Sunday, December 28, 2008

Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 2

Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 2
The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4614

Review - The Beginnings of Western Science

Review - The Beginnings of Western Science
The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450
by David C. Lindberg
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4613

Review - The Mark of the Beast

Review - The Mark of the Beast
Animality and Human Oppression
by Mark S. Roberts
Purdue University Press, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4612

Review - Social Psychology and Discourse

Review - Social Psychology and Discourse
by Andrew McKinlay & Chris McVittie
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4611

Review - Falling for Science

Review - Falling for Science
Objects in Mind
by Sherry Turkle (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Chiara Ambrosio, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4609

Review - Alternatives to Sex

Review - Alternatives to Sex
A Novel
by Stephen McCauley
Washington Square Press, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4606

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Review - The History of Human Rights

Review - The History of Human Rights
From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
by Micheline Ishay
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Aakash Singh, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4594

Review - The Illusion of Freedom and Equality

Review - The Illusion of Freedom and Equality
by Richard Stivers
State University of New York Press, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4593

Review - Maverick Mind

Review - Maverick Mind
A Mother's Story of Solving the Mystery of her Unreachable, Unteachable, Silent Son
by Cheri Florance with Marin Gazzaniga
Perigee Trade, 2004
Review by Anthony R Dickinson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4592

Review - Concrete Reveries

Review - Concrete Reveries
Consciousness and the City
by Mark Kingwell
Viking Adult, 2008
Review by Mark Welch
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Monday, December 1, 2008

Review - Personal Autonomy

Review - Personal Autonomy
New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy
by James Stacey Taylor (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4589

Review - Radical Alterity

Review - Radical Alterity
by Jean Baudrillard and Marc Guillaume
Semiotext(e), 2008
Review by Alex Cistelecan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4588

Review - Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life

Review - Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life
Ethical Idealism and Self-Realization
by Mike W. Martin
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4587

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Review - Forgiveness

Review - Forgiveness
How Religion Endangers Morality
by R. A. Sharpe
Imprint Academic, 2007
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4580

Review - Cognitive Dissonance

Review - Cognitive Dissonance
50 Years of a Classic Theory
by Joel Cooper
Sage Publications, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4578

Review - Our Daily Meds

Review - Our Daily Meds
How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
by Melody Petersen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Review by Elizabeth A. Throop, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4571

Review - Psychotropic Drugs And Popular Culture

Review - Psychotropic Drugs And Popular Culture
Essays on Medicine, Mental Health And the Media
by Lawrence C. Rubin
McFarland, 2006
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4570

Friday, November 21, 2008

Review - Bending Science

Review - Bending Science
How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4569

Review - Happiness: A Revolution in Economics

Review - Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
by Bruno S. Frey
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Dan Turton
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4567

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Review - Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality

Review - Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality
by Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet (Editors)
Oxford University Press, 2003
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4556

Review - Feeling Pain and Being in Pain

Review - Feeling Pain and Being in Pain
Second Edition
by Nikola Grahek
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Simone Marini
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4555

Review - Comprehending Care

Review - Comprehending Care
Problems and Possibilities in The Ethics of Care
by Tove Pettersen
Lexington Books, 2008
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4554

Review - Mill's Utilitarianism

Review - Mill's Utilitarianism
A Reader's Guide
by Henry R. West
Continuum, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4553

Review - Writing Through the Darkness

Review - Writing Through the Darkness
Easing Your Depression With Paper and Pen
by Elizabeth Maynard Schaefer
Celestial Arts, 2008
Review by Sue Bond
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4552

Review - Being with Dying

Review - Being with Dying
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax
Shambhala, 2008
Review by Jason Thompson
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4551

Review - Head Cases

Review - Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
by Michael Paul Mason
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Review by Alice Gee
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4547

Review - Bleeding to Ease the Pain

Review - Bleeding to Ease the Pain
Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self
by Lori G. Plante
Praeger, 2007
Review by Glenn Sullivan, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4546

Review - Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy

Review - Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy
Knowledge Here Begins Out There
by Jason T. Eberl (Editor)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Carsten Fogh Nielsen, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4545

Review - How to Make Opportunity Equal

Review - How to Make Opportunity Equal
Race and Contributive Justice
by Paul Gomberg
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
Review by Sylvie Loriaux, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4544

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Review - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Review - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A Developmental Approach
by Jeremy Turk, Philip Graham and Frank Verhulst
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, NCC, LMHC
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4543

Review - Relative Stranger: Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness

Review - Relative Stranger
Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness
by Mary Loudon
Canongate U.S., 2006
Review by Marnina Norys
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4542

Review - Media Argumentation

Review - Media Argumentation
Dialect, Persuasion and Rhetoric
by Douglas Walton
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Boris Vezjak, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4540

Review - Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness

Review - Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness
Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
by Patricia E Erickson and Steven E Erickson
Rutgers University Press, 2008
Review by Tony O’Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4536

Review - Race in Contemporary Medicine

Review - Race in Contemporary Medicine
by Sander L Gilman (Editor)
Routledge, 2008
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel, MSW
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4535

Review - Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories

Review - Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories
Second Edition
by Florence L. Denmark and Michele A. Paludi (Editors)
Praeger Publishers, 2007
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4534

Review - Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law

Review - Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law
by Ana Marta Gonzalez (Editor)
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Charles Barclay
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4533

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Review - Investigating Digital Crime

Review - Investigating Digital Crime
by Robin Phillip Bryant (Editor)
Wiley, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4532

Review - The Disability Pendulum

Review - The Disability Pendulum
The First Decade of the Americans With Disabilities Act
by Ruth Colker
NYU Press, 2007
Review by Laura Guidry-Grimes
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4531

Review - Hurry Down Sunshine

Review - Hurry Down Sunshine
A Memoir
by Michael Greenberg
Other Press, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4530

Review - My Stroke of Insight

Review - My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4528

Review - Second-order Change in Psychotherapy

Review - Second-order Change in Psychotherapy
The Golden Thread That Unifies Effective Treatments
by J. Scott Fraser and Andrew D. Solovey
American Psychological Association, 2007
Review by Rosemary Cook
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4525

Review - How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Review - How to See Yourself As You Really Are
A Practical Guide to Self-Knowledge
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2007
Review by Constantine Sandis, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4524

Review - Being Virtual

Review - Being Virtual
Who You Really Are Online
by Davey Winder
Wiley, 2008
Review by Viorel Zaicu
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4523

Review - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind

Review - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind
by Brian McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen (Editors)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
Review by Toni Tochel
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4522

Review - Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul

Review - Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul
Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion
by Mark Graves
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Natalie A. Emmons, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4521

Review - Persons and Things

Review - Persons and Things
by Barbara Johnson
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4520

Review - Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

Review - Beautiful Minds
The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
by Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B.Stanford
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Mary Hrovat
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4519

Review - The First Man-Made Man

Review - The First Man-Made Man
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
by Pagan Kennedy
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4517

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Review - Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

Review - Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
by Robert C. Richardson
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Peter Zachar, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4515

Review - Integrating Evolution and Development

Review - Integrating Evolution and Development
From Theory to Practice
by Roger Sansom and Robert N. Brandon (Editors)
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Matt Gers
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4514

Review - Shame and Necessity

Review - Shame and Necessity
by Bernard Williams
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4513

Review - The Bounds of Cognition

Review - The Bounds of Cognition
by Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Sven Walter, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4511

Review - Plato

Review - Plato
A Guide for the Perplexed
by Gerald A. Press
Continuum, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4510

Review - Understanding Psychoanalysis

Review - Understanding Psychoanalysis
by Matthew Sharpe and Joanne Faulkner
Acumen, 2008
Review by Daniel Hourigan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4509

Monday, October 13, 2008

Review - Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder

Review - Mania
A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
by David Healy
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MA, MPH
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4504

Review - Nietzsche's Therapy

Review - Nietzsche's Therapy
Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works
by Michael Ure
Lexington Books, 2008
Review by Michael Bruce
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4503

Review - Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

Review - Body Consciousness
A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
by Richard Shusterman
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Joel Parthemore
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4502

Review - Snake Oil Science

Review - Snake Oil Science
The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by R. Barker Bausell
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4501

Review - Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Review - Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
by Thomas C. Schelling
Harvard University Press, 2006
Review by Carlo Martini
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Review - The Evolution of the Private Language Argument

Review - The Evolution of the Private Language Argument
by Keld Stehr Nielsen
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Manuel Bremer, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4499

Review - Free Will and Luck

Review - Free Will and Luck
by Alfred R Mele
Oxford University Press, 2006
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4498

Review - Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Review - Science
Key Concepts in Philosophy
by Steven French
Continuum, 2007
Review by Richa Yadav, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4497

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Review - Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness

Review - Blubberland
The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Lisa Bellantoni, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4492

