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At one time or another we have all been betrayed by someone we trusted, all felt the sting of deceit and subsequent shattering of self-confidence. And when the people we count on betray our trust, the wound is deep and long-lasting.
In How Could You Do This to Me?, Dr. Jane Greer teaches readers:the types of people who are more at risk of betrayal the warning signs of someone who is untrustworthy a process that helps decide whether a relationship is worth saving or whether it should be abandoned.Part One discusses the roots of trust, blind trust, and the reasons betrayers betray. Part Two reveals our betrayers' many faces: admirers, users, or rivals. Part Three focuses on the fallout from betrayal: confrontation, revenge, and betrayal, and talks about how you can learn to trust your judgment and others again.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-03-05
I bought this book in the aftermath of my divorce. While reading the book, I realized I had been betrayed by most people close to me, all situations I had supressed to avoid conflict. This book helped me to become aware of my own weaknesses so that I am able to better prevent more betrayls in the future. You can not control the way others act or how they treat you, but you can learn to better control your own emotions and not let those people get the best of you. This was a great book! I loved it so much I gave it to my ex husband upon our divorce. Maybe it will help him out in his next relationship.
Nothing new here.......2005-07-06
This is actually not a terrible book; it's just not a book for someone who has already been researching and reading up on how to heal a broken heart after a betrayal. I bought it expecting some new insight and/or advice, but mostly it's a "beginner's primer" that defines betrayal, looks at childhood and how this figures in, etc. Very elementary, very basic. If you're just starting down the road to recovery after betrayal, and have not spent years talking to a therapist and reading books about it, as I have, then this particular book is probably a good place to start. Just don't expect any concrete advice or specific direction. It just isn't here.
No Real Trust after Betrayal.......2004-06-27
Once trust is broken, it is much like a glass window; it cannot be fixed. It can be taped, glued, pieced together, etc. It can never be the intact and unbroken window it once was. Some things just cannot be fixed as if they never occurred. With that in mind, the emphasis is on whether or not one wishes to fix it and why, and the decision to return a trust that is broken, decisions that always determine the value of the relationship and how deeply woven and connected it is. Recovery from broken trust (not trusts) lies in gently picking up the broken pieces, putting them in some type of order, and attempting to keep them there, an almost impossible task, and one too often for objective professionals. Success is tenuous at best, and unsatisfying at worst because both generally mourn what might have been had the trust not been broken, and the relationship unimpaired by those lingering ghosts. Most do not trust once the trust has been broken, but simulate an appearance of trust that is usually a small fraction of that which was thrown away by the deceiver, and which was forced onto the victim, by the knowledge of the deceit.
Succinct.......2004-01-22
This book says a lot with few words; it might almost require a second reading to absorb all it has to offer. It gave me insight into the motives of others and invaluable perspective on my own unconscious contributions to some of the "betrayals" I have experienced.
Soul searching read!.......2002-10-08
"How could you do this to me?" helped me put my thoughts in order. I had pretty much figured out what had happened in my life - why the betrayal took place, why it happened to me and where I needed to go from there. The problem was that it was all so jumbled in my head and I was so emotionally charged that nothing seemed to make sense. I have been able to search my soul, am putting my thoughts together in an orderly fashion in order to move on with my life now.
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What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed The Coming Plague, which looked at the reemergence of infectious diseases, Laurie Garrett decided to turn her highly honed reportorial skills to what she saw as the only solution--not medical technology, but public health. However, what she found in her travels was the collapse of public-health systems around the world, no comfort to a species purportedly sitting on a powder keg of disease. In Betrayal of Trust, Garrett exposes the shocking weaknesses in our medical system and the ramifications of a world suddenly much smaller, yet still far apart when it comes to wealth and attention to health.
