From the Publisher: Lack of self-worth is an affliction that has become of increasing concern in all industrialized societies. It is the main symptom of what psychiatry calls narcissistic disturbance, a phenomenon far more widespread than it was when Freud and Jung developed their concepts of depth psychology. The lack of commonly held values has contributed to it, but is not its cause. In this in-depth examination, Kathrin Asper, a noted psychotherapist and president of the Swiss Society for Analytical Psychology, addresses the real cause: lack of self-worth as a direct consequence of physical or emotional abandonment during childhood.

The wounded inner child lives on in the adult, expressing himself in such symptoms as fear of abandonment, lack of feeling, grandiosity and depression, insufficient awareness of one’s own life, disproportionate rage, and unclear needs. However, those suffering from a lack of self-worth tend to forget the early-life incidents that hurt their inner self: the child within suffers, but is mute. To heal the early wounds, we have to get in touch with the inner child and make him/her talk. In The Abandoned Child Within, Dr. Asper shows how this is accomplished. Using concrete case histories from her own practice, paintings by patients, dreams, fairy tales, and myths, she vividly describes the consequences of abandonment, and ways to unleash the creative powers of the unconscious, which can initiate a healing transformation.

From the Publisher: In the past half century, we have moved from criminalization of abortion to legalization, although unequal access to services and violent protests continue to tear American society apart. In this provocative volume, a passionate and diverse group of abortion rights proponents—journalists, scholars, activists, lawyers, physicians, and philosophers—chronicles the evolution of one of the most intensely debated issues of our time.

Unique in its attention to so many aspects of the debate, Abortion Wars places key issues such as medical practice, activism, legal strategies, and the meaning of choice in the deeply complex historical context of the past half-century.

Taking the reader into the trenches of the battle over abortion rights, the contributors zero in on the key moments and turning points of this ongoing war. Rickie Solinger and Laura Kaplan discuss the covert history of abortion before Roe v. Wade, including the activities of the abortion providers called Jane. Faye Ginsburg examines the recent rise of anti-abortion militancy and its ties to the religious right. Jane Hodgson reflects on her career as a physician and abortion practitioner before abortion was legal, and Alison Jaggar explores the changing theoretical underpinnings of abortion rights activism. Other essays stress the need to redefine the reproductive rights movement so that race and class as well as gender considerations are at its core and raise questions regarding abortion rights for poor women and women of color.

Taken together, the historical and interdisciplinary perspectives collected here yield a complex picture of what has been at stake in abortion politics during the past fifty years. The essays clarify why so many women consider abortion crucial to their lives and why opposition to abortion rights has become so violent today. The essays illuminate a fundamental lesson about the nature of social change in the United States: that judicial decisions that overturn restrictive laws and establish new rights do not settle social policy and, in fact, are likely to spark severe and long-lasting resistance.

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About the Author: Rickie Solinger is the author of The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law (California, 1996) and Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade (1992).

Amy Kesselman is professor of women’s studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion (SUNY Press, 1990) and one of the editors of Women: Images and Realities, a Multicultural Anthology (Mayfield, 1995), and is currently working on a study of the women’s liberation movement in New Haven, Connecticut, 1967-75.

After living in Tanzania and England, Dr. Elizabeth Karlin had two children before starting medical school at the University of Wisconsin, which she thought would be easier than being a full-time mother. It was. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has practiced as an internist. For the last six years she has specialized in reproductive health (which is not a recognized specialty), including abortions. She is a coauthor of the American Medical Women’s Association Reproductive Health Curriculum. She lectures to medical students and writes on the joy and angst of being an abortion provider.

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By the Same Author: Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v Wade (1992, Routledge); The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law (1994, Free Press); Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (2001, Hill & Wang); Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (2005, NYU Press); Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States (co-editor) (2010); and Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (2013, Oxford University Press).

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Pregnancy and Power before Roe v. Wade, 1950-1970 by Rickie Solinger (pp.15-32); Women Versus Connecticut: Conducting a Statewide Hearing on Abortion by Amy Kesselman (pp. 42-67); and “We Called It Kindness”: Establishing a Feminist Abortion Practice by Elizabeth Karlin.

