Endings & Beginnings

Endings & Beginnings
Author: Redi Tlhabi
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1431404616

"When Redi Tlhabi is eleven years old, two years after her father's death, she meets the handsome, charming and smooth, Mabegzo. A rumoured gangster, murderer and rapist, he is a veritable 'jack roller' of the neighbourhood. Against her family's wishes, she develops a strong connection to him. Tlhabi herself doesn't understand why she is drawn to Mabegzo and why, at eleven, she feels a brokenness that only Mabegzo can fix. 'Endings & Beginnings' is Tlhabi's emotional journey back into her past to finally humanise this man whose hollowness mirrored her own and who was hated and abhorred by so many when he was alive. Through interviews and deep emotional conversations with his family, friends and those who knew him, Redi finally gets to fit together the pieces of the puzzle that was Mabegzo. Her revelations do not in any way excuse who and what he was, but they go a long way in shedding light on the scourge that is violence in our societies and why young black men are consumed by anger." -- Back cover.

Endings and Beginnings

Endings and Beginnings
Author: Herbert J. Schlesinger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135829764

What sets off the termination of analysis and psychodynamic therapy from the variety of endings that enter into all human relationships? So asks Herbert J. Schlesinger in Endings and Beginnings: On Terminating Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, a work of remarkable clarity, conceptual rigor, and ingratiating readability. Schlesinger situates termination - which he understands, variously, as a phase of treatment, a treatment process, and a state of mind - within the family of "beginnings and endings" that permeate one another throughout the course of therapy. For Schlesinger, therapeutic endings cannot be aligned with the final phase of treatment; ending-phase phenomena are ongoing accompaniments of therapeutic work. They occur whenever patients achieve some portion of their treatment goals and supervene when therapy stagnates. Small wonder that an assessment of the patient's relationship to time and capacity to end therapy are key aspects of diagnostic evaluation. By linking beginning and ending phases not to the chronology of treatment but to the patient’s experience of it, Schlesinger brings revivifying insight to a host of psychodynamic concepts. Nor does he shy away from a trenchant critique of the instrumental “medical model” of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic training, which militates against the therapeutic exploration of treatment endings. Schlesinger's exemplification of how to begin treatment from the point of view of ending; his sensitive delineation of the mid-treatment "ending" crises characteristic of "vulnerable patients"; his richly woven case vignettes illustrating various "ending" contingencies and permutations - these inquiries are gems of pragmatic clinical wisdom. Endings and Beginnings distills lessons learned over the course of a half century of practicing, teaching, and supervising psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and is a gift to the profession.

Experiencing Endings and Beginnings

Experiencing Endings and Beginnings
Author: Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429913400

Throughout life we undergo many changes in our circumstances, beginnings and endings of relationships, gains and losses. This book highlights the emotional turmoil which, to a greater or lesser extent, accompanies these changes. It considers the nature of the anxieties aroused by a new situation and the ending of a previous state at various stages in life. Endings and beginnings are shown to be closely related, for every new situation entered into, more often than not, involves having to let go of some of the advantages of the previous one as well as losing what is familiar and facing fear of the unknown. The author shows how all these aspects of change evoke primitive anxieties, stemming from our earliest experiences of coming into this world. While beginning life outside holds the promise of a wider, more enriching existence it involves the loss of the known, relative safety of life inside mother's body. Moreover, the human newborn is at first utterly helpless, totally dependent on others to keep him alive.

Celebrating Beginnings and Endings

Celebrating Beginnings and Endings
Author:
Publisher: Sound Wisdom
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN: 9780983704324

In this busy, media-overload, cell phone-mad world, do you find yourself feeling disconnected from what¿s important? Milestone events happen, and you just don¿t know what to do to celebrate them, so you let them pass. Paula Pugh understands how you feel, and her book Celebrate Beginnings and Endings: Mark the Moment Book I will help you connect with your family and friends in wonderful new ways. Even small beginnings, transitions and endings can be explored and filled with wonder. In Celebrate Beginnings and Endings, you¿ll find examples of unique events from people across the country. The idea is not to have a ¿celebration in a box¿ solution, but to spur your creative imagination. You¿ll find inspiration to design an event unique to you, giving meaning and love to all who participate. In the charmingly illustrated Celebrating Beginnings and Endings you¿ll discover how to honor moments like: Welcoming a new family member¿whether it¿s a newborn, adoption or by marriage Cheering up someone in the hospital¿even if it¿s yourself! Comforting those who¿ve had a miscarriage Moving away from your community The body¿s major transitions¿adolescence and menopause Losing a loved one¿either through death or divorce And much more!

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
Author: Ellen Oh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062671170

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. Compiled by We Need Diverse Books’s Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the authors included in this exquisite collection are: Renée Ahdieh, Sona Charaipotra, Preeti Chhibber, Roshani Chokshi, Aliette de Bodard, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, Rahul Kanakia, Lori M. Lee, E. C. Myers, Cindy Pon, Aisha Saeed, Shveta Thakrar, and Alyssa Wong. A mountain loses her heart. Two sisters transform into birds to escape captivity. A young man learns the true meaning of sacrifice. A young woman takes up her mother’s mantle and leads the dead to their final resting place. From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile readers from start to finish. For fans of Neil Gaiman’s Unnatural Creatures and Ameriie’s New York Times–bestselling Because You Love to Hate Me.

Take 2

Take 2
Author: Leeza Gibbons
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1401939813

Offers inspiration and advice for women based on the author's own experiences about how to cope with change and unexpected challenges in life and adopt strategies for finding personal success.

Conversations on Love

Conversations on Love
Author: Natasha Lunn
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0593296583

An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.

Endings and Beginnings

Endings and Beginnings
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405523948

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME TV journalist Liv Carmichael is smart, independent and ambitious. But she has competition - in the strikingly handsome figure of senior Washington correspondent T.C. Thorpe. So when they fall hard for each other things get complicated - fast. It looks as though their fierce rivalry will destroy any hope of happiness... until a terrifying drama forces them to decide what really matters most. Includes a preview of Nora Roberts' latest novel, Dark Witch.