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The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

By: Rita Charon

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The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

By: Rita Charon

The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine articulates the ideas, methods, and practices of narrative medicine. Written by the originators of the field, this book provides the authoritative starting place for any clinicians or scholars committed to learning of and eventually teaching or practicing narrative medicine.

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0199360197

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Narrative Medicine

Honoring the Stories of Illness

By: Rita Charon

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Narrative Medicine

Honoring the Stories of Illness

By: Rita Charon

Narrative medicine emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. This book provides an introduction to the principles of narrative medicine and guidance for implementing narrative methods.

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0195340221

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The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

By: Rita Charon

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Narrative Medicine

Honoring the Stories of Illness

By: Rita Charon

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits

By: Rita S. Berkowitz,Deborah S. Romaine

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits

By: Rita S. Berkowitz,Deborah S. Romaine

You’re no idiot, of course. You know life is a journey and that physical birth and death are its points of transition. Many people, across cultures and faiths, believe the spirit lives on—and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the higher side. This contact is joyous, comforting, and healing—but you wonder if it’s really real and whether you can share in it, too. Don’t give up the spirit! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Communicating with Spirits will show you exactly how to uncover your own mediumistic capabilities and connect with those no longer on the earth plane. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: --Tips on how to connect with your personal divine energy through prayer, meditation, and dreams. --Information on the birth of the human soul—as perceived through theological, metaphysical, and spiritual viewpoints. --Exercises to help you develop your mediumistic abilities. --Tangible evidence of the continuity of life as presented through the experiences and spirit drawings of medium Rita S. Berkowitz.

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Penguin

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002864350X

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9780028643502

Communicating with Spirits

Meditative Methods to Help You Tap Into Your Innate Medium Abilities

By: Rita Berkowitz,Deb Baker

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Communicating with Spirits

Meditative Methods to Help You Tap Into Your Innate Medium Abilities

By: Rita Berkowitz,Deb Baker

You know there's more to life than physical existence Life is a journey and physical birth and death are its points of transition. Many people across multiple cultures and faith systems believe that the spirit lives on--and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the higher side. This contact is joyous, comforting, and healing--but you wonder if it's actually real and whether you can share in it, too. This enlightening guide will show you exactly how to uncover your own mediumistic capabilities and connect with those no longer on your plane. In this new and improved edition, you'll find: Tips on how to connect with your divine energy through prayer, meditation, and dreams. Information on the birth of the human soul as perceived through multiple viewpoints. Exercises to help you develop your mediumistic abilities. Helpful ways to interpret and understand the symbolism of spiritual communication. Instruction on how to explore your past lives and to examine your aura Don't give up the spirit!

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Penguin

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0744053552

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9780744053555

Soul Repair

Recovering from Moral Injury after War

By: Rita Nakashima Brock,Gabriella Lettini

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Soul Repair

Recovering from Moral Injury after War

By: Rita Nakashima Brock,Gabriella Lettini

The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and allowed many service members returning from combat to transition to civilian life, the suicide rate for veterans under thirty has been increasing. Research by Veterans Administration health professionals and veterans’ own experiences now suggest an ancient but unaddressed wound of war may be a factor: moral injury. This deep-seated sense of transgression includes feelings of shame, grief, meaninglessness, and remorse from having violated core moral beliefs. Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini, who both grew up in families deeply affected by war, have been working closely with vets on what moral injury looks like, how vets cope with it, and what can be done to heal the damage inflicted on soldiers’ consciences. In Soul Repair, the authors tell the stories of four veterans of wars from Vietnam to our current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—Camillo “Mac” Bica, Herman Keizer Jr., Pamela Lightsey, and Camilo Mejía—who reveal their experiences of moral injury from war and how they have learned to live with it. Brock and Lettini also explore its effect on families and communities, and the community processes that have gradually helped soldiers with their moral injuries. Soul Repair will help veterans, their families, members of their communities, and clergy understand the impact of war on the consciences of healthy people, support the recovery of moral conscience in society, and restore veterans to civilian life. When a society sends people off to war, it must accept responsibility for returning them home to peace.

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Beacon Press

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0807029084

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9780807029084

The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

By: Rita Zoey Chin

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The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

By: Rita Zoey Chin

[an] imaginative debut..." - The New York Times "The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is a bittersweet and achingly tender coming of age novel. Like V. E. Schwab and Audrey Niffenegger, Rita Zoey Chin is an expert guide to that territory in which magic, loss, and possibility change not only the characters but the reader, too.” - Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble The luminous story of a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance . . . When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern—once “The Youngest and Very Best Fortune Teller in the World”—is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return. Until something bizarre happens: On her 21st birthday Leah receives an inheritance from someone she doesn’t even know, and finds herself launched on a journey of magical discovery. It's a voyage that will spiral across the United States, Canada, into the Arctic Circle and beyond—and help her make her own life whole by piecing together the mystery surrounding her mother’s disappearance. The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is an enchanting novel about the transcendent power of the imagination, the magic at the threshold of past and present, and the will it takes to love.

