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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society

Torture, Truth and Justice - The Case of Timor-Leste (Hardcover): Elizabeth Stanley Torture, Truth and Justice - The Case of Timor-Leste (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Stanley
R1,192 Discovery Miles 11 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses the questions ?What might torture victims need to move forward from their violation and ?How can official responses provide truth or justice for torture victims

Building on observations, documentary analysis and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and resisted in Timor-Leste. The author investigates the extent to which transitional justice institutions have provided justice for torture victims; illustrating how truth commissions and international courts operate together and reflecting on their successes and weaknesses with reference to wider social, political and economic conditions. Stanley also details victims? experiences of torture and highlights how they experience life in the newly built state of Timor-Leste

Tracking the past, present and future of human rights, truth and justice for victims in Timor-Leste, Torture, Truth and Justice will be of interest to students, professionals and scholars of Asian studies, International Studies, Human Rights and Social Policy.

Couple Sexuality After 60 - Intimate, Pleasurable, and Satisfying (Paperback): Barry McCarthy, Emily McCarthy Couple Sexuality After 60 - Intimate, Pleasurable, and Satisfying (Paperback)
Barry McCarthy, Emily McCarthy
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Encourages the reader to embrace sexuality and aging, and to enjoy intimate and pleasurable experiences throughout their aging years. * Challenges two embedded cultural myths: that people over 60 should not or cannot be sexual, and that the best way to be sexual is by emphasizing eroticism and 'kinky' sex. * Presents a healthy model of sexuality that values desire/pleasure/eroticism/satisfaction, and prioritises pleasure-oriented touching, rather than individual sexual performances. * Covers topics which are often of concern, such as using medical interventions, illnesses/disabilities, desire and satisfaction, and coming to terms with the 'new normal'. * Written by highly esteemed, husband-and-wife writing team, Barry and Emily McCarthy.

Married Women Who Love Women - And More... (Hardcover): Carren Strock Married Women Who Love Women - And More... (Hardcover)
Carren Strock
R3,622 Discovery Miles 36 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally written in the 1990s, this book remains a key resource for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. This classic edition includes a new foreword from Ann Northrop, veteran journalist, activist, and co-host of Gay USA that reflects on the changes in language, intersectionality, and understandings of gender since first publication. Celebrating 25 years since first publication, this book shares the author’s personal story, as well as the descriptive experience of others, to provide validation and empowerment to multitudes of women in their search for their true identities. The author gives women ways in which to structure and restructure their lives and their families after they realize their same-gender sexuality. Chapters consider questions such as how women make this discovery, reactions from loved ones, and the outcomes for marriages and families. Updated throughout with contemporary understandings of sexuality and gender, as well as updated language, this book includes a wealth of information, fresh narratives, and stories offering insight into women’s experiences across the country. This is an essential read for women and their partners who are discovering their true identity, as well as therapists, helping professionals, and students of women’s studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and LGBTQ studies programs.

Childhood Emotional Abuse - Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact (Paperback): Margaret... Childhood Emotional Abuse - Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact (Paperback)
Margaret O'Dougherty Wright
R1,755 Discovery Miles 17 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Get the latest research on the processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse The effects of the emotional abuse of children are not necessarily seen immediately. Evidence shows that this type of maltreatment to be perhaps as damaging as other, more obvious forms of abuse. Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact provides the latest new data on processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse. This comprehensive book presents cutting edge research that focuses on the who, why, and how of emotional abuse and its negative impact across the life span. This valuable resource combines theory and research in exploring important mediators and moderators of the long term impact of child emotional abuse. Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact offers insight into exciting new research that highlights emotional abuse impact across biological, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains. Mediators examined include alterations in the stress response system, cognitive distortions and negative thoughts, maladaptive interpersonal schemes, and disturbances in psychological health which impact spousal relationships. Gender and race are discussed in detail as important moderators. This important book may be an essential first step in finding possible explanations for the persistence of these negative effects. The topics in Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact include: a comprehensive review of possible neurodevelopmental consequences of childhood emotional abuse biological consequences of abuse and mistreatment the link between childhood emotional abuse and later vulnerability to depression effects of emotional abuse on subsequent interpersonal relationshipsincluding ways of handling conflict and risk for dating abuse the impact of emotional abuse on later marital satisfaction Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact is a crucial one-of-a-kind reference for researchers studying long term effects of child abuse, and is also useful for psychologists, social workers, and counselors working with child abuse survivors.

