A Handful of Ashes: One Mother's Tragedy

by Greenleaf, Victoria C. G.

• ISBN13: 9781879384378
• ISBN10: 187938437X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Q E D Pr

Summary

A psychiatrist asserts that childhood personality disorders don't necessarily result from parental cruelty. Supporting that belief with the story of the impact of her son's antisocial personality disorder on his loving familiy. This book wll help untangle one of the most difficult of parent/child interactions.
Winner of the 2001 BAIPA Award
for Best Psychology/ Family Case Study Book
Finalist in Foreword Magazine's 2001 BOTYA
for Parenting

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
A Night to Remember	1	(2)
Family Life at the Greenleafs	3	(12)
Victoria Becomes Detective	15	(8)
Confrontation with Peter	23	(12)
Mountain-Climbing School	35	(8)
Deeper into Quicksand	43	(12)
Logistics Problems	55	(12)
Initiation into the Legal System	67	(10)
Visit to Nova	77	(14)
Juvenile Court 101	91	(6)
School for Middle-class Delinquents	97	(14)
Jockeying for Position at Pleasant Valley	111	(8)
Delinquent Eagle Scout	119	(14)
Exercises in Futility	133	(10)
Failing Honors Student	143	(10)
Plotting Strategy	153	(10)
Operation Roc	163	(6)
``Good Night, Moon''	169	(2)
Greenleaf Waterloo	171	(10)
Unholy Alliance of the Establishment and the Young	181	(10)
Expanding Ripples in Daniel's Pond	191	(10)
Friends from My Adolescence	201	(8)
Adolescence in the Late Twentieth Century	209	(6)
Daniel's Portfolio	215	(6)
Legal/Social Work Tango	221	(6)
Whispers from Daniel's Past	227	(8)
Two Brothers Studying Reptiles	235	(8)
From Defensive to Offensive	243	(6)
Musical Couches	249	(6)
New Guinea Comes to the Greenleafs	255	(6)
Cannon Ricocheting across a Pitching Deck	261	(12)
Five Days that Shook the Greenleafs	273	(16)
Two Strangers	289	(2)
Doctors' Lounge	291	(2)
False Starts and Close Calls	293	(8)
Family Holidays	301	(12)
Meeting of Two Sociopaths	313	(18)
Intervention	331	(18)
Drug Ward	349	(12)
Sociopath on a Drug Ward	361	(10)
Family of Four	371	(4)
Epilogue	375	(8)
Postscript	383	(6)
Suggested Readings	389