that Senator George McGovern received the terrible news that his forty-five-year-old daughter, Terry, had been found dead in a parking lot near her Madison, Wisconsin, home. In an alcoholic stupor, Terry had stumbled out of a bar and into a snowbank, where she fell asleep and froze to death. In this extraordinary remembrance, Senator McGovern attempts to come to grips with the circumstances of his childs demise as well as her troubled life. Alcohol and depression were always twin curses for Terry. Though she maintained a facade of well-being, especially while working on her famous fathers political campaigns, she was desperately trying to conquer her addictions. For long stretches of her adult life, despite her efforts to stay sober, she was shuttled in and out of detox centers and institutions. Throughout McGoverns remarkable career in Washington and after his retirement from the Senate, Terrys illness shadowed her parents every activity. Could they save her without destroying themselves? Were McGoverns political ambitions a factor in Terrys despair? Could Terrys two young daughters - the Senators grandchildren - remain with their mother? Terrys struggle, and the McGovern familys efforts to save her and learn from her illness, are the heartbreaking themes of this painful and unforgettable book. With courage and compassion, George McGovern addresses a private tragedy with an intimacy and honesty rarely achieved by a public figure. Terry is a book that has forever changed McGoverns life and will undoubtedly alter Americas view of alcoholism.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=194736 For Robert Perkins, whose unique and intimate travel narratives have aired often on PBS, arctic travel has become a way to test his ties to humanity. In Talking to Angels, Perkins records not only travels to the far north but also urgent journeys of a different kind. In 1968, at age nineteen, he was institutionalized for a year in a prestigious East Coast psychiatric hospital. To give you the feeling, Id hit you hard on the side of the head when you werent expecting it with a flat board, or a piece of rubber tubing. That would be the short course, the shock of the thing. Talking to Angels begins here, with darkly beautiful, unflinching writing on a cruel year. For Perkins, solitary arctic travel is a way to test his ties to the rest of humanity. I lived in a meat locker for two months, something Kafka would have appreciated, at the western edge of the District of Mackenzie, near the Thelon Game Preserve in the heart of the Canadian Northwest Territories. Perkinss writing on the arctic is filled with keen and quirkily humorous observations - on the death dance of caribou and wolf, on the quality of human fear, on ancient human presence in a vast land.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=169509 The Seasons of a Womans Life, based upon lengthy and exhaustive interviews with forty-five randomly chosen women - businesswomen, academics, and homemakers - completes and substantiates Levinsons thesis: that all human beings, of whatever sex or culture, go right on developing throughout their lives, in a pattern of amazing predictability. Change - the movement from one life structure to the next - is, as Levinson has said, part of the nature of our existence. Almost half our adult life is spent in developmental transitions, and these are almost invariably difficult, sometimes agonizing. Yet if the developmental timetable is surprisingly similar in men and women - and this fact is one of Levinsons principal new findings - The Seasons of a Womans Life also illuminates a number of profound differences. Many relate to the phenomenon of gender splitting, the rigid division between male and female, masculine and feminine, that has existed throughout history. In an epochal shift, this division is now being eroded. But the shape of womens lives, and the circumstances of their passages through the phases of adult development, are still uniquely affected by gender issues. This emerges with poignant clarity from the stories told by the women interviewed here.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=146975 Its no secret that millions of men read magazines like Playboy and Penthouse and lust after bikini-clad models. After all, guys will be guys, and whats the harm? Plenty! claims psychologist and educator Gary R. Brooks, author of The Centerfold Syndrome, a ground-breaking book that shows how many so-called normal male attitudes toward sex are actually harmful and destructive. Here is the first candid analysis of how boys are conditioned to pursue airbrushed photo fantasies, and how theyre brought up to depend upon and yet fear the perceived power women hold over them as gatekeepers to a precious commodity - their objectified bodies! And even more importantly how this syndrome prevents true emotional intimacy between men and women. But Dr. Brooks also offers a way to overcome this destructive malady. Using actual case histories and transcripts from groups he has led over many years, Dr. Brooks documents how a variety of men from different backgrounds have struggled to escape the depersonalization, the isolation, and the sense of frustration and powerlessness of the Centerfold Syndrome. In stories that are both inspiring and instructive, the author demonstrates their successes and set-backs as they try to achieve mature and more meaningful relationships with their wives and partners. Both men and women will appreciate the candor of The Centerfold Syndrome. Dr. Brooks offers specific guidelines and practical plans of action for all of us in our various roles - as friends, lovers, partners, husbands, wives, parents, responsible citizens - in an era of changing gender relations.