Imperfect Control
Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2014
448 pages
978-1-5011-0589-0 (ISBN)
Description
In her remarkable national bestseller, Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst explored how we are shaped by the various losses we experience throughout our lives. Now, in her wise and perceptive new book, Imperfect Control, she shows us how our sense of self and all our important relationships are colored by our struggles over control: over wanting it and taking it, loving it and fearing it, and figuring out when the time has come to surrender it.
Writing with compassion, acute psychological insight, and a touch of her trademark humor, Viorst invites us to contemplate the limits and possibilities of our control. She shows us how our lives can be shaped by our actions and our choices. She reminds us, too, that we sometimes should choose to let go. And she encourages us to find our own best balance between power and surrender.
Writing with compassion, acute psychological insight, and a touch of her trademark humor, Viorst invites us to contemplate the limits and possibilities of our control. She shows us how our lives can be shaped by our actions and our choices. She reminds us, too, that we sometimes should choose to let go. And she encourages us to find our own best balance between power and surrender.
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Judith Viorst is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; the Lulu books, including Lulu and the Brontosaurus; the New York Times bestseller Necessary Losses; four musicals; and poetry for children and adults. Her most recent books of poetry include What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? and Nearing Ninety. She lives in Washington, DC.
Content
Contents
Introduction
1 How Free to Be?
2 The Taste of Control
3 Taking Possession of Ourselves
4 The Power of Sex
5 Who Controls the Couple?
6 Permanent Parenthood
7 Bossing and Being Bossed
8 Victims and Survivors
9 Varieties of Surrender
10 In Control of Our Death
Last Words
Notes and Elaborations
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction
1 How Free to Be?
2 The Taste of Control
3 Taking Possession of Ourselves
4 The Power of Sex
5 Who Controls the Couple?
6 Permanent Parenthood
7 Bossing and Being Bossed
8 Victims and Survivors
9 Varieties of Surrender
10 In Control of Our Death
Last Words
Notes and Elaborations
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