Review - Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Review - Human
The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Ecco, 2008
Review by Renia Gasparatou, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4491

Review - The Thought that Counts

Review - The Thought that Counts
A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Jared Douglas Kant
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4490

Review - The Toxic Consumer

Review - The Toxic Consumer
Living Healthy in a Hazardous World
by Karen Ashton & Elisabeth Salter Green
Sterling, 2008
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4489

Review - Einstein and Oppenheimer

Review - Einstein and Oppenheimer
The Meaning of Genius
by Silvan S. Schweber
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4488

Review - Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy

Review - Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy
Making Sense of People's Problems
by Lucy Johnstone and Rudi Dallos
Routledge, 2006
Review by Marieke Geoghegan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4487

Review - Language in Context

Review - Language in Context
Selected Essays
by Jason Stanley
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by R.A. Goodrich, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4486

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Review - Tales of Psychotherapy

Review - Tales of Psychotherapy
by Jane Ryan (Editor)
Karnac, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4480

Review - If Only I Had Known

Review - If Only I Had Known
Avoiding Common Mistakes In Couples Therapy
by Gerald Weeks, Mark Odell, Susanne Methven
W. W. Norton, 2005
Review by Marieke Geoghegan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4479

Review - Finding Iris Chang

Review - Finding Iris Chang
Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen
Da Capo Press, 2007
Review by Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4478

Review - Structures of Agency

Review - Structures of Agency
Essays
by Michael E. Bratman
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Isabel Gois, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4477

Review - Reprogenetics: Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues

Review - Reprogenetics
Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues
by Lori P. Knowles and Gregory E. Kaebnik (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Review by Constance Perry, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4476

Review - Theories of Scientific Method

Review - Theories of Scientific Method
An Introduction
by Robert Nola and Howard Sankey
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007
Review by Keith Harris, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4475

Review - Science and Nonbelief

Review - Science and Nonbelief
by Taner Edis
Prometheus Books, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4474

Review - Science in the Marketplace

Review - Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
by Aileen Fife and Bernard Lightman (Editors)
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Robert P. McParland, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4473

Review - The Americanization of Social Science

Review - The Americanization of Social Science
Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
by David Haney
Temple University Press, 2008
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4471

Monday, September 29, 2008

Review - The Moral Demands of Memory

Review - The Moral Demands of Memory
by Jeffrey Blustein
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Sarah Scott
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4467

Review - The Emotional Construction of Morals

Review - The Emotional Construction of Morals
by Jesse Prinz
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by David Teira
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4466

Review - Assessment of Childhood Disorders

Review - Assessment of Childhood Disorders
Fourth Edition
by Eric J. Mash & Russell A. Barkley (Editors)
Guilford Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4465

Review - Comprehending Columbine

Review - Comprehending Columbine
by Ralph W. Larkin
Temple University Press, 2007
Review by Margaret Riley, M.S., R.N.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4464

Review - How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

Review - How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?
by John R. Anderson
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Lars Marstaller
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4463

Review - Multiplicity

Review - Multiplicity
The New Science of Personality, Identity, and the Self
by Rita Carter
Little, Brown, 2008
Review by Kamuran Godelek, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4462

Review - Heuristics and the Law

Review - Heuristics and the Law
by Gerd Gigerenzer and Christopher Engel (Editors)
MIT Press, 2006
Review by Albert D. Spalding, JD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4460

Review - Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy

Review - Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy
The Action-Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy
by Christoph Lumer and Sandro Nannini (Editors)
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Valérie Aucouturier
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4459

Review - Socrates: A Life Examined

Review - Socrates
A Life Examined
by Luis E. Navia
Prometheus, 2007
Review by Ruben Berrios
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4458

Review - Locke

Review - Locke
by Edward Feser
Oneworld, 2007
Review by Christopher Yorke
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4457

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Review - Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

Review - Comfortably Numb
How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
by Charles Barber
Pantheon, 2008
Review by Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4454

Review - Shunned: Discrimination against People with Mental Illness

Review - Shunned
Discrimination against People with Mental Illness
by Graham Thornicroft
Oxford University Press, 2006
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4453

Review - Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking

Review - Open Your Eyes
Deaf Studies Talking
by H-Dirksen L. Bauman
University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Review by Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4452

Review - Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

Review - Saving the Modern Soul
Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
by Eva Illouz
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Brian J. McVeigh
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4451

Review - Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

Review - Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
by Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (Editors)
Peter Lehmann, 2007
Review by Maria Christoforatos
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4450