From the Dust Jacket: Before Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions were performed in the United States every year. Award-winning author Rickie Solinger here tells the revealing story of Ruth Barnett, who performed forty thousand such abortions between 1918 and 1968 and never lost a patient. Solinger shows that it was rarely abortionists like Barnett who put women at risk. It was the antiabortion laws that established a system in which abortionists and their clients were convenient targets for politicians, police, and the press seeking political capital. These same laws inspired racketeers to go into the abortion business with syndicates that put profit first and women’s well-being last. The flamboyant and compassionate Barnett worked undisturbed by the law, in a proper suite of offices, for most of her career. Referred by doctors and friends, women from all walks of life came to see her—those unable to afford a child during the Depression, the wives and daughters of politicians and police officers, and ordinary women making a choice. But in the anti-abortion fervor of the post-World War II era, Barnett and abortionists like her all over the country, as well as women who had received abortions, were victimized in sensational and salacious trials which reaffirmed the state’s control of women’s bodies. Showing how the law, more than the abortionists, hurt women, Solinger powerfully demonstrates the real threat of re-criminalized abortion today.

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About the Author: Rickie Solinger is the author of Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (1992).

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By the Same Author: Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v Wade (1992, Routledge); Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 (editor) (1998, University of California Press); Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (2001, Hill & Wang); Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (2005, NYU Press); Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States (co-editor) (2010, University of California Press); and Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (2013, Oxford University Press).

Longtime Presbyterian layperson, Dr. Kent S. Miller, emeritus professor of psychology at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, who had spent much of his professional life focused on mental disability law and the relations between the mental health and the criminal justice systems, decided to volunteer for a couple years in the Department of Children and Families in Florida to try to understand why they were getting such bad press. This book is a result of this time spent with the Florida DCF and is an analysis of the current crisis in the child welfare scene based on the author’s involvement with a program that has been racked with the scandals of missing and murdered children. If as Christians we are to care for the little ones and our neighbors, then Dr. Miller posits that we must address this concern immediately for we are sabotaging our nation’s future by abandoning our at-risk children—to say nothing of incurring the wrath of our Lord who demonstrated a preferential option for children—as well as for the poor.

From the Preface: This book is a collection of feelings ... as slogans, poems, quotes ... mostly by those who have lived the adoption experience but also by famous civil rights activists, philosophers, poets, journalists, Supreme Court Justices, scholars and others who understand our issues. Adopt-A-Quote was compiled to provide the adoption community ... and the non-adopted ... with a bridge to understanding and sharing.

From the Back Cover: The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Mark Greif examines the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hipster, the uses of reality television, the impact of protest movements, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life—how to find a philosophical stance to adopt towards one’s self and the world. Greif manages to revivify the thought and spirit of the greatest of American dissenters, Henry David Thoreau, for our time and historical situation.

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About the Author: Mark Greif is a cofounder of the literary and intellectual journal n+1. He is also currently an associate professor at the New School in New York.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, “Octomom and the Market in Babies” (pp. 56-74), which was originally published, in a slightly different form, in the Spring 2010 issue of n+1 (#9), under the title, “Octomom, One Year Later.”

From the Dust Jacket: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, renowned for her work with the terminally ill, now focuses her attention on AIDS, the devastating fatal disease that has reached epidemic proportions throughout the world. With enormous compassion and deep insight, Dr. Kubler-Ross uses her extraordinary gifts, as she has for more than two decades, to give comfort to those who are seriously ill and help them through the critical “stages of dying” as they face the end of their lives.

AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge is a powerful and moving book in which Dr. Kubler-Ross recounts the tragic suffering of victims of AIDS and the remarkable way she reaches out to them so that they can die with dignity and with their loved ones around them. She has been a pioneer in the development of support systems and fighting for adequate medical care in hospitals, hospices, and prisons.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross also raises serious social and moral issues surrounding AIDS. In 1981, when the first cases were reported, the group most afflicted was homosexual men and the label “gay disease” was coined, a stigma that Dr. Kubler-Ross and many others have struggled so relentlessly to do away with. She warns that if we continue to discriminate against those with AIDS, we will end up lacking sufficient funds for research and for medical treatment when the caseload swells. She makes a special plea for women and children with AIDS and prisoners with AIDS, but most important she pleads for babies with AIDS. Unwanted by their mothers, shunned by foster families and adoption agencies, they are too often left—unmothered, unloved—to die alone in hospitals. When Dr. Kubler-Ross offered to care for these babies on her farm in Virginia, she was overwhelmingly turned down by the townspeople of the neighboring counties.

By 1991 there will be between two million and three million carriers of AIDS, with 270,000 actual cases. Statistics of this magnitude present us with the moral dilemma of the century: Do we care for those who are severely ill or do we take no responsibility at all? Elisabeth Kubler-Ross says that this is a time when the wheat will be separated from the chaff. AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge is clearly one of the most important books of our time, to be read by each and every one of us.

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About the Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born in Zurich and attended the University of Zurich Medical School. Psychiatrist abd world-renowned authority on death and dying, she travels extensively, lecturing about her work. She is the author of the bestselling On Death and Dying, Questions and Answers on Death and Dying, Death: The Final Stage of Growth, and To Live Until We Say Good-Bye. She makes her home at Healing Waters Farm in Head Waters, Virginia.

