Finding Our Fathers
Title | Finding Our Fathers PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Osherson |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
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With a new Introduction by the author, this seminal classic examines the hidden struggle faced by millions of men: how to reconcile their childhood images of their fathers as silent, stoic breadwinners with the life they want to live now.
The Failure of Our Fathers
Title | The Failure of Our Fathers PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria E. Ott |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817321470 |
"Examines the evolving position of non-elite whites in 19th Alabama society--from the state's creation through the end of the Civil War--through the lens of gender and family"--
The Failure of the Founding Fathers
Title | The Failure of the Founding Fathers PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Ackerman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2005-10-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674018662 |
Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Through close studies of two Supreme Court cases, Ackerman shows how the court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic.
Fathers Who Fail
Title | Fathers Who Fail PDF eBook |
Author | Melvin R. Lansky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1134881304 |
Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in child development and on fathering as a developmental stage, surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically impaired father. In Fathers Who Fail, Melvin Lansky remedies this glaring lacuna in the literature. Drawing on contemporary psychoanalysis, family systems theory, and the sociology of conflict, he delineates the spectrum of psychopathological predicaments that undermine the ability of the father to be a father. Out of his sensitive integration of the intrapsychic and intrafamilial contexts of paternal failure emerges a richly textured portrait of psychiatrically impaired fathers, of fathers who fail. Lansky's probing discussion of narcissistic equilibrium in the family system enables him to chart the natural history common to the symptomatic impulsive actions of impaired fathers. He then considers specific manifestations of paternal dysfunction within this shared framework of heightened familial conflict and the failure of intrafamilial defenses to common shame. Domestic violence, suicide, the intensification of trauma, posttraumatic nightmares, catastrophic reactions in organic brain syndrome, and the murder of a spouse are among the major "symptoms" that he explores. In each instance, Lansky carefully sketches the progression of vulnerability and turbulence from the father's personality, to the family system, and thence to the symptomatic eruption in question. In his concluding chapter, he comments tellingly on the unconscious obstacles - on the part of both patients and therapists - to treating impaired fathers. The obstacles cut across different clinical modalities, underscoring the need for multimodal responses to fathers who fail.
Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers
Title | Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Leyland Fields |
Publisher | HarperChristian + ORM |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2014-01-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0849922933 |
“If our families are to flourish, we will need to learn and practice ways of forgiving those who have had the greatest impact upon us: our mothers and fathers.” Do you struggle with the deep pain of a broken relationship with a parent? Leslie Leyland Fields and Dr. Jill Hubbard invite you to walk with them as they explore the following questions: What does the Bible say about forgiveness? Why must we forgive at all? How do we honor those who act dishonorably toward us, especially when those people are as influential as our parents? Can we ever break free from the “sins of our fathers”? What does forgiveness look like in the lives of real parents and children? Does forgiveness mean I have to let an estranged parent back into my life? Is it possible to forgive a parent who has passed away? Through the authors’ own compelling personal stories combined with a fresh look at the Scriptures, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers illustrates and instructs in the practice of authentic forgiveness, leading you away from hate and hurt toward healing, hope, and freedom. "A call to very hard, but very vital, work of the soul." —Dr. Henry Cloud, leadership expert, psychologist, and best-selling author "Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers is essential reading for anyone who wants to deal with those hurts in a constructive, healing, and God-honoring manner." —Jim Daly, president, Focus on the Family "Leslie Leyland Fields and Jill Hubbard take us into raw, messy stories so we can be transformed by that mysterious and painful grace in the force called forgiveness." —Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary
Our Fathers' Fields
Title | Our Fathers' Fields PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Kibler |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 478 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Newberry County (S.C.) |
ISBN | 9781570032141 |
This work chronicles six generations of the Hardy family, who purchased a South Carolina plantation in 1786 and farmed it for two centuries. The book also examines the natural history of the plantation and how it became one of the most valuable farms in the South.
Our Father's World
Title | Our Father's World PDF eBook |
Author | Edward R. Brown |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2008-03-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830834842 |
What does the Bible have to say about creation care and the responsibility of Christians? Edward Brown offers a biblical framework for creation care as well as practical steps that ordinary Christians can take to exercise good ecological stewardship.