A clinical psychologist and award-winning author of Becoming Attached offers a profound and thoughtful exploration of the nature of forgiveness and assesses its significance in terms of how we live our lives, define ourselves, promote long-term relationships, and shape human society. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Product Description: The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children--seemingly against our will--the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached, psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental and fascinating questions of emotional life...read more

Through analyses of fictitious case studies, the author demonstrates how conflicts of power develop in relationships and explains how to equalize power by breaking self-defeating habits and strategies for self-help

The film editor responsible for editing Annie Hall, The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and other successful films, describes the challenges, frustrations, and triumphs of this crucial but rarely appreciated art