Product Description: In her long career as a psychotherapist, acclaimed author Lillian Rubin occasionally encountered patients who demanded a very special, even unorthodox, therapeutic approach. For the first time, Dr. Rubin tells the stories of her most fascinating, most challenging cases from the other side of the couch, focusing not just on the patient, but on her own inner process as she confronts the issues each case raises...read more

Product Description: Dr. Lillian Rubin's tenth book examines the lives of women as they grow from daughters into mothers and move on into the intimidating territory of old age. Tangled Lives uses pivotal events from Lillian Rubin's own life-her mother's passing, her own dramatic brush with death, her daughter's illness, and her seventy-fifth birthday-to illuminate the powerful influence the mother-daughter bond has on a woman's identity, and the profound changes that come with aging...read more

Collects the triumphant stories of people from diverse backgrounds who have overcome painful childhoods through strength and determination in order to live satisfying adult lives

Product Description: An up-close and intimate look inside the lives, hearts, and minds of America's working-class families.

Entries provide information on specific plants and plant types, germination, environments, related careers, genetic engineering, and biographies of such natural scientists as George Washington Carver and Luther Burbank.

The classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class family life by a renowned sociologist, psychotherapist, and bestselling author."One of the most devastating critiques of contemporary American life that I have read."--Michael B. Katz Professor of History, York University"This is a sensitive and compassionate portrayal of childhood, marriage, and adult life among the hard-working not-quite poor. It is an important contribution to our understanding of ourselves."--Robert S. Weiss, author of "Marital Separation" (view table of contents)

Uses the lives of real people to discuss what those between age thirteen and forty-eight feel about their sexuality and how those attitudes have changed over the years

Explains the psychological and developmental factors in the difference between women and men and their effects on adult relationships, discussing intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, parenting, and other crucial issues of being together

Examining Bernard Goetz's past and childhood experiences, this study traces the forces and events that led to the 1984 New York subway shootings of four teenagers and discusses the sociological implication of the act