| To Change a Mind: Parenting to Promote Maturity in Teenagers Contributor(s): McKinnon, John A. (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1590562348 ISBN-13: 9781590562345 Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Teenagers - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General |
| Dewey: 649.125 |
| LCCN: 2010029711 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Words matter: they mold and mirror our values and our reality. And so it is with the language we use to think and talk about species other than our own. In Tongue-Tied, Hanh Nguyen unpacks the many metaphors, meanings, and grammatical formulations that speak to and echo our physical exploitation of other-than-human animals, and shows how they constrain our abilities to relate to our animal kin fairly and honestly. Full of subtle insights and richly suggestive observations, and drawing from Nguyen's own cross-cultural experiences, Tongue-Tied offers a glimpse of a language that is freed from euphemistic self-deception, one that accepts definition without limitation and difference without hierarchy. |
Contributor Bio(s): McKinnon, John: - John A. McKinnon, M.D., was educated at Harvard, Cambridge University, Case Western Reserve University, Yale, and Norwich University. He taught at the University of California, San Francisco, and directed psychiatry hospital programs in Texas and Montana. Disgusted with the mediocrity of "managed" care, he left traditional medical centers to co-found Montana Academy, a therapeutic school for troubled teenagers on a remote ranch near Glacier Park. His co-founder and wife, Rosemary, is also a therapist, and they have three daughters. |