Product Description: The Twenty-Four Carat Buddha is a collection of original fairy tales set in imaginary space and time but with a piercing relevance for modern life. Each story follows a hero or heroine on a quest of self-discovery, a quest that sometimes ends with a new challenge, sometimes with a hopeful awakening, and sometimes with a painful and unanticipated realization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mental health practitioners are becoming increasingly aware that they are encountering a very large number of men and women who are survivors of sexual and physical abuse. This volume identifies the essential elements necessary for a system to begin to integrate an understanding about trauma into its core service programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Although a substantial amount of media and professional attention has been devoted to the incidence of sexual abuse in the population at large, the plight of those who have suffered abuse and are seriously mentally ill has largely been ignored...read more

Based on interviews with scores of people and her own experience as a clinical psychologist, the author traces the lasting effect of the premature death of one's parents on all aspects of one's life

Product Description: The 26 women who tell their stories here were incarcerated against their will, often by male family members, for holding views or behaving in ways that deviated from the norms of their day. The authors' accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals the degree to which the prevailing societal conventions could reinforce the perception that these women were "mad"...read more

Explores our culture's idealized images of women, showing how they help determine how women lead their lives and offering alternate themes for life's stages that help break down these confining idealized sterotypes

Product Description: A study of the conflicting messages & expectations that fill women s lives, such as the Faithful Wife, Good Daughter, & Wise Old Women. Explains how women who hide behind the safety & predictability of idealized roles find their individuality obscured by the images that dictate what they should want & how they should live their lives, define their relationships, & raise their children...read more

Product Description: Argues that homeless women embody aspects of femininity that are denied by society and suppressed by women, and discusses the psychological role the homeless play in the lives of all women