Hamilton Books
Pages: 316
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-7618-6222-2 • Paperback • November 2013 • $52.99 • (£41.00)
978-0-7618-6223-9 • eBook • November 2013 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
A sociologist and clinical psychologist, Thomas J. Cottle is currently professor of education at Boston University. He is the author of more than thirty books including At Peril: Stories of Injustice, Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long-Term Unemployment, When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother, A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation, and Beyond Self-Esteem: Narratives of Self-Knowledge and Devotion.
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. STORIES OF ADULTS
On Narratives and the Sense of Self
The Abandoner
Do You See Me as a Human Being or Just Another Black Face?
No Way to Look But Back
Jacob and Millie Portman
A Woman Named Sarah Clark Keller
Marcus Nathaniel Simpson: If the Lord Has Patience, I’ve Got a Future
Professors
II. STORIES OF CHILDREN
Adolescent as Story Teller: The Case of Anorexia Nervosa
The Young and their Prophets
They Got Anger Pushing ‘Em in One Direction, Fright Pushing ‘Em in Another
The Evils of Testing and Tracking
The Bedroom of Sheila Cooperton
A Child to be Envied
Mind Shadows
Just a Memory
III. EPILOGUE
The Value of Stories: Applications for Research and Healing
Bibliography
His writing itself is music; a deft blend of passion and restraint, light and darkness, pain and life-giving humor.
— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor of Education Harvard University
Amazing, delicate, and blunt.
— Susan Cheever
No one writes about the everyday dreams, agonies, and situational realities of the young and oppressed with the perception and power of Thomas J. Cottle.
— Philip Slater
[Thomas J. Cottle] is a very good writer, who reminds one very much of James Agee, magically sensitive, and with a skill in rendering the poignancy of the captured moment.
— Ashley Montagu
Once again Tom Cottle has used his lively style to remind us of the full depth of the human experience and force reflection on the ethical stance we would like to see penetrate our fragmented society.
— Jerome Kagan