Relationships

"Intimate" Violence against Women

The yelling I could take ... the beating I could take ... the pain and blood I could take ... but when he would tell me that he didn't love me an…

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3 NBS of Julian Drew

In 3 NBs of Julian Drew, by James Deem, the title character is an abused teen boy so terrorized he can only communicate his true feelings in code.…

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Anxious Parents

This is a thoroughly intriguing and entertaining book. The author is the provost and professor of history at George Mason University. His great passion i…

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Be Honest--You're Not That Into Him Either

From the forward written by female author Amy Sohn (author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life), to the conclusi…

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Being the Other One

   Being the Other One illumines the world inhabited by siblings of children with "special needs" relating, particularly, to intellectua…

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Caring in Remembered Ways

Caring in Remembered Ways is very clearly a work of great meaning and personal commitment for the author. Davis created her own publishing company,…

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Coping With Difficult People

Some people spend thousands of dollars, and years on therapy to help deal with the vicissitudes of life.  Other people spend twenty dollars or so and thr…

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Dancing in My Nuddypants

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants is the fourth in the Georgia Nicolson series, and it sticks to the tried-and-tested formula. Georgia is a teen girl living in E…

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Erotic Passions

For those whose only goal is to sell books, choosing a universally exciting topic is a good first step. Sex, for example, never seems to go out of style. Th…

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Families Like Mine

There are now a number of books written for gay men and lesbians on parenthood.  You could fill more than a shelf with titles like The Gay and Lesbian…

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Family Bound

I once worked with a man who (along with his wife) adopted a little girl from China.  That is a close as I have ever come to observing the workings of ad…

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Family First

From the opening paragraphs of Phil McGraw's new audiobook Family First, he seems to identify with a conservative agenda.  He says that the most i…

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Fear of Intimacy

This book by Firestone and Catlett is about love and intimacy - our yearning for it and our fear of it. Those who are familiar with Firestone's earlier work…

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For Lesbian Parents

When I saw the posting on an e-mail list asking for a review for the new Johnson and O’Connor book on lesbian parenting, I immediately responded to…

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Gandhi's Way

What is a good fight? A successful resolution? Is there a non-aggressive alternative with the persuasive power of violence? These are just a few of the q…

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Getting the Love You Want

This book was originally published in 1988. Using his experience of thirty years as a therapist in the field of the "psychology of love", Dr. H…

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Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion

Listening to this Audio Companion to Getting the Love You Want makes me both wistful and wondering.  The basic assumptions of its authors are simp…

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How to Handle a Hard-To-Handle Kid

Oppositional and conduct disordered behaviors are considered serious childhood problems as they may result in poor academic achievement, and/or segregated p…

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How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can't

Both my professional and lay opinion on child raising/handling experts is normally very austere. ‘Politically correct’ aside, it is irresponsib…

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I Don't Know How She Does It

Kate Reddy and her husband Richard live in London and have two young children.  But Kate works in finance, as a hedge-fund manager (whatever that is…

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I'm OK, You're My Parents

Interviewing anyone about their parents is never a good idea, in my opinion. We could spend hours ranting and raving about our teen years, as well as our…

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Inside the American Couple

What does the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the President of the United States and a book on the American Couple have in common?  They each deal wi…

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Keeping Passion Alive

John Gray, PhD CFT``Keeping Passion Alive``Living Love Video Series ``Series Hosts: Jon Carlson Psy., Ed. & Pat Love Ed.D.``Video running time: 2 hours.``Distributed by Zeig, Tucker and Co. Publishers.````See the publisher's web page for this video series

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Lust in Translation

Despite what we have all heard, married folks in America are actually wildly monogamous. In 2004, only 3.9 % of married men and 3.1% of married women eng…

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Mom, Dad, I'm Gay.

In a discipline that all too often encourages unidimensional models of complex human phenomena, it is a pleasure to read psychologist Ritch Savin-William…

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Opening to Love 365 Days a Year

In this delightful work bestselling authors Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski, a husband-and-wife team and coauthors of The New Intimacy, help readers build a stronger relationship with their partners through heartfelt essays and life-changing affirmat

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Orgasms

Orgasms is a straightforward book about achieving sexual pleasure.  It has nine chapters and two appendices, covering topics such as myths about o…

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Passionate Marriage

This is not a "how-to" book on creating a passionate marriage. Rather, it is an insightful book which gives couples a guide to sexual fulfillment…

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Preventing Misbehavior in Children

With easy-to-read text, this book is also written in an easy-to-read style which down-to-Earth suggestions and strategies for helping parents cope with rais…

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Raising Kids in an Age of Terror

As a parent, and also as a grandparent, I can understand the feelings of the author in Raising Kids In An Age Of Terror.  Even though my "kid…

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Relationship Rescue

Phillip McGraw, better known now as TV's "Dr Phil," has a Texas forthrightness that will appeal to some and put others off.  He starts out R…

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Romantic Intelligence

I really enjoyed this book.  Although I failed the first chapter's Romantic Intelligence quiz miserably, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about what is reall…

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Spiritually Healing the Indigo Children (and Adult Indigos, Too!)

According to the authors over 80% of the children now born are Indigos and many of the parents and adults who pick up this book are Indigos too. Who and…

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Summer of the Skunks

Let me start this review by saving I'm in my 50's trying to put myself into the minds of a family of children ranging from age 16 down.  This was a chall…

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The Bastard on the Couch CD

The changing roles of men and women in the modern world are causing people much confusion.  The Bitch in the House was a best-selling collection o…

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The Educated Parent

Unlike most parenting books which present at best a mix of contradictory messages and conflicting advice, Sclafani offers a refreshing view with practica…

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The Guide for International Intercultural Couples and Families Intercultural Marriage

Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls by Dugan Romano - the best book available on international intercultural marriage - has been updated an…

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The Normal One

The effect of the illness, impairment, and difficult behavior of one person on his or her family is starting to gain more recognition.  Some have su…

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The Other Parent

Maybe it wasn't perfect to assign this book to a Brit for review.  James Steyer's book is so centred on US Media that any European is tempted to sa…

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The Psychology of Parental Control

To my mind child rearing has three important goals, the protection of the child's right to experience a childhood, the enjoyment by the parent of the won…

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The Spider and the Bee

The Spider and The Bee is a very small book for very small children, designed to help them understand that couples sometimes split up. They build…

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The Velveteen Father

Parenthood is a challenge in perpetuity. When Jesse Green falls in love with an older high school counselor who has recently adopted baby Erez (“a v…

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The Visitation Handbook

In the Preface to The Visitation Handbook, Brette McWhorter Sember, an attorney at law, calls this book, "two books in one."  It is a fl…

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Understanding Marriage

This was the last book written by the eminent philosopher and beekeeper, Richard Taylor, who died in October 2003 at the age of 83 after a nearly year-lo…

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When a Parent is Depressed

     This is an extraordinary book written by an extraordinary author. Beardslee shares with his readers the clinical insights he has gained during thirt…

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