Robert Coles
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Early life, education, and military service Born Martin Robert Coles in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 12, 1929, to Philip Coles, an immigrant from Leeds, England, United Kingdom, and Sandra Young Coles, originally from Sioux City, Iowa. Robert Coles attended Boston Latin School where he played tennis, ran track, and edited the school literary magazine. He entered Harvard College in 1946, where he studied English literature and helped to edit the undergraduate literary magazine, The Harvard Advocate. He graduated magna cum laude and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1950.
Robert Coles 's Published Works
Published Works
- The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination (1989) (365)
- The Spiritual Life of Children (1990) (235)
- The political life of children (1986) (184)
- The moral life of children (1986) (177)
- The Moral Intelligence of Children (1997) (153)
- The Child in Our Times: Studies in the Development of Resiliency (1989) (103)
- Doing Documentary Work (1997) (87)
- Sex and the American Teenager (1985) (79)
- The Myth of the Missing Black Father (2009) (73)
- The call of service : a witness to idealism (1993) (69)
- Twelve to sixteen: early adolescence (1972) (68)
- The Disadvantaged Child: Studies on the Social Environment and the Learning Process, by Martin Deutsch and Associates. New York: Basic Books, 1967, 400 pp., $10.00 (1968) (52)
- Single‐Father Families: A Review of the Literature (2015) (50)
- Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1968) (47)
- Manifest Destiny Adapted for 1990s’ War Discourse: Mission and Destiny Intertwined (2002) (43)
- The moral education of medical students (1998) (43)
- Race-Focused Service-Learning Courses: Issues and Recommendations (1999) (40)
- The Story of Ruby Bridges (1995) (38)
- Just Doing What They Gotta Do (2009) (37)
- The Secular Mind (1999) (35)
- Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers (1972) (35)
- The Call of Service (1993) (32)
- Peaceniks and Warmongers' Framing Fracas on the Home Front: Dominant and Opposition Discourse Interaction during the Persian Gulf Crisis (1998) (32)
- Medical Ethics and Living a Life (1979) (32)
- Confidants and family structure in old age. (1988) (30)
- Children and War: A Historical Anthology (2002) (30)
- Testing the Accuracy of Field Textures 1 (1975) (29)
- War and the Contest over National Identity (2002) (29)
- Black Single Fathers (2002) (28)
- The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers (2009) (27)
- Privileged ones : the well-off and the rich in America (1980) (24)
- Careers in academic medicine. Triple threat or double fake. (1988) (22)
- Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope (1978) (21)
- SOCIAL STRUGGLE AND WEARINESS. (1964) (21)
- Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion (1987) (21)
- Uprooted Children, The Early Life Of Migrant Farm Workers (1970) (20)
- Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children (2001) (19)
- The Parenting Roles and Goals of Single Black Full-Time Fathers. (2001) (19)
- INTERNAL COLONY OR INTERNAL PERIPHERY? A CRITIQUE OF CURRENT MODELS AND AN ALTERNATIVE FORMULATION by David S. Walls (2011) (18)
- Their eyes meeting the world : the drawings and paintings of children (1992) (18)
- Black Single Custodial Fathers: Factors Influencing the Decision to Parent (2003) (18)
- Race and Family: A Structural Approach (2005) (16)
- Odd Folk and Ordinary People: Collective identity disparities between peace groups in the Persian Gulf Crisis (1999) (14)
- Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis (1991) (14)
- The indigestible curriculum. (1988) (14)
- Simone Weil and the suffering of love (1986) (14)
- The desegregation of Southern schools: A psychiatric study. (1963) (13)
- Others in the Making of Selves (2008) (13)
- Walker Percy, an American search (1978) (13)
- American youth in a social struggle: the Mississippi summer project. (1965) (12)
- Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians (1977) (12)