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135797 From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the melancholy star of the imagination, and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=243462 Recently published to much acclaim in England, these reflective essays by Shere Hite reveal and explore the methodological and philosophical import of the famous Hite Reports on male and female sexuality and love and include extensive excerpts from the reports themselves. To read this outstanding distillation of Hites writings is to see the continuing impact of her prodigious work over two decades, to hear her views on the issues facing women as agents of social change, and to be taken to the cutting edge of current debates on sexual politics.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=59513 How to recognize the warning signs, reach out to friends at risk, and get help. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266195 If you have been sexually assaulted, you are probably experiencing a mix of fear, anger, and depression. If you are a relative, friend, or lover of someone who has been assaulted, you too may be deeply affected by the incident and by the survivors reaction to it. However, working together, survivors and their loved ones can recover and may even be able to turn the recovery into an opportunity for positive change and growth. This comprehensive handbook offers emotional support and practical guidance in overcoming the trauma of rape. It explains what to expect at the police station, at the hospital, and, if necessary, in court, and it helps readers learn the most effective ways of dealing with their feelings immediately following an assault, during the subsequent few months, and beyond. The experiences of survivors recounted throughout the book reassure readers that others have pulled through. Dr. Ledray helps survivors realize that no matter what they did - wore a low-cut blouse, accepted a ride from a stranger, invited an acquaintance home - they did not deserve to be raped. She guides them from guilt or disbelief through bitterness and despair to the decision to take back control of their lives.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=75857 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=203683 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=212346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=122444 Men are complex, unpredictable, and ultimately mysterious. What makes them act the way they do? John Munder Ross has spent twenty years studying men, and in The Male Paradox he presents a groundbreaking new theory that explores the meaning of masculinity, going far beyond the insights of the current mens movement. Drawing on case studies from his own practice, Ross vividly depicts the conflicting forces inside the male psyche. Men are constantly at war with themselves, fighting their own aggression and resisting their need to be with, and be like, women. Bombarded from an early age by images as disparate as The Lone Ranger and Mr. Mom, men find that their impulses pull them in different directions - and often lead them to actions that seem destructive, deviant, or simply contradictory. Ross shows us men of all ages dealing with familiar and unfamiliar problems: work, illness, divorce, infidelity, child-rearing, homosexuality, violence, and incest. We see them with their parents, children, friends, and co-workers - and most of all, with the women in their lives. We learn why they love, why they fight, and what they feel about it all. These vivid portraits illuminate the problems men have in dealing with their various selves - with the male paradox inside. It is only by embracing rather than fleeing the contradictions of masculinity that a man can become whole. The Male Paradox is a beautifully written account of the forces within men and how they can make peace with themselves.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=10777 From pregnancy to first grade, all the concerns and questions that parents have about their childs behavior, feelings, and development are anticipated and answered in both chronological and reference form. Underlying this guidance is the touchpoints concept that has shaped Dr. Brazeltons office practice and research for over three decades. Touchpoints are the universal spurts of development and the trying periods of regression that accompany them throughout childhood. In this book - as in his office - Brazelton uses them as windows to help parents understand their childs behavior and prevent future problems. Part One of this comprehensive book follows each of these touchpoints from the prenatal visit through the first three years, explaining the characteristic achievements and calming the inevitable worries at each stage. Every chapter ends with a section on Looking Ahead. Part Two covers the first six years, with all the common behavioral and emotional challenges, in alphabetical order, from allergies to toilet training. Dr. Brazelton reveals how to understand these as the childs issues, warding off parent-child conflict. Part Three explains the vital role of all the important people in a childs life. Touchpoints is a priceless reference. Longer than a housecall, more objective than a grandmother, it puts a brilliant and beloved pediatrician into every home.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=68172 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=261928 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=39642 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=42290 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=203957 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=142756 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187399 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=262136