From the Dust Jacket: James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group—they called themselves a “family”—was arrested for a string of violent murders.

During the decade that Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to every city from New York to San Francisco, and to many small towns in between, bringing violence with them. In 2003, almost eleven years after his original murder, Nelson, now called “Thantos,” got out of prison, returned ta Portland, created a new street family, and killed once more. Twelve family members were arrested along with him.

Rene Denfeld spent over a decade following the evolution of street family culture. She discovered that, contrary to popular belief, the majority of these teenagers hail from loving middle-class homes. Yet they have left those homes to form insular communities with cultish hierarchies, codes of behavior, languages, quasi-religions, and harsh rules. Denfeld penetrates the psychology of these street youth, revealing the extremes to which desperate teenagers will go in their search for a sense of community in a world that would rather ignore their existence. Through the shocking story of the Thantos family, she builds an authoritative, persuasive, and troubling case that street families have grown among us into a dark reversal of the American ideal.

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About the Author: Rene Denfeld is the author of two previous books, including the international bestseller The New Victorians. She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner and three children.

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Compiler’s Note: A number of the “children” who are the subject of the book are adoptees; and the author is herself the adoptive parent of three former foster children.

Keep your dirty secrets buried because the skeletons in your closet can become scandals, and that’s what readers will find out in this collection. Hidden addictions, past misfortunes and shameful personal issues are just a few examples of the truths revealed when these scandalous secrets are exposed! Stories include:

• A Mother’s Secret Shame
• Trapped by My Secret Passion
• The Secret In The Garden
• A Soldier’s Secret
• Secrets From My Past
• A Life Of Secrets
• My Husband’s Secret Needs

And more....

From the Back Cover: Almost Home tells the remarkable true stories of six young people as they struggle to find home, stopping along the way at Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless, trafficked, and runaway youth in the Americas. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of the 1.6 million young people in North America who run away or are kicked out of their homes each year, grappling with issues such as family violence, prostitution, teen parenthood, rejection based on sexual orientation, and aging out of foster care without a family. Full of hope, compassion, and practical suggestions on how to fight youth homelessness, Almost Home shows us how to help young people attain the bright futures they deserve.

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About the Author: Kevin Ryan is President of Covenant House International, which reaches 56,000 at-risk and street youth in more than twenty cities across six countries. Ryan is one of the country’s most respected child advocates and his work has been covered by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper 360, and other national media.

Tina Kelley was a staff writer for the New York Times for ten years and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the September 11 attacks. She wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief” profiles of the victims and is the author of two books of poetry, The Gospel of Galore and Precise.

From the Dust Jacket: When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer’s patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal with the uncertainty surrounding this kind of loss?

In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too often, those confronted with such ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. Suffered too long, these emotions can deaden feeling and make it impossible for people to move on with their lives. Yet the central message of this book is that they can move on. Drawing on her research and clinical experience, Boss suggests strategies that can cushion the pain and help families come to terms with their grief. Her work features the heartening narratives of those who cope with ambiguous loss and manage to leave their sadness behind, including those who have lost family members to divorce, immigration, adoption, chronic mental illness, and brain injury. With its message of hope, this eloquent book offers guidance and understanding to those struggling to regain their lives.

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About the Author: Pauline Boss is Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, past President of the National Council on Family Relations, and a psychotherapist in private practice.

From the Dust Jacket: Insofar as anthropology is the study of culture, the reader will find this book both instructive and demonstrative as an example of how a cultural analysis proceeds. It differs from a sociological description or analysis in that it is focused on the kinship system as a cultural system and not as a system of social interaction. The author does not ask the reader to consider alien or exotic primitive people in order to understand how the analysis is done, but rather shows that anthropology, as the study of culture, works on modern complex industrial societies as well as on primitive tribesmen.

Culture is defined, by the author, as a system of symbols in terms of which fundamental units are defined, differentiated, and elaborated. A cultural account of a kinship system is thus an account of the basic symbols of kinship, and the relationship of these symbols to each other.

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About the Author: David M. Schneider, Ph.D. Harvard University, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of Marriage, Authority and Final Causes, Kinship Terminology and the American Kinship System and Sibling Solidarity: A Property of American Kinship, and co-editor of Matrilineal Kinship. He has taught at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, the University of California, Berkeley, and has done field work on Yap Island, Micronesia, as well as among the Mescalero Apache of New Mexico.

From the Dust Jacket: What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?

In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiosity.

Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age.

He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of the “so-called writing life” and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.

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About the Author: Walter Isaacson is the CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and is the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. He is at work on a biography of Louis Armstrong.