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401

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Melville House

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1612199860

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9781612199863

Santa Clawed

A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

By: Rita Mae Brown

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Santa Clawed

A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

By: Rita Mae Brown

Bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for the holidays in a mystery featuring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save the season from a killjoy who’s decided to gift the festive little town . . . with murder? As Harry well knows, there’s hardly a place on earth cozier than Crozet, Virginia, at Christmastime. The snowflakes drifting lazily down, the soft glow of the winter light, the sound of old carols in the streets…even cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter get into the spirit batting ornaments and climbing the holiday tree. In fact, it’s this year’s tree that Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch when they find the one they’ve chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. The tree farm is run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients. The brothers live in a monastery atop the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains. Harry is surprised to find an old high-school friend associated with The Brothers of Love. Christopher Hewitt wasn’t a bad man, but good works weren’t exactly one of his priorities. But then, if even Scrooge could turn over a new leaf, certainly Chris could. And after the scandal that all but destroyed his life, there were probably few in Crozet who needed the gift of a second chance more. Harry knows she shouldn’t take it personally, but it was her tree that someone left the corpse under. Now, as the season grows merrier, a murderer is growing bolder. One by one, prominent men of Crozet are being crossed off Christmas shopping lists and added to the morgue. And if Harry and her four-legged helpers aren’t very good—and very careful—this Christmas may be her last.

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Bantam

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0553905929

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9780553905922

High Hearts

By: Rita Mae Brown

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High Hearts

By: Rita Mae Brown

From the celebrated author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo comes a stirring novel of the Civil War, a tale of true love and mistaken identity. Brimming with colorful characters and vivid settings, High Hearts is Rita Mae Brown at her most ambitious and entertaining. April 12, 1861. Bright, gutsy and young, Geneva Chatfield marries Nash Hart in Albemarle County, Virginia, the same day Fort Sumter's guns fire the start of the Civil War. Five days later she loses him as Nash joins the Confederate Army. Geneva, who is known as the best rider since Light Horse Harry Lee, cuts her hair, dons a uniform, enlists as "Jimmy Chatfield," then rides off to be with her beloved Nash. But sensitive Nash recoils in horror from the violence of war, while Geneva is invigorated by the chase and the fight. Can she be all the man her husband isn't? She'll sure as hell try. But there is a complication, and his name is Major "Mars" Vickers. This macho major, to his own shock and amazement, finds himself inexplicably attracted to the young soldier named "Jimmy." And this is only the beginning of a novel that moves with sureness and grace from the ferocity of battle to the struggle on the homefront, and brings passion and sly humor to a story of dawning love. High Hearts is a penetrating, delightful and sweeping tale that gives fresh life to a fascinating time.

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Bantam

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0307793974

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9780307793973

Exploring Consciousness

By: Rita Carter

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Exploring Consciousness

By: Rita Carter

Building on the foundation of her bestselling book "Mapping the Mind, " Carter ponders the nature, origins, and purpose of consciousness and includes topical essays from leading scholars. 110 illustrations, most in color.

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Univ of California Press

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0520237374

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9780520237377

Venus Envy

By: Rita Mae Brown

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Venus Envy

By: Rita Mae Brown

At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position. In fact, she has everything to live for, but she's lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours. "Don't die a stranger," her assistant says on her last hospital visit. "Tell the people you love who you are." And so, as her last act on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: she's gay. The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.

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402

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Bantam

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0307574164

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9780307574169

Lord of Illusions

By: Rita Boucher

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Lord of Illusions

By: Rita Boucher

Hiding behind the countenance of a governess for an English lord, a highborn witch secretly spies on her employer, reading his mind, and sending secrets to the French. But England's head sorcerer, a secret agent in Wellington's army has been sent to investigate and unmask the traitor within the lord's ranks. Disguised as a traveling magician, the agent finds himself attracted to the governess...and together they discover the enchanting power of love.

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Signet Book

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0451194144

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9780451194145

An Awful Racket

By: Rita Ann Higgins

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An Awful Racket

By: Rita Ann Higgins

An Awful Racket was Rita Ann Higgins's first Bloodaxe collection to follow Sunny Side Plucked, her first retrospective: provocative and heartwarming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed. Now out of print, the poems are included in her later retrospective, Throw in the Vowels (2005).

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1852245638

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The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

By: Rita Charon

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0199360227

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Rita's Story

By: Rita Klaus

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Rita's Story

By: Rita Klaus

In 1955, Rita McLaughlin entered the convent and began 13 of the happiest yea rs of her life. But in 1960, she contracted Multiple Sclerosis and, by 1967, was compelled to leave the order. Although she married and had three children, Rita was extremely bitter--until the night in 1986, when her husband convinced her attend a healing service.

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Paraclete Press (MA)

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1557250561

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