With globalization, humans are more vulnerable to outbreaks from any part of the world; increasingly, the health of each nation depends on the health of all. Yet public health has been pushed down the list of priorities. In India, an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria, ridiculous in an age when the plague can easily be treated with antibiotics--that is, if you have a public-health system in place. India, busy putting its newfound wealth elsewhere, didn't. In Zaire, the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and would have kept up its rampage if the organization Doctors Without Borders hadn't stepped in, not with high-tech equipment or drugs, but with soap, protective gear, and clean water. Most of the world still doesn't have access to these basic public-health necessities. The 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialized world. But during a cholera epidemic, officials refused to use the simple cure public-health workers have long relied on--oral rehydration therapy. Many of the problems in these nations can also be found in one degree or another in the U.S., where medical cures using expensive technology and drugs have been emphasized to the detriment of protecting human health. The result? More than 100,000 Americans die each year from infections caught in hospitals, and America has a disease safety net full of holes.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for Newsday and others), Garrett has deftly turned what could have been a very dry subject into dramatic reportage, beginning with the eerie silence on the streets of Surat, India, where half the city's population (including doctors) fled the plague, while a thick white layer of DDT powdered the ground. Fascinating, frightening, and well-documented, Betrayal of Trust should be read not only by medical professionals and policymakers but the general public, and should galvanize a change in thinking and priorities. --Lesley Reed
Book Description
What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed The Coming Plague, which looked at the reemergence of infectious diseases, Laurie Garrett decided to turn her highly honed reportorial skills to what she saw as the only solution--not medical technology, but public health. However, what she found in her travels was the collapse of public-health systems around the world, no comfort to a species purportedly sitting on a powder keg of disease. In Betrayal of Trust, Garrett exposes the shocking weaknesses in our medical system and the ramifications of a world suddenly much smaller, yet still far apart when it comes to wealth and attention to health.With globalization, humans are more vulnerable to outbreaks from any part of the world; increasingly, the health of each nation depends on the health of all. Yet public health has been pushed down the list of priorities. In India, an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria, ridiculous in an age when the plague can easily be treated with antibiotics--that is, if you have a public-health system in place. India, busy putting its newfound wealth elsewhere, didn't. In Zaire, the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and would have kept up its rampage if the organization Doctors Without Borders hadn't stepped in, not with high-tech equipment or drugs, but with soap, protective gear, and clean water. Most of the world still doesn't have access to these basic public-health necessities. The 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialized world. But during a cholera epidemic, officials refused to use the simple cure public-health workers have long relied on--oral rehydration therapy. Many of the problems in these nations can also be found in one degree or another in the U.S., where medical cures using expensive technology and drugs have been emphasized to the detriment of protecting human health. The result? More than 100,000 Americans die each year from infections caught in hospitals, and America has a disease safety net full of holes.A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for Newsday and others), Garrett has deftly turned what could have been a very dry subject into dramatic reportage, beginning with the eerie silence on the streets of Surat, India, where half the city's population (including doctors) fled the plague, while a thick white layer of DDT powdered the ground. Fascinating, frightening, and well-documented, Betrayal of Trust should be read not only by medical professionals and policymakers but the general public, and should galvanize a change in thinking and priorities. --Lesley Reed
Customer Reviews:
Informative But Practically Unreadable.......2007-02-07
Laurie Garrett's researchers have compiled for her an enormous amount of data which clearly shows that health care infrastructures around the world are no longer in any condition to prepare or protect people from the next terrible plague let alone maintain the status quo among diseases that were once thought to have been all but eradicated from the planet. Garrett threads her way through health-care crises around the world, from Africa to India to Russia, but it is the state of American health care that makes up the largest chapter in the book, and it is the demise of American health care that should be the most startling. We have all known for a long time that something was terribly amiss with health care in the United States, but "Betrayal of Trust" reveals that the problems are much, much deeper than many of us realized, almost to the point of absolute despair. Health care may be tenuous at best in third-world countries and the former Soviet Union, but this is mostly because those countries are impoverished or cash strapped, whereas in the United States, although we are rich, we have allowed our health care to degrade through conservatism, politics, and greed.
All public responsibilities and services that have been privatized or deregulated have suffered similarly, driving up costs while lowering quality--private contractors must, after all, make a profit; they must get their little bite, their "mordida", and they must stifle competition and pay off politicians in order to maintain hegemony in their fields--but in the realm of health care this means that someone (or lots of someones, usually poor someones) will suffer or die needlessly. It also means that while no one is immune from contagion, the public health system is now too complex, with too many competing interests, to adequately direct any consistent policy of public health. Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood that government exists only to serve the people, and he took extraordinary (and quite successful) measures which demonstrated that government could improve the lives of its citizens. For the last several decades, we have lived under a government that believes it exists to serve business, that in this way, indirectly, the people's lot will improve. But all of those little "mordidas" add up, and so costs and debt have gone up also.
This is all made very clear in "Betrayal of Trust", through timelines of indomitable men and women who took the reins and made things happen; who found cures for polio and eradicated smallpox; who created a generation of Americans with no memory of the sadness of all-too-common childhood diseases and death. But while this evolution from greatness to complacency becomes clear as the reader progresses through the book, Garrett's style of writing is so poor that it is a struggle to get from page to page. Basic grammar and punctuation may not be her strong suit, but at least her editor should have corrected her redundancies (how many times must we read that the doctors in Zaire had no gloves? One...two...three...four...five...six...). And why do academic writers refuse to set off their introductory prepositional phrases with commas? Sentence after sentence runs on such that the reader must stop, back up, re-read the sentence, mentally place the comma, and then go on. Graduate students cringe when they are assigned this book, but the information remains important. Garrett's researchers did their jobs well.
Way scary, but a really good read........2007-01-17
I read this for a University course. I kept it. The public is woefully undereducated about public health and by definition it affects us all. I highly recommend this book.
promising start but poor finish.......2005-10-01
If horror writer Stephen King ever suffers from writer's block, he should read this book's opening chapter, where Pulitzer Prize winner Laurie Garrett describes traveling into the plague ravished Indian city of Surat. The description, which belongs more in the Book of Revelations than in a chronicle of modern day health care, is stomach churning. Irula tribesmen are paid to catch the plague carrying rats - and are encouraged to eat their prey. The rats, being the breeding grounds for all conceivable types of plagues and pestilences that they are, quickly turn the Irula predators into their prey. Even as the yesinia pestis bacterium and its bubonic plague cousin were devastating the city, Surat's Aids-racked prostitutes continued to ply their trade. Life goes on, even in the midst of death.
