Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Abused women    3. Adult Children of Alcoholics    4. Counseling of    5. Feminist therapy    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy - Counseling    8. Social Science    9. United States    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Counselling    12. Domestic violence    13. Family & Relationships / Abuse    14. Family & Relationships-Abuse - General    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling    16. Psychotherapy    17. Self-Adult Children of Alcoholics   

Subjects:  1. Adult children of alcoholics    2. Human Sexuality    3. Intimacy (Psychology)    4. Love / Sex / Marriage    5. Psychology Of Sexuality    6. Recovery    7. Sex (Psychology)    8. Sexual behavior    9. Women    10. Sexual behaviour   

Reviews (5)

catptivating
haven't read it yet but can't wait. i actually saw on powells.com this book offered for $8.50 and no special order fee. just an fyi. look forward to an enchanting and engrossing read - it's been awhile...

sharp voice, great story teller
Linda St. John is a wonderful talent and tells her remarkable story of surviving a stark upbringing with wit and insight in the package of a really good read. The story moves along. Her characters are tremendously vivid and orginal.

Of Beatings and Beauty
The author has taken an artful look at herpainful family Read more

Subjects:  1. 1949-    2. Adult children of alcoholics    3. Adult children of dysfunctional families    4. Alcohol Abuse    5. Artists, Architects, Photographers    6. Biography    7. Biography & Autobiography    8. Biography / Autobiography    9. Biography/Autobiography    10. General    11. Parenting - Parent & Adult Child    12. Personal Memoirs    13. St. John, Linda,    14. United States    15. Women    16. Advice on parenting    17. Alcoholism    18. St. John, Linda   

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Amazingly accurate!Essentials and Basics galore for CODA and ACOA researchers!
While I was at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School back in the late 80's, I was studying under Dr. Sell basic problems associated with being the adult child of an alcoholic.By identifying the problems, one can overcome.I took his "Alcoholism and the Family" class, then with his help, I wrote a paper in an individual study class with him and wrote a paper.He was able to use some of the material in this paper for his book. He now uses this book as a text for his class and i am very proud to have been part of it.(...) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adjustment (Psychology)    2. Adult child abuse victims    3. Adult children of alcoholics    4. Mental health    5. Neurology    6. Parent and child    7. Recovery    8. Self-Help    9. Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism   

Subjects:  1. Adult Children of Alcoholics    2. Body, Mind & Spirit    3. Cults    4. Judaism - Kabbalah & Mysticism    5. New Age    6. New Age (Self Help)    7. New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit    8. Occultism    9. Kabbalah & hermetic thought   

Subjects:  1. New Age (Self Help)    2. New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit    3. Personal Growth - General    4. Self-Help    5. United States - General   

Reviews (7)

Thumps up!
This wonderful hitchhiking odyssey is all thumps up (or outstretched as the young boy would tell us). What a romp across 1960 America.It's the kind of book I'd love to see as a movie.Sure lends itself to the big screen because I have read few more visual stories.This is fun all the way to California and back!What a roll of the camera . . . and sentence.

Can't be true
I would normally give this book 5 stars, except I have a strong sense that this book is a fictional fraud.
A Triumph of Memory, a Tempest of Imagination
Smiling ghosts of Mark Twain and Jack Kerouac hover over many pages of Michael Keith's "The Next Better Place." This captivating book places Keith squarely in the same row with America's finest writers of the road adventure story.Which is to say that "The Next Better Place" is so much more than a memoir-cum-novel of a precocious son traversing America's great expanses with an ageing picaro of a father.Keith knows when to embroider his book's perfectly intoned dialogue, tremulous details, and charming teenage bravado with both lyrical pathos and hints at the perverse.The greatest American road novel, Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," also came to mind as I devoured Keith's book, and I can only hope that Keith will soon reward his readers with another one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. Adult Children of Alcoholics    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Childhood Memoir    8. Childhood and youth    9. Children of alcoholics    10. Fathers and sons    11. Hitchhiking    12. Keith, Michael C.,    13. Literary    14. Travelers    15. United States    16. Keith, Michael C    17. SELF-HELP / Adult Children of Substance Abusers   

Subjects:  1. Adult children of alcoholics    2. Group Psychotherapy    3. Mental Health And Hygiene    4. Psychology    5. Psychopathology - Addiction    6. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    7. Psychotherapy - Group    8. Rehabilitation    9. Substance abuse    10. Treatment    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Addictions    12. Psychotherapy    13. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Adult children of alcoholics    2. Biography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. General    5. Miscellanea    6. Poetry    7. Recovery    8. United States    9. Wolter, Dwight Lee   

Subjects:  1. Adult Children Of Alcoholics    2. Clinical Psychology    3. Psychology    4. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    5. Psychopathology - General    6. Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism    7. Addiction & therapy    8. Child & developmental psychology    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Pathological Psychology    10. Psychology-Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    11. Self-Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism    12. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Adult children of alcoholics    2. Alcoholics    3. Alcoholism (Psychiatric Aspects)    4. Clinical Psychology (Specific Aspects)    5. Psychology    6. Recovery    7. Self-Help    8. Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism    9. United States    10. Clinical psychology   

Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Abused wives    3. Adult Children of Alcoholics    4. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    5. Family violence    6. Medical care    7. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. United States    11. Wife abuse    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Abused women    14. Domestic violence    15. Family & Relationships / Abuse    16. Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations    17. Psychology-Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    18. Self-Adult Children of Alcoholics    19. Women's studies   

Reviews (2)

Understanding male violence
This would have been a more appropriate title. If you are in anyway concerned about "genderized racism" then be concerned no longer. Here it is in paper back. Men shall forever grovel at the intellectual superiority of feminism and their strange bed partners, if I may say that, of academia as represented by this Kentuckyin. Many of the references are of value once you read beyond the liberties the author takes to expound his misconceptions of the male gender. He castigates the male species and intimates, pardon the pun, that men are the instigators of most if not all family violence. Reviewing this book was like a trip down the old Cahulawassee River. Except the mountain men are Pee ach Dees. In chapter three he points out that in homosexual relationships, withholding sex is a form of abuse. The book spews with similar assertions bringing it to a climax in chapter 6 with marital rape. He makes the statement that the male assumes it is his right and priviledge to have sex whenever or where ever he wishes regardless of the womans "feelings". Rape is not about assumptions of right and priviledge it is about violence, control, intimidation and power. His definition is more like that in the Arab world along cultural lines not criminal anti-social behavior. I don't recommend this book to students or anyone seriously interested in family violence.

Rampant Elder Abuse and Fraud Colored by Law: Guardianship
Reports of guardians stealing from their wards' bank accounts and other wise abusing guardianship powers are surfacing with disturbing regularity. 'This problem is going to get bigger and bigger,' says E. Bentley Lipscomb, AARP's Florida state director and a former state secretary of elder affairs. - GUARDIANS DRAWING INCREASED SCRUTINY, AARP Bulletin. Read also "The Retirement Nightmare" by Diane Armstrong. Get the real truth about the fraud and abuse of the elderly and not so elderly by corrupt probate system and guardians. To avoid a guardianship in the State of Florida, and other states, should be of paramount importance. Find out how to protect yourself and your loved ones with alternatives: health care surrogate, durable power of attorney, mediation and more. Consider that if you leave your parents to fend for themselves, and ignore the deterioration associated with aging, a guardian can gain a guardianship over them and their assets, without informing you. That guardianship will nullify the most meticulous of plans. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Adult Children of Alcoholics    3. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    4. Family social work    5. Family violence    6. Human Services    7. Mental Health    8. Prevention    9. Recovery    10. Social Science    11. Treatment    12. United States    13. Counselling    14. Domestic violence    15. Family & Relationships / Abuse    16. Family & relationships    17. Medical-Mental Health    18. Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations    19. Self-Adult Children of Alcoholics   

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This is a book to live by and share with others.
I like to think that I'm a positive thinker and that I live my life with gratitude and faith in a great future, things always seem to go my way and I've always believed it's because of my attitude and faith in the power of my thinking.I love the way Janette thinks and writes - she has affirmed what I believe. I find her book to be spiritual, uplifting and powerful.My good friends will often ask me ,"how do you keep yourself so happy?"Well now that Ihave found this book, I can tell them... Im going to share this book with good friends when appropriate. Thanks Janette!!!!

Thank You!
This book is great.It inspired me begin some writing about one area of my life I want to look at now!The book is clear.It helped me work through the process.It also gives help with affirmations and other encouraging things to do - medititation, sleep repetition. etc.I am amazed at how much better I feel now!I bought a copy for my adult niece who was very sick last year.She loves it too!Thank you for this wonderful book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adult Children of Alcoholics    2. New Age (Self Help)    3. New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit    4. Self-Help    5. Spirituality - Feminine   

Subjects:  1. Adult Children of Alcoholics    2. Criminology    3. Juvenile delinquents    4. Juvenile parole    5. Rehabilitation    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - Marriage & Family    9. Teenage fathers    10. United States    11. Parenthood    12. Prisons    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Adult Children Of Alcoholics    2. Behavior Therapy    3. Counseling of    4. Neurology - General    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - Addiction    7. Rehabilitation    8. Alcoholism    9. Alcoholism (Psychiatric Aspects)    10. Clinical psychology    11. Counseling    12. Medical-Neurology - General    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology    14. Psychotherapy    15. Self-Adult Children of Alcoholics   

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Illuminating Read!
As a woman, I read Larry Krotz's "Midlifeman" to understand the perspective of my male family and friends.Larry Krotz is a very funny, witty writer, who portrays the issues that middle-aged men face with honesty and humor.Read more

Subjects:  1. Adult Children of Alcoholics    2. General    3. Interpersonal Relations    4. Men's Studies - General    5. Middle age    6. Middle aged men    7. Middle-aged men    8. Psychopathology - General    9. Self-Help    10. Sociology    11. Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs   

Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Adult Children of Alcoholics    3. Congresses    4. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    5. Family violence    6. Interpersonal Relations    7. Methodology    8. Reference    9. Research    10. Social Science    11. Sociology - Marriage & Family    12. Child abuse    13. Domestic violence    14. Family & Relationships / Abuse    15. Family & relationships    16. Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations    17. Psychology-Interpersonal Relations    18. Self-Adult Children of Alcoholics   

Subjects:  1. Adult Children Of Alcoholics    2. Family Relationships    3. Juvenile Sociology Of The Family    4. Parenting - Parent & Adult Child    5. Psychopathology - Addiction    6. Self-Help    7. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction    8. Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism    9. Self-Help / Alcoholism   

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It changed my entire outlook on my life
I read this book back in my 20's and have reread it several times since then.I can only say that it put so many things into perspective.It has also helped me understand people around me and gave me the courage to take a lot of risks in my life.It's not a quick fix to make you happy, but the philosophy of this book does instruct on how to live with unhappiness and make better choices that can lead to happiness. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adult children of alcoholics    2. Applied Psychology    3. Codependency    4. General    5. Problem families    6. Psychological aspects    7. Psychology    8. Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism    9. United States