Martha Harris (1919-1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote many books and papers on psychoanalytic training and child development. Her colleague James Gammill cites Mrs Klein as saying: She is one of the best people I have ever known for the psychoanalysis of children ... and she has a mind of her own. Harris was responsible for the child psychotherapy training at the Tavistock Clinic from 1960 onwards, developing laterally the method founded on infant observation that had been put in place by Esther Bick. She established cross-clinic work discussion groups, a pioneering schools' counselling course (in collaboration with her husband Roland Harris), and individual work with disturbed children in the school environment. Her belief that psychoanalytic ideas could and should travel, both geographically and across the professions, led to her seeding the Tavi Model in many other countries through regular teaching trips, in company with her later husband Donald Meltzer. Her influence was not as a theorist, but as a teacher with an extraordinary capacity to engage processes of introjective learning in both students and readers. This tribute by some of those who studied with her is not simply testimony to a remarkable teacher and clinician whose wisdom has been rarely equalled; it also offers inspiration to others who may be struggling to find ways of using psychoanalytic ideas imaginatively in a variety of contexts - clinical, social or scholarly - in what can at times appear to be an unreceptive world.
Nora Mason, a love-thirsty thirty-two year old, is as insecure as she is attractive. Below her poised surface lies a loner who escapes her hometown secrets and lands on the shores of the rugged New England Artists Colony of Rocky Neck. Nora is determined to get what shes never had--a perfect beach cottage, a perfect husband, and a perfect life. But while setting her plan into motion, a dangerous encounter threatens her course. As the summer season kicks off, Nora is entangled in a shocking murder investigation as she struggles to determine who wants to love herand who wants to eliminate her. Christian is a gorgeous and privileged bad boy to whom Nora is instinctively drawn. Evan, a practical, hard-working restaurant owner, exhibits the goodness she wants but seems to lack. While Remy, a sharp-witted and cocktail-adoring import from San Francisco, shakes Noras belief that no woman can be trusted. Since the age of sixteen, Nora has survived on her own. But will she survive her new life? In this suspenseful and passion-filled tale, will Noras search finally lead to her dreamsor to her nightmares? Sun, sin, romance and murder . . . one summer on Rocky Neck. -- Author's Website: www.mariagracefurtado.com.
WAS A REVERED NUN'S BRUTAL MURDER A RANDOM ACT, OR PART OF A SINISTER PLOT!***"IF YOU LIKE STRONG CHARACTERIZATIONS, GREAT DIALOGUE AND SURPRISES, PULITZER-NOMINEE LAWRENCE DE MARIA'S ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES." (John Crudele, New York Post)***Sister Veronica was once a vivacious college co-ed. Which brings two Massachusetts homicide detectives to the office of Alton Rhode. For he played an important part in 'Ronnie' Frost's past. Quickly cleared as a suspect, but plagued by long-suppressed memories, the private eye dedicates himself to finding the killer. But there are no suspects, clues or obvious motives. Then, as Rhode travels the country, a pattern emerges.***"A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY." (Florida Weekly); "A MASTER OF THRILLER DIALOGUE." (Washington Independent Review of Books); "WHILE DE MARIA MAY HAVE BEEN AN AWARD-WINNING FINANCIAL REPORTER, HE'S AN AWFULLY GOOD FICTION WRITER AS WELL." (Naples Daily News)
If you like strong characterizations, great dialogue and surprises, Pulitzer-nominee Lawrence De Maria's Alton Rhode mysteries are in a class by themselves." - JOHN CRUDELE (New York Post)"A master of thriller dialogue." (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS); "While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well." (NAPLES DAILY NEWS); "What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing." (COLLIER CITIZEN)***Alton Rhode is feeling a bit lonely - and depressed. Just about everyone he knows, including his girlfriend, is out of town. Then, Laurene Robillard walks into his office.At first, he does not recognize the beautiful, mature woman. She has changed dramatically since posing as a dying waif years earlier as part of a plot that almost cost Rhode his life. The former hooker is now respectable, very rich and soon to be married. But she needs Rhode's help. Someone has killed her grandfather, Colver Elson, a man with whom she has just reconnected after tracking down her birth mother in Atlas, Virginia. The private eye heads south, where he soon discovers that the murder of Elson, a prominent judge, is not the only evil lurking in the small Virginia town. With two brutish killers straight out of "Deliverance" on his tail, Rhode accepts help from someone even tougher than he is, and the bodies start to pile up.Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria later cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.
A WOUNDED VET TRYING TO SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE IS EMBROILED IN A MOB WAR. A beautiful woman begs a private eye to find the bank-embezzler lover who left her pregnant. She says the fugitive's bone marrow could save her daughter. The trail has been cold for 14 years! That's the least of the investigator's problems. He almost immediately becomes the target of a deranged killer. Only a mysterious guardian angel - with an automatic pistol - keeps him alive long enough to find the missing man. Then things really get weird! If you like a great mystery, replete with crackerjack detection, unexpected betrayals and sparkling dialogue, then CAPRIATI'S BLOOD, the first of the Alton Rhode novels, is for you! *** "Pulitzer-nominee De Maria has written a stunner of a private eye mystery, with an incredible twist at the end." (John Crudele, NEW YORK POST) "A Lawrence De Maria title gives you more bang for your buck than just about anything in the book marketplace today." (FLORIDA WEEKLY) "A master of thriller dialogue." (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)
WHO IS KILLING THESE GOD-FEARING PILLARS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES? The death of a spider monkey in a South American rain forest is the prelude to unsolvable human murders in Canada and the United States. Only when private investigator Alton Rhode is approached by a suspicious priest does the killer have anything to worry about. Rhode has doubts about the cleric's story. But urged on by an unlikely underworld ally, he begins a hunt that spans thousands of miles. And himself becomes the hunted! With a twisty plot, innovative detective work, sharp dialogue and a nail-biting ending, SIREN'S TEARS is for you. *** "More chills and thrills, as an intrepid P.I. hunts a Black Widow serial killer. SIREN'S TEARS, from Pulitzer-nominee Lawrence De Maria, is another winner." (John Crudele, NEW YORK POST) "While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well." (NAPLES DAILY NEWS) "What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing." (COLLIER CITIZEN) "A master of thriller dialogue." (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)
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