So, of course, do HIV and other killer microbes in environments like Surat where ignorance reigns supreme. The description of Surat's Ved Road is like something out of Dante's lowest circles or the Pharaoh's Egypt after God's plagues had done their worst. If you can imagine legions of bloated sewer rats letting loose billions of plague carrying fleas, you can begin to imagine Surat.
Surat is not even the scariest place she describes. Although, for example, Mobutu and his ilk let loose the dogs of war, they also unleashed Africa's most lethal microbes as well. Mobutu's Zaire gave us several outbreaks of Ebola, which with lassa, yellow fever and Marburg disease ranks as among the most fatal diseases currently stalking Africa. Although Ebola has inspired Hollywood to make "Outbreak" and a few other B-grade movies that may be soon coming to a movie house near you, the trouble is that our globalized village means that Ebola and its killer cousins may also soon be coming to a slum town near you. Garrett tells us to beware of the coming deluge.
For Russia, it may be too late. If Garrett is to be believed, Mother Russia's failure to provide healthcare for her children is on a par with Europe's Black Death of the fourteenth century. The collapse of the evil empire has unleashed epidemics of diphtheria, flu, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, TB, syphilis, gonorrhea and Aids. Alcoholism and drug abuse compound the situation. Radiation is also endemic - buildings made from waste products produced by Soviet nuclear facilities speckle the landscape of her major cities. Pollution, radiation, and malnutrition are gnawing away at the people's immune systems and Russians' life expectancy continues to fall as a result. Not even the epidemics of antiquity come close to the apocalypse now plaguing that blighted and thoroughly polluted land.
Soviet surgeons, if Garrett is to be believed, never even learned to scrub their hands - even Groucho Marx knew that much. And even if they now know what to do, they can no longer be bothered. Russia's sanitation standards are now worse than Africa's. Because Russia's sewage pipes are mixed, almost as a matter of course, with water pipes, her tenements are breeding grounds for today's super bugs, which are resistant to all known forms of penicillin and its derivatives. As if all of that was not bad enough, Aids and TB - Ebola with wings, as Garrett describes it - is endemic in today's Russia. Russia's hospitals are so unhygienic that being a patient or a worker there is like playing Russian roulette - with a fully loaded chamber.
Nor is that the end of it. Russia has 2 million IV drug users. Ten to 15 per cent of the Russian population has some experience with IV drug use. Welcome to Hell. And to a hitherto largely ignored major Aids epidemic. Mother Russia is at the forefront of the globalized sex industry and of the plagues of globalized sexually transmitted diseases, which are such an integral part of that booming industry. Not only are child prostitutes plying their trade directly in front of the Russian parliament but, with the rest of Russia's lost generation, they are literally giving the world a more virulent form of Aids. Russia more resembles Dante than Dostoyevsky.
There is, in all of this, a great and urgent story to be told. Unfortunately, Garrett does not tell it. After informing us how tiny Estonia rescued itself from Russia's fate with the help of the Swedish Academy of Science, Garrett's book just goes downhill. She spends over 200 pages giving us a potted history of America's health care system from Christopher Columbus and Typhoid Mary up to Hilary Clinton and beyond. Then, for those of her readers who are determined to see the book through to the finish, she spends another 60 pages crying Wolf about biological warfare before giving us 70 pages of largely superfluous notes. Stephen King does not make those mistakes. He sticks to his plot and terrifies his readers. Garrett should have done the same. In trying to put several books under one cover, she trivializes the traumas of India, Africa and Russia and fails to scare us out of our complacency. So even though Bill Clinton and a clutch of Nobel Prize winners endorse the book's fly cover, a smaller book packing a more lethal punch would have served her purpose better.
Betrayal of Trust.......2005-06-25
I really enjoyed reading this book, so much so that I assigned it as a text for a course in Issues in International Health. The writing is clear, and the topics addressed are timely and detailed. As a text, it would be better to have more and shorter chapters. As a source of information, it is excellent.
Not a quick read, but thought provoking.......2005-02-05
I love Laurie Garrett's work and have read both this book and _The Coming Plague_. And I am ready for her next treatise whenever she may print it.
What reviewers say about the lengthiness and sometimes meandering style is true. When I read her first book, I was reminded of a joke I heard when attending an exhaustive, three day long training about HIV/AIDS counseling and testing. One of the presenters quipped that you might feel like you were dying of AIDS even though you never had it.
Reading this book, you can feel wearied and overcome by the problems. But, if you go with her style, where she interweaves facts with stories of real pepole impacted by the very trends she cites, you get a greater sense of the dimensions of the problems and the reality of the issues.
As we watch our president dismantle so many care systems, I think the chapters on what happened to Russia when they did the same have extreme relevance.
The publish date of this fine book means that some of its data is aging but the representation of the problems and trend remain timely.
