Kantor focuses on a misunderstood but common condition that brings severe and pervasive anxiety about social contacts and relationships. He offers psychotherapists a specific method for helping avoidants overcome their fear of closeness and commitments, and offers a guide for avoidants themselves to use for developing lasting, intimate, anxiety-free relationships. Fear of intimacy and commitment keeps avoidants from forming close, meaningful relationships. Types of avoidants can include confirmed bachelors, femme fatales, and people who form what appear to be solid relationships only to tire of them and leave with little warning, often devastating their partners/victims. Kantor takes us through the history of this disorder, and into clinical treatment rooms, to see and hear how avoidants think, feel, and recover. He offers psychotherapists a specific method for helping avoidants overcome their fear of closeness and commitments, and offers a guide for avoidants themselves to use for developing lasting, intimate, anxiety-free relationships. The avoidance reduction techniques presented in this book recognize that avoidants not only fear criticism and humiliation, but also fear being flooded by their feelings and being depleted if they express them. Acceptance is feared as much as rejection, because avoidants fear compromising their identity and losing personal freedom. Kantor describes the different therapeutic emphasis required for the four types of avoidants, including those who are withdrawn due to shyness and social phobia, such as people who intensely fear public speaking; those who relate easily, widely, and well, but cannot sustain relationships due to fear of closeness; those whose restlessness causes them to leave steady relationships, often without warning; and those who grow dependent on—and merge with—a single lover or family member and avoid relating to anyone else.

A theoretically and empirically rich exploration of universal questions, this book examines the interplay of three distinct behavioral systems involved in romantic love. This integrative volume will be of interest to both researchers and clinicians.

How did fears of cultural inadequacy play out in the English language after American independence and the War of 1812? Like many of his nineteenth-century contemporaries, essayist Walter Channing suggests that the country's perceived deficiency in literature is due to a crucial overlap with England, that is, having "the same language with a nation, totally unlike it in almost every relation." In Distancing English, Page Richards shows how these concerns of language are historically interwoven with the inexpressible. Often overlooked, the topos of the inexpressible redirects the ventriloquism of the English language. From its beginning, this topos combines the hyperbole of high expectations with the failure of inadequate words. In Charles Brockden Brown or George Tucker, it can register deficiency of "character" on and off the page, establishing important strategies of decenteredness also associated with modernism. In writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and John Berryman, the inexpressible seizes advantage from disadvantage. It runs through literary framing strategies and flexible shaggy dog humor. An opening to the 1855 Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman's Preface remaps the topos andemerges as a distinguished moment in the articulation of the inexpressible.

A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.

A few years ago, resiliency theory was relatively new to the fields of prevention and education. Today, it is at the heart of hundreds of school and community programs that recognize in all young people the capacity to lead healthy, successful lives. The key, as Benard reports in this synthesis of a decade and more of resiliency research, is the role that families, schools, and communities play in supporting, and not undermining, this biological drive for normal human development. Of special interest is the evidence that resiliency prevails in most cases by far -- even in extreme situations, such as those caused by poverty, troubled families, and violent neighborhoods. An understanding of this developmental wisdom and the supporting research, Benard argues, must be integrated into adults' vision for the youth they work with and communicated to young people themselves. Benard's analysis of how best to incorporate research findings to support young people is both realistic and inspirational. It is an easy-to-read discussion of what the research has found along with descriptions of what application of the research looks like in our most successful efforts to support young people.

In the wake of a pandemic, everyone's world has been turned upside down. Children have not been able to go to school or see friends. This can be confusing, and this book aims to help them to understand that! Not only about the current pandemic, but germs in general! It encourages and explains the importance of hand washing and explains why it is important to stay safe at home, even though it can be hard to be away from friends! At the back of the book, are activity pages to give those kids something fun to do while maintaining a safe social distance.

Over 60 Beautiful Designs to Color to Inspire Hope! Not sure what theme to start coloring? Try one that has a bit of everything.Picture Hope: The Social Distancing Coloring Book, is a compilation of coloring pages designed by 64 of your favorite artists from around the world as collected by Brittany Watson Jepsen of The House That Lars Built. It is meant to lift spirits and calm anxious minds with its bold message of hope. Each artist has contributed a drawing of what hope means to them along with a few of their own words. The pages are designed for all skill levels and ages, kids and adults. It's a perfect activity for staying at home and practicing mindfulness and meditation while filling in your hope through color. The profits of the book go to coronavirus relief charities. Over $8000 already donated.-Various levels of intricacy keeping you inspired to color!-Beautiful motifs to choose from: botanicals, flowers, animals, cities, people, decorative, quotes-Perfect for every skill level: great for growing your skills-Perfect for your choice of coloring tools (crayon, gel pens, markers, colored pencils)-High resolution with crisp clean printing of illustrations-Each coloring pages is on one sheet, printed on one side so there's no worry about bleed through-Frequently gifted. This book makes the perfect gift for Christmas, holidays, birthday, heroes, medical professionals. Grab a set of pencils to go with it. -Create your own frame-worthy masterpiecesContributing ArtistsAbbey LossingAlli StoccoAne Kirstine BildeAngie StalkerAshley IsenhourAudrey SmitAyang CempakaBeciOrpinBrooke SmartCaitlin ConnollyCat SetoDanielle KrollDarcy MillerDylan MierzwinskiElizabeth GraeberEllieOsborneEmily IsabellaEmma BlockEva JorgensenFlora WaycottHannah GumboHelen DealtryHilary OnyonJacqueline ColleyJanna MortonJen HewettJessica WhittakerJessie Kanelos WeinerJessyca GomesJordan SondlerJosefinaSchargorodskyJulie MarabelleJustina BlakeneyKatie KortmanKelsey Garrity RileyKendra DandyLibby VanderPloegLisa CongdonMaria TrolleMeenal PatalMerrilee LiddiardMeta ColemanMia SaineMichéleBrummer EverettMichelle ChristensenMirandaSofroniouMonica DorazewskiNatalie AppuzzoNormandie LuscherPhoebe WahlRoxy MarjSamantha HahnSebastian CuriSuzy UltmanTaraLarsonTonya & Steve VistaunetVictoria RizaYelena BryksenkovaMaddie BlakeJackie DiedamLoris LoraSarah Jane WrightBrittany JepsenThis book was created by Brittany Watson Jepsen of The House That Lars Built and aims to continue to raise funds for COVID-19 relief.