Childhood Emotional Abuse - Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact (Hardcover, Revised, Update):... Childhood Emotional Abuse - Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact (Hardcover, Revised, Update)
Margaret O'Dougherty Wright
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Get the latest research on the processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse The effects of the emotional abuse of children are not necessarily seen immediately. Evidence shows that this type of maltreatment to be perhaps as damaging as other, more obvious forms of abuse. Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact provides the latest new data on processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse. This comprehensive book presents cutting edge research that focuses on the who, why, and how of emotional abuse and its negative impact across the life span. This valuable resource combines theory and research in exploring important mediators and moderators of the long term impact of child emotional abuse. Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact offers insight into exciting new research that highlights emotional abuse impact across biological, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains. Mediators examined include alterations in the stress response system, cognitive distortions and negative thoughts, maladaptive interpersonal schemes, and disturbances in psychological health which impact spousal relationships. Gender and race are discussed in detail as important moderators. This important book may be an essential first step in finding possible explanations for the persistence of these negative effects. The topics in Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact include: a comprehensive review of possible neurodevelopmental consequences of childhood emotional abuse biological consequences of abuse and mistreatment the link between childhood emotional abuse and later vulnerability to depression effects of emotional abuse on subsequent interpersonal relationshipsincluding ways of handling conflict and risk for dating abuse the impact of emotional abuse on later marital satisfaction Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact is a crucial one-of-a-kind reference for researchers studying long term effects of child abuse, and is also useful for psychologists, social workers, and counselors working with child abuse survivors.

Handbook of Social Work in Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse (Hardcover, New): Carolyn Hilarski, John S Wodarski, Marvin D Feit Handbook of Social Work in Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse (Hardcover, New)
Carolyn Hilarski, John S Wodarski, Marvin D Feit
R3,195 Discovery Miles 31 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The enlightening collection of new approaches to understanding sexual abuse When sexual abuse occurs, helping those directly affected can be a difficult and convoluted task. The Handbook of Social Work in Child & Adolescent Sexual Abuse is a comprehensive guide that provides the latest information on assessment, management, prevention, and policy. Through insightful and accessible discussions, this collection of essays encompasses the full spectrum of child and adolescent sexual abuse to shed needed light on an affecting issue. This innovative text is the up-to-date source for unique and compassionate ways of supporting and treating survivors. The increased attention given to child sexual abuse in recent years has revealed how little we know about this tragedy. The Handbook of Social Work in Child & Adolescent Sexual Abuse is the practical compendium that covers the already existing information regarding violence against children and delves into practical methods for treating those immediately affected by it. From its historical place in society to contemporary issues of prevention that have only recently come to light, contributors examine essential details in-depth and provide concise, empirical directions for short- and long-term support. Also included is the important and newly-available assessment and treatment information focusing on ethnicity, gender, and comorbid influences as they relate to family member treatment. Among the topics discussed in the Handbook of Social Work in Child & Adolescent Sexual Abuse are: historical views of and responses to sexual abuse risk and protective factors life stage consequences theories of family dysfunction comorbidity and attachment intrafamilial abuse the non-family offender current empirical assessment methods approaches to treatment in children approaches to treatment in adolescents neurological effects of abuse treatment for the non-offending caregiver the role of the internet and other media policy and practice implications the prevalence and consequences of abuse new methods of abuse prevention and child protection the etiology of sexual offending in an attachment framework and much more! The Handbook of Social Work in Child & Adolescent Sexual Abuse is an essential resource for educators, medical practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, family therapists, and students, researchers, and academics in the field of social work.

