The internationally known social scientist and author of Erotic Warshelps readers understand the differences between men and women and how they affect life's most crucial issues.
An eloquent and powerful sequel to Worlds of Pain, this book takes readers into the daily lives of America's working class, providing an up-close look at their dreams, disappointments, insecurities, successes, and failures. With compassion and skillful analysis, Rubin shows the similarities between different groups--as well as the issues that keep ...
The classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class family life by a renowned sociologist, psychotherapist, and bestselling author.
An exploration of the role of friendship in men's and women's lives. "A comprehensive and fascinating study . . . intelligent and provocative."--San Francisco Chronicle
Psychotherapist and bestselling author Lillian Rubin draws lessons from eight deeply moving real-life tales to help sufferers of abusive childhoods triumph over their pasts. Through the stories of adults who were scarred by the worst kinds of family and social pathologies as children, yet found the strength to live satisfying adult lives, Rubin ...
Rubin, author and psychotherapist, uses her personal experience as a touchstone to explore the nature of mother-daughter relationships and the terror and grace involved in aging.
In a book designed for the general public, therapist Rubin digs into her files to tell the stories of six patients who exemplify her idea that some of the most devoutly held "rules" of the psychotherapeutic process must sometimes be violated. Her subjects include a young woman desperate for a friend, a thalidomide victim who conquered his anger ...
With refreshing candor, bestselling author Dr. Rubin takes a penetrating look at the profound changes, both personal and societal, that come with the new longevity--for those living it now and the baby boomers who will soon be joining them.
Based on nearly 400 interviews with working-class men, women and children of different races and ethnic groups, this important book looks at the social, cultural, and economic changes of the last 20 years and explore their impact on family life.
With refreshing candor, bestselling author Dr. Rubin takes a penetrating look at the profound changes, both personal and societal, that come with the new longevity--for those living it now and the baby boomers who will soon be joining them.
In her long career as a psychotherapist, acclaimed author Lillian Rubin occasionally encountered patients who demanded a very special, even unorthodox, therapeutic approach. For the first time, Dr. Rubin tells the stories of her most fascinating, most challenging cases from the other side of the couch, focusing not just on the patient, but on her ...
For more than 40 years, Lillian Rubin's work has stood as a model for the integration of the psychological and the sociological in studies of class, male-female relationships and friendships, women and aging, the sexual revolution, and the contemporary crisis of the American family. "Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family" and her other ...
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