A sociologist and clinical psychologist, Thomas J. Cottle is currently professor of education at Boston University. He is the author of more than thirty books including At Peril: Stories of Injustice, Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long-Term Unemployment, When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother, A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation, and Beyond Self-Esteem: Narratives of Self-Knowledge and Devotion.

• CONTENTSPrefaceAcknowledgments I. STORIES OF ADULTSOn Narratives and the Sense of SelfThe AbandonerDo You See Me as a Human Being or Just Another Black Face?No Way to Look But BackJacob and Millie PortmanA Woman Named Sarah Clark Keller Marcus Nathaniel Simpson: If the Lord Has Patience, I’ve Got a FutureProfessorsII. STORIES OF CHILDRENAdolescent as Story Teller: The Case of Anorexia NervosaThe Young and their ProphetsThey Got Anger Pushing ‘Em in One Direction, Fright Pushing ‘Em in AnotherThe Evils of Testing and TrackingThe Bedroom of Sheila CoopertonA Child to be EnviedMind ShadowsJust a MemoryIII. EPILOGUEThe Value of Stories: Applications for Research and HealingBibliography

His writing itself is music; a deft blend of passion and restraint, light and darkness, pain and life-giving humor.

A sociologist and clinical psychologist, Thomas J. Cottle is currently professor of education at Boston University. He is the author of more than thirty books including At Peril: Stories of Injustice, Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long-Term Unemployment, When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother, A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation, and Beyond Self-Esteem: Narratives of Self-Knowledge and Devotion.

• CONTENTSPrefaceAcknowledgments I. STORIES OF ADULTSOn Narratives and the Sense of SelfThe AbandonerDo You See Me as a Human Being or Just Another Black Face?No Way to Look But BackJacob and Millie PortmanA Woman Named Sarah Clark Keller Marcus Nathaniel Simpson: If the Lord Has Patience, I’ve Got a FutureProfessorsII. STORIES OF CHILDRENAdolescent as Story Teller: The Case of Anorexia NervosaThe Young and their ProphetsThey Got Anger Pushing ‘Em in One Direction, Fright Pushing ‘Em in AnotherThe Evils of Testing and TrackingThe Bedroom of Sheila CoopertonA Child to be EnviedMind ShadowsJust a MemoryIII. EPILOGUEThe Value of Stories: Applications for Research and HealingBibliography

His writing itself is music; a deft blend of passion and restraint, light and darkness, pain and life-giving humor.

A sociologist and clinical psychologist, Thomas J. Cottle is currently professor of education at Boston University. He is the author of more than thirty books including At Peril: Stories of Injustice, Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long-Term Unemployment, When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother, A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation, and Beyond Self-Esteem: Narratives of Self-Knowledge and Devotion.

• CONTENTSPrefaceAcknowledgments I. STORIES OF ADULTSOn Narratives and the Sense of SelfThe AbandonerDo You See Me as a Human Being or Just Another Black Face?No Way to Look But BackJacob and Millie PortmanA Woman Named Sarah Clark Keller Marcus Nathaniel Simpson: If the Lord Has Patience, I’ve Got a FutureProfessorsII. STORIES OF CHILDRENAdolescent as Story Teller: The Case of Anorexia NervosaThe Young and their ProphetsThey Got Anger Pushing ‘Em in One Direction, Fright Pushing ‘Em in AnotherThe Evils of Testing and TrackingThe Bedroom of Sheila CoopertonA Child to be EnviedMind ShadowsJust a MemoryIII. EPILOGUEThe Value of Stories: Applications for Research and HealingBibliography

His writing itself is music; a deft blend of passion and restraint, light and darkness, pain and life-giving humor.