Praise Song For The Butterflies (Hardcover): Bernice L McFadden Praise Song For The Butterflies (Hardcover)
Bernice L McFadden 1
R520 R102 Discovery Miles 1 020 Save R418 (80%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded. Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abeo for the fifteen years she is enslaved within the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past, endure the revelation of family secrets, and learn to trust and love again. In the tradition of Chris Cleave's Little Bee, Praise Song for the Butterflies is a contemporary story that offers an educational, eye-opening account of the practice of ritual servitude in West Africa. Spanning decades and two continents, Praise Song for the Butterflies is an unflinching tale of the devastation that children are subject to when adults are ruled by fear and someone must pay the consequences. "Abeo is unrelenting - a fiery protagonist who sparks in every scene. Bernice L. McFadden has created yet another compelling story, this time about hope and freedom." Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun

Intimacy, Sex and Relationship Challenges Laid Bare Across the Lifespan - Applied Principles and Practice for Health... Intimacy, Sex and Relationship Challenges Laid Bare Across the Lifespan - Applied Principles and Practice for Health Professionals (Paperback)
Judy Benns, Sue Burridge, Jean Penman
R1,008 Discovery Miles 10 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This accessible book uses case studies to explore issues around intimacy, sexual function and sexual development over the lifespan, introducing applied principles and practices when working with sexuality-related issues. Introducing an easy-to-use 'Reflect and Respond' model as a framework for interactions, this book discusses a broad selection of topics and life stages, including hidden loss, gender identity, disability, early years experiences and older age. Exposing anonymized real-life experiences of intimacy, sexual function, and sexual development from birth to end of life, this book develops the reader's insight into sexual wellbeing and confidence in communicating about it. The experiential learning and research-based content in readable style will educate and inspire readers with an interest in sexual wellbeing and how this impacts on physical and mental health. Demonstrating how being open to talk about sex and intimacy can change lives, this guide is suitable for a wide range of health and social care professionals, including nurses, doctors, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists and counsellors.

Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment - A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention (Hardcover): Charles A. Maher, Joseph... Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment - A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention (Hardcover)
Charles A. Maher, Joseph Zins, Maurice Elias
R6,148 Discovery Miles 61 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive examination of theory, research, prevention and intervention, and professional practice issues - in one source. Teasing, shunning, and bullying can have serious detrimental effects on both victim and perpetrator. Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention comprehensively gathers emerging research, theory, and effective practice on this subject into one invaluable source. This thorough review of a wide spectrum of innovative, evidence-based practices targets the complex problems of victimization, peer harassment, and bullying in our schools. Interventions range from individuals and their peers to broad, systems-level change within schools and communities. The challenge of prevention is also explored, using the latest studies as a practical foundation. Suggestions are provided detailing effective strategies to make changes in the culture within schools while offering directions for future research and practice. Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment discusses research on current intervention programs now in place that, until now, has never been evaluated. Several of the studies address middle school issues and multi-ethnic populations, including those from the United States, Canada, and Europe. Peer sexual harassment and dating-related aggression are examined that includes and goes beyond traditional views of bullying and peer intimidation. This valuable handbook provides concise yet extensive information on the most current theory, empirical research, practice guidelines, and suggestions for preparing schools for programmatic initiatives. Topics in Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment include: theory and conceptual issues in victimization, bullying, and peer harassment assessment results from a four-year longitudinal study on peer victimization in early adolescents youth perceptions toward bullying high school students' victimization profiles immigrant children and victimization evaluating an adolescent violence prevention program a school-based intervention program peer group intervention interventions for victims multiple perspectives involving sexual harassment school-wide approaches to prevention and intervention and much more! Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment is a crucial resource for researchers and mental health professionals who work in schools and who work with children and their families, such as school psychologists, counselors, clinical child psychologists, social workers, and community psychologists.

Exorcising the demons within - Xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa (Paperback): Loren B. Landau Exorcising the demons within - Xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa (Paperback)
Loren B. Landau
R83 R65 Discovery Miles 650 Save R18 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township turned violently on their neighbours, launching a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped and over a hundred thousand displaced. Most of those killed were from beyond South Africa's borders, but at least a third were citizens who, for reasons of ethnicity or political affiliation, failed to protect their space in the country's urban core. Although not the most severe political violence in South Africa's turbulent past, the 2008 attacks reflect an important moment in the country's post-apartheid, post-authoritarian existence: a moment when the government's legitimacy and the post-apartheid order were called into question. This xenophobic violence made evident cracks in the cohesion of law and society while helping to redefine both. It is these events and subsequent consequences for the ordering of power, population and place that this book explores. Exorcising the demons within makes sense of recent anti-outsider violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Drawing on an interdisciplinary team of expert scholars and on new research, this is the first academic text to fully theorise the events that made global headlines in 2008. Through its subtle, empirical and theoretically informed analysis, the book reshapes discussion of xenophobia and violence in South Africa while injecting local debates into global considerations of the meaning of citizenship and the post-colonial state.

