This volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the subjects were elders. Based on extensive face to face interview material, enduring psychological and symptomatic effects were evident. Survivors retained vivid recollections of the horror of internment and expressed ongoing grief for the multiple losses they had experienced. Unresolved grief contributed to a sense of existential loneliness, part...

Predator in the Pews is the story of Coras three year journey of faith after being manipulated by a pseudo Man of God who robbed Cora of her dignity and money. After a twenty-year marriage that ended in divorce, Cora found herself alone, caring for three children, and searching for her lifes purpose and destiny. While on this journey, she met a man who, in the beginning, helped her to jump-start a total life change but, in the end, manipulated her into believing that he loved her, all the ...

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes ev...

The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot testNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Post • Sunday Times (UK) • Irish IndependentIn 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while ...

**In this landmark work, a preeminent scholar establishes a revolutionary model for understanding and treating trauma survivors“One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” ―New York Times**Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and politica...

A middle-grade adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestseller with an eight-page photo insert—including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew!Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers with his story of courage and love. Abandoned in a library book drop slot in the dead of winter, this remarkable kitten miraculously endured the coldest night of the year. Dewey Readmore Books,...

RV Living: Living For Tomorrow, by author Michael Williams, is a short book that gives some insight about the camper living lifestyle. It gives some examples of how you can save money to one day buy that house of your dreams. It will hopefully give you some ideas to think about if your considering some alternatives to the costly style you may be living now.RV Living: Living For Tomorrow, will hopefully give you some thoughts if your looking to get out on your own for the first time ...

She never expected to be a minister's wife. And the life she discovered was more challenging—and more beautiful—than she could have anticipated.We all wrestle with tough questions about life and faith, and Karen Stiller has learned that answers don't come any easier when you're married to the minister. What does it mean to live faithfully in our complicated world? Is there a place here for me—the real me? What does everyone expect of me, and what if I fail?...

An award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil “a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil” (New York Times).How can we explain both cruelty and kindness? To award-winning psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the explanation for cruelty is low levels of empathy, and the explanation for kindness is high levels of empathy. In The Science of Evil, Baron-Cohen draws on decades of research to develop a new, brai...

What are you agreeing to when you say “I do”?When a couple promises “I do,” they agree to more than just a shared last name, a joint bank account, and no more dateless nights. This husband and wife duo forms a new team. “Life together” becomes their mantra. Nothing can come between them. At least, that’s the plan.But then real life sets in, bringing with it disappointments and frustrations. If the couple isn’t intentional in their day-to-day interactions, t...

This e-book is about how I was robbed of my money and my mental stability by the auto mechanic industry. My self esteem and quality of life was robbed by a few mechanics who really were only out for profits. In this ebook I share my experience and give good sound advice on what I think you as a consumer should do before choosing a mechanic this book is enlightening.By reading my story if my help you gain a better understand of what not to do when it comes to letting folks work on y...

A comprehensive study of the dysfunctional thinking that results in destructive behavior, as well as suggestions for remedying these problems.World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Aaron T. Beck, widely hailed as the father of cognitive therapy, presents a revolutionary and eye-opening look at destructive behavior in Prisoners of Hate. He applies his established principles on the relationships between thinking processes and emotional and behavioral expressions to...