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Conference quark::human_relations-v1

Title:What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'?
Notice:Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS
Moderator:ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI
Created:Fri May 09 1986
Last Modified:Wed Jun 26 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1327
Total number of notes:28298

1052.0. "good books to read" by STAR::TANDON () Mon Aug 06 1990 16:12

    
    For those among us that are looking for new reading material, 
    can we list good books on various aspects of human relations
    - including but not limited to romantic involvements, marriage
    and relationships in general. 
    thanks
    -Pankaj
    
     
    
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1052.1I found these helpful...GODIVA::benceThe hum of bees...Mon Aug 06 1990 16:537
	"The Dance of Anger" and "The Dance of Intimacy" by Harriet Lerner.

	Two good books on the dynamics of anger and intimacy and how
	we often misdirect them.

						clb
1052.2HEFTY::CHARBONNDin the dark the innocent can't seeMon Aug 06 1990 18:112
    "The Psychology of Romantic Love" and "What Love Asks of Us",
    By Nathaniel Branden and E. Devers Branden
1052.3REGENT::WOODWARDshut up and danceTue Aug 07 1990 12:073
    "Love"  ---  Leo F. Buscaglia
    "Living, Loving, and Learning" --- Leo F. Buscaglia
    "Loving Each Other" --- Leo F. Buscaglia
1052.4LYRIC::BOBBITTwater, wind, and stoneTue Aug 07 1990 13:3110
    Human Be-Ing
    (I can't remember the author - perhaps someone can supply it?)
    
    Hugh Prather - (almost anything he writes is great)
    including "Notes to Myself", "Notes to Each Other", etc....
    
    -Jody
    
    
    
1052.5refreshingHURON::REDNERTue Aug 07 1990 13:4311
     
    
    	Psychological Seduction 
    		the author's name I can not remember
    
    		The book explains how modern psychology promises alot but
    		delivers very little........ interesting.
    
    
    
    
1052.6ASABET::COHENTue Aug 07 1990 17:245
    
    		One to One
    			--  Theodore Rubin
    
    ralph
1052.7WR1FOR::HOGGE_SKDragon Slaying...No Waiting!Tue Aug 07 1990 18:553
    Anything I Ever Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten.
    
    Skip
1052.8:-)HPSTEK::XIAIn my beginning is my end.Tue Aug 07 1990 22:125
    _The Joy of Sex_ by Georg Cantor.
    
    _The Action of a Group on Sexes_ by Galois and Sylow.
    
    _To Choose or Not to Choose_ by Zorn.
1052.10If you like to read......FOOZLE::SHAMELWed Aug 08 1990 13:00472
          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          AA Big Book

          A Gift of Hope                      R. Veninga

          A New Guide to Rational Living      Albert Ellis

          A Time to Heal                      T. Cermak

          Active Loving                       A. Kiev

          Addicted to Perfection              M. Woodman

          Adult Children: The Secrets of      John Friel, Linda       8.95
          Dysfunctional Families              Friel

          Adult Children of Alcoholics        Janet Geringer          6.95
                                              Wotitz

          Adult Children of Alcoholics        P.K. Anderson
          Coming Home

          Adult Children of Alcoholics        Wayne Kritsberg
          Syndrome: From Discovery to
          Recovery

          After The Tears: Reclaiming the     Jane Middleton-Moz      7.95
          Personal Losses of Childhood
          (co-author Lorie Dwinell)

          Anger                               Tavris

          Are You Missing The Boat To         George W. Vroom         7.95
          Recovery? How to Successfully
          Take Charge of Your Life

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          As You Think                        Allen

          Awareness                           John O. Stevens

          Betrayal of Innocence               Susan Forward           7.95

          Beyond Codependence: And Getting    Melody Beattie          9.95
          Better All the Time

          Beyond Ourselves                    C. Marshall

          Born to Love                        M. James

          Bradshaw On: The Family, A          John Bradshaw           9.95
          Revolutionary Way of Self-
          Discovery

          Breaking Free of the Co-            Barry Weinhold          11.95
          Dependency Trap                     Ph.D., Janae Wein-
                                              hold Ph.D.