Read it.
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Dennis and Michelle Reina, principals in an organization-development firm, believe more productive and rewarding work environments will emerge if relationships that define them are truly built on trust. The problem they see is years of "downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering or of upsizing, mergers, and growth" that frequently result in minor misreadings of intention along with major breaches of promise--followed all too often by seriously diminished employee performance. The solution they propose in Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace is that leaders must develop a full understanding of the complex dynamics involved, and commit to practices that support building trust with employees. The book addresses the aspects of betrayal and trust, the bulk of it focused on "transactional trust" (which they define as "managing expectations, establishing boundaries, delegating appropriately, encouraging mutually serving intentions, keeping agreements, and being congruent in our behavior") and ways to build it among teams and groups as well as entire organizations. The authors conclude with a section on "transformational trust," the ultimate stage attained when trust within these levels "reaches a critical point and increases exponentially, becoming self-generating and synergistic." This is smart food for thought, supported by tools and techniques that can put it into practice. --Howard Rothman
Book Description
In today's competitive global economy, organizations sometimes must make difficult, even distressing changes. For them to be successful, trust is vital. After all, business is conducted via relationships, and trust is the foundation to effective relationships. This book is about trust; the power when it exists, the problems when it doesn't, the pain when it is betrayed, and how to restore it. Drawing on years of research and experience with organizations worldwide, the authors provide a simple yet comprehensive approach to trust that shows how to discuss it constructively, identifies behaviors that build or break trust, and describes steps to rebuild trust and sustain it even through periods of change. This revised, expanded edition features new examples and practical tips, tools, quizzes, and exercises to help readers create work environments where trust grows so that people feel good about what they do, relationships are energized, and productivity and profits accelerate.
Customer Reviews:
Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization.......2007-07-17
We've probably all experienced that really bad job that drained every bit of creativity, energy, and enthusiasm we had. Perhaps you had that overbearing boss who had unrealistic expectations or that supervisor who wouldn't just trust you do your work. Maybe you worked in a place where suggestions or attempts to solve problems were quickly quashed or met with anger.
Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace unequivocally illustrates that such situations not only make the job a hassle but also inhibit the potential productivity of all employees. Basically, as the employee realizes that he or she (or others around them) is being devalued, he or she becomes less committed to doing the best job possible.
Dealing with the resulting morale issue is extremely challenging. Even if the actual problem is addressed, often lost trust is difficult to repair. For instance, if the company attempts to encourage employees to report potential problems, few will likely come forward because they can't possibly believe that they won't get yelled at or have their issues ignored once again. Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace explains that this situation need not be futile. There are ways to rebuild trust and address past issues to create a stronger, more productive business.
A TOP-NOTCH BOOK...TERRIFIC FOR PRACTITIONERS!.......2006-09-22
This is an excellent work that cuts through the typical babble that fills many pages of others books on the subject of trust. The content is exceeding meaty. The organization of the material is first-rate. One of the very best books on the subject. Highly recommended!
Trust as the Foundation.......2003-03-06
The Reina's develop understandable definitions and offer a well researched and thought out framework for both the development and practice of trust. They also offer practical and accessible vignettes and case studies illustrating the 'trust behaviors' that are so crucial to effective organizations and relationships.
Probably the most powerful part of the book is the section on Betrayal. Betrayal is a huge factor in our lives and we rarely talk about it. This book offers a language, method, and solution for both talking about betrayal and beginning the process of healing from it.
This is an important book for people interested in getting to the root of systemic problems in institutions, families, and relationships.
I highly recommend it!
Best of its kind!.......2002-05-23
Blown away! A huge help to solving workplace problems..help that carries over into all parts of life. The Reinas
have a great thing going. I would like to take their course and meet them in person!
A Solid Effort!.......2001-06-02
Dennis S. Reina and Michelle L. Reina discuss the importance of having a strong sense of trust in the workplace. They advocate avoiding both the major and minor betrayals that undermine trust. Creating an environment that promotes trust contributes to effectiveness in the workplace, especially during times of rapid change. The book discusses the nature and effect of trust. It is enhanced with a variety of exercises that promote workplace dialogues and help people think through the issue of trust. Many of these exercises are especially suited for teams, work groups and divisions. The exercises facilitate discussing and resolving problems in a more trusting atmosphere. This well-written, easy-to-read book is directed to front-line supervisors and unit mangers, although it will also interest top management and company owners. We [...] recommend this book to team builders in organizations of all sizes.
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As the United States faces what many see as another lackluster election in November 2000, John B. Judis's The Paradox of American Democracy addresses the decline of public participation in national politics over the course of the 20th century. He persuasively attributes the blame to the deteriorated relationship between unions and grassroots activists and the elite policy foundations that often championed their causes, a relationship eroded by self-interested businessmen and populist demagoguery. American political life, Judis writes, was never strictly a contest between popular and wealthy special-interest groups. Public policy organizations such as the Ford Foundation and the Brookings Institution, for example, have pushed for, or refereed, legislation for social, economic, and political reform that benefited labor, civil rights, and environmental activists. Since the 1970s, though, think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute have pursued their own economic interests by forging links with reactionary populist groups like the Moral Majority, silencing progressive voices less able to present their interests amidst the onslaught of corporate propaganda. Public policy, Judis feels, is now formed primarily by lobbyists rather than those concerned about the broader public welfare.
