Within The Wall Of Denial

Author : Robert J. Kearney
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393702101
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within the Wall of Denial written by Robert J. Kearney and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denial is a natural process, a form of self-protection. It is a wall built layer by layer to shelter us from pain and frightful truths. It is a psychological defense that is as normal as flinching. Within the Wall of Denial shows how this valuable, instinctive reaction can become rigid and maladaptive. Retreat behind its protection can isolate people in their pain, alienate those around them, and facilitate the development of diseases, from addiction to heart disease. It precludes seeking professional help and thus blocks early diagnosis and treatment. It contributes to treatment failure and sets up the newly recovering addict to relapse. Those who suffer from such disorders retreat behind their wall of denial, and thus often seem unaware of the chaos around them. They behave as if there is no problem; they minimize it, make excuses, or just seem unwilling or unable to take effective action. The people who love and depend on them begin to need protection; they build walls of their own. Their "enabling" or "co-dependent" behavior is also addressed in this book. Kearney presents a fresh perspective on the nature and function of denial. He describes each layer in the wall of denial, including denial of fact, implications, change, and finally denial of feelings, in language so remarkably clear that the reader can quickly realize what it is like to be on either side. He then offers an innovative approach for working with people caught in denial that bridges the contrasting techniques of confrontation and support. Empathic and tough, Kearney demonstrates how to gain clients' trust so that the wall of denial can be dismantled layer by layer.

Author : E. Summerson Carr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691144504
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripting Addiction written by E. Summerson Carr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs? To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments, individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script." As a clinical ethnography, Scripting Addiction examines how decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic transactions--and by extension administrative routines and institutional dynamics--at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings."

Author : Brian M. Lowe
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109809
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Moral Vocabularies written by Brian M. Lowe and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central observation of the social sciences has been that the modern age is one of constant change. This change has resulted in the emergence of new moral and ethical claims and understandings, which author Brian M. Lowe refers to as "moral vocabularies." Lowe skillfully seeks to explain conditions under which certain moral vocabularies are more likely to gain acceptance in the wider host society. By focusing on the animal rights and tobacco control movements, this absorbing work explores the process of moralization and the fragmentary nature of the emergence of new forms of moral and ethical meanings within the wider host society. Emerging Moral Vocabularies challenges the broad assertion that Western post-industrial societies are inevitably becoming more individualistic and self-centered, and instead encourages scholars to examine emerging forms of moral and ethical meanings, which create new moral boundaries. Book jacket.

Author : Sydna Masse
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9781434768728
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Choice to Heal written by Sydna Masse and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Choice to Heal guides women through post-abortion healing by sharing personal stories and offering practical tools, compassionate support, and hope in Christ.

Author : Debra Fileta
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736973389
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Marriage written by Debra Fileta and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Marriage Worth it? Many couples say "I do" with a combination of high hopes and fairy tale fantasies—but there's a difference between the expectations of marriage and the reality of what marriage holds. Whether you're married, single, or dating, now is the time to ask yourself: What steps can I take today to build an incredible marriage for tomorrow? With compassion and clarity, licensed counselor and relationship expert Debra Fileta shows that when we can work through the struggles of marriage, we get to experience the joys! Learn about eight powerful choices that will encourage and equip you to take your marriage from average to exceptional and find astonishing survey results from thousands of singles and couples on topics like love and attraction, sex, conflict, and communication. A beautiful exchange occurs when you learn what it means to choose we before me. Discover practical steps that will give you confidence and courage on the adventure of Choosing Marriage.

Author : Dubravka Zarkov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 331904057X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Justice In and Out of the Courtroom written by Dubravka Zarkov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the dynamic relations between the contemporary practices of international criminal tribunals and the ways in which competing histories, politics and discourses are re-imagined and re-constructed in the former Yugoslavia and beyond. There are two innovative aspects of the book - one is the focus on narratives of justice and their production, another is in its comparative perspective. While legal scholars have tended to analyze transitional justice and the international war tribunals in terms of their success or failure in establishing the facts of war crimes, this volume goes beyond mere facts and investigates how the courts create a symbolic space within which competing narratives of crimes, perpetrators and victims are produced, circulated and contested. It analyzes how international criminal law and the courts gather, and in turn produce, knowledge about societies in war, their histories and identities, and their relations to the wider world. Moreover, the volume situates narratives of transitional justice in former Yugoslavia both within specific national spaces - such as Serbia, and Bosnia - and beyond the Yugoslav. In this way it also considers experiences from other countries and other times (post-World War II) to offer a sounding board for re-thinking the meanings of transitional justice and institutions within former Yugoslavia. Included in the volume's coverage is a look at the Rwandan tribunals, the trials of Charles Taylor, Radovan Karadzic, the Srebrenica genocide, and other war crimes and criminals in the Yugoslav. Finally, it frames all of those narratives and experiences within the global dynamics of legal, social and geo-political transformations, making it an excellent resource for social science researchers, human rights activists, those interested in the former Yugoslavia and international relations, and legal scholars.

Author : Pinki Virani
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140298970
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitter Chocolate written by Pinki Virani and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that challenges our notions of family honour and morality Sometime, somewhere, the conspiracy of silence around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Indian homes had to be shattered. This path-breaking book"the first of its kind in the country and subcontinent"attempts to give that sexually abused child a powerful voice. It provides damning disclosures about men, and some women, in middle and upper-class families who sexually abuse their children, then silence them into submission. Based on studies, reports and investigation, this book reveals that a minimum of twenty per cent of girls and boys under the age of sixteen are regularly being sexually abused; half of them in their own homes, by adults who have the child's trust. In Bitter Chocolate, journalist and best-selling author Pinki Virani travels across the country to record the testimonies of the police, doctors, child psychologists, mental health professionals, social workers, lawyers and the traumatized victims themselves. The book opens with an account"brave and devoid of self-pity"of the author's own experience. Going beyond blaming, Pinki Virani then proceeds with her insightful analysis of the issue in three notebooks. The first spells out what constitutes CSA, why and how this happens, its devastating after-effects which haunt the victims as they grow into adulthood. The second notebook describes these effects through two real-life stories of women who were betrayed as children by men of their family. The third provides practical solutions on how to counter CSA, including a framework involving the law, the parent and their child. A special chapter addresses adults who have never before disclosed their sexual abuse as children. Plus: a nationally coordinated helpline. Accessible yet comprehensive, Bitter Chocolate is written for the young parent and guardian, principal and teacher, judge and police, lawyer and public prosecutor, teenager and tomorrow's citizen.

Author : Larry Hart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532605471
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annunciation written by Larry Hart and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annunciation is an in-depth look at how the Christian message can be communicated in a way that is comprehensible to the postmodern world and yet remain within the classical faith.

Author : Steven Arthur Collier Ph.D.
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977267254
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way OF VEGETARIANISM, SELFHOOD, AND THE BEYOND written by Steven Arthur Collier Ph.D. and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Expansion of Consciousness. From the very onset penetrating psychological/spiritual/physical principles are woven together here for the facilitation of the most important expedition of your life, ... your journey within, ... your AWAKENING!

Author : Andy Aledort
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495051714
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play like Stevie Ray Vaughan written by Andy Aledort and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones and techniques that made Stevie Ray Vaughan a legend. Each book comes with a unique code that will give you access to audio files of all the music in the book online. This pack looks at 15 of Vaughan's most influential songs including: Couldn't Stand the Weather * Honey Bee * Love Struck Baby * Pride and Joy * Scuttle Buttin' * Texas Flood * Tightrope * and more.