- Appalachia's Children (1972) (12)
- Race & Family: A Structural Approach (2006) (12)
- THE LIVES OF MIGRANT FARMERS. (1965) (12)
- Premedical education. A modest proposal repeated. (1987) (12)
- The old ones of New Mexico (1973) (11)
- After the Fire: The Destruction of the Lancaster County Amish (1992) (11)
- Civility and Psychology. (1981) (11)
- African American Single Full-Time Fathers: How Are They Doing? (2001) (10)
- The physician in literature. (1985) (10)
- Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales (2003) (9)
- Hyper-Parenting: Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too hard? (2000) (9)
- William Carlos Williams: The Knack of Survival in America (1975) (9)
- Violence in ghetto children. (1967) (9)
- Photographs of a lifetime (1982) (8)
- Idealism in Today's Students (1993) (8)
- The humanities in postgraduate training. (1987) (8)
- Loss of skepticism in medical education. (1989) (7)
- A seminar in 'Plain Doctoring'. (1985) (7)
- Radical and militant youth : a psychoanalytical inquiry (1971) (7)
- The Mind's Fate: Ways of Seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1976) (7)
- Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing (2003) (7)
- Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America's New Quest for Community: By Robert Wuthnow New York, The Free Press, 1994. 463 pp., $22.95 (1995) (7)
- History's lessons. (1969) (7)
- Residency reform. An urgent necessity. (1988) (6)
- Northern Children under Desegregation †. (1968) (6)
- Spindle cell lymphoma of the oral cavity: a case report and review of the literature. (2012) (6)
- Why Novels and Poems in Our Medical Schools? (2010) (6)
- Psychology as Faith (1985) (6)
- The mind's fate (1995) (6)
- Irony in the Mind's Life: Essays on Novels by James Agee, Elizabeth Bowen, and George Eliot (1978) (6)
- The Moral Life of America's Schoolchildren. (1990) (6)
- A Spectacle Unto the World: The Catholic Worker Movement (1973) (6)
- Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers (2007) (5)
- The Darkness and the Light: Photographs (1974) (5)
- Drugs and Youth: Medical, Psychiatric, and Legal Facts (1970) (5)
- The Middle Americans: Proud and Uncertain. (1971) (4)
- Occasional notes. Medical ethics and living a life. (1979) (4)
- Harvard Diary-Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular (1988) (4)
- Psychoanalysis and moral development (1981) (4)
- Flannery O'Connor's South (1980) (4)
- Their eyes meeting the world (1992) (4)
- Wages of neglect (1969) (4)
- The Politics of Middle Class Children. (1975) (4)
- Old and on Their Own (1999) (4)
- Building the Clinton Legacy Through Frame Alignment (2001) (3)
- Flannery O'Connor's lupus. A commentary on her collected letters, The Habit of Being. (1980) (3)
- The Spiritual Life: Selected Writings of Albert Schweitzer (1999) (3)
- The Child's Understanding of Tragedy (2009) (3)
- Book ReviewBlack Monday's Children: A study of the effects of school desegregation on self-concepts of Southern children. (1973) (3)
- What Children Know About Politics. (1975) (3)
- Like It Is in the Alley. (1969) (3)
- What About Moral Sensibility (1977) (3)
- 12 to 16: Early Adolescence (1975) (3)
- A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology (2012) (3)
- OBSERVATION OR PARTICIPATION: THE PROBLEM OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH ON SOCIAL ISSUES (1965) (3)
- The Migrant Farmer; A Psychiatric Study. (1965) (3)
- WHEN NORTHERN SCHOOLS DESEGREGATE (1966) (3)
- Our moral lives (1986) (3)
- Children of crisis : selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of crisis series : with a new introduction by the author (2003) (3)
- The last and first Eskimos (1978) (2)
- Children and Racial Demonstrations (2016) (2)
- Those Places They Call Schools (1969) (2)
- CHILDREN OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION: SOCIAL CHANGE IN LIFE EXPERIENCE. By Glen H. Elder, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 297 pp. $15.00 (1975) (2)
- Flannery O'Connor's Georgia (1980) (2)
- Irony in the mind's life (1974) (2)
- DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN: HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND SCHOOL FAILURE, by Herbert G. Birch, M.D., Ph.D. and Joan Dye Gussow. New York: Grune & Stratton, Inc., 1970, 322 pp., $7.50 (1970) (2)
- Growing up poor : a literary anthology (2001) (2)
- The Way of the Transgressor (2009) (2)
- Black Writers Abroad (1999) (2)
- Dignity Over the Life Course (1998) (2)
- To Wrestle With Demons: A Psychiatrist Struggles to Understand His Patients and Himself (1992) (2)
- Chekhov The Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon (2008) (2)
- A Matter of Territory (1964) (2)
- Children of a Brazilian Favela (1981) (2)
- Review of Dimensions of a new identity. (1974) (2)
- Life in Appalachia (1998) (2)
- William Carlos Williams. A writing physician. (1981) (2)
- Understanding White Racists. (1971) (2)
- Comparisons among digital variometer systems (1988) (1)
- Book ReviewPlain Pictures of Plain Doctoring: Vernacular expression in New Deal medicine and photography (1985) (1)
- Still hungry in America (2018) (1)
- Dominique: analysis of an adolescent, (1973) (1)
- Children and Ethical Conflict. (1993) (1)
- A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People (1978) (1)
- A Different Vision of Education. (1999) (1)
- Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xx, 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1687-9.) (2000) (1)
- A psychiatrist joins “The movement” (1966) (1)
- A Talk with Robert Coles. (1972) (1)
- A House of Truth (2016) (1)
- Psychiatric observations on students demonstrating for peace. (1967) (1)
- Taking Learning to Heart: An Interview with Robert Coles. (2000) (1)
- Students who say no: blacks, radicals, hippies. (1970) (1)
- RACIAL CONFLICT AND A CHILD'S QUESTION (1965) (1)
- A radical look at US community mental-health care E Fuller Torrey Out of the Shadows (1997) (1)
- Learning about Advocacy from Children. (1997) (1)
- Erikson's search for Gandhi. (1969) (1)
- Introduction: Through the Ethnographic Looking Glass (2011) (1)
- The Drifters: Children of Disorganized Lower-Class Families, edited by Eleanor Pavenstedt. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967, 345 pp., $10.50 (1968) (1)
- Economic Development in the Occupied Territories (1988) (1)
- Secular days, sacred moments. (1997) (1)
- A Robert Coles omnibus (1993) (1)
- Book Review Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective By Mark Epstein. 242 pp. New York, BasicBooks, 1995. $22. 0-465-03931-6 (1995) (1)
- Conversations with Robert Coles (1992) (1)
- Hope and despair in the very young among the very poor. (1990) (1)
- Changing practice in classrooms (1998) (1)
- A Brief History of the American Family (2006) (1)
- The Holocaust and Today's Kids. (1983) (1)
- Response functions for Amos III digital filters (1983) (1)
- Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (review) (1997) (1)
- The Lost Ones: Social Forces and Mental Illness in Rio de Janeiro, by Eugene B. Brody, M.D. New York, N. Y., International Universities Press, 1973. 781 pp., $22.50 (1974) (1)
- On the Nature of Character: Some Preliminary Field Notes (1981) (1)
- House Calls with William Carlos Williams, MD (2008) (1)
- Single Fathers and Their Children (2017) (1)
- The Poetry of Childhood (2009) (1)
- Learning to Believe--or Disbelieve--in the American Dream. (1976) (1)
- The Mind's Fate: A Psychiatrist Looks at His Profession - Thirty Years of Writings (1996) (1)
- American youth in a social struggle. II. The Appalachian volunteers. (1968) (1)
- Social science and social change (1969) (1)
- The Limits of Psychiatry (1968) (1)
- The Centennial Essay. (1991) (1)
- Life in appalachia—the case of hugh mccaslin (1968) (1)
- Book Review The Remembered Present: A biological theory of consciousness By Gerald M. Edelman. 346 pp., illustrated, New York, Basic Books, 1989. $29.95. (1990) (0)
- Flannery O'Connor's Pilgrimage (2003) (0)
- The French Scene (1999) (0)
- Dialogue: Unlearning Hate (1965) (0)
- Book ReviewMoments of Engagement: Intimate psychotherapy in a technological age (1989) (0)
- What Can We Learn from the Life of Malcolm X? (1966) (0)