The Abused and the Abuser - Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics (Paperback): Warwick Middleton, Adah Sachs, Martin J. Dorahy The Abused and the Abuser - Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics (Paperback)
Warwick Middleton, Adah Sachs, Martin J. Dorahy
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Severe abuse often occurs in settings where the grouping, whether based around a family or a community organisation or institution, outwardly appears to be very respectable. The nature of attachment dynamics allied with threat, discrediting, the manipulation of the victim's dissociative defences, long-term conditioning and the endless invoking of shame mean that sexual, physical and emotional abuse may, in some instances, be essentially unending. Even when separation from the long-term abuser is attempted, it may initially be extremely difficult to achieve, and there are some individuals who never achieve this parting. Even when the abuser is dead, the intrapsychic nature of the enduring attachment experienced by their victim remains complicated and difficult to resolve. This volume includes multiple perspectives from highly experienced clinicians, researchers and writers on the nature of the relationship between the abused and their abuser(s). No less than five of this international grouping of authors have been president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the world's oldest international trauma society. This book, which opens with a highly original clinical paper on 'weaponized sex' by Richard Kluft, one of the foremost pioneers of the modern dissociative disorders field, concludes with a gripping historical perspective written by Jeffrey Masson as he reengages with issues that first brought him to worldwide prominence in the 1980s. Between these two pieces, the contributors, all highly acclaimed for their clinical, theoretical or research work, present original, cutting edge work on this complex subject. This book was originally published as a double special issue of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.

Prologue to Violence - Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime (Hardcover): Abby Stein Prologue to Violence - Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime (Hardcover)
Abby Stein; Foreword by Donnel B. Stern
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite mounting references to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence, Abby Stein draws on the gripping narratives of 65 incarcerated subjects and extensive material from law enforcement files to remedy this lacuna in both the forensic and psychodynamic literature. In the process, she calls into question prevailing beliefs about criminal character and motivation. For Stein the early trauma to which adult criminals are subjected remains unformulated and, as such, unavailable for reflection. Contrary to common belief, these criminals, especially sex murderers, do not commit their crimes in a rational or fully conscious way. They are not driven by deviant fantasy, their psychopathy is not inborn, and they rarely commit acts of violence "without conscience." Stein's interdisciplinary analysis of her data infuses contemporary relational psychoanalysis with the insights of neuroscience, traumatology, criminology, and cognitive and narrative psychology. A powerful challenge to offender treatment programs to address the shaping impact of childhood trauma rather than merely to "correct" the cognitions of violent offenders, Prologue to Violence will be equally compelling to researchers and academics investigating child abuse and adult violence. Its mental health readership will be broad and deep, ranging beyond clinicians who work with offender populations to all therapists who wrestle with experiences of dissociation and aggressive enactment in everyday life.

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia - Disrupting Violence (Hardcover): Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia - Disrupting Violence (Hardcover)
Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in the world, and several well-organized terrorist groups, making understanding of the dynamics of religious conflict and violence particularly urgent. By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in the region and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. The dearth of other literature on the intersection of religion, politics and violence in contemporary South and Southeast Asia makes the timing of this book particularly relevant. This book will of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies.

Being Lolita - A Memoir (Hardcover): Alisson Wood Being Lolita - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Alisson Wood
R521 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North. He praises her as a special and gifted writer, and she blossoms under his support and his vision for her future. Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a relationship that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance, with Mr. North convincing her that theirs is a love affair rivalled only by Nabokov's masterpiece. But as time progresses and his hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of that narrative is actually a disturbing fiction. In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and again with the story of her past, from re-reading Lolita in college, to working with teenage girls, to becoming a professor of creative writing. It is only with that distance and perspective that she understands the ultimate power language has had on her and how to harness that power to tell her own true story. Being Lolita is a stunning coming-of-age memoir of obsession, passion and manipulation, shining a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability and power. This is the story of what happens when a young woman realises her entire narrative must be rewritten and then takes back the pen to rewrite it.

Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families (Paperback): M. Carolyn Hilarski, John S Wodarski Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families (Paperback)
M. Carolyn Hilarski, John S Wodarski
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive look at the many types of male and female sex offenders who victimize children, adolescents, and adults Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, user-friendly practice methods for working with all types of sex offenders. Each chapter provides an overview of a specific category of sex offender and presents case examples and sample treatment plans with short- and long-term goals and objectives. This unique book also includes the latest assessment and intervention methods, family and relapse prevention efforts, and cultural issues that affect service delivery. Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines the etiology, prevalence, and behavioral consequences of eight different sex offender typologies to provide you with a much broader focus than you'll find in other sex offender books currently on the market. The book explores gender issues, demographics, offense characteristics, family characteristics, and assessment issues in dealing with both male and female sex offenders who use psychological and physical means to victimize children, adolescents, and adults. The end result is effective as a reference for health and mental health practitioners, as a resource for program implementation and outcome evaluation for policymakers and researchers, and as a classroom aid for the next generation of social workers and health and mental health providers. Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines: child sex offendersinappropriate, developmentally precocious, and aggressive sexual behavior among children adolescent sex offenderscriminal sexual acts committed by juveniles adult male sex offendersthe average male sexual molester will victimize hundreds of children in his lifetime women who sexually abuse childrenchallenging the stereotypes about motherhood and female-child relationships professional perpetratorsclerics, teachers, tutors, athletic coaches intellectually and developmentally challenged sex offenderssexually abusive acts committed by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) violent sex offendersphysical and psychological injuries suffered during sexual violation comorbid psychopathology in child, adolescent, and adult sexual offendersanti-social, narcissistic, and sadistic behaviors, learning problems, neuropsychological impairments, and more Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families is an essential resource for anyone working with diverse groups of sex offenders.

Creating Bodies - Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival (Paperback): Katie Gentile Creating Bodies - Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival (Paperback)
Katie Gentile
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways to recovery. Creating Bodies offers the gripping story of healing and transformation detailed in one woman's diaries. Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. In the excerpts reprinted herein, we watch Hannah navigate violent adolescent friendships, descend into anorexia and bulimia, marry an abusive man, struggle to recover memories of sexual abuse, and finally to heal. And we learn of her interaction with Katie Gentile, who analyzed her diaries and met with Hannah to discuss the latter's own understanding of the diaries and of the diary analysis.
Through a close study of both the content and structure of Hannah's diaries, Gentile shows how unspeakable, embodied remnants of sexual trauma become symbolized and how, within this process, Hannah's bulimia functioned as both an act of self destruction and a lifesaving form of resistance. Anchored in relational psychoanalysis and critical feminist theory, Creating Bodies provides a uniquely longitudinal account of the development of, and ultimate recovery from, an eating disorder fueled by childhood sexual abuse. An invaluable contribution to the literature on adolescent and adult eating disorders, it is also a thoughtful meditation on how the act of writing deepens issues of relationality and, over time, promotes cure. Psychoanalysts will be intrigued by the rich process issues embedded in prose journals, notes, and letters - both close to and distinct from clinical process issues - that Gentile uses to understandHannah's projects of self-destruction and reconstruction.

