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The present of things future;: Explorations of time in human experience

Cottle, Thomas J.

Free Press

Readings in personality and adjustment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Canfield Press

Author: Thomas J Cottle Editor: Prentice Hall Publication date: 01 Jan 1980 Publication City/Country: United States ISBN: 0133873579 ISBN13: 9780133873573 Original Format: Hardback 190 pages. 142.24 x 210.82 x 25.4mm | 340.19g

Hidden survivors: Portraits of poor Jews in America

Diseases & Physical Ailments

PRENTICE/HALL

Children's Secrets (Classics in Child Development)

Da Capo Press

College: Reward and Betrayal

Univ of Chicago Pr

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Against the backdrop of a robust economy, hundreds of thousands of people in this country remain out of work for long periods of time, causing economic and psychological hardships for entire families. Hardest Times examines in depth what happens to men, and to their families, when they remain out of work for longer than six months, a period the government designates as long term unemployment. Cottle examines long term unemployment as a traumatic event, which creates in those who experience it conditions resembling symptoms of loss and post-trauma. Through the words of men who have experienced long term unemployment, he demonstrates that work is crucial to the formation of a man's identity, and that without work, many men often find no purpose for living. The in-depth studies that Cottle undertook reveal here why some men abandon their families or, in some instances, are driven to commit murder or suicide in the face of lingering unemployment. These often heart wrenching stories encourage readers to consider the implications of long term unemployment for the men who experience it, the families who endure it, and the society that tolerates it.
Cottle's approach demonstrates that unemployment cannot be examined strictly in statistical terms, but that ultimately it must be explored in human terms, for it affects both the unemployed worker and his family. Instead of treating long term unemployment as simply another social problem, Cottle argues that it must be treated as a serious, often life-threatening, disorder, whose cure is clearly discernible. By reading the words of these men, the reader will understand how, even in this time of shifting gender roles, men in large measure still define themselves by the work they do, rather than the relationships that they cultivate. This unique approach to the problem of long term unemployment gives a human face to the problem and encourages readers to rethink the nature of working and not working and its special importance to men.

Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment

Business & Money

Economics

Praeger

Dr. Cottle, sociologist and practicing clinical psychologist, uses these riveting narratives to let children reveal, in their own words, the impact of such painful secrets as violence, infidelity, incest, debt, alcoholism, and mental illness--on each member of the family.

Children's Secrets * Revealing, Candid Observations By Children .

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

DOUBLEDAY

Cottle examines the ways people interpret their life experiences and construct meanings for the events they have encountered. In reading the sixteen life studies in Drawing Life, we encounter both inner reflections as well the power of culture to shape the meanings people give to the events that befall them.

Drawing Life: Narratives and the Sense of Self

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Hamilton Books

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children. This is the story of one woman’s decision to forfeit a brilliant career for the sake of motherhood. Once a child prodigy, Gitta Gradova traveled the world as an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, performing recitals as well as appearing with prominent orchestras of her era. Her son Thomas J. Cottle uses written records, interviews, and personal reminiscence to reconstruct her life, as well as their own mother-son relationship. He is at times a storyteller, at times a psychologist, at times a son seeking to uncover those aspects of his mother’s life he could never know, or perhaps, chose not to know until it was too late.

When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother

Humor & Entertainment

State University of New York Press

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