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By the Same Author: Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007); Steve Jobs (2011); and The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014).

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 8: Interlude: Woody Allen’s Heart Wants What It Wants (pp. 251-260).

The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would not hesitate to label them “evil.” In this ground-breaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H Stone—host of Discovery Channel’s former series Most Evil—uses this common emotional reaction to horrifying acts as his starting point to explore the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviour that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately explained by religious doctrines. Basing his analysis on the detailed biographies of over 600 violent criminals, Stone has created a 22-level hierarchy of evil behaviour, which loosely reflects the structure of Dante’s Inferno. He traces two salient personality traits that run the gamut from those who commit crimes of passion to perpetrators of the worst crimes—sadistic torture and murder. One trait is narcissism, as exhibited in people who are so self-centered that they have little or no ability to care about their victims. The other is aggression, the use of power over another person to inflict humiliation, suffering, and death. Stone then turns to the various factors that, singly or intertwined, contribute to pushing certain people over the edge into committing heinous crimes. They include heredity, adverse environments, violence-prone cultures, mental illness or brain injury, and abuse of mind-altering drugs. All are considered in the search for the root causes of evil behaviour. What do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the minds of those whose actions could be described as evil? And what will that mean for the rest of us? Stone discusses how an increased understanding of the causes of evil will affect the justice system. He predicts a day when certain persons can safely be declared salvageable and restored to society and when early signs of violence in children may be corrected before potentially dangerous patterns become entrenched.

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About the Author: Michael H. Stone, M.D. (New York, NY) is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of ten books, most recently Personality Disorders: Treatable and Untreatable, and over two hundred professional articles and book chapters. He is also the host of Discovery Channel’s former series Most Evil and has been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, the London Times, the BBAC, and Newsday, among many other media outlets.

In An Ancient Tear, years after her first born dies at birth, Sophie embarks on an unpredictable and rich inner journey in search of her daughter’s spirit and, in the process, rediscovers Sophia. An Ancient Tear is a compelling story of how a mother’s wounds of losing a child through death, miscarriage, abortion, and adoption can be healed through a connection to and with spiritual realms. Carol Schaefer is a brilliant writer and brings her readers right into the experience she shares. This book is filled with love, compassion, and healing words. In a time where so many women and men are searching for answers that can’t be answered through ordinary means, Schaefer lets us know that we can turn to the spiritual realms for comfort, answers and healing.

From the Dust Jacket: Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, one of New York’s wittiest social chroniclers. Area Code 212 is filled with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, including her hilarious account of Andy Warhol’s 1980s blind date club; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; the day she tested mentally retarded on an IQ test; and many other revealing tales of New York life, including its parties, its restaurants, and its fashion. Janowitz gives us her unique lowdown on her 1990s conversion from Manhattan to Brooklyn, on observing the Twin Towers come down from her apartment roof, on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies, the outer boroughs, big-hair days and bad-hair days.

Above all, the humor and insights of Area Code 212 will not only appeal to all of those who live in New York City, but also to those from around the country who have a fascination with what it is like to thrive in the urban mecca.

Self-deprecating, funny, and touching, Area Code 212 is an irresistible collection of essays.

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About the Author: Tama Janowitz exploded onto the literary scene in 1986 with her bestselling book, Slaves of New York. Her most recent novel is Peyton Amberg. Janowitz’s work has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times Op-Ed page, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

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Compiler’s Note: “Bringing Home Baby,” in which the author describes her and her husband’s trip to China to adopt their daughter, originally appeared in the October 1996 issue of Vogue, and was subsequently collected in Wanting a Child (1998, Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Family Wanted (2005, Granta Books).

At 30, Lisa Jones has a dream life!—an adoring husband, two beautiful children and a lovely home in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Four months later, it all begins to unravel when her husband is diagnosed with lymphoma. During a chance encounter with an angel reader, Lisa discovers she has the ability to directly connect to the angelic realm. Although the messages she receives sustain her on the heart-breaking path of caring for her dying husband and young children, she also keeps them a secret. Asleep at the moment of her husband’s death, Lisa is transported to “heaven,” a place of such bliss it changes the way she lives and thinks forever. What follows are years of transformation. She meets and marries the second love of her life, ends her accounting career, and finds herself thrust into a world of profound spirituality. She realizes that she can no longer keep these divinely guided messages hidden, and little-by-little shares her gifts with individuals, small groups and finally with large audiences. In this book, Lisa details her difficulties on the path, her bouts with depression, and her struggle with her biggest skeptic and critic!—herself.

A collection of the author’s columns that originally appeared in The Boston Globe, published subsequent to winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. Goodman writes mostly about family and relationships, as well as politics and general social commentary. Some material may be dated, but her commentary about men, women, parents and children may still have resonance today.