An Honourable Thief - A must-read historical crime thriller (Paperback): Douglas Skelton An Honourable Thief - A must-read historical crime thriller (Paperback)
Douglas Skelton
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail 'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historical backdrop. I loved this book' Ian Rankin 'High adventure meets espionage thriller as Jonas Flynt battles the tide of history and the deadly secrets of his own past...' D. V. Bishop, author of City of Vengeance 1715. Jonas Flynt, ex-soldier and reluctant member of the Company of Rogues, a shady intelligence group run by ruthless spymaster Nathaniel Charters, is ordered to recover a missing document. Its contents could prove devastating in the wrong hands. On her deathbed, the late Queen Anne may have promised the nation to her half-brother James, the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I. But the will has been lost. It may decide the fate of the nation. The crown must recover it at all costs. The trail takes Jonas from the dark and dangerous streets of London to an Edinburgh in chaos. He soon realises there are others on the hunt, and becomes embroiled in a long overdue family reunion, a jail break and a brutal street riot. When secrets finally come to light, about the crown and about his own past, Jonas will learn that some truths, once discovered, can never be untold... An atmospheric and utterly compelling blend of crime, history and thriller, to delight fans of S. J. Parris, Andrew Taylor and C. J. Sansom. Praise for An Honourable Thief 'Reads like a genuine eighteenth century spy novel. I see a long future for Jonas Flynt' Ambrose Parry, author of The Way of All Flesh 'Anyone who enjoys a good historical mystery and likes an edgy, charismatic protagonist is going to love the adventures of Douglas Skelton's new hero, Jonas Flynt' S.G. MacLean, author of The Seeker 'An absolute triumph ... Five stars from me, and I look forward to reading more of Jonas's adventures' James Oswald, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Historical crime fiction at its absolute best. I loved it!' Marion Todd, author of the Detective Clare Mackay series 'Pitch-perfect stuff. Like all great historical novels you'll feel you're there! This is a departure for Skelton, who seems born to write high-end historical fiction' Denzil Meyrick, author of the DCI Daley thrillers 'Uniquely combines a page-turning thriller with a perfectly evoked sense of time and place. Powerful stuff from a master of his craft' Craig Russell, author of Hyde 'Skelton's mastery of time and place inhabited with richly drawn characters is a delight. It held me to the last tantalising page' David Gilman, author of The Englishman 'Jonas Flynt is one of those characters you'll be rooting for from the very first chapter ... it looks like Skelton has found a new home writing first-class historical fiction' Alison Belsham, author of The Tattoo Thief 'This is a fascinating, totally engrossing historical novel. Flynt is a most attractive, three-dimensional character and the same is true of the world he moves through. A brilliant, most enjoyable read' Paul Doherty, author of The Nightingale Gallery 'A cracking historical drama with breathless pacing and knuckle-chewing tension, all shot through with Skelton's deft characterisation and flashes of pitch-black humour. The perfect read to lose yourself in' Neil Broadfoot, author of Falling Fast 'A compelling tale of justice and vengeance, of intrigue and plotting, all centred around a flawed 18th century Jack Reacher' Morgan Cry, author of Thirty-One Bones

Women Who Perpetrate Relationship Violence: Moving Beyond Political Correctness - Moving Beyond Political Correctness... Women Who Perpetrate Relationship Violence: Moving Beyond Political Correctness - Moving Beyond Political Correctness (Paperback)
Frederick Buttell, Michelle Mohr Carney
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Find out what drives women to violence in their intimate relationshipsand how to prevent it Women Who Perpetrate Relationship Violence examines the causes and consequences of violence initiated by women against their partners. This unique book fills the void of available literature on domestically violent women, taking a frank look at the issues surrounding female batterers who are the primary aggressors in their intimate relationships. Contributors write candidly about the similarities and differences between violent women and violent men, how to develop effective interventions, existing theories on the development of abusive behavior in women, and society's response to violent women. The counseling and psychological community has responded to the problem of domestic abuse and violence against women. But very little has been done to address the issues of domestic abuse and violence committed by women. Women Who Perpetrate Relationship Violence presents innovative original research that focuses specifically on women as offenders, rather than simply adapting programs created for male batterers to women. The book includes epidemiological studies, secondary analyses, personality profiles, and a study of women entering a 16-week, court-mandated, batterer intervention program (BIP). Women Who Perpetrate Relationship Violence examines: predictors of intimate violence, including antisocial criminal records, alcohol abuse, and personality disorders associations between interpersonal dependency and violence elevated histrionic, narcissistic, and compulsive personality traits personality disorders lethal domestic assaults recidivism differences in demographic and psychological variables between women who complete treatment programs and those who drop out and much more Women Who Perpetrate Relationship Violence is an invaluable professional resource for psychologists, social workers, and counselors.

The Girl from Nowhere - A Romani Ghetto Life (Paperback): Eliska Tanzer The Girl from Nowhere - A Romani Ghetto Life (Paperback)
Eliska Tanzer
R240 R144 Discovery Miles 1 440 Save R96 (40%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes. Maybe I should have given the family business a chance... BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik 'Eliska's story is an extraordinary and powerful read. It's the ultimate book about survival and an against-all-odds fight to make it in life. Highly recommend.' Clover Stroud 'A scintillating, devastating memoir, and a fiercely witty and unabashed tribute to the toughness of the human spirit.' Damian Le Bas __________________________________________________ To westerners, being Gypsy means being wild, romantic and free. To Eliska Tanzer, it means being rented out to dance for older men. It means living without running water. It means not being allowed a job or an education. It means being stuffed into a bare room with all your aunts and cousins, fighting over the thin, stained blanket the way you fight over the last piece of half-mouldy bread. It means joining the family prostitution ring when you're still a child. But Eliska was given a way out. Slung out of Hoe School and shipped to England in a washing machine box, she thought she had made it. But her dream soon turned into a nightmare. A moving and timely memoir from a powerful new voice in literature.

