The Bad Mother S Revenge

Author : Sonia Neale
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780730496847

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Bad Mother's Revenge by Sonia Neale Pdf

'Hello, you have reached the Bad Mothers Crisis Helpline. Your call is important to you. Your call may be monitored for Staff Entertainment purposes. Please choose an option from our options menu, or hold the line until one of our overpaid, single and childless staff members can be bothered to take your call.'It's not easy being a mother. In Bad Mother's Revenge Sonia Neale explains how most parenting books are really Weapons of Mass Deception, how the Dalai Lama would be a whole lot more impressive if he had to remain serene with three children in tow, and answers the eternal question, how many happy teenagers does it take to change a light bulb? (Answer: there's no such thing as a happy teenager.)A witty, original and frequently poignant look at motherhood, that isn't afraid to look at the dark side, as well as the joys, of being a mum.

Author : Sonia Neale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : IND:30000109196687

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The Bad Mother's Revenge by Sonia Neale Pdf

An original and hilarious take on motherhood from birth to the teenage years by desperate housewife and mother of three, Sonia Neale, who explains that children are irritating parasites who invade our homes and plunder our lives - and that somehow we still love and adore them more than life itself.

Author : Reiko Ohnuma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199915651

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Ties That Bind by Reiko Ohnuma Pdf

Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism, drawing on textual sources preserved in Pali and Sanskrit. She demonstrates that Buddhism in India had a complex and ambivalent relationship with mothers and motherhood-symbolically, affectively, and institutionally. Symbolically, motherhood was a double-edged sword, sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestation possible of attachment and suffering. On an affective level, too, motherhood was viewed with the same ambivalence: in Buddhist literature, warm feelings of love and gratitude for the mother's nurturance and care frequently mingle with submerged feelings of hostility and resentment for the unbreakable obligations thus created, and positive images of self-sacrificing mothers are counterbalanced by horrific depictions of mothers who kill and devour. Institutionally, the formal definition of the Buddhist renunciant as one who has severed all familial ties seems to co-exist uneasily with an abundance of historical evidence demonstrating monks' and nuns' continuing concern for their mothers, as well as other familial entanglements. Ohnuma's study provides critical insight into Buddhist depictions of maternal love and maternal grief, the role played by the Buddha's own mothers, Maya and Mahaprajapati, the use of pregnancy and gestation as metaphors for the attainment of enlightenment, the use of breastfeeding as a metaphor for the compassionate deeds of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and the relationship between Buddhism and motherhood as it actually existed in day-to-day life.

Author : Salman Akhtar,Henri Parens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765710147

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Revenge by Salman Akhtar,Henri Parens Pdf

Revenge: Narcissistic Injury, Rage, and Retaliation addresses the ubiquitous human wish to take revenge and settle scores. Featuring the contributions of eleven distinguished mental health professionals, it offers a panoramic and yet deep perspective on the real or imagined narcissistic injury that often underlies fantasies of revenge and the behavioral trait of vindictiveness. It describes various types of revenge and introduces the concept of a ‘good-enough revenge.’ Deftly blending psychoanalysis, ethology, religious studies, literary criticism, and clinical experience, the book goes a long way to enhance empathy with patients struggling with hurt, pain, and desires to get even with their tormentors. This volume is of great clinical value indeed!

Author : Isabelle Grey
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857386502

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The Bad Mother by Isabelle Grey Pdf

A pageturning, emotional read for fans of Linda Green and Jill Childs Are there secrets that should never be told? If so, how far must a mother go to keep them? Tessa Parker runs a successful B&B in a seaside town. During a surprise visit, a long-lost aunt lets slip a family secret with devastating consequences. Navigating her own turmoil at a crucial moment in her children's lives, Tessa's search for her birth father forces her to decide who she really wants to be. But now her son is missing. Has she left it too late to be a good mother? This ebook edition contains extra book club discussion questions penned by the author.

Author : Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134637881

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Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide by Rosine Jozef Perelberg Pdf

Perelberg is well known and respected psycotherapist and is associate editor of the NLP Very little has been written on violence, as opposed to aggression and very little clinical material has been published on violent patients. Very distinguished list of contributors

Author : Dragan Todorovic
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679313977

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The Book of Revenge by Dragan Todorovic Pdf

A darkly comic recollection of a country that no longer exists, and a lyrical examination of the importance of taking a stand when it counts. Set against a backdrop of horrific world events, this is narrative non-fiction at its best. To a young boy growing up poor but happy in an industrial town in Serbia, politics means many national holidays that result in parades, piglets roasting on a spit, and getting to see both his hard-working parents at the same time. An observant child, Dragan Todorovic quickly learns the power of words. Even before he can read or write, he is mesmerized by the squiggles made by the grownups around him and diligently recreates them in the notebooks he carries with him always. He also learns that reciting naughty limericks usually yields some chocolate. This love of words eventually takes Dragan to Belgrade, as editor for a cultural magazine. He hopes to inspire and support the young and innovative artists of the time, but soon discovers that naughty articles do not yield the same results as limericks, and he finds himself constantly clashing with the system. His many questions get only one answer: he is drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling. Everything is changing, rapidly. Friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, nothing is as it seems. Bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Filled with great characters and poignant and often hilarious stories, The Book of Revenge is a superb duet of a citizen and his country, a universal exploration of just what it is that inoculates the human spirit from dangerous ideologies and toxic nationalism.

