Harvard University Press - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS

Spinal Cord Injury and the Family

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Michelle J. Alpert
Saul Wisnia
Foreword by Cindy and Ted Purcell
Combining clinical experience with patients’ own stories, the authors cover the causes of and prognosis for SCI through case studies, review common courses of rehabilitation, and answer the “what now?” questions—from daily routines to larger issues concerning sex, education and employment, childbearing, and parenting with SCI.
Hardcover / Paperback May 2008

How Infants Know Minds

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Vasudevi Reddy
Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.
Hardcover April 2008

Love's Confusions

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

C. D. C. Reeve
Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. Looking at love in light of the classical world and Christianity, and in its complex relationship with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, fantasy, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.
Paperback October 2007

Indivisible by Two

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Nancy L. Segal
A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Segal unravels these stories with an eye for the challenges that life as a twin can pose to parents, friends, spouses, and the twins themselves. These moving stories remind us of how incompletely any theory explains real life--twin or not.
Paperback September 2007

The Science and Fiction of Autism

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Laura Schreibman
In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism through the context of its controversies, showing where extraordinary and unfounded claims have falsely raised hopes, stirred fears, and ruined lives.
Paperback September 2007