Paradox presents a detailed portrait of how organized political blocs, independent public policy foundations, and the federal government have interacted over the last 100 years, and how the relationship has been eroded by corporate priorities. While his facts are correct, Judis's fondness for the hegemonic social order of FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society might raise objections from sympathetic readers who feel that vital leftist energy was co-opted by post-Fordism, not enabled by it. The link between activists' declining access to power and the dwindling electoral turnout could also be made more explicit. Judis nevertheless provides a brisk and informative history of the structure of American civic life. --John M. Anderson
Book Description
Washington is big business. The era of civic-minded captains of industry and serious think-tanks has given way to the heyday of K Street, home to the lobbyists who now spend $2.4 million a year on each member of Congress.
John B. Judis, a senior editor for the New Republic, conducts an instructive tour through this corridor of money and power in The Paradox of American Democracy-with eye-opening results. For example: Former foreign policy advisers now become lobbyists for foreign businesses. Former Senators call for privatizing social security while sitting on boards of investment banks that would benefit from the conversion. The bankers, lawyers, and business people who once devoted time to public service now confine their activity to lobbying for their firms.
The Paradox of American Democracy turns the conventional view of democracy on it's head. Judis shows that it's never been enough to have active political participation; American democracy has always depended on an enlightened political establishment-with only the nation's best interest in mind-to shape public opinion. Our political system suffers today because the lawyers, professors and former government officials who once made up of the establishment have put their minds and reputations at the service of moneyed special interests. Rather than balancing the interests of business and populists, the elites-and their money-are now firmly on the side of business.
With widespread cynicism so completely undermining our institutions, The Paradox of American Democracy cuts to the heart of today's debate on why our systems is broken, and what we can do to fix it.
Customer Reviews:
very informative.......2003-08-01
The most compelling theme of this book to me was its historical explanation of why there seems to be no informed/reasoned middle ground in politics today, which is something I find particularly mystifying and frustrating. The history and mechanics Judis describes of how disinterested elites have disappeared while letterhead advocacy groups have become rampant is very plausible, especially with the numerous detailed examples he cites.
The book might lose a little gas after the Reagan years, but I thought that was OK since Clinton+ has been dissected a million different ways and I wasn't looking for another take on that.
The book also serves as a valuable field guide to policy groups of different stripes. If you are a little fuzzy on the difference between the Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institute (as I admit I was), then that's a big part of the problem Judis is describing.
A cogent explanation of how we got here..........2002-07-15
Judis is particularly smart about the 1970s, which he characterizes as a moment of conservative and corporate backlash. He suggests that if you follow the money, and the think-tanks, you can see (in part) how and why the right was able to triumph politically in a degraded public sphere once we got to the 1980s and 1990s. The name of the game for them has been propaganda--"Trust us, Mr. Working Man, welfare cheats are what ail you. That and capital gains taxes that are too high."--and they've done it well. Hell, with all the Scaife, Olin, Cato, Heritage, AEI, and CEI doublespeak and disinformation spewed out over the course of the last 3 decades, it's a wonder any of us have any sense left at all. Hopefully, with the eruption of a new corporate scandal every other day in 2002 (nearly all of which have links to the "screw-the-poor-and-the-middle-class / but-fatten-the-rich-and-the-corporations" Bush-Cheney Administration) people are finally beginning to wise up...
Awful.......2001-10-31
Do yourself a favor and avoid this book. Mr. Judis fails miserably to explain why political cynicism seems to be at an all-time high. A devout leftist, Judis relies upon formulaic left wing claptrap to support his thesis that high minded elitists are no longer looking out for the interest of working people, but rather their own self interest. He somehow manages to strech out liberal 'bumper sticker' philosophy for 306 pages, most of it mind numbingly innane. This book is an utter failure, particularly given that his book on WF Buckley was surprisingly neutral and honest. This is the type of drivel you would expect to see from some nutjob writing for Mother Jones, not the New Republic. What a shame.
Great in understanding America's (corrupt) democracy.......2000-06-01
I enjoyed this book and recommend it to anybody interested in American history and politics. John B. Judis gives a historic account of how our democracy has been damaged by big money and irresponsible elites, focusing from the progressieve era to today. The book is an easy read, and Judis makes his points well understood. He analyzes how different elites and special interest groups have functioned in America.
The chapters "Business and the Rise of K Street," and "Triumph of Conservatives," were very interesting and thought provoking. Judis gives a closer and infromative look at how political action committees and conservative groups have contributed huge amounts of money to politicians, and how they recently dramatically increased their influence in governments decisions.
The last two chapters are also good in explaining how changes in big business influenceing government even more in the 70's and 80's is hard to shake when dealing with a reform agenda. It is chalk full of statistics that are astounding, and are attributed to respectable sources: PAC's gave 72% of their money to Republicans during the last six weeks of teh 1978 elections.
