Böcker av Thomas J. Cottle

This book examines the experiences of eight men and their families, after periods of six months or more without work. Cottle (education, Boston University) describes long term unemployment as a traumatic event that creates in those who experience it symptoms like those associated with loss and post-

Focuses on affirmation, on that mysterious process by which the self comes to know itself in relation to others and forges an identity. This work pays attention to the role of devotion, showing how the taking of responsibility for another is the essence of affirmation, which in turn is the fundamental ingredient in the development of a self.

Cottle examines the ways people interpret their life experiences and construct meanings for the events they have encountered. In reading the sixteen life studies in Drawing Life, we encounter both inner reflections as well the power of culture to shape the meanings people give to the events that befall them.