Koemba Book Club

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, “girl-poisoning” culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence–from undervalued […]

For Your Own Good: Roots of Violence in Child-rearing

For Your Own Good: Roots of Violence in Child-rearing

Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child’s ‘own good’, she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the private and public domain. Her […]

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It

Men are right. The “relationship talk” “does not” help. Dr. Patricia Love’s and Dr. Steven Stosny’s “How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It” reveals the stunning truth about marital happiness: Love is “not” about better communication. It’s about connection. You’ll never get a closer relationship with your man by talking to him like […]

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic […]