An
Evening with JonBenét Ramsey - Walter
A. Davis Book
Description
An Evening With JonBenét Ramsey begins with a
full-length play, Cowboy's Sweetheart, which imagines
the life of a sexually abused and murdered child as
it might have evolved had she lived. The play is followed
by two essays which consider the JonBenét Ramsey
case from a number of perspectives. The result is an
incisive critique of the media and a compelling study
of the psychological consequences of what is a national
epidemic: the sexual abuse of children.
About
the Author
Walter A Davis is a Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University.
“Davis
writes with fervor, vision, and keen moral appreciation
of our condition. He encourages us to see what we fear
to see, to say what we fear to say. This book is illuminating,
challenging, fierce.”
Michael Eigen, author of The Sensitive Self, Rage
and Ecstasy
Carosel
Music - Dr.
Richard A. Moskovitz Book
Description
During the course of her psychotherapy with Dr. Kenneth
Miller, Stephanie Whittington recalls a childhood filled
with terror at the hands of her alcoholic father. Everett
Whittington, now a pillar of the AA community, fervently
denies her accusations and launches a lawsuit against
Dr. Miller for planting false memories.
As
Stephanie and her doctor piece together a life story
that seems to make sense of her suffering and allows
her to heal, the smoke and mirrors of the courtroom
show just how malleable reality can be.
About
the Author
The author is a Harvard educated practicing psychiatrist,
who once knew everything about psychotherapy, but has
found that learning the imperfect art of restoring broken
spirits is a lifelong journey. He is the author of the
best-selling non-fiction work LOST IN THE MIRROR: AN
INSIDE LOOK AT BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER. His
experience treating trauma victims has equipped him
well to present the reader with an inside look at their
psychotherapy.
Gemma
- Meg
Tilly Book
Description
Gemma is a compelling, yet disturbing, twist on the
theme of Vladimir Nabokov's infamous novel Lolita --
this time, however, author Meg Tilly explores both sides
of a story about child molestation and sexual abuse
-- allowing us to hear not only the voice of the adult
predator, but that of his young victim as well.
Twelve-year-old
Gemma has always known how to keep secrets in order
to survive. After all, she hasn't told anybody that
she's been sexually abused by her alcoholic mother's
boyfriend, Buddy, for the past four years. When Buddy's
friend, Hazen Wood, kidnaps Gemma, the two embark upon
a cross-country journey that tests the very limits of
her endurance. In brutal and graphic scenes of physical
and sexual violence, the young girl's will is ground
down, her spirit seemingly crushed. It is only Gemma's
childlike resilience and fertile imagination that protect
her from the worst of the abuses she suffers. And in
the end, it is only the healing power of unconditional
love that gives Gemma the courage to speak out against
her abuser -- to reclaim her dignity as a human being.
About
the Author
Meg Tilly is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel
Singing Songs (Dutton, 1994, reissued by Syren, 2006).
Working as an actress before focusing upon her writing
career, Ms. Tilly is best known for her movie roles in
The Big Chill and Agnes of God (for which she won a Golden
Globe Award and was nominated for an Oscar Award). She
lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lost
in the Mirror - Dr.
Richard A. Moskovitz From
the Author
Lost in the Mirror peers into a black and white world
of extreme emotions and turbulent relationships. The
inhabitants of this world experience their lives from
moment to moment, grasping for shreds of identity to
connect each fragment of experience to the next. Because
they have little awareness of the texture and flow of
human emotions, painful emotions, such as loneliness
and fear, may seem endless and intolerable. Their need
to escape this pain leads to desperate, impulsive, and
frequently self-defeating behaviors.
Lost
in the Mirror explores the origins of Borderline Personality
Disorder and offers its sufferers a framework for beginning
to heal. While the first edition focused on the dynamics
of the psychotherapeutic relationship that underlies
all good treatment, this edition elaborates on the kinds
of psychotherapy that are practiced today. It describes
mainstream approaches, such as psychoanalytic psychotherapy,
cognitive therapy, and behavior therapy, as well as
innovative treatments, such as Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(DBT).
About
the Author
Dr. Richard A. Moskovitz earned both his undergraduate
degree and his M.D. at Harvard University. After psychiatric
residency at The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and eight years on the University of Florida College
of Medicine faculty where he was Associate Professor,
he has spent the past sixteen years in private practice.
Dr. Moskovitz has appeared on Prime Time Live and on A&E’s
The Unexplained. Lost in the Mirror grew out of his passion
for teaching and years of clinical experience with patients
with BPD.