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours - A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians (Paperback): Silva Neves Compulsive Sexual Behaviours - A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians (Paperback)
Silva Neves
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours. This comprehensive guide is deeply rooted in the science of sexology and psychotherapy, demonstrating why it is time to re-think the reductive concept of 'sex addiction' and move towards a more modern age of evidence-based, pluralistic and sex-positive psychotherapy. It is an important manual for ethical, safe and efficient treatment within a humanistic and relational philosophy. This book will be an important guide in helping clients stop their compulsive sexual behaviours as well as for therapists to self-reflect on their own morals and ethics so that they can be prepared to explore their clients' erotic mind.

Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend - Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research (Hardcover): Kristina... Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend - Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research (Hardcover)
Kristina Crumpton Franey
R5,108 Discovery Miles 51 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What factors contribute to the making of a youthful sexual offender? This book is designed to assist professionals working with youth who sexually offend. A distinguished panel of experts discusses the latest research and provides theory, techniques, and practical guidelines for the assessment and treatment of this challenging population. Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend: Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research lays an essential foundation with a theoretical overview that frames the subject in a clear, easy-to-follow style. This section includes: a comprehensive overview of the controversies, definitions, and salient characteristics of youth who sexually offend that that provides an understanding of the factors believed to be related to sex offending among youth as well as an up-to-date review of current theory an examination of an etiological model that is frequently applied to adult sex offenders is it applicable for use with youthful offenders?The second section of Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend tackles the challenges professionals face when conducting assessments of sexually abusive youth.This section is designed to help the clinicians of today and tomorrow become better equipped to handle the daunting task of assessment from choosing assessment tools to decreasing denial with specific interviewing techniques.Readers will learn: how to distinguish subtypes among this population with a research review and comparative descriptions of clinical and empirical typologies as well as discussion of the Trauma Outcome Process model and practical examples for clinicians how to predict the rate of re-offense among youth who sexually offend, with a review of five risk assessment methods and four scales plus directions for using them includes the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol (JSOAP), the Protective Factors Scale (PFS), and the Estimate of Risk of Adolescent Sex Offender Recidivism (ERASOR) the nuts and bolts of the interviewing and clinical assessment phase of treatment a look at effective interviewing strategies, the process of change, and the stages of change model the importance of family therapy in the treatment of these youth ways to include parents in relapse prevention planning and ways to handle treatment providers' misconceptions and concerns about including family therapy in this type of treatment cognitive-behavioral treatment models for use in outpatient settings with treatment strategies directed toward various individual or family clinical targets, including psychological dysfunctions, sexual deviance, adolescent development and adaptive skills, and parent/family relationships an integrated (holistic) experiential approach to treatment, complete with sample exercises and a discussion of the pros and cons of many current treatment modalities a multi-family group therapy (MFGT) approach with a look at this powerful intervention mode's advantages, including economic benefits, family-to-family support and mentoring, community-based resourcefulness, and accelerated catalyzing of emotions, and directions for how to establish a MFGT format for treatment current practices in residential treatment for adolescent sex offenders policies, testing and assessment procedures, therapeutic approaches used, number of males and females in treatment, etc.The final section of Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend explores what happens to youth who sexually offend after they leave treatment.This includes: a survey of the literature on recidivism an evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment of 644 juvenile sex offenders through the meta-analysis of 10 studies with encouraging results a look at the life experiences of a samp

Making Things Right At Work - Increase Teamwork, Resolve Conflict And Build Trust (Paperback): Gary Chapman, Jennifer Thomas,... Making Things Right At Work - Increase Teamwork, Resolve Conflict And Build Trust (Paperback)
Gary Chapman, Jennifer Thomas, Paul White
R350 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R62 (18%) In Stock

Like all relationships, the ones we have at work are subject to stresses—maybe even fractures. Productivity is lost. Tension mounts. Cooperation is reduced. And the workplace becomes toxic. What’s the solution?

