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These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.
Argues for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behaviour and intersubjectivity. Rogers provides a critical rereading of the case histories of Freud, Winnicott, Lichtenstein, Sechehaye and Bettelheim.
These eight essays look at a selection of 19th- and 20th-century texts through the prism of relational concepts and theories, including feminist applications of relational-modal theories, and D.W. Winnicott's influential ideas about creativity and symbolic play.
The late eighteenth century marked a period of changing expectations about marriage. The difficulties that rose, including abuse, and domestic violence differ little from those with which couples struggle today. This account reveals a strongly communicative world in which neighborers came to the aid of those locked in unhappy marriages.
An overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston. This book traces the origins, development and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency.
Using correspondence and other materials, Herczl recreates the Hungarian Christian church's actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. He provides a scathing indictment of the Church's lack of compassion toward - and even active persecution of - Hungary's Jews during World War II.
Japan's legal and political system, enshrined in the 1947 Constitution and imposed on the Japanese people without their involvement during the U.S. occupation, is largely alien to its history and culture. Peter Herzog examines the effects of that foreign value system in this detailed and fascinating book, highlighting instances in such areas as ......
Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920
Challenges the assumption that the mother-daughter relationship is necessarily defined by hostility, guilt and antagonism, concluding that mothers and daughters managed to sustain close, nurturing relationships in an era marked by a major generation gap in terms of aspirations and opportunities.
