Roger Kennedy: 19 books
The Psychic Home
Psychoanalysis, consciousness and the human soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘psychic home’ as a vital psychic structure, which gathers together a...
Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times
Psychoanalytic, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our identity. He argues that a fear of a loss of attachment to one’s home might account for many prejudiced...
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity
Now of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to explore and re-evaluate the relationship between history and psychoanalysis.
Roger Kennedy develops new perspectives...
by Roger Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic identity.
The introduction puts the papers into context, charting the development of the author’s...
Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses
Families at Breaking Point
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The book describes the author's extensive experience of working as an expert witness in family courts. It provides detailed guidance for assessing families for the courts, as well giving many detailed clinical examples to illustrate points made. Topics covered include guidance for experts, assessment of families, contact issues, fostering and adoption and rehabilitation issues.
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now...
Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated...
Wildfire and Americans
How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the Pajarito Plateau and into Los Alamos. Two hundred and thirty-five homes were destroyed, more than 45,000 acres of forest were burned, and the...
by Rev. Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
The authors are: Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman, Jr., Thomas K. Tewell, James Kennedy, William Bouknight, Reverend Chuck Smith, Michael W. Foss, Robert Anthony Schuller, Robert H. Schuller, Dr. Roger Swearington. Why bad things happen to good people is a topic that has increasingly captured...
Collected Short Fiction
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Collected Short Fiction of Roger F. Kennedy now appears in a two book set
Volumes 1 and 2
Volume 1 comprises 27 newly edited stories from The Windup Man and Lauri with an i.
Volume 2 includes 24 newly edited stories from The Three of us and Mirror Image.
Kennedys ironic...
by Roger F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
City of Light a Hollywood Division novel Roger F. Kennedys latest novel takes place in Paris, where LAPD Hollywood detectives Jack Stiles and Traci Little are hot on the trail of Sevic Sorbo and his cabal of Serbian terrorists. The Croation embassy in Thiers Square has been leveled in a blast orchestrated...
Twelve Years of Turbulence
The Inside Story of American Airlines’ Battle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In the twelve years following 9/11, American Airlines lost billions of dollars and endured years of crisis and turmoil. Financial upheaval, the crash of Flight 587, grueling confrontations with labor, a rival’s push to acquire the company, and a challenging fight with the government tested the mettle...
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson : A Study in Character
A Study in Character
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1999
This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder...
It's My Life Now
Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Now in its third edition, It’s My Life Now is a guide for survivors who have left an abusive relationship. It addresses—in clear, non-threatening language—various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal...
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