"Intimate" Violence against Women
"Intimate" Violence against WomenThe 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…
3 NBS of Julian Drew
3 NBS of Julian DrewIn 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.…
Anxious Parents
Anxious ParentsThis is a thoroughly intriguing and entertaining book. The author is the provost and professor of history at George Mason University. His great passion i…
Be Honest--You're Not That Into Him Either
Be Honest--You're Not That Into Him EitherFrom 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 OneBeing the Other One illumines the world inhabited by siblings of children with "special needs" relating, particularly, to intellectua…
Caring in Remembered Ways
Caring in Remembered WaysCaring in Remembered Ways is very clearly a work of great meaning and personal commitment for the author. Davis created her own publishing company,…
Coping With Difficult People
Coping With Difficult PeopleSome 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…
Dancing in My Nuddypants
Dancing in My NuddypantsDancing 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…
Erotic Passions
Erotic PassionsFor 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…
Families Like Mine
Families Like MineThere 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…
Family Bound
Family BoundI 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…
Family First
Family FirstFrom 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…
Fear of Intimacy
Fear of IntimacyThis 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…
For Lesbian Parents
For Lesbian ParentsWhen 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…
Gandhi's Way
Gandhi's WayWhat 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…
Getting the Love You Want
Getting the Love You WantThis 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…
Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion
Getting the Love You Want Audio CompanionListening 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
How to Handle a Hard-To-Handle KidOppositional and conduct disordered behaviors are considered serious childhood problems as they may result in poor academic achievement, and/or segregated p…
How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can't
How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can'tBoth 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
I Don't Know How She Does ItKate 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…
I'm OK, You're My Parents
I'm OK, You're My ParentsInterviewing 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…
Inside the American Couple
Inside the American CoupleWhat 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…
Keeping Passion Alive
Keeping Passion AliveJohn 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
Lust in Translation
Lust in TranslationDespite 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…
Mom, Dad, I'm Gay.
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…
Opening to Love 365 Days a Year
Opening to Love 365 Days a YearIn 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
Orgasms
OrgasmsOrgasms is a straightforward book about achieving sexual pleasure. It has nine chapters and two appendices, covering topics such as myths about o…
Passionate Marriage
Passionate MarriageThis 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…
Raising Kids in an Age of Terror
Raising Kids in an Age of TerrorAs 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…
Relationship Rescue
Relationship RescuePhillip 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…
Romantic Intelligence
Romantic IntelligenceI really enjoyed this book. Although I failed the first chapter's Romantic Intelligence quiz miserably, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about what is reall…
Spiritually Healing the Indigo Children (and Adult Indigos, Too!)
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
Summer of the SkunksLet 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…
The Bastard on the Couch CD
The Bastard on the Couch CDThe 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…
The Educated Parent
The Educated ParentUnlike most parenting books which present at best a mix of contradictory messages and conflicting advice, Sclafani offers a refreshing view with practica…
The Guide for International Intercultural Couples and Families Intercultural Marriage
The Guide for International Intercultural Couples and Families Intercultural MarriageIntercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls by Dugan Romano - the best book available on international intercultural marriage - has been updated an…
The Normal One
The Normal OneThe 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…
The Other Parent
The Other ParentMaybe 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…
The Psychology of Parental Control
The Psychology of Parental ControlTo 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…
The Spider and the Bee
The Spider and the BeeThe 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…
The Velveteen Father
The Velveteen FatherParenthood 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…
The Visitation Handbook
The Visitation HandbookIn the Preface to The Visitation Handbook, Brette McWhorter Sember, an attorney at law, calls this book, "two books in one." It is a fl…
Understanding Marriage
Understanding MarriageThis 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…
When a Parent is Depressed
When a Parent is DepressedThis is an extraordinary book written by an extraordinary author. Beardslee shares with his readers the clinical insights he has gained during thirt…