Review - Camus: Notebooks 1951-1959

Review - Notebooks 1951-1959
by Albert Camus
Ivan R. Dee, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4449

Review - The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

Review - The Cure Within
A History of Mind-Body Medicine
by Anne Harrington
W. W. Norton, 2008
Review by Diana Soeiro
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4448

Review - Vital Nourishment

Review - Vital Nourishment
Departing from Happiness
by Francois Jullien
Zone Books, 2007
Review by Marko Zlomislic, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4444

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Review - Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture

Review - Bipolar Expeditions
Mania and Depression in American Culture
by Emily Martin
Princeton University Press, 2007
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4440

Review - Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century

Review - Neuroethics
Challenges for the 21st Century
by Neil Levy
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4439

Review - The Medicalization of Everyday Life

Review - The Medicalization of Everyday Life
Selected Essays
by Thomas Szasz
Syracuse University Press, 2007
Review by Jeffrey Poland, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4438

Review - The Lives They Left Behind

Review - The Lives They Left Behind
Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
by Darby Penney & Peter Stastny
Bellevue Literary Press, 2008
Review by Kari Karsjens, JD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4437

Review - Coming of Age in Second Life

Review - Coming of Age in Second Life
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
by Tom Boellstorff
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4435

Review - To Have and To Hurt:

Review - To Have and To Hurt:
Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns of Abuse in Intimate Relationships
by Angela Browne-Miller
Praeger, 2007
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4434

Review - ADHD & Me

Review - ADHD & Me
What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
by Blake E.S. Taylor
New Harbinger, 2008
Review by Maeve O'Donovan, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4433

Review - Sexual Reckonings

Review - Sexual Reckonings
Southern Girls in a Troubling Age
by Susan K. Cahn
Harvard University Press, 2007
Review by Lloyd Wells, MD, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4432

Review - Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration

Review - Forgiveness
A Philosophical Exploration
by Charles L. Griswold
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Raffaele Rodogno, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4431

Review - Gender

Review - Gender
Key Concepts in Philosophy
by Tina Chanter
Continuum, 2007
Review by Marko Zlomisli
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4428

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Monday, September 1, 2008

Review - Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science

Review - Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science
Essential Readings in Neuroethics
by Walter Glannon (Editor)
Dana Press, 2007
Review by Will Buckingham
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4425

Review - Healing: A Life with Chronic Illness

Review - Healing
A Life with Chronic Illness
by Marguerite Bouvard
University Press of New England, 2007
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4424

Review - Darwin Loves You

Review - Darwin Loves You
Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
by George Levine
Princeton University Press, 2006
Review by Andrew V. Jeffery
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4423

Review - On Deep History and the Brain

Review - On Deep History and the Brain
by Daniel Lord Smail
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4422

Review - The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

Review - The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
by David L. Hull and Michael Ruse (Editors)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4421

Review - Bad Faith: The Danger of Religious Extremism

Review - Bad Faith
The Danger of Religious Extremism
by Neil J. Kressel
Prometheus, 2007
Review by Simon Riches, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4420

Review - Philosophers without Gods

Review - Philosophers without Gods
Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
by Louise M. Antony (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Brad Frazier
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4419

Review - Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms

Review - Top Secret
The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms
by Robert M. Price
Prometheus Books, 2008
Review by Robert Cheeks
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4418

Review - The Trauma of Psychological Torture

Review - The Trauma of Psychological Torture
by Almerindo E. Ojeda (Editor)
Praeger, 2008
Review by J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4416

Review - Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Eating Well

Review - Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Eating Well
DVD
by Andrew Weil
Acacia, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4415

Review - Facing Death: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Review - Facing Death: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
DVD
by Stefan Haupt
First Run Features, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4413

Friday, August 29, 2008

Review - What is Mental Disorder?

Review - What is Mental Disorder?
An essay in philosophy, science, and values
by Derek Bolton
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Phil Jenkins, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4410

Review - Experimental Philosophy

Review - Experimental Philosophy
by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols (Editors)
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4409

Review - John McDowell

Review - John McDowell
Experience, Norm, and Nature
by Jakob Lindgaard (Editor)
Blackwell, 2008
Review by Tim Thornton, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4408

Review - Defeating the Voices: How I Learned to Graduate from Schizophrenia

Review - Defeating the Voices
How I Learned to Graduate from Schizophrenia
by Andrew Roberts
AuthorHouse, 2008
Review by Lorna Lees
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4406

