Larry Cochran – författare

Seeking to restore a holistic approach to the study of the person, Professor Cochran explores and refines an innovative method of analysis based on the use of dramaturgical concepts. The author's approach reflects a dissatisfaction, shared by many in the field of personology, with the fragmented view of the person that typically emerges from quantitative, statistically based studies. His own method offers alternative ways of conducting research based upon two units. The first is story, a completed action or drama with a beginning, middle, and end. The other is position, a way of being or an emotional or existential condition. Showing these to be natural units of human experience, the author demonstrates, through a series of illustrative investigations, how they may be applied to research. Among the topics covered are the life plot, or the means by which a person comes into being, the meaning of significant action, how actions in a person's life form a theme with variations over time, and the integration of character and story. The author also discusses different life themes and their significance, and he tests the validity of dramatic principles as means of reality construction.

The Meaning of Grief seeks to capture the dramatic nature of grief by reconstructing the common story of people who have grieved. It provides a holistic approach to understanding the wisdom of experience in the context of human life. The book offers an original exploration of grief as a significant human emotion and introduces a unique method for the study of emotions in general. Through a detailed examination of individual accounts of grief, common themes are identified and woven into a dramatic composition, one that resembles the structure of a rite of passage. The volume carefully develops two basic units for description and investigation, considers emotions generally in light of what has been discovered concerning grief, and poses new questions about the nature of emotions.

The purpose of this book is to bring a better understandingn of how marriages that claim to be in Jesus, have to be more clear about their purpose for marriage in Jesus. If we are to be married according to the way that God has purposed it, we have to make sure that we are abiding in the very life of Jesus Christ as our source of life and love and purpose.

This ebook is the follow up to the 5 Minute Business Plan. The success that was seen, as a business school help guide was overwhelming. The request to do a follow up was long overdue. Many of the tips are part of the new YouTube Series 5 Minute Business Coach. Using this ebook as a guide to starting your business is going to alliviate a lot of headaches.

For decades, scholars and professionals have been attracted to theories offering a deeper view of career, but have been frustrated by difficulties in translating theories of meaning making, development, and identity into viable practice. At the same time, there has been growing disenchantment with impersonal techniques of matching an individualÆs traits with skills required for a specific vocation. While personality traits and talents may help to predict a predisposition to a career type, this method of analysis neglects the influences of human purpose, passion, and life history. In Career Counseling, author Larry Cochran fills the void by introducing the theory of narrative construction, a method of counseling that injects personal identity into career development in a practical way. Cochran demonstrates how literary models and constructivist methods can be used in career development to provide the essential subjective dimension that has been lacking in practical counseling. In addition, he provides the innovative materials that are necessary for making this process both efficient and effective. Contributing a unique and important perspective and approach to career counseling, this volume will be widely used by scholars and professionals in the fields of career counseling, clinical/counseling psychology, social psychology, and management.

Everything that we believe has the tendency to be tainted if we refuse to accept our personal limitations. Each time we move forward we create the potential for success or failure. Although we can fight for success we have to accept the possibility of failure.

As always, it is important to reflect on the many things that help us maintain a steady path toward success. It is important to look at everything that has happened to us through a positive perspective.

What does this kind of love look like? We can say what Jesus said “greater love has no man than this than to lay down his life for a friend”. Paul echoes this kind of love when he was exhorting husbands to “love their wives as Christ loved the Church”. Now there are all kinds of arguments as to the different types of love such as phileo which is brotherly, eros which is erotic, agape which is godly, and storge which is devotional. I don’t want to beat that horse on this one. I am not trying to give a long discourse on what love actually means, I simply want to explore what love really is and how it can be practical to the Christian life at all times and at all levels. As with other writings that I have this book is a journey that I want to take the readers on with me as I look to define in a clear way “Love”.

This book is an opportunity to take the readers on a personal faith journey with me. This is a recent time where I took time to journal my prayers and think solely about the goodness of God. If you love God, you will appreciate the recent journey of discovery. This book is not just for those who believe in God, but a challenge for those who do not. Take a journey with me and lets see if God measures up.

Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

This is a very brief overview of what a business plan needs to include in order to be presentable. If a business is what you have and a business is what you want to develop, this is a very helpful tool.

There are times in a marriage where two people have to sit down and reevaluate why they were married in the first place. For some this is a good reflection, for others it is more painful. Christians really should not be considering divorce, but they do. Marriages should be between two people who have a foundation in faith that is the same, but they do not always. This book is an attempt to shatter the idea that love is about what you have done for me lately. It is a journey that has to be more than what we can do for one another.

The fight for a good marriage starts with knowing what marriage is and what the purpose of marriage is. There are so many people who claim to know God and get married, then find themselves in divorce court. Why? I think that the fundamental answer is that people who claim to be Christians have to first be Christ-centered. If the individuals are Christ-centered, then the marriage has got to be Christ-centered.

This is a quick users guide to helping understand and overhaul your faith. Quick and to the point. From time to time we all need a boost in our faith.

Larry Cochran examines the meaning of a sense of vocation as it is lived over the course of a life. By studying more than twenty autobiographies of people who clearly had a mission in life, the author identifies commonalities and weaves them into a general story or plot. The common story involves a detailed description of four phases of life from childhood through old age. It illustrates how a significant form that unifies desire arises in youth, how individuals transform themselves to adopt a meaningful role in a drama, how a work of life develops, and how a sense of vocation culminates. Thus, the book is important as a descriptive answer to the question of what makes life meaningful. It provides a paradigm case of career at its best.

This book is about individuals who have made dramatic changes in their lives. In the beginning, these people were living as patients or victims of circumstance. In the end, they were living as agents, free to shape the courses of their lives, to choose, set goals, plan-to make things happen, rather than to experience life as events happening to them.The authors describe what is involved in such remarkable transformations. They identify a common structure of transformation involving four distinguishable phases. They also clarify a progressive dialectic between living the plot of a patient and living the plot of an agent, and show how an old plot is destroyed or deconstructed and a new plot is constructed.