- Secular Days, Sacred Moments: The America Columns of Robert Coles (2013) (0)
- Review of Fathering at Risk by James R. Dudley & Glenn Stone (2006) (0)
- The Moral Intelligence of Children: How to Raise a Moral Child (1998) (0)
- Editorial: Social issues and the child psychiatrist. (1971) (0)
- Book ReviewEthics Teaching in Higher Education (1981) (0)
- Teaching Children of the Rich. (1978) (0)
- But How Is Someone to Live a Life (1974) (0)
- Escape From Slavery (1999) (0)
- Children's Stories: The Link to a Past (2009) (0)
- That Person Should Be the Next President Who (1976) (0)
- Asian American Families (2006) (0)
- In the light of history. (1963) (0)
- Simone Weil: Prophet of Grace (2016) (0)
- Black Monday's Children: A Study of the Effects of School Desegregation Self-Concepts of Southern Children, by Gloria J. Powell, M.D. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1973, 334 pp., $16.50 (1974) (0)
- Intergenerational Relationships in Late Life: The Elderly, Their Adult Children and Grandchildren (2006) (0)
- Erikson's search for Gandhi. (1969) (0)
- The Doctor and Newcomers to the Ghetto (2016) (0)
- Bonnie and clyde & the graduate: Hollywood’s new social criticism (1968) (0)
- Is prejudice against negroes overrated? (1967) (0)
- Poetry is the breath of life itself (2016) (0)
- Wallace Stevens: A Spiritual Poet in a Secular Age by Charles M. Murphy New York, Paulist Press, 1997. 129 pp. $9.95 (1998) (0)
- African American Families (2006) (0)
- Chapter II: The Vision of the Humanities for the Young (1984) (0)
- The Mystery of Madness (1982) (0)
- Commentary on "Psychology and Literature" (1980) (0)
- Inside Picture Books, Outside of History (2001) (0)
- A Hero of Our Time (1967) (0)
- W.P.S.A. Council Meeting (1971) (0)
- The Words and Music of Social Change. (1969) (0)
- Book ReviewMarijuana: The second trip. (1972) (0)
- William Carlos Williams (1983) (0)
- International Civil Aviation in Ethiopia (1958) (0)
- Northern children under desegregation. (1968) (0)
- FOCUS ON FOOMA (1998) (0)
- Single Custodial Fathers: A Narrative Tour of their Parenting (2009) (0)
- Book ReviewNothing Left to Lose: Studies on street people. (1972) (0)
- What’s The Truth About Black Fathers?: Thoughts On “No Wedding, No Womb” (2010) (0)
- Bringing us to our (clinical) senses Robert A Aronowitz (1998) (0)
- Memoir as Metaphor (2009) (0)
- A Writer's Melancholy: A Review of William Styron's Darkness Visible (1990) (0)
- SYMPOSIUM: Violence in Literature (2016) (0)
- The Best Kept Secret: Black Single Fathers - Podcast on The Dr. Vibe Show (2014) (0)
- The Psychology of Aggression (1962) (0)
- Review of Tally's corner. (1968) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Responsibility for the history and physical examination. (1978) (0)
- Book Review: The Devil has Slippery Shoes (1970) (0)
- A new retractor for extraoral ramus osteotomies. (1982) (0)
- The Seductions of Tyranny (1993) (0)
- Children and political authority : the fifteenth T.B. Davie memorial lecture delivered in the University of Cape Town on 27th August, 1974 (1974) (0)
- Hierarchy and Transcendence (1984) (0)
- SKEPTICISM ABOUT LOSS OF SKEPTICISM ! AUTHOR'S REPLY (1991) (0)
- Surviving and Other Essays (1980) (0)
- Gender Relations and Sex Ratios (2006) (0)
- Review of Blackberry winter: My earlier years. (1973) (0)
- The South Goes North. Children of Crisis, Volume III. (1972) (0)
- Coping With Old Age: Voices and Portraits: Old and on Their Own (1999) (0)
- On sex education for the young. (1995) (0)
- Lives of work and dreams (1990) (0)
- I Was Brown, They Were Black, and: Jim Maxwell Died Last Week (2011) (0)
- Hispanic Dreams/American Dreams (1988) (0)
- Desegregation and human development. (1963) (0)
- SOME VERY OLD PEOPLE (1971) (0)
- A First-Rate Book (2016) (0)
- Dental treatment in the hemophiliac. (1975) (0)
- Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation: By Jonathan Kozol New York, Crown, 1995. 286 pp. $23.00 (1996) (0)
- The inner and outer world. (1974) (0)
- Chapter IV. Where We Are Headed (2001) (0)
- The enduring family: An interview with Robert Coles by Buff Bradley (1985) (0)