Attachment is the deep and enduring connection established between a child and caregiver in the first few years of life. It profoundly influences every component of the human condition: mind, body, emotions, relationships, and values. Attachment, Trauma, and Healing examines the causes of attachment disorder, and provides in-depth discussion on effective solutions—including attachment-focused assessment and diagnosis, specialized training and education for caregivers, the controversial “in arms” treatment for children and caregivers, and early intervention and prevention programs for high-risk families.

Author John Mangoni, M.D., tells parents the short and skinny on the nuts and bolts to parenting in the modern world. He provides guidelines, recommendations and tells it like it is on a wide range of topics. From the formula to good health to issues concerning the overly active and overly pampered child to combating childhood incidences of obesity, here is the template to good parenting. Refreshingly candid and at times brutally honest, this book examines the child-parent relationship with the goal to help good parents be aware of issues and help prevent difficulties affecting today’s children. Chapter 15 addresses the subject of adoption. About the Author: A graduate of the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago, John Mangoni, M.D. is board-certified in pediatrics and has been involved in his specialty for over 30 years. Currently in private practice, he has served as Chairman of Pediatrics and is on active staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, CA. As a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, Dr. Mangoni has been an on-camera spokesperson for Abbott Laboratories and appeared on ABC and CBS network television as a medical spokesperson. Featured in many newspaper articles including the Los Angeles Times and Pasadena Star-News as well as radio segments on various timely pediatric topics, Dr. Mangoni was recently presented an award by the city of Pasadena for outstanding immunization services and his commitment to keeping children healthy. The American Cancer Society has given Dr. Mangoni a certificate of appreciation for notable service in the crusade to conquer cancer.

From the Dust Jacket: Parents have always said so, but medical science is just coming to accept it: Newborns are far more conscious in the womb and at birth than they have been credited for. They arrive in the world not just feeling, sensing, and reacting, but thinking, communicating, and even remembering.

This extraordinary book takes you to the leading edge of scientific and medical research, as Dr. David Chamberlain, an international leader in the new field of pre- and perinatal psychology, tells the whole story of the amazing mind of the newborn. He presents scientific evidence proving that even in the womb fetuses experience a wide variety of emotions; that the seemingly random noises newborns make are conscious attempts to communicate; and that cognition and reason in newborns are more highly developed than we have previously believed. Most remarkably, Dr. Chamberlain shows that newborns are actually aware of their births and can recall them in detail when, as adults, they are put under hypnosis.

What happens to us as newborns and even as preborns has a profound effect on the rest of our lives. Dr. Chamberlain’s startling findings and those of other medical and psychological experimenters have enormous implications for birthing and child-rearing practices.

Filled with the latest research and stories from Dr. Chamberlain’s case files, Babies Remember Birth opens new avenues for the exploration of baby and child development and human consciousness.

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About the Author: David Chamberlain, Ph.D., is vice president of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Association of North America. He received his Ph.D. from Boston University and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the International Society of Hypnosis. His ground-breaking work has been praised by Frederick Leboyer, author of Birth Without Violence; Virginia Satir; Dr. Ashley Montagu; Thomas Verny, M.D., author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, and medical and psychological professionals throughout the world.

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By the Same Author: The Mind of Your Newborn Baby.

Millions across the country were captivated by the heart-wrenching events taking place in Chicago. An innocent boy, known to the world only as “Baby Richard,” became the object of the most controversial custody battle and failed adoption in history. The media furor—spanning four years during the mid-nineties—would prompt the passage of new laws and spread to other countries. This book reveals the myths of this notorious case, the unreported events since, and the unique challenges of living through it all for “Baby Richard.” It’s the true, inside story that will reshape your thinking today! You Will Discover How: Danny (“Baby Richard”) survived the frenzied media, lies, public hysteria, and death threats; the conflict raged through the courts and state legislatures; powerful and prominent people, including First Lady Hillary Clinton, jumped into the controversy; the Baby Richard Curse felled most of the major participants, including Bob Greene (“the Baby Richard columnist”); Danny talks about his dramatic past, today, and his future. This is a reality book ... about people’s passions, struggles, failings, and victories, by Danny’s therapist, Dr. Karen Moriarty, licensed clinical psychologist. Disclosed with her clients’ permission, this comprehensive narrative—by the only continuous eyewitness—provides the exclusive update on the child and all of the players. No matter how much or how little you know about Baby Richard, you will be surprised by this behind-the-scenes, intimate journey through the epic case.

