Robert Coles Books

For 30 years Robert Coles has been talking and listening to children all over the world and recording their responses to crises, to hardship and sorrow and to moral and political pressure. In this one of eight volumes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Children of Crisis, he speaks to and for the religious and spiritual lives of children, conveying their views of salvation and righteousness, their experience of God and their ways of understanding the ultimate meaning of their own lives.

Flannery O'Connor's South offers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. First published in 1980, this study draws upon Robert Coles' personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with Flannery O'Connor, and his careful readings of her works. The voices and gestures of the people Coles met in the South help illuminate the social scene that influenced one of the region's most valuable and interesting writers.

In recalling the process of helping patients ferret out the past from the deep recesses of their minds, To Wrestle with Demons offers a rare glimpse of a psychiatrist's innermost thoughts about how his work affects patients, deeply moves him, and reflects the society in which we live.

A Harvard psychiatrist presents an intimate and thought-provoking collection of case histories that explores a wide range of sexual problems while providing an illuminating look at the process of psychotherapy. "Glenmullen's case histories . . . have the feel of detective stories".--Chicago Tribune.

An intriguing introduction to Weil's quest to integrate faith, philosophy and justice for the oppressed. Details her short, eventful life and shows her profound spiritual influence on thinkers from T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor to Albert Camus. schovat popis

In this searching, vivid inquiry Robert Coles shows how children struggle with questions of moral choice. Bringing to life the voices of children from a rich diversity of backgrounds, he explores their reactions to movies and stories, their moral conduct, their conversations and relationships with friends and family, and their anxieties about themselves and the fate of the world. Whether they are from the poorest classes of Rio de Janeiro or middle-class America, these children lead lives of intense moral awareness.

Alle Kinder haben eine angeborene moralische Neugier, die durch die bewusste Förderung durch Eltern und Vorbilder zu einer soliden moralischen Intelligenz heranwachsen kann. Diese Prämisse leitet die Forschung und das Argument dieses bahnbrechenden und aufschlussreichen Blicks auf die moralische Entwicklung von Kindern; es ist sowohl ein nützlicher Leitfaden für Eltern als auch eine umfassende Studie der Jugendpsychologie. Jede der drei Abschnitte – frühe Kindheit, Grundschuljahre und Adolescenz – behandelt spezifische Dilemmata, die für diese Lebensphasen charakteristisch sind, und schlägt angemessene Reaktionen von Erwachsenen vor, die helfen werden, ein gut entwickeltes moralisches Bewusstsein bei ihren Kindern zu fördern.

Robert Coles' eindringliches intellektuelles Porträt bietet uns einen völlig neuen Blick auf Anna Freud. Sie war weit entfernt vom Stereotyp der distanzierten Analytikerin; sie war die warmherzige Führerin, das Ich-Ideal, der „gute Elternteil“ für ihre jungen Patienten. Basierend auf Jahren von Gesprächen und Korrespondenz sowie einem tiefen gemeinsamen Interesse an den inneren Leben von Kindern, die mit Widrigkeiten konfrontiert sind, erweckt Dr. Coles Anna Freud in ihren vielen Rollen zum Leben: Lehrerin, Theoretikerin, Heilerin, Führerin, Idealistin und Schriftstellerin.

Frauen in Krisen - bk107; Ullstein Verlag; Robert und Jane Coles; pocket_book; 1988