"What you need is a good woman." That was my mother's consistent counsel from the time I didn't get asked to play on the neighborhood little league team to when Donna and I broke up in high school. "What you need is a good woman, Don." I believed my mother when she said it. I didn't walk around on a daily basis and repeat the mantra of the good wife, but I did take it to heart. It wasn't until I got married that I realized that although I had a good woman, life wasn't getting easier or mor...

Living in a difficult or dying marriage is hard. Going through a divorce feels like torture, as if one's heart is being suffocated in their chest. Confusion, fear, anxiety, and worry take up each waking (and sometimes sleeping) hour of the day. Dying, many days, seems preferable to living. But God loves his people so much, he's not only given them the information in the Bible, of where our marital problems are coming from and how to address them, but he also put Jesus through the same and ...

Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy is a delightful story about a loving relationship between two young children and their grandparents. Bean and Charlie spend a week with their grandparents each summer. They especially enjoy listening to Papa's stories. One afternoon, Bean asks Papa to tell a story about when he was a little boy. Papa's story has an unexpected surprise as he shares about a life-changing lesson he learned from two dogs, an annoying little girl, and Psalm 23:6.

Find out what Emma's Lustful Master has in store for her???? She is a Virgin and will do anything to pleasure and please HIM....

First published in 1985. The event model presented in this study, attempts a framework for integrating psychoanalytic and Piagetian psychologies centered in the notion that development occurs by the differentiation of self and nonself. Its aim is to understand phenomena conceptualized in psychoanalytic terms in a model based on this Piagetian perspective, or, in other words, to provide an object-relational model for the development of psychic structure analytic and Piagetian psychologies c...

Sarah Jones is a beautiful but buttoned up Insurance Claims Processor who refrains from social interactions and stays late at the office to work after everyone has gone home. Mysterious and alluring, Ms. Jones captures her male colleague's attention, and he begins to spy on her after hours to discover her secret. It doesn't take long before the truth is revealed: Ms. Jones is a superheroine! Our protagonist becomes even more enraptured by her, and begins to fantasize about fulfilling his u...

Maintaining a relationship is hard enough without the added challenges of your partner’s bipolar disorder symptoms. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage mood swings and impulsive actions, allowing you to finally focus on enjoying your relationship while also taking time for yourself. This book explains the symptoms of your partner’s disorder and offers strategies for preventing them and responding t...

Engaging case studies drawn from the real-world practice of a diverse group of experts bring DSM-5-TRto life in this exhaustive new volume. Designed to familiarize undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students in psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and psychiatric nursing with the diagnosis of psychopathology, this guide is equally useful for experienced clinicians seeking to improve their understanding of the new concepts and terminology in DSM-5-TR.Organized acc...

A rash of political deaths alerts a New York cop to an international assassination plotAt a crime scene, Harry Golding has no fear. But put him in front of a few dozen undergraduates, and he begins to sweat. He agrees to give the lecture on criminology for his brother, a New York University professor, and muddles through it, successful until it comes time for questions. A skinny young conspiracy theorist demands to know what the police are doing about the recent de...

After serving ten years in prison for dealing cocaine, a crime she swears she didn't commit, Casey Cavendish returns to the small college town of Oberlin, Ohio determined to clear her name, finish her interrupted college degree, and build a new life. Her arrival coincides with an upsurge in drugs on campus. When her erstwhile best friend Jules, who married Casey's old love while she was in prison, is found dead from an overdose of cocaine and alcohol in the cellar of the Drinking Gourd, an...

As the Red Scare grips America, a midwestern literature professor becomes an unlikely hero in the struggle for freedomProfessor Silas Timberman has never been one for theatrics. A quiet American literature professor at a mid-sized college, Timberman decides to build a semester's course around the democratic ideals of Mark Twain—a subject that under normal circumstances would not arouse the suspicions of the university administration. But as the Korean War rages on ...

Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research to fill these gaps, Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force and its disorder-specific workgroups, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these three areas.Here, 47 experts present findings in thr...