- Children and Politics: Outsiders. (1975) (0)
- Approaching the Study of Race and Family (2006) (0)
- Latino American Families (2006) (0)
- In Their Own Words (2009) (0)
- Family (Encyclopedia entry) (2008) (0)
- Review of Sweatshops in the sun: Child labor on the farm and The ripe harvest: Educating migrant children. (1973) (0)
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons (2006) (0)
- Book ReviewRenaming the Streets: Poems by John Stone (1986) (0)
- Native American Families (2006) (0)
- Times of Surrender: Selected Essays (1988) (0)
- We Are Also American Youths (2016) (0)
- Privileged American children. (1977) (0)
- Acculturation and Multiracial Family Issues (2006) (0)
- Chapter II. Where We Stood: 1900 (2001) (0)
- Viewpoint 1: The Humanities and Human Dignity (1978) (0)
- Precedents for Expatriation: Black Abolitionists in Great Britain (1999) (0)
- Chapter III. Where We Stand 2000 (2001) (0)
- Shadowing Binx (2010) (0)
- Psychiatry does respond to social change. (1967) (0)
- Book Review Judith's Pavilion: The haunting memories of a neurosurgeon By Marc Flitter. 221 pp. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1997. $24. 1-883642-31-0 (1997) (0)
- Whats the best family size (1984) (0)
- Faith and the Professions by Thomas L. Shaffer. Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University Press, 1987. 337 pp. $29.50 (1988) (0)
- Book Review: Science and Human Affairs (1966) (0)
- White and Negro children together. (1963) (0)
- Silver Rights (review) (2012) (0)
- Black American Writers in Ghana During the Nkrumah Era (1999) (0)
- Book ReviewProlonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: A study of Buffalo Creek (1981) (0)
- Race and Crime Control (1965) (0)
- The geography of faith : conversations between Daniel Berrigan, when underground, and Robert Coles (1972) (0)
- WHICH FLAG TO FOLLOW (1988) (0)
- Sentence First. Verdict Afterwards (1971) (0)
- To See Japan (2003) (0)
- On Understanding Art Museums (The American Assembly, Columbia University) (1975) (0)
- Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism.By John Shelton Reed. University of North Carolina Press, 1983. 157 pp. Cloth, $17.00; paper, $5.95 (1984) (0)
- Dr. William Carlos Williams: Affection, Anger, and Their Discontents (2000) (0)
- 1973 a AWARD: ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE U.S. URBAN POOR (1995) (0)
- Georges Bernanos and Today's Young Americans (1988) (0)
- Expatriates and the New Negro (1999) (0)
- Book Review The Many Meanings of Play: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Edited by Albert J. Solnit, Donald J. Cohen, and Peter B. Neubauer. 321 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1993. $35. 0-300-05438-6 (1993) (0)
- Book Review Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age By David B. Morris. 345 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998. $27.50. 0-520-20869-2 (1999) (0)
- Out of the Shadows, E Fuller Torrey, in: Confronting America's mental illness crisis. John Wiley, New York (1997), Pp 244. $27·95, ISBN: 0-471-16161-6 (1997) (0)
- TOKYO PACK '98 (1999) (0)
- That Red Wheelbarrow: Selected Literary Essays (1988) (0)
- The Jamesian Psychoanalyst (1967) (0)
- Power to the citizen : introductory readings (1972) (0)
- Children As Observing Critics and Skeptics (2000) (0)
- Whose Strengths, Whose Weaknesses (2016) (0)
- In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938–1948 (1987) (0)
- His first fallen idol (1993) (0)
- Chapter I. Secularism in the Biblical Tradition (2001) (0)
- Whose Museums? (1992) (0)
- Learning from Children (2013) (0)
- Long term care: problems today and tomorrow. (1985) (0)
- The Confessions of a Premier Child Specialist. (1979) (0)
- Critic's Corner (1988) (0)
- Teachers and classrooms. (1963) (0)
- Anna Freud and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield (2000) (0)
- Skepticism About Loss of Skepticism!-Reply (1991) (0)
- Found in Brooklyn (1996) (0)
- Intergenerational Relationships: Parent and Child (2006) (0)
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