"The authors argue that the family is now in crisis and at a turning point toward either vitality or debilitation. As such, this text addresses the status and fate of the family; extreme suffering produced by divorce and the pathologies associated with children who receive inade…
Furnishes a guide to the personal and medical choices that patients and their families must make following a life-threatening diagnosis, offering advice on how to respond to the crisis, from making decisions about treatment to navigating the health-care maze.
Furnishes a guide to the personal and medical choices that patients and their families must make following a life-threatening diagnosis, offering advice on how to respond to the crisis, from making decisions about treatment to navigating the health-care maze.
Furnishes a guide to the personal and medical choices that patients and their families must make following a life-threatening diagnosis, offering advice on how to respond to the crisis, from making decisions about treatment to navigating the health-care maze.
"In the tradition of Mary Karr's 'The Liars' Club' and Rick Bragg's 'All Over But the Shouting,' Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father a…
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man wh…
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father an…
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man wh…
Author David Sheff offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with--and triumphs over--drug abuse. "Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnes…
Author David Sheff offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with--and triumphs over--drug abuse. -- Provided by publisher
Author David Sheff offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with--and triumphs over--drug abuse. "Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnes…
Blindness, or with eyes wide shut -- Distortions, or it's all for the best! -- Insight through therapy : to see or not to see -- Making therapy work, or practice what you preach -- Homeostatic messages, or don't rock the boat! -- Lack of authenticity, or keep a stiff upper lip -…