Author : Jane Swigart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0380718065

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The Myth of the Bad Mother by Jane Swigart Pdf

Author : Donald Campbell,Rob Hale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317552147

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Working in the Dark by Donald Campbell,Rob Hale Pdf

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors’ understanding of an individual’s pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment. The book explores how to listen to a suicidal individual’s history, the nature of their primary relationships and their conscious and unconscious communications. Campbell and Hale address the searing emotional impact on relatives, friends and those involved with a person who tries to kill themself, by offering advice on the management of a suicide attempt and how to follow up in the aftermath. Establishing key concepts such as suicide fantasy and pre-suicidal states in adolescents, the book illustrates the pre-suicide state of mind through clinical vignettes, case studies, reflections from those in recovery and discussions with professionals. Working in the Dark will be of interest to social workers, probation officers, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and doctors who work with those who have attempted suicide or are about to do so.

Author : Stephen Briggs,Alessandra Lemma,William Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135250133

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Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide by Stephen Briggs,Alessandra Lemma,William Crouch Pdf

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy. This powerful critique of current thinking suggests that suicide and self-harm must be understood as having meaning within interpersonal and intrapsychic relationships, offering a new and more hopeful dimension for prevention and recovery. Divided into three sections, the book includes: a theoretical overview examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention. Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide will be helpful to psychoanalytic therapists, analysts and mental health professionals wanting to integrate psychoanalytic ideas into their work with self-harmers and the suicidal. This text will also be of use to academics and professionals involved in suicidal prevention.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781412056069

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An Awakening to Awareness of Our Humanity by John Foster Pdf

When in 1953 the structure of DNA was eventually mapped and bio-technology started to take over from philosophy in its understanding of what it is to be human, the personal became highly important in seeking a solution to the pressing problems in a modern, dynamic society. Once it was established that the building blocks of all life on this earth were the pairs of chromosomes on the DNA double helix and that the DNA segment of each human being was unique to that individual, then the authentic way forward was to respect and value this uniqueness and to promote and develop it. Human differentiation is as staggering as the trillions of millions of stars in the heavens and a unique inheritance. Here is to hand a new contemporary language, the language of genetics, to relate science to faith. Here is a human language born out of science to equip faith to communicate with it at a time when the communication lines are down and science and faith with their rival anthropologies cannot speak to one another. Suddenly gospel texts begin to be understood in a new way: "the hairs of your head are all numbered". The underlying themes of the Bible, creation, inheritance, universal relatedness, common humanity, begin to be appreciated in a new, personal and immediate way. Abraham, the father of faith, was called out of the comfort and security of the known into the unknown, to a land without maps. He never returned to the Oaks of Mambre. So too, genetics tells us that human existence is precarious and uncertain. Humanity took an evolutionary leap forward in discovering its true value and glory as the bringer of order in an otherwise random nature, and so we continue in history to move towards our eschatological future and the land of promise.

Author : Joseph H. Berke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429924026

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Why I Hate You and You Hate Me by Joseph H. Berke Pdf

'Man' himself is the source of the dark forces against which he is constantly struggling. The book shows how is possible to transcend this basic malice by knowing how, what, why and when it arises. Envy, greed, jealousy and narcissism (the flip side of envy) are the essential components of the negative side of the self. Their positive counterparts are gratitude, generosity and compassion. Each element does not exist in isolation from the other. The interplay of these forces of hate and love create the underlying structure of our lives, which on a personal level is called "character" and on the social level is called "culture". When malice predominates the result is murder and mayhem, vandalism and war. This encompasses the blind butchery of our environment and fellow creatures which permeates so many areas of the world, such as Libya, Ireland, Congo, Cambodia, or central London during recent demonstrations. This study will focus on the negative or angry constituents of the personality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848880443

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Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine by Anonim Pdf

Evil. Women. The Feminine. The relationships that bring together these three ideas form the basis for the papers gathered together in this volume. By asking how, why, when, and to what purpose these three terms are often linked serves as the starting point of interrogation for each of the authors here considered.

Author : Elizabeth Podnieks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780773539792

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Mediating Moms by Elizabeth Podnieks Pdf

Women's studies, cultural studies.

Author : David J. Halperin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271040523

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Seeking Ezekiel by David J. Halperin Pdf

In Seeking Ezekiel, David J. Halperin argues that the biblical Book of Ezekiel provides substantial information about its author's psychology and reveals his personality in considerable depth. Psychoanalytic investigation of the book yields a coherent portrait of its author: a marvelously gifted yet profoundly disturbed man, tormented by inner conflicts over his sexual longings and fears. Ezekiel, Halperin argues, was dominated by a pathological dread and loathing of female sexuality. He expresses this emotional stance in the symbolic language of dreams (his vision of a temple polluted by idolatry); in a thin disguise of historical allegory (his obscenely graphic representations of Israel and Jerusalem as promiscuous wives); and in his self-described behavior at his wife's death. Ezekiel also demonstrates a deeply ambivalent attitude toward a dominant male figure. Normally, he projects the positive elements of his ambivalence onto his God, its negative elements onto other males. Yet the reverse can also take place, and this does much to explain the disturbing cruelty and arbitrariness of Ezekiel's God. Any psychological study of a man dead for 2500 years will run into formidable methodological difficulties. Halperin establishes the legitimacy of his approach by arguing that it permits the solution of a wide range of long-recognized textual problems. The implications of Halperin's study extend far beyond the boundaries of Biblical scholarship. The sexual pathology that he attributes to Ezekiel has afflicted humanity for most of its history, tainting the relations of men and women the world over. Ezekiel's powerful influence on posterity has done its part in strengthening the grip of this pathology. By understanding Ezekiel, people may come to a better understanding of his sickness within themselves and thus eventually come to find healing.