Saints and Rogues

Saints and Rogues
Author: E Mark Stern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2014-07-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317718046

Help your clients successfully integrate the angel and the rebel! Saints and Rogues: Conflicts and Convergence in Psychotherapy is a unique look at two extremes of human behavior and thought—and how they meet within the psychotherapy experience. In this extensive resource, you will gain a greater understanding of human potential by exploring personalities where the line between conformity and divergence has been blurred. This book will help psychotherapists, pastoral and marriage and family counselors, and medical/nursing service providers guide patients and clients in turning negative actions and decisions into positive ones. In Saints and Rogues, you will find: an assessment of the life of Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949)— called “rogue therapist” by his peers; today a hero for his influence on psychotherapy practice bullying in school—the creation of a prevention program used at the K-5 level designed to appeal to the empathy of the children who are bullied as well as the perpetrators an examination of historical, sociological, and psychoanalytic research about Italian Americans stereotyped as rogues during the twentieth century and in the media today interviews with individuals self-identified as “third gender” who live as neither men nor women—and their frequent encounters with spirituality and much more! Saints and Rogues: Conflicts and Convergence in Psychotherapy reevaluates the ethical ramifications of dual/duel relationships, revealing how a roguish character may be seen as saintly and vice versa. This book emphasizes the importance of seeing and treating one another with the same consideration as we would give ourselves. If knowledge is power, the reader—therapist and layperson alike—will find strength in these pages to face their home, work, or school lives with more confidence and pride.

Of Kings and Queens and Saints and Rogues

Of Kings and Queens and Saints and Rogues
Author: Jaya Roy Chowdhury
Publisher: True Dreamster
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2019-10-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

The book is a collection of literary essays and epistles which are the author's reflections on reading those classics and well-known works of Literature. A few are essays on everyday life that affect people. The characters range from kings to queens to saints rogues and all kinds of people and their travails. Should they go for books or a well-packaged commodity; should they go around the world or feel snug and nestled at home. Should they complain about Indian cinema missing out on Oscars or should they roll with tide and time!

The American Catholic Almanac

The American Catholic Almanac
Author: Brian Burch
Publisher: Image
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0553418742

What do Buffalo Bill, John F. Kennedy, Ponce de Leon, Dorothy Day, Andy Warhol, and Al Capone have in common? They're all Catholics who have shaped America. In this page-a-day history, 365 entries offer inspiring stories celebrating the Catholic American experience. From famous figures to ordinary people, The American Catholic Almanac tells the facinating, funny, uplifting, and unlikely tales of Catholics' influence on American culture and politics. Spanning the scope of the Revolutionary War to Tom and Jerry cartoons to Notre Dame football, this unique devotional will appeal to anyone curious about how the Catholic faith has intersected with public life over the last three hundred years in America.

60 People Who Shaped the Church

60 People Who Shaped the Church
Author: Alton Gansky
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 144124462X

The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today? From a consummate storyteller comes this collection of inspiring biographical sketches of people who played pivotal roles in advancing the Kingdom of God on earth. In rich prose and spanning twenty centuries of church history, these engaging narratives range from the well-known to the obscure, highlighting personalities such as Josephus, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, John Calvin, Blaise Pascal, Jonathan Edwards, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Wilberforce, G. K. Chesterton, and many others. Readers will feel the past come alive and mingle in their minds with the present state of the Church, encouraging and galvanizing them to live their own faith courageously in our time--and shape the Church of the future.

The Clinton Wars

The Clinton Wars
Author: Sidney Blumenthal
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374125023

From his first day in the White House until long after his appearance as the only presidential aide ever to testify in an impeachment trial, Blumenthal participated in nearly all the battles of the Clinton years.".