          Brief Encounters                    E. Coleman

          Build Your Brain Power              A. Winter

          Childhood and Society               Erik H. Erikson

          Children of Trauma: Rediscover-     Jane Middleton-Moz      9.95
          ing Your Discarded Self

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Choicemaking                        S. Wegscheider-Cruse    9.95

          Codependence: Misunderstood-        Anne Wilson Schaef      8.95
          Mistreated

          Cognitive Behavior Modification     D. Meichenbaum

          Cognitive Therapy and Emotional     A.T. Beck
          Disorders

          Codependent No More: How to Stop    M. Beattie              9.95
          Controlling Others and Start
          Caring for Yourself

          Conjoint Family Therapy: Your       Virginia Satir
          Many Faces

          Coping With Difficult People        R. Bramson

          Creative Aggression                 G. Bach & H. Gold-
                                              berg

          Creative Visualization              S. Gawain               4.50

          Dealing With Difficult People       C. Keating

          Diagnosing and Treating Co-         Timmen Cermak
          dependence

          Don't Say Yes When You Want to      J. Bauer
          Say No

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Elements of Psychopathology: The    Robert White &
          Mechanisms of Defense               Gilliland

          Embracing Our Selves                Hal Stone & Sidra
                                              Winkelman

          Escape From Intimacy: Untangling    Anne Wilson Schaef      13.95
          the "Love" Addictions: Sex,
          Romance, Relationships

          Facing Codependence: What It        Pia Mellody             10.95
          Is, Where It Comes From, How It
          Sabotages Our Lives

          Facing Shame                        M. Fossum & M. Mason    10.95

          Family Secrets                      Rachel V.

          Feeling Good                        D. Burns                5.95

          Feelings                            Gaylin

          Focusing                            Eugene Gendlin          4.95

          Following The Yellow Brick          Joy Miller, Marianne    9.95
          Road: The Adult Child's Journey     Ripper
          Through OZ

          For Your Own Good                   Alice Miller            8.95

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Fresh Start                         L. Felder

          From Sad to Glad                    N. Kline

          Games Mother Never Taught You       B. Harragan

          Genesis: Spirituality in Recov-     Julie Bowden, Her-      6.95
          ery from Childhood Traumas          bert Gravitz

          Gifts for Personal Growth and       Wayne Kritsberg
          Recovery

          Go For It                           I. Kassorla

          Growing Through Personal Crisis     E. Cayce

          Having It All                       H.G. Brown

          Healing The Child Within: Dis-      Charles Whitfield       8.95
          covery and Recovery for Adult
          Children Of Dysfunctional Fami-
          lies

          Healing the Same that Binds You     John Bradshaw           9.95

          Healing Your Sexual Self            Janet Wotitz

          Holding Back: Why we Hide the       Marie Lindquist         6.95
          Truth About Ourselves

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Home Away From Home: The Art        Janet Wotitz            13.95
          of Self-Sabotage, Dedicated to
          ACOA's in the Workplace

          How to Become An Assertive Woman    Taubman

          How to be An Assertive not          J. Bauer
          Agressive Woman

          How to Get Angry with Feeling       A. Bry
          Guilty

          How to Get What You Want Out of     J. Brothers
          Life

          How to Live With Another Person     D. Viscott              4.50

          How to Survive the Loss of A        M. Colgrove             3.95
          Love

          How to Win Over Depression          T. La Haye

          If Only My Family Understood...     Don Wegscheider         6.95

          Inner Work                          Robert Johnson

          It Will Never Happen To Me          C. Black

          Jealousy                            N. Friday

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Learning To Love Again              M. Krantzler

          Learning To Love Yourself           Gay Hendricks

          Learning To Love Yourself           Sharon Wesheider-       7.95
                                              Cruse

          Let Go and Grow                     R. Akerman

          Live Longer Now                     N. Pritikin

          Living in the Light                 S. Gawain

          Lost in the Shuffle: The Co-        Robert Subby            8.95
          dependent Reality

          Love and Addiction                  Stanton Peele &
                                              Archie Brodsky

          Love is Letting Go of Fear          G. Jampolsky

          Love is Never Enough                A. Beck

          Loving Each Other                   L. Buscaglia            8.95

          Loving Relationships                S. Ray

          Loving Styles                       Rosenman

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Lying, Dispair, Jealously, Envy,    Leslie Faber
          Sex, Suicide, Drugs and the Good
          Life

