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Voices of Pain & Voices of Hope: Students Speak About Racism
by Jerome Rabow
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company; ISBN: 0787298255 Our Price: $16.95  

Praise for Voices of Pain & Voices of Hope
Professor Jerome Rabow has put together an extremely valuable book which demonstrates that, despite much progress since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, racism in its many guises is still alive.  In addition to the convincing evidence for the persistence of this long standing America dilemma, Voices of Pain and Voices of Hope provides a method for dealing with the problem.  College courses in which students express their individual experiences with racism  both orally and in writing  become the place for meaningful dialogue in which real attitude change takes place.  The many quotations from students, give a convincing first-hand feel for the problem as well as demonstrating the process of confrontation with prejudicial attitudes in their living form.  An impressive and psychologically insightful work.
-- Louis Breger, Ph.D Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies, Emeritus at California Institute of Technology, founding president of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, author of Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision (Wiley & Sons, 2000)

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Tutoring Matters: Everything You Always 
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by Jerome Rabow, Tiffani Chin, Nima Fahimian
Temple Univ Press; ISBN: 1566396964 
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Dr. Rabow:  This book will help you get out of yourself and help you discover how much you have to offer another person but especially a child.  It will help you overcome your fears of working with children who are very different from you in terms of race, religion or ethnicity.  It will help you build a self that is large and connected to others.

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1. The Quiet Voice of Soul : How to Find Meaning in Ordinary Life  
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3. Keeping the Love You Find : A Guide for Singles
by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671734202

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Synopsis: A guide to holding onto love shows readers how to meet the challenges of a new relationship, avoid making the same mistakes, deal with emotional issues, and improve their odds. Reprint.

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4. That's Not a Fault... It's a Character Trait  
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In "That's Not a Fault...It's a Character Trait," author Abraham J. Twerski uses the Peanuts gang to illustrate what some of these more troublesome traits are.

5. Anatomy of a Food Addiction : The Brain Chemistry of Overeating : An Effective Program to Overcome Compulsive Eating
by Anne Katherine
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6. Getting the Love You Want : A Guide for Couples
by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
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As a result of his research, Hendrix created a therapy he calls Imago Relationship Therapy. In it, he combines what he's learned in a number of disciplines, including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, to name just a few. He expounds upon this approach in Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. His purpose in writing the book, he says, is "to share with you what I have learned about the psychology of love relationships, and to help you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship."

Divided into three sections, the book covers "The Unconscious Marriage," which details a marriage in which the remaining desires and behavior of childhood interfere with the current relationship; "The Conscious Marriage," which shows a marriage that fulfils those childhood needs in a positive manner; and a 10-week "course in relationship therapy, " which gives detailed exercises for you and your partner to follow in order to learn how to "replace confrontation and criticism ... with a healing process of mutual growth and support." The text is occasionally dry and technical; however, the information provided is valuable, the case studies are interesting, and the exercises are revealing and helpful. By utilizing his program, Hendrix hopes you too will be able to solve your marital difficulties without the expense of a therapist. --Jenny Brown

7. The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships          
By: Harriet Lerner
HarperCollins (paper); ISBN: 006091646X

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In The Dance of Intimacy, Dr. Harriet Lerner outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged too much distance, too much intensity or too much pain she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter

8. Codependent No More : How to Stop 
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for Yourself  
by Melody Beattie
Hazelden Information Education; ISBN: 0894864025
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Book Description: Recovery has begun for millions of individuals with this straightforward guide. through personal examples and exercises, readers are shown how controlling others forces them to lose sight of their own needs and happiness.

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1. The Drama of the Gifted Child     
By: Alice Miller
Basic Books; ISBN: 0465016901 
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Dr. Rabow:  This book hits so many chords because of the remarkable manner in which Miller is able to show how so many of us are unable to know ourselves.  The true self is hidden from us because it was not something that our families wanted.  Thus many of the normal and natural feelings that are a part of growing up (jealousy, anger, hurt, sense of importance, feelings of self love, to name just a few) are split off from our awareness and from our selves.  We become gifted, in the sense of being able to be talented at pleasing others at the expense of ourselves.

2. Tutoring Matters : Everything You Always 
Wanted to Know About How  to Tutor 
by Jerome Rabow, Tiffani Chin, Nima Fahimian
Temple Univ Press; ISBN: 1566396964 
List Price: $14.95   Our Price: $11.96  You Save: $2.99 (20%)

Dr. Rabow: This book will help you get out of yourself and help you discover how much you have to offer another person but especially a child.  It will help you overcome your fears of working with children who are very different from you in terms of race, religion or ethnicity.  It will help you build a self that is large and connected to others.

3. The Call of Service   
By: Robert Coles
Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap); ISBN: 0395710847
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Dr. Rabow: This book is the single best book out on what is beneficial for the spirit and the soul in the way of volunteering.  It is a poignant description of the many ways that each of us can serve in some larger picture of human kind.  It is a book that helps you connect to the world in ways that are inspiring and loving.

4. Prayers for Bobby    
By: Leroy Aarons
Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0062511238
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Dr. Rabow: This is s true story that opens with the suicide of a 19 year old boy.  The book is about the mother's struggle to understand how her rejection of her son's homosexuality drove him away, and her struggle to find a place within herself to honor her religious beliefs and still maintain her love for her son.

5. Education of a Wasp     By: Lois Stalvey Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299119742 Our Price: $19.95 Dr. Rabow: This is a true story about a white woman's struggle to overcome her prejudice and the prejudice of those around her towards Blacks.  Very genuine and real.

6. My First White Friend 
By: Patricia Raybon
Penguin USA (paper); ISBN: 0140244360
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Dr. Rabow:  A Black woman's struggle to oversome her own hatred and prejudice towards Whites.

7. The Color of Water  
By: James McBride
Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573225789
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Dr. Rabow: The story of a Black man's deep love of his white mother, a woman who was the daughter of an Orthodox Jew from the South.

8. Typical American
By: Gish Jen
Plume; ISBN: 0452267749
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Dr. Rabow: This is the story of every immigrant's adjustment to American life.  The pain, confusion, ludicrousness and humor of it all are told by this Chinese American woman.  In her novel, Yifeng, and engineer, struggles to make our American dream come true.  You will look at our dream in a way that is new and discover ports of your self that you did not know were there.

9. If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him    
By: Sheldon Kopp
Bantam Books; ISBN: 0553278320
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Dr. Rabow: This is a therapist's description of his work with various patients and his efforts to repair their spoiled identities.  You will discover parts of yourself in these various tales of others.  Very well written and an easy read.

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