A problem with this book though is that it blames the Republicans too much when talking about the lack of public participation in politics. I guess that was expected though considering that Mr. Judis is a senior editor of "The New Republic" (a liberal magazine), although he does not seem to be a fan of Clinton. All together this book is very informative and holds your interest. Along with recommending this book, I will recommend reading Jim Hightower's "If the Gods had meant us to vote they would have given us Candidates." It bashed both Republicans and Democrats, and is comparable to this book, however discusses more recent issues.
This book informs us on the ever-changing-postion government, elites, and society has had over time, and explains how American democracy has evolved to today's current corrupt system. John B. Judis also gives us hope and discusses how our democracy can be corrected.
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Customer Reviews:
GREAT SERIES.......2007-05-07
I love this author ~ u will want to get all 3 of the series because they were all a great read
Not as good as her other work.......2006-05-28
I read this book as it was a book club choice, otherwise I would not have finished the book. The beginning was very slow, though it picked up at the end. Ms. Banks is at her best when writing "love" scenes. True to form, Ms. Banks creates strong female characters. I very much enjoy her Vampire Huntress series and I highly recommend them.
Engrossing suspense story.......2006-04-12
Like most of Leslie Esdaile Banks's female protagonists, Laura Caldwell is strong, daring, independent, and a freewheeler. Determined to avenge her father's bring-down and ultimate death, she stops at nothing to find the--for lack of a decent word--critter. She knows how to swim with sharks. The familys' messes are twisted. She goes up against a mad-crazy, power-hungry, lawyer at great risks to her safety. Won't tell you what happens. But I'll tell you this. Banks writes a wicket war! This is what's called a page-turner, no doubt. I rate 'Betrayal of the Trust' top of the line. The follow-up novel is 'Blind Trust' and I intend to read it, also.
Minnie E Miller, Author
TRUST THIS BOOK IS A WINNER.......2006-03-10
Betrayal of the Trust by Leslie Esdaile Banks is a pleasure. This book gives the reader everything that a mystery-suspense-romance-politcal-historical buff could want and then some. The book guides the reader through the life of a child that is the daughter of activists during 1970's Philadelphia during a time of transition for Black America, when her family is torn apart by the actions of a selfish young man from the black bourgeoisie. Laura Caldwell, that child, watches as all that she knows and loves is torn away and ruined, and vows her revenge. After careful positioning, she embarks on a journey to exact her own justice to repay those that wronged her and her family.
This book was satisfying on several levels. If you choose to read this book, your are in for a rare treat that will leave you wanting more!!!!!!
Can't Trust Anyone.......2005-01-15
BETRAYAL OF THE TRUST is an engaging and suspenseful story about one woman's lifelong vendetta against the powers that be. Laura Caldwell is out to make those responsible for ruining her once happy childhood and family pay. She has worked her way from Philadelphia's inner city to mixing and mingling with a virtual who's who of Philly's powerful elite. However, her rise to the upper echelons is part of an intricately designed plan to work the system from the inside and execute her plan for revenge.
BETRAYAL OF THE TRUST is a nicely done political thriller that addresses issues of racism, classism and sexism. Once again, Leslie Esdaile-Banks showcases her ability to create strong female characters. Laura Caldwell is fierce - not only does she possess the kind of physical attributes that make most men lose their cool, but she is intelligent, and when necessary, lethal. My only issue with the book is that the story is so intricate and involves so many players that there were times I had a hard time keeping up with who was who. In addition, because of the complexity of the plot, the author has to spend a great deal of time laying groundwork which caused the story to stall at times. I would encourage readers to be patient because eventually, all of these details come together. I was disappointed in the ending, but it is sure to encourage great discussions. I highly respect the author for continuing to offer up works of fiction that are fresh and keep her from being pigeonholed into a particular genre of writing. (RAW Rating: 3.5)
Reviewed by Stacey Seay
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Book Description
Sexual misconduct by clergy is a devastating issue that reaches across all denominations, damaging the credibility of the church in its wake. The media regularly reports on the moral failure of leaders and abuse at the hands of those who are supposed to be trustworthy. Betrayal of Trust focuses on a common scenario of abuse-sexual involvement between a male pastor and a female congregant-and offers practical solutions on how to respond to and prevent this betrayal of trust. This book presents methods that will help churches respond sensitively to victims and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse from taking place. For clergy who may be at risk for this behavior, it offers help in establishing appropriate boundaries. This second edition includes a new chapter that offers help for the wandering pastor and a risk-determination questionnaire for pastors who may become abusers.
Book Description
The most fertile ground for personal growth is often found in the most painful of experiences: betrayal. Financial disappointments, infidelities, failings of the body, such betrayals are at the heart of much mistrust, anger, and fear. Therapist Dr. Beth Hedva builds on cross-cultural rites of initiation to present a unique model of healing, exploring the self-renewing potential of: rejection by a loved one, aging, disease, and illness, substance dependency, job-layoffs and financial loss, natural and man-made disasters, discrimination and prejudice.