          Making Changes                      A. Dean

          Making Peace With Your Parents      H. Bloomfield

          Making Peace With Yourself          H. Bloomfield

          Mirror, Mask and Shadow             Sheldon Kopp

          Moodswing                           R. Fieve

          My Needs, Your Needs, Our Needs     J. Gillies

          My Mother/Myself                    N. Friday               4.95

          Necessary Losses                    Judith Voirst

          Networking                          M.S. Welch

          Nice Girls Do                       I. Kassorla

          No Boundary                         Kenneth Wilber

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Old Patterns, New Truths: Beyond    Earnie Larson           9.95
          the Adult Child Syndrome

          On Shame and the Search for         Helen Merrell Lynd
          Idenity

          Out of the Shadows: Understand-     Pat Carnes
          ing Sexual Addiction

          Paring                              G. Bach

          Passages                            G. Sheehy

          Pictures of Childhood               Alice Miller

          Positive Addiction                  W. Glasser

          Power Play                          M. Cunningham

          Rediscovering Love                  W. Gaylin

          Reality Therapy                     W. Glassner

          Recovery: A Guide for Adult         J. Bowden, H.           10.95
          Children of Alcholics               Gravitz

          Recovery From Co-Dependency:        Laurie Weiss,           9.95
          It's Never Too Late to Reclaim      Jonathon Weiss
          Your Childhood

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Risking                             Viscott

          Same House Different Homes          R. Ackerman

          Self Esteem                         Matthew McKay &
                                              Patrick Fanning

          Self Esteem                         Virginia Satir          4.95

          Self Parenting: The Complete        Dr. John K. Pollard,    9.95
          Guide to Your Inner Conversa-       III
          tions

          Shame and Guilt                     Jane Middelton_Moz      8.95

          Shame: The Power of Caring          Gershen Kaufman

          Some Men Are More Perfect Than      M. Shain
          Others

          Speak Up, Christain Assertive-      Sanders
          ness

          Smart Women Foolish Choices         C. Cowan, M. Kinder

          Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond      Earnie Larson           7.95
          Addiction

          Stage II Relationships: Love        Earnie Larson           7.95
          Beyond Addiction

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Stop, You're Driving Me Crazy       G. Bach

          Stressmap                           M. Haney

          Straight Talk                       S. Miller

          Strong Choices, Weak Choices        G. Rosellini,
                                              M.Worden

          Struggle for Intimacy...Dedicated   Janet Woititz           6.95
          to ACOA's

          The Addictive Organization          Anne Schaef, Diane      16.95
                                              Fassel

          The Addictive Parsonality:          Craig Nakken            7.95
          Understanding Compulsion in
          Our Lives

          The Adult Children of Alcoholics    W. Kritsberg
          Syndrome

          The Angry Book                      T. Rubin

          The Answer Within: A Clini-         S Lankton & C.
          cal Framework of Ericksonian        Lankton
          Hypnosis

          The Cinderella Complex              C. Dowling              4.95

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          The Dance of Anger: A Woman's       Harriet G. Lerner       8.95
          Guide to Changing the Patterns
          of Intimate Relationships

          The Dance of Intimacy               H.G. Lerner             8.95

          The Drama of the Gifted Child       Alice Miller            6.95

          The Fantasy Bond                    Robert Firestone

          The Farther Reaches of Human        Abraham Maslow
          Nature

          The Flying Boy: Healing the         John Lee                7.95
          Wounded Man

          The Mind/Body Effect                H. Benson

          The Miracle Of Recovery: Healing    Sharon Wegheider-       9.95
          for Addicts, Adult Children and     Cruse
          Co-Dependents

          The Narcissistic and Borderline     James Masterson
          Disorders

          The New Assertive Woman             Bloom

          The Power of Positive Thinking      N.V. Peale

          The Practice of Behavior Therapy    J. Wolpe

          The Road Less Traveled              M.S. Peck               10.95

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          The Self Talk Solution              S. Helmstetter

