| A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis Contributor(s): Ackerman, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679771336 ISBN-13: 9780679771333 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: In this intimate and compassionate record of a year's service as a counselor on a suicide and crisis hotline, the author of "A Natural History of the Senses" offers fascinating parallels between human and animal behavior and suggests that crisis is an innate part of existence. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Nature | Essays - Psychology | Psychopathology - General |
| Dewey: 362.204 |
| LCCN: 96008721 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.24" W x 8.02" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: his astonishing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers."--San Francisco Examiner. |