Providing exercises to help you on your personal journey, Betrayal, Trust, and Forgiveness will guide you through the pain of betrayal to feel fully alive again. Originally published as the classic Journey from Betrayal to Trust: A Universal Rite of Passage, this revised edition includes new chapters about forgiveness and ending self-betrayal, plus invaluable tips for support-group facilitators.
Customer Reviews:
No help.......2006-01-18
I was so disappointed in this book, which I purchased only after reading positive reviews on Amazon. If you believe that imagining your "wolf mother" and various figures from Greek mythology will help you get over betrayal, then this is your book. This book is full of arcane references, dream sequences, illogical guided imagery and other rot from "the new age" - none of which are concrete enough to help people today.
Couldn't even give it to the Goodwill, as the previous owner had underlined extensively in the first chapter - and then apparently gave up reading the rest.
Be Aware of what you are buying.......2005-01-27
I purchased this book after carefully reviewing all of the customer reviews, however, I was very disappointed. The book focuses on healing via tarot, runes, crystals, I Ching, astrology, numerology, synchronicities, dreams, guided imagery, chanting, prayer,ritual and even channeling. If these are the methods you are interested in, then this is the book for you. If, however, this is not something you believe in or want to dabble in then this book is a waste of time. The author has done intuitive readings for many of the people in the book prior to putting them in her book. It came off as very hokey in my humble opinion...So know what you are getting into when you make this purchase.
This book changed my life........2002-05-27
Thank you Dr. Hedva. Your book changed my life! I had been trying to recover from a betrayal. Not a little betrayal but a life transforming betrayal. The kind of betrayal that you remember the rest of your life, that rocks your world and makes you question everything, most of all yourself. After a year of seeing a therapist and going thru the process of shock, crying, grieving, guilt, anger and depression, I still didn't feel like I was "myself". Then despair started to set in because I became afraid that the heartbreak was too big for me to heal.
One afternoon, while waiting in the dentist's office, I picked up a newspaper with a review of Dr. Hedva's book. The review was positive and the quotes resonated. Later that day I bought the book and couldn't put it down until I finished it. For the first time, I felt that someone really understood my pain. And most important in that moment, it gave me a sense of hope for a full recovery. The book reframed the experience to help me see it as part of my spiritual journey, a valuable lesson to help me become stronger, wiser, and better able to forgive others and myself.
Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness addresses all types of betrayals (lover, mother, father, body, self and society.) It is not a "help the victim feel good" book. It is reader-friendly, clear, and direct, providing practical tools and exercises to help the reader understand and move forward.
If you have been searching for a way to heal a betrayal, you are not alone. This book is a powerful resource that can help. It was the answer to my prayers.
Radical Therapy.......2002-03-07
Emotional darkness, the nightmare of betrayal... are
these fodder for the psyche? According to Dr. Hedva,
the stage is set for a sacred initiation, moving from
one cycle of personal evolution to the next. A strong,
heart-centered case is made for the radical
transformation that moving through the experience
of betrayal can trigger.
A shocking, yet spiritually empowering argument
is put forward, defining the stages of both pain and
growth that the process of granting forgiveness
engenders.
Many aspects of betrayal are addressed. All the
significant relationship dynamics are explored,
leaving no doubt that the author knows what she's
talking about. Also, the tender area of self-betrayal
is probed, but leaving us feeling that hope and
regeneration are indeed possible.
We are guided through the death of innocence to
the rebirth of vitality and full aliveness. Using the
exercises provided, one may find that a
compassionate spirit has laid a stable path for
us to follow.
In Depth Healing.......2002-01-01
This is an excellent treatise on the spiritual meaning of
betrayal. I was very impressed with the counseling techniques
in this volume and the real understanding of the heart-
breaking experience of being betrayed. Rather than being
another "boo-hoo, I'm such a victim" sympathy book, the
author encourages us to take personal, spiritual
responsibility for our experience. A variety of archetypal
symbols are addressed that give deep insights into a much
fuller meaning of betrayal as initiation. A truly healing
discourse.
Average customer rating:
- A valuable resource for family therapists.
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Trust and Betrayal in the Treatment of Child Abuse
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Offering a practical new approach to the management of child-at-risk cases, this book illuminates how parents perceive therapists and child protection workers and why, from their own point of view, they so frequently refuse to cooperate with intervention. Amply illustrated by case examples and interviews with parents, the book helps readers overcome common difficulties associated with the referral process while maximizing parents' cooperation and motivation for therapy. MacKinnon challenges dominant professional discourses that attribute abuse to parents' "pathology" or "dysfunction," showing instead how family violence and the referral process itself are inextricably linked to dynamics of gender, class, power, and powerlessness. Readers learn to develop an effective relationship discourse with families, giving voice to the experience of each member and eliciting their commitment to nonviolence, fairness, and equality. Special attention is given to the therapist's role as a "power broker" who can prevent problems and intervene in difficulties between families and child protection agencies.