          The Twelve Steps of AA              Hazelden

          The Ways of the Will                Leslie Faber

          They Lived Happily Ever After       Leslie Bandler

          Towards A new Psychology of         Miller
          Women

          Total Recall                        J. Minninger

          Transformations                     Gould

          Transformers                        Jacquelyn Small

          Turning Points                      E. Goodman

          Twelve Steps to Self-Parenting      P. O'Gorman

          What to Say to Yourself             S. Helmstetter

          What to Say When You Talk to        S. Helmstetter          4.95
          Yourself

          When I say No, I Feel Guilty        Manuel Smith            5.50

          When Lovers Are Friends             M. Shain

          When Society Becomes An Addict      Anne Wilson Schaef      15.95

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Women Men Love, Women Men Leave     C. Cowan/M. Kinder      5.95

          Women Who Love Too Much             Robin Norwood           4.95

          Women's Burnout                     H. Freudenberger

          Woman's Reality                     Anne Wilson Schaef      9.95

          Woman's Way's of Knowing: The       Belenky, Clinchy,       10.95
          Development of Self, Voice and      Goldberger, Tarule
          Mind

          Work Addiction: Hidden Legacies     Bryan E. Robinson       8.95
          of Adult Children

          Why Men Are the Way They Are        W. Farrell              4.95

          You are Extraordinary               R. Williams

          Your Erroneous Zones                Dyer                    4.95

          Your Perfect Right                  Robert Alberti

          Your Inner Child of the Past        W. Missildine

          ________________________________________________________________
          BOOK_TITLE__________________________AUTHOR__________________COST

          Values Clarification: A Handbook    S.B. Simon, L.B.
          of Practical Strategies for         Howe & H. Kirschen-
          Teachers_and_Students               baum

1052.9<good book>WONDER::PTAKKaren PtakWed Aug 08 1990 14:024
    "Swept Away...Why women fear their own sexuality"
    
        by Carol Cassell, PHD.
    
1052.11WR1FOR::HOGGE_SKDragon Slaying...No Waiting!Wed Aug 08 1990 18:597
    Re.10... have you actually READ all of these????  If so how about
    some comments on which onces you think are best and a little blurp
    about them so we can select the ones we'd get the most from.
    
    You must have one heck of a library at home.
    
    Skip
1052.12Algebraists do it in groupsERIS::CALLASYou can use your head if you want toWed Aug 08 1990 21:305
    re .8:
    
    Bravo, Eugene!
    
    	Jon
1052.13WMOIS::B_REINKEtreasures....most of them dreamsThu Aug 09 1990 11:466
    in re Jon in re Eugene...
    
    I've been writing to Eugene about the authors to his books, nice
    to see that there are other people who appreciate his humor. :-)
    
    Bonnie
1052.14HPSTEK::XIAIn my beginning is my end.Thu Aug 09 1990 17:4512
re .12
>                        -< Algebraists do it in groups >-

    Then there is also the saying about Analysts (something about
    continuously but discretely :-)).  As a matter of fact, it is on one of
    the MIT T-shirt...
    
    re .13,
    
    And for a moment I thought the joke was on me...
    
    Eugene
1052.15..and don't forget the Holy Scriptures .BTOVT::BOATENG_KWhat d'U know that we don know?Thu Aug 09 1990 23:228
    
    Book of Joshua -
    
    Book of Daniel -
    
    Book of Job -
    
    Song of Solomon -
1052.16P.E.T.QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centFri Aug 10 1990 01:135
    P.E.T. - Parent Effectiveness Training by Dr. Thomas Gordon.  Not
    just for parents, but a treasure-chest of skills and concepts that
    can help anyone in their interactions with others.
    
    				Steve
1052.17HPSTEK::XIAIn my beginning is my end.Sat Aug 18 1990 18:1236
    re .15 
    
    Don't mean to offend anyone, just some third rate literary criticism of
    mine...
   
>    Book of Joshua -
 
No, I don't like the story there.  Too much violence with the
wholesale slaughter of Jerico.  Also the sun and the moon standing still
thing--good for science fictions, but not very effective with the genre.
   
>    Book of Daniel -

Don't quite like this one either... 
   
>    Book of Job -
 
Now this one is a masterpiece.  There are still things I find distasteful, 
but it is the only way to handle the moral dilemma.  Fatalism permeates 
the story that creates a sense of vastness only matched by that of 
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets.
   
