Leaving Home

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231134774

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Relinquishing family attachments that failed to meet childhood needs is the most difficult task individuals can undertake as they grow into adulthood. Leaving Home not only emphasizes the life-saving benefits of separating from toxic parents but also offers a viable program for personal emancipation. David P. Celani centers his program on Object Relations Theory, a branch of psychoanalysis developed by Scottish analyst Ronald Fairbairn. The human personality, Fairbairn argued, is not the result of inherited (and thus immutable) instincts. Rather, the developing child builds internal relational templates rooted in conscious and unconscious memories he internalized in childhood, and these guide his future interactions with others. While an attachment to neglectful or even abusive parents is not uncommon, there is a way out. Eloquent, relatable, and filled with rich examples taken from more than two decades of clinical practice, Leaving Home outlines the practical steps necessary to become a healthy adult.

Author : Elizabeth Janeway
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0935312730

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   First published in 1953, this novel is the absorbing story of three siblings from an upper middle-class family in Brooklyn who must make the transition to independent adult life during the depression years 1933 to 1940. Just out of Vassar, Nina rides the sweaty subways to her publishing job in Manhattan before resigning to conventional wife-and motherhood in the suburbs. Kermit, sarcastic, manipulative, and frustrated by his own youth, blisters at being a Columbia day student, and grapples for escape and detachment. Pretty, vulnerable Marion rebounds from an impossible affair to make and impulsive and happy love match. Praising then novel. the New York Times Book Review called it "a delight to read, and even re-read, for its subtle, ironic implications." Today, the story remians impressively rich in the emotional detail of the trauma and excitement of leaving home.

Author : David French
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780887849060

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David French's first play is a classic in Canadian drama. The first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series, Leaving Home tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in the world. Leaving Home was named one of the 100 Most Influential Canadian Books by the Literary Review of Canada.

Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307431363

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At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Françoise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who offers Emma a glimpse into a turbulent life so different from her own. In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home.

Author : Arathi Menon
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781509803170

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Leaving Home with Half a Fridge by Arathi Menon Pdf

What happens when you realize you have kissed the wrong frog? Do you stop kissing, find another frog or learn how to live without one? Leaving Home with Half a Fridge is a heart-warming tale of one woman's journey - about how she handled the dissolution of her marriage and her subsequent life as a singleton. The book follows the breakdbreakdown of the marriage, her decision to get a divorce, the trauma of doing so, depression and finally overcoming it all to become a stronger, happier person. Written with much wit, wisdom and warmth, here is a memoir which anybody who has loved and lost will relate to.

Author : Blyth Festival Theatre Archives (University of Guelph),David French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:828037656

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Author : David French
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780887846663

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This is David French's first play and the first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series. Leaving Home tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in the world. Nominated for the Chalmers Award, Leaving Home is a classic in Canadian drama.

Author : Art Buchwald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786201584

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This is a surprising memoir of growing up the hard way. In 1948, a streetwise twenty-three year old with a smart mouth and three years in the Marines sets off for Paris to seek fame and fortune. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101644706

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In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.

Author : Edwina Currie
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849544375

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She's Leaving Home by Edwina Currie Pdf

Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and confused. She is also in love - like every Merseyside schoolgirl - with four mop-topped young men, seduced by the Cavern Club and the exciting sound of 1963. In the year The Beatles have the world at their feet, Helen dreams secretly of reaching university and leaving Liverpool. Her Liverpool. Her world. For a grammar school girl to even consider a future outside the city is to break taboos stronger than the Mersey undertow, and as the prospect of a place at Oxbridge shimmers into view, Helen knows she is restrained by the very forces of stability she longs to escape. But when love intervenes - with Michael Levison, a locally stationed US serviceman - Helen finds the means to break the chains of the old life, and her guide through the hidden dangers of the new...

Author : Bud Hunton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781796041866

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Leaving Home by Bud Hunton Pdf

Leaving Home gives an example of how to succeed in life when getting started can be difficult without a support system. Once established as a motivated individual, anyone can pursue a career of their choice, travel the world, and enjoy life in general. Bud’s travels took him to a dozen different countries where he experienced various cultural differences and similarities. As an educator, there were ample opportunities to share his experience and knowledge with students and other educators. Starting your life without the benefit of at least a high school education can present a challenge to young folks; however, perseverance in making personal improvements can make a major difference in how we spend our later years. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” (anonymous).

Author : David French
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780887849077

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Of the Fields, Lately by David French Pdf

A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973.

Author : William Shaw
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782064183

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A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw Pdf

FREE LOVE. DEADLY PRICE. 'Big treat in store for fans. And if you're not a fan yet, why not?' Val McDermid 'A first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties' C. J. Sansom The Runaway A nameless young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley on Abbey Road. The Reject DS Cathal Breen, an outcast in the Marylebone CID, struggles to make sense of the case. The Rookie Until new recruit WPC Helen Tozer - the first woman to join the team - makes a breakthrough. And as hippies slam doors in their face, and locals suspect the new African neighbours, Breen and Tozer tread down a perilous path, closing in on a cruel conspiracy that goes far beyond class, colour and creed.

Author : Jay Haley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134867585

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Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the therapist support system, the first interview, apathy, troublemaking, a heroin problem, a chronic case, and resolved and unresolved issues. Visit www.haley-therapies.com for additional resources by Jay Haley, including live videos of the pioneering therapist in action.

Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400095650

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At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Françoise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who offers Emma a glimpse into a turbulent life so different from her own. In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home.