Customer Reviews:
A valuable resource for family therapists........1999-10-30
Trust and Betrayal in the Treatment of Child Abuse is a rich and profound examination of an area of thought and work fraught with complexity. MacKinnon maps a clear path through the dilemmas of child abuse, combining a depth of theoretical approach with clear practice guidelines. What is so appealing about MacKinnon's writing is its clarity and accessibility in the midst of a gritty analysis of socio-political discourses. Her ideas are conceptually satisfying and include constant reference to case examples that are helpful illustrations of the theoretical ideas explored.
Trust and Betrayal provides a framework to examine the many difficulties emerging when dealing with issues of child abuse. MacKinnon presents thoughtful solutions to inherent systemic problems that inevitably result when attempts at social control and therapeutic gain intersect. It is at the point of intersection of a number of different discourses, especially the discourses within family therapy and child protection that this book offers a more complex understanding of the position of the individual, the family and the wider system. For those working with families, the book challenges us to a depth of understanding of our clients, which involves a consideration of gendered, powered relationships and ideas of class. MacKinnon places the client's subjectivity within those discourses showing how it develops out of the particular underlying premises and beliefs within a family.
The first part of the book deals with "Child Abuse in Context". There is no simplistic analysis here. Clinical problems are explored in combination with an understanding of various contexts which families bring to therapy. These include the context in which families are referred, in which they live their lives, and the context in which premises and beliefs held by the family and by child protection workers continue to exist unchallenged.
The chapter on the "Genealogy of Relationships" is worth particular mention. Here MacKinnon introduces a new discourse around child abuse that in our opinion creates a space for therapeutic change without minimising the seriousness of abuse. There are some fascinating ideas here suggesting a new conceptualisation of relationships involving the "dominant account" of family relationships and the importance of eliciting the "hidden account". This genealogical approach "seeks and allows for each person's account of relationships. It can be a guide to how therapists can approach the story of abuse from family members and effect a change in underlying network premises held by family members" (P.97).
The last half of the book is essential reading for therapists working with families who have become intertwined with the Child Protection Department. The approach outlined is based on years of research and a therapy project undertaken by the author. The crux of the approach is that it effectively engages families and gives them a different experience of working with professionals.
MacKinnon's feminist-informed approach is radically different from a position that assumes, even before therapy begins, that it is not useful to work with perpetrators. She creates a space for the therapist to be positioned which may allow for the parent who abuses to work towards safe contact with the family/child. She argues that the task of the therapist is to sit in the space that names abuse as abuse. Whilst holding the abusing parent accountable, the therapist works to negotiate a safe way for relationships in the family to continue. She describes the therapist's role as that of a "power broker". What stands out in this approach is a deep respect for all family members and their significant relationships within a context of accountability.
The account of "the working class" in Chapter 4 is perhaps more homogeneous than we would expect. We think other accounts exist which are not included here. We are also left wondering why MacKinnon does not explore the issues that exist for therapists in dealing with child abuse, when the most therapeutic position may be to decide not to continue with, or even start therapy.
What we do not doubt is that MacKinnon brings to her writing an ability to see the world through her wealth of experience as a therapist, supervisor and consultant. Her work is respectful and compassionate, including the voice of each party in the web surrounding child abuse, with a rich interweaving of comments from parents and workers who have entrusted her with their opinions.
Trust and Betrayal brings a refreshing breath to a discourse that does not usually self-reflect, namely the discourse around relationships between clients of the Child Protection Department, the Departmental workers themselves, and therapists. It is valuable reading not just for family therapists but for those entering the field of child protection and those working with families and individuals where there have been allegations of abuse.
Customer Reviews:
Life Changing Book.......2007-06-06
As I was reading this book I was struggling with betrayal in my own life. It helped me to break the cycle of resentment and revenge that I had been living with for years. I would say that anyone dealing with betrayal would greatly benefit from reading this book and applying the wisdom to their own life.
Betrayed, I think not!.......2007-02-05
the story that this book is founded on, which is the first chapter, is a complete fabrication. It was not the author who was betrayed, it was the group of people he called "his church" that was betrayed. I am a survivor of this man's reign of terror through which he played God with people's lives and abused all those around him physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Once again, he is trying to gain popularity and monetary gain through the pain of others.
Product Description
"If you are willing to experience the pain of your own self-betrayal, that pain is a divine fire that reveals the power of the choice to suffer. The willingness to be pierced by this arrow is the willingness to be free. It is simply a matter of telling the truth." In these monologues and interactions, Gangaji addresses the perception of lost innocence and the desire to return to and reclaim ones original purity of being. Central to this investigation is the recognition of ones own self-betrayal. When all addictive mental activity surrounding self-doubt is cut, it ceases taking precedence over the desire to realize oneself. Telling the truth and having the willingness to trust inherent peace leads one into the heart of what cannot be betrayed, what is free. That is who you are.
Customer Reviews:
Innocense, trust and self betrayal.......2007-01-13
Gangaji's teachings have touched me deeply. They strike me as 'true'. No pretense, no false values. I am most appreciative and recommend this most highly.
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