From the Back Cover: Barnardo Children in Canada by Gail Corbett unmasks the greatest human interest story in Canadian history: the pilgrimage of thousands of dependent children. This book sensitively and accurately records the largest and most successful child emigration into the emerging nation. Here is a modern Pilgrim’s Progress whose main characters sre tens of thousands of children who, against great odds, proved that Canada was the promised land.

The author records first hand accounts of child emigration, archival materials never before released, directions for genealogical research and much more.

This book, long overdue in Canadian History, brings new light to one of the most important phases of Canada’s history. Today Barnardo Children and their descendant are legion, and as Dr. Thomas Barnardo predicted, his proteges stretch from sea to sea. They and their descendants are counted among Canada’s greatest nation builders.

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About the Author: Gail Helena Corbett (nee: Astell) was born and educated in Peterborough, Ontario and is a graduate of Queen’s University, Kingston. She traces her interest in minority history paternally to her ancestor, British author Mary Astell, and her interest in Canadian studies through her maternal forebearers who were Canadian pioneers.

For ten years a teacher of History and English, the author is sensitive to Canada’s great grass-roots heritage. She has published in various periodicals and is the editor of the highly successful anthology, Portraits.

From the Dust Jacket: 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.

Karen begins by tracing the history of attachment theory through the controversial work of John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst, and Mary Ainsworth, an American developmental psychologist, who together launched a revolution in child psychology. Karen tells about their personal and professional struggles, their groundbreaking discoveries, and the recent flowering of attachment theory research in universities all over the world, making it one of the century’s most enduring ideas in developmental psychology.

In a world of working parents and makeshift day care, the need to assess the impact of parenting styles and the bond between child and caregiver is more urgent than ever. Karen addresses such issues as: What do children need to feel that the world is a positive place and that they have value?

Is day care harmful for children under one year? What experiences in infancy will enable a person to develop healthy relationships as an adult?, and he demonstrates how different approaches to mothering are associated with specific infant behaviors, such as clinginess, avoidance, or secure exploration. He shows how these patterns become ingrained and how they reveal themselves at age two, in the preschool years, in middle childhood, and in adulthood. And, with thought-provoking insights, he gives us a new understanding of how negative patterns and insecure attachment can be changed and resolved throughout a person’s life.

The infant is in many ways a great mystery to us. Every one of us has been one; many of us have lived with or raised them. Becoming Attached is not just a voyage of discovery in child emotional development and its pertinence to adult life but a voyage of personal discovery as well, for it is impossible to read this book without reflecting on one’s own life as a child, a parent, and an intimate partner in love or marriage.

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About the Author: Robert Karen is a clinical psychologist in private practice and an award-winning author. In addition to two previous books, he has written articles for The Atlantic, New York magazine, Mirabella, The Nation, and The Yale Review. He is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Derner Institute of Advance Psychological Studies, Adelphi University.

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Compiler’s Note: The author’s articles for The Atlantic include one entitled “Becoming Attached” (February 1990).

From the Publisher: The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers’ Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world’s best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In The Best Travel Writing 2010 readers will explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon, discover the meaning of life with an Irish carpenter on a long flight, take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour, delve deep into a sacred Japanese pilgrimage, travel solo in Panama’s forbidding Darien jungle, comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal ... and much more.

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About the Author: James O’Reilly, publisher of Travelers’ Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He’s visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press.

Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers’ Tales, has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he co-authored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O’Reilly, and since 1985 has written a syndicated column, “World Travel Watch.” Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers’ conferences. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

Sean O’Reilly is editor-at-large for Travelers’ Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and their six children. He’s had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self. His travels of late have taken him through China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific.

Gaye Brown, who lives in Maryland, is a former director of publishing for the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian. She subsequently served as a writer and researcher for Time-Life’s history series What Life Was Like. Her work has appeared in the Georgetown Review, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, and Washington Review.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, “Ready or Not” by Gaye Brown (pp. 150-157), in which the author recounts her trip to South Korea with her two adopted Korean teenagers, which is reprinted here. It originally appeared in A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families (2009, Adams Media).

In a day and time when betrayal, both public and private, seems to be at the root of so much of the pain in the world—political scandals, divorce, infidelity, abuse, stock fraud and the list goes on—we ask ourselves, Is there a way to avoid it? What can we do as Christians to deal with it, learn from it and survive to fulfill the destiny God has called us to? Betrayed uses the example of Jesus and His interaction with Judas to give us a spiritually sound example of how we can deal with the betrayal in our lives. With a focus that is inspirational and full of hope, Randy Valimont covers topics that include:
• How to identify a betrayer in your life
• What Satan hopes to accomplish through betrayal
• Practical biblical solutions to dealing with betrayal
• How to find healing and move on
Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 3: “Guard Your Heart”