>    Song of Solomon -

Oh, I have read better poetry than that, but can't really say since I 
read them in English, and we all know poetry doesn't translate very well.

...

My most favorite Scripture:  Book of Job with the Sermon on the Mount run 
a close second.

My least favorite Scripture:  Revelation.  To put it mildly..., I don't 
know what the guy had for lunch...

Eugene
1052.18When a Man's Fear Makes HimFun from CommitmentEDUHCI::ALLARDThu Aug 23 1990 20:321
    Men Who Can't Love  by Steven Carter and Julia Sokol
1052.19 Wow ! what a book !MILKWY::VUTRANMon Aug 27 1990 16:027
    
    
       " What men know about Women " by Dr. Alan Francis.
    
              Times gives it  four Stars...
              Chronicle comments that that book SAYS IT ALL.
    
1052.20QUIVER::STEFANITurn it on againMon Aug 27 1990 16:267
    re:  "What Men Know About Women"
    
    I heard it was 134 blank pages.  ;-)
    
    Just a little humor to brighten up an otherwise bleak Monday.
    
       - Larry
1052.21DEC25::BRUNOIRAQnophobiaMon Aug 27 1990 16:428
    RE: .20
    
         I knew SOMEBODY would take that straight line.
    
         Actually, I think I'd like to read that.  Right now I'm stuck with
    "What this man THINKS he knows about Women".
    
                                        Greg
1052.22WR1FOR::HOGGE_SKDragon Slaying...No Waiting!Mon Aug 27 1990 18:458
    I've always wondered about the title of that book... 
    After I read it I thought the title should read 
    
    "What Men SHOULD Know About Women"
    (If they want to live to a ripe old age)
    
    Skip
1052.23Living AloneHOTJOB::GROUNDSMostly confused...Wed Sep 11 1991 01:1827
TITLE: Alone In America
AUTHOR: Louise Bernikow
ISBN: 0-06-015505-1
PUBLISHER: Harper and Row

    Chapter 1   Introduction
    Chapter 2   Adolescents and Addictions
    Chapter 3   Male Loneliness
    Chapter 4   Female Loneliness
    Chapter 5   Family Life
    Chapter 6   Widows and Widowers
    Chapter 7   The Work Connection
    Chapter 8   Out of Work
    Chapter 9   Communities

    I recently read this book.    It  is  a  well written and informative
book.  It does not attempt  to  solve  the  problem  of  loneliness,  but
informs the reader about the magnitude and  scope  of the problem and the
effects  it  has  on people of different backgrounds.    The  author  has
avoided the dry statistical approach in favor of telling  the  stories of
many different real people.  (One statistic that was mentioned:   between
1950 and 1980, the number of people living alone in America  increased by
385%.)

I recommend this to anyone.

Roger
1052.24Relationship ImbalancesHOTJOB::GROUNDSMostly confused...Tue Oct 29 1991 23:1134

TITLE: THE PASSION PARADOX
AUTHOR: Dean C. Delis, Ph.D. with Cassandra Phillips
PUBLISHER: BANTAM
ISBN: 0-553-05788-X

FROM THE INSIDE COVER: 
    "What is  the passion paradox?  We've all been caught by it - some of
us, many times:   one partner in a relationship falls more deeply in love
than the other.   The  result is increasing desire and desperation in the
"one-down"  lover,  and  dissatifaction, often  mingled  with  guilt  and
withdrawal, in the "one-up".


PART I: The Painful Patterns That Create Unequal Love
    Chapter 1   Falling In Love
    Chapter 2   Balancing Acts
    Chapter 3   One-ups
    Chapter 4   The Commitment-Ambivalence Syndrome
    Chapter 5   One-downs
    Chapter 6   From Rock Bottom To Rebirth

Part II: How To Create An Equal Love That Lasts
    Chapter 7   Letting Go Of Old Solutions
    Chapter 8   Communicating
    Chapter 9   What One-downs Can Do
    Chapter 10  What One-ups Can Do
    Chapter 11  Seeking The Roots Of Imbalance
    Chapter 12  The Balanced Self
    Chapter 13  The One-down Personality
    Chapter 14  The One-up Personality
    Chapter 15  When To Leave
    Chapter 16  Embracing The Passion Paradox In Love And Marriage