In Making Things Right at Work, Dr. Gary Chapman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages®, is joined by business consultants Dr. Jennifer Thomas and Dr. Paul White to offer strategies for restoring harmony at work.

You’ll learn:

  • How to discern the causes of workplace conflict
  • How to avoid unnecessary disputes
  • How to repair relationships when you’ve messed up
  • How to let go of past hurts and rebuild trust

Don’t let broken relationships taint your work environment. Take steps to make things right . . . not tomorrow, but today. The success of your career depends on it!

Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific - Global and regional dynamics (Paperback): Robert Ayson, Desmond Ball Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific - Global and regional dynamics (Paperback)
Robert Ayson, Desmond Ball
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the major strategic themes and security challenges of the early twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own local security challenges in a wider regional and global context. It is also for North American and European readers requiring an understanding of the dynamic security developments in the Asia-Pacific region around which so much of global strategy is increasingly based. The really vital questions facing the international community are dealt with here: Why do governments and groups still use armed force? Has warfare really changed in the information age? Why should we be concerned about non-traditional security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of infectious disease? Is a great clash imminent between the United States and China? What are the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula and between India and Pakistan? Can Southeast Asia survive the challenges of transnational terrorism? What does security mean for the Pacific island countries and for Australia and New Zealand? With contributions from leading commentators and analysts, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the field.

Violent Conflicts in Indonesia - Analysis, Representation, Resolution (Hardcover, Reissue): Charles A. Coppel Violent Conflicts in Indonesia - Analysis, Representation, Resolution (Hardcover, Reissue)
Charles A. Coppel
R3,933 R2,760 Discovery Miles 27 600 Save R1,173 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Part I. Violence and the State 1. Introduction Charles Coppel 2. From Soepomo to Prabowo: Rethinking the State? The Failure of Legal Responses to Violence in Indonesia Tim Lindsey Part II. Regions of Violence 3. E/In-venting the May 1998 Tragedy: Problematic Representations of Violence in Contemporary Indonesia Sai Siew-Min 4. Discursive Violence on the Internet and the May 1998 Riots Elaine Tay 5. The other May riots: Anti-Chinese violence in Salo, May 1998 Jemma Purdey 6. Violence and Ideology in the Murder of Sorcerers in East Java's Malang Regency: The People, the State and the Press Nick Herriman 7. Passing the Red Bowl: Tracking Threads of Blood in West Kalimantan Nancy Lee Peluso 8. The Maluku Wars: 'Communal Contenders' in a Failing State Gerry van Klinken 9. Migration, Provocateurs and Communal Violence: The Cases of Ambon and West Kalimantan Anne Loveband & Ken Young 10. Provoking Violence, Authenticating Separatism: Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) Elizabeth Drexler 11. Ceremonies of Reconciliation as prelude to violence in Suai, East Timor James Fox 12. Graffiti for a Truer Kind of Politics: Death, Revenge and Building in East Timor Jacqueline Siapno 13. Violence and Alienation in West Papua Richard Chauvel Part III. After the Violence 14. Indonesian Media Representations of Violence Stanley Adi Prasetyo 15. Publishing Books About Violence in Indonesia Bimo Nugroho 16. Educating to Handle Conflict and Avoid Violence Rizal Panggabean 17. The National Commission on Violence Against Women in Indonesia Mely G. Tan 18. Tortured Body, Betrayed Heart: State Violence in the narratives of ex- 'Communist' Indonesian political prisoners Budiawa Purwadi 19. Violence, Internal Displacement and Its Impact on Women in Aceh Suraiya Kamaruzzaman 20. Those who try are Paralysed: the Political Economy of Violence and Victims in Indoneia Hilmar Farid

Peace Studies (Hardcover): Matthew Evangelista Peace Studies (Hardcover)
Matthew Evangelista
R25,258 Discovery Miles 252 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The academic field of peace studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict, as well as the methods to prevent this conflict and deal with its consequences.
Peace studies, much like political science itself, is an interdisciplinary field, built upon contributions from psychology, sociology, history and economics among others. It differs from related fields, such as strategic studies or security studies, in its implicit normative and teleological orientation: an expectation that scholarly research can contribute to reducing the sources of conflict to produce a more just and peaceful world.

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