From the Publisher: Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children’s behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents and professionals clearly understand the neurological research behind the basic model given in this book, deemed, “The Stress Model.” While scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-grasp format for anyone working with or parenting children with severe behaviors. The next seven chapters are individually devoted to seven behaviors typically seen with attachment-challenged children. These include lying, stealing, hoarding and gorging, aggression, defiance, lack of eye contact, and yes, even a chapter that talks candidly about how parents appear hostile and angry when they work to simply maintain their families from reaching complete states of chaos. Each of these chapters talks in depth on these specific behaviors and gives vivid and contrasting examples of how this love-based approach works to foster healing and works to develop relationships, as opposed to the fear-based traditional attachment parenting approaches that are being advocated in today’s attachment field. The authors end with a Parenting Bonus Section. True testimonials from parents who have been able to make significant changes in their homes with this model of parenting, giving real-life examples of how they have been able to find the healing, peace, and love that they had been seeking prior to working through the techniques outlined in this book.

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About the Author: Heather Forbes, LCSW, is co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC. Ms. Forbes has been training in the field of attachment and trauma with nationally recognized, first-generation attachment therapists since 1999. She has been active in the field of adoption with experience ranging from pre-adoption to post-adoption work, including domestic and international adoptions. Ms. Forbes is a published author and presents workshops both nationally and throughout the State of Florida. Much of her experience and insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, and adoption-related issues has come from her direct mothering experience of her two adopted children. She has a passion for helping families to find the peace in their homes that they deserve.

B. Bryan Post, Ph.D., LCSW is the founder of the Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy based in Oklahoma and co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC. Dr. Post is the author of For All Things a Season, Dr. Post’s New Family Revolution System, and co-author of “The Forever Child” series. He is an internationally recognized specialist in the treatment of emotional and behavioral disturbance in children and families. Dr. Post specializes in a holistic family-based treatment approach that addresses the underlying interactive dynamics of the entire family, a neurophysiologic process he refers to as, “The secret life of the family.” As an adopted, and well-known disruptive child himself (“I’ve set fires, killed animals, and stolen compulsively.”), Dr. Post has made it his primary work to speak to parents and professionals from a perspective of true-life experience and in-the-trenches therapeutic work.

From the Publisher: We are living in one of the most stressful times in human history. This abundance of stress is impacting families and in many cases, manifesting itself in children with difficult and severe behaviors. Homes often turn into intense fighting grounds of power struggles and control battles parents find themselves in us against them scenarios with their children. Tension continually builds and before long, parents are feeling completely overwhelmed, powerless, and resentful of their children. As parents implement traditional parenting techniques, parenting in a way that most parenting books recommend, they find their situations becoming worse, not better as promised these resources. It doesn’t have to be this way! Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, offers families a new view to parenting children with difficult and severe behaviors. As a parent herself who experienced dark days (and years) following the adoption of her two children, she offers a ground-breaking approach to parenting that shows parents a proven way to develop strong and loving relationships with their children.

In her new book, Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors, Volume 2, Heather offers practical and effective solutions based in scientific research, coupled with professional and personal experience. She is a master at bridging the gap between academic research and real life when the rubber hits the road parenting. This book is written in an easy to understand and easy to grasp format for anyone working with or parenting children with difficult or severe behaviors. The first six chapters discuss the principles of her love-based parenting paradigm. A new understanding of why traditional parenting techniques are ineffective with children with difficult behaviors is given, along with clear and concise explanations of the science behind trauma and negative early life experiences. The next seven chapters address specific behaviors, including poor social skills, homework battles, demanding behaviors, self-injury, defensive attitudes, no conscience, and chores. Each chapter gives specific examples of how to implement her parenting principles, empowering parents to make amazing and permanent changes in their homes. All the examples given throughout these chapters are true stories provided by parents who read and implemented her first book, Volume 1. The book ends with a parenting bonus section where more real-life stories from real-life parents with real-life children are given. These examples range in the spectrum of the ages of the children and a variety of behavioral issues. This book offers hope and healing. It goes beyond just changing a child’s behaviors but goes to the level of healing for all family members. This book has the power to literally change families for life and to help families find the peace in their homes that they dreamed of from the beginning—and the peace they deserve!

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About the Author: Heather Forbes, LCSW, is co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC. Ms. Forbes has been training in the field of attachment and trauma with nationally recognized, first-generation attachment therapists since 1999. She has been active in the field of adoption with experience ranging from pre-adoption to post-adoption work, including domestic and international adoptions. Ms. Forbes is a published author and presents workshops both nationally and throughout the State of Florida. Much of her experience and insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, and adoption-related issues has come from her direct mothering experience of her two adopted children. She has a passion for helping families to find the peace in their homes that they deserve.

B. Bryan Post, Ph.D., LCSW is the founder of the Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy based in Oklahoma and co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC. Dr. Post is the author of For All Things a Season, Dr. Post’s New Family Revolution System, and co-author of “The Forever Child” series. He is an internationally recognized specialist in the treatment of emotional and behavioral disturbance in children and families. Dr. Post specializes in a holistic family-based treatment approach that addresses the underlying interactive dynamics of the entire family, a neurophysiologic process he refers to as, “The secret life of the family.” As an adopted, and well-known disruptive child himself (“I’ve set fires, killed animals, and stolen compulsively.”), Dr. Post has made it his primary work to speak to parents and professionals from a perspective of true-life experience and in-the-trenches therapeutic work.

From the Dust Jacket: Child placement laws are supposed to protect “the best interests of the child.” In practice they often do little more than satisfy the emotional needs of parents or the convenience of the courts. Adults are represented by lawyers; children are not. Blood ties, which may mean nothing to young children, are used to justify the breaking of affectionate ties developed within adoptive and foster families—ties which mean everything to the child’s well-being. Children desperately in need of a stable environment are required by courts to divide their lives (and loyalties) between warring parents.

In this important book, two renowned psychoanalysts and a noted legal authority propose revolutionary guidelines which could prevent needless emotional scars in thousands of children. Integrating the insights of psychoanalysis and law, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child paves the way for an entirely new standard for child placement. The authors have shifted the aim from the traditional concept of merely “doing good” to that of also minimizing harm.

Among the authors’ specific recommendations are: grant the child party status and the right to be represented by his own counsel; in divorce cases, let the parent who wins custody of the child determine the other parent’s involvement; make all child placements, except where specifically designed for brief temporary care, as permanent as the placement of a newborn with his biological parents.

The object of these guidelines is to assure for each child a chance to be a member of a family wherein he will feel wanted and where he can have the opportunity, on a continuing basis, not only to receive and return affection, but also to express anger and to learn to manage his aggression.

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About the Author: Joseph Goldstein is Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Science and Social Policy at Yale University Law School. A political scientist, lawyer, and psychoanalyst, he is the author of many books, including The Government of A British Trade Union, The Family and the Law (with Jay Katz), Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Law (with Jay Katz and Alan Dershowitz), and Crime, Law and Society (with Abraham S. Goldstein). He holds degrees from Dartmouth College, The London School of Economics, and Yale Law School, and is a graduate (career research) of The Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute.

Anna Freud is the Director of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic. She is the author of The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense and of many other books on psychoanalysis and child development, all of which are included in the seven-volume edition of The Writings of Anna Freud. She is one of the editors of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. She has frequently been a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale University School of Medicine, as well as at other universities. She is the recipient of many honorary degrees in the United States and Europe.

Albert J. Solnit is Sterling Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of the Yale University Child Study Center. He is the author of Problems in Child Behavior and Development (with Milton Senn). He is a Managing Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, President of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, and past President of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He holds degrees from the University of California and Yale University, and is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

From the Publisher: Big Hearted gives you an inside look into the triumphs, struggles, joys and sorrows of ordinary families with generous hearts. It invites you to witness extraordinary love in ordinary moments like the simple cooking of a meal or the hug between a teenaged brother and his baby sister. Just like your family, these families experience pain, setbacks, and challenges. And just like your family, they also experience love and immeasurable blessing through their commitment and care for each other. In this book, you will learn the story of:

• A father of seven healthy boys who struggled to love his Down syndrome baby girl

• A mother of twelve who learned an important lesson about Christmas from her children

• A special relationship between a teenaged brother and his infant sister

• Two grandparents in their final days who inspired their grandchildren in simple ways

• Two orphan children from Kenya who prayed for adoption by an American family and got what they asked for!

It has been said that God cannot be outdone in generosity. The stories in these pages will show you how big hearted families experience this truth in a myriad of ways, sometimes miraculously.

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About the Author: Patti Maguire Armstrong is a correspondent for Our Sunday Visitor newspaper and the National Catholic Register, and works in marketing for Teresa Tomeo Communications. She is an award-winning author and was the managing editor and co-author of Ascension Press’ bestselling Amazing Grace series. Her latest book is Big Hearted: Inspiring Stories From Everyday Families. She has appeared on EWTN, Catholic TV, Fox & Friends, and numerous radio programs across the country. Patti studied a year of journalism at University of Detroit, has a B.A. in social work and an M.A. in public administration, and worked in both those fields before staying home to work as a freelance writer. She and her husband met in the Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, were Jesuit Volunteers on an Indian Reservation, and spent three years as house parents of a group home for delinquent boys. They now live in North Dakota where they are still raising the tail end of their ten children.