Review - Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy

Review - Consciousness
From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy
by Sara Heinämaa, Vili Lähteenmäki, and Pauliina Remes (Editors)
Springer, 2007
Review by Peter B. Raabe, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4405

Review - Courage to Surrender

Review - Courage to Surrender
8 Contradictions on the Spiritual Path
by Tommy Hellsten
Celestial Arts, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4404

Review - Philosophy of Biology

Review - Philosophy of Biology
by Brian Garvey
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007
Review by Christina Behme
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4403

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Review - Against Happiness

Review - Against Happiness
In Praise of Melancholy
by Eric G. Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Review by Elisabeth Herschbach, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4395

Review - Revolution in Psychology

Review - Revolution in Psychology
Alienation to Emancipation
by Ian Parker
Pluto Press, 2007
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4394

Review - The Political Mind

Review - The Political Mind
Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
by George Lakoff
Viking, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4393

Review - Postcolonial Disorders

Review - Postcolonial Disorders
by Mary-Jo Delvecchio, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto and Byron Good (Editors)
University of California Press, 2007
Review by Steve Odero Ouma and Aakash Singh, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4392

Review - Mental Health and Social Space

Review - Mental Health and Social Space
Towards Inclusionary Geographies
by Hester Parr
Blackwell, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4391

Review - Rethinking Middle Years

Review - Rethinking Middle Years
Early adolscents, schooling and digital culture
by Victoria Carrington
Allen & Unwin, 2007
Review by Elizabeth A. Throop, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4390

Review - Rethinking Expertise

Review - Rethinking Expertise
by Harry Collins and Robert Evans
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Tim Thornton, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4389

Review - The Trauma of Psychological Torture

Review - The Trauma of Psychological Torture
by Almerindo E. Ojeda (Editor)
Praeger, 2008
Review by J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4388

Review - Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head

Review - Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head
The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies
by Brett Kahr
Basic Books, 2008
Review by George Williamson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4386

Review - God and Phenomenal Consciousness

Review - God and Phenomenal Consciousness
A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments
by Yujin Nagasawa
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by David Efird, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4385

Review - Ethics Case Book of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Review - Ethics Case Book of the American Psychoanalytic Association
by Paul A. Dewald and Rita W. Clark
American Psychoanalytic Association, 2007
Review by Lorna Lees, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4384

Review - Memory and Emotion

Review - Memory and Emotion
Interdisciplanary Perspectives
by Bob Uttl, Nobuo Ohta and Amy L. Siegenthaler (Editors)
Blackwell, 2006
Review by Helge Malmgren, PhD, MD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4383

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Review - The Immeasurable Mind

Review - The Immeasurable Mind
The Real Science of Psychology
by William R. Uttal
Prometheus, 2007
Review by John D. Mullen, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4381

Review - What is Intelligence?

Review - What is Intelligence?
Beyond the Flynn Effect
by James R. Flynn
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Christina Rawls
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4380

Review - Advance Directives in Mental Health

Review - Advance Directives in Mental Health
Theory, Practice and Ethics
by Jacqueline M. Atkinson
Jessica Kingsley, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4379

Review - The Geography of Bliss

Review - The Geography of Bliss
One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
Twelve, 2007
Review by Patricia Ross, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4378

Review - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Review - Bonk
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
W. W. Norton, 2008
Review by Robert Scott Stewart, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4377

Review - Psychotic Depression

Review - Psychotic Depression
by Conrad M. Swartz and Edward Shorter
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Marion Ledwig, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4376

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Review - Undermining Science

Review - Undermining Science
Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration
by Seth Shulman
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4374

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Review - The Best Seat in the House

Review - The Best Seat in the House
How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life
by Allen Rucker
Harper, 2007
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4373

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Review - Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration

Review - Group Genius
The Creative Power of Collaboration
by Keith Sawyer
Basic Books, 2007
Review by Justine Johnstone, Ph.D,
Jul 29th 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 31)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4369

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Review - Dialogues on Difference: Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship

Review - Dialogues on Difference
Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship
by J. Christopher Muran (Editor)
American Psychological Association, 2006
Review by Anca Gheaus, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4367

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Review - Polarities of Experiences
Relatedness and Self-definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology and the Therapeutic Process
by Sidney J. Blatt
American Psychological Association, 2008
Review by Edmund O'Toole
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4366

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Review - Encountering Nature
Toward an Environmental Culture
by Thomas Heyd
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Tyler Veak, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4365

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Review - Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism

Review - Fear of Knowledge
Against Relativism and Constructivism
by Paul Boghossian
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Tatiana Patrone, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4364

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Review - Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality

Review - Embracing Mind
The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
by B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel
Shambhala, 2008
Review by Natalie F. Banner
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4362

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Review - Escape Your Own Prison: Why We Need Spirituality and Psychology to be Truly Free

Review - Escape Your Own Prison
Why We Need Spirituality and Psychology to be Truly Free
by Bernard Starr
Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Review by Melanie Mineo
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4361

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Review - Photography and Philosophy

Review - Photography and Philosophy
Essays on the Pencil of Nature
by Scott Walden (Editor)
Blackwell, 2008
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4360

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Review - 5x7 by William Eggleston

Review - 5x7
by William Eggleston
Twin Palms, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4359

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Review - Understanding Treatment Without Consent

Review - Understanding Treatment Without Consent
An Analysis of the Work of the Mental Health Act Commission
by Ian Shaw, Hugh Middleton and Jeffrey Cohen
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4353

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Review - Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents

Review - Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents
Bridging Science and Practice
by Ric G. Steele (Editor), T. David Elkin, Michael C. Roberts (Editors)
Springer, 2007
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4352

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Review - Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac

Review - Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac
The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life
by Bruce Goldstein
Da Capo Press, 2008
Review by Miriam Gabriel, M.A.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4351

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Review - Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication

Review - Drunk the Night Before
An Anatomy of Intoxication
by Marty Roth
University of Minnesota Press, 2005
Review by Chiara Ambrosio, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4350

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Review - Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older with a Mentally Ill Mother

Review - Daughters of Madness
Growing Up and Older with a Mentally Ill Mother
by Susan Nathiel
Praeger, 2007
Review by Sue Bond
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4349

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Review - The Mind in Nature by C.B. Martin

Review - The Mind in Nature
by C.B. Martin
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Christina Behme, M.Sc.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4348

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Review - Why Think? The Evolution of the Rational Mind

Review - Why Think?
The Evolution of the Rational Mind
by Ronald de Sousa
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Angela Bird
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4347

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Review - Zip Zip My Brain Harts: Photographs by Angela Buckland

Review - Zip Zip My Brain Harts
Photographs by Angela Buckland
by Kathleen McDougal, Leslie Swartz, and Amerllia van der Merwe
Human Sciences Research Council, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4346

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Review - Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor

Review - Dialectics of the Self
Transcending Charles Taylor
by Ian Fraser
Imprint Academic, 2007
Review by Laxminarayan Lenka
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4345

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Review - Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy

Review - Recovery from Schizophrenia
Psychiatry and Political Economy
by Richard Warner
Routledge, 2004
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4344

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Review - Lifting the Weight: Understanding Depression in Men, Its Causes and Solutions

Review - Lifting the Weight
Understanding Depression in Men, Its Causes and Solutions
by Martin Kantor
Praeger, 2007
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4343

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Review - Esssential Philosophy of Psychiatry

Review - Esssential Philosophy of Psychiatry
by Tim Thornton
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4340&cn=

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Review - The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment

Review - The Science of Addiction
From Neurobiology to Treatment
by Carlton K. Erickson
W.W. Norton, 2007
Review by Daniel Moseley
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4339&cn=

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Review - Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

Review - Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon (Editors)
State University of New York Press, 2008
Review by Terry Burridge
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4338&cn=

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Review - On Being Moved: From Mirror Neurons to Empathy

Review - On Being Moved
From Mirror Neurons to Empathy
by Stein Braten (Editor)
John Benjamins, 2007
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4337&cn=

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Review - The Good Eater: The True Story of One Man's Struggle With Binge Eating Disorder

Review - The Good Eater
The True Story of One Man's Struggle With Binge Eating Disorder
by Ron Saxen
New Harbinger, 2007
Review by Kevin Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4336&cn=

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Review - Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans

Review - Your Brain on Cubs
Inside the Heads of Players and Fans
by Dan Gordon (Editor)
Dana Press, 2007
Review by Mary Hrovat
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4334&cn=

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Review - The Normal Personality: A New Way of Thinking About People

Review - The Normal Personality
A New Way of Thinking About People
by Steven Reiss
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4332&cn=

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Review - Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults

Review - Sticks and Stones
The Philosophy of Insults
by Jerome Neu
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Viorel Zaicu, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4331&cn=

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Review - Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Die-Hard Romantic

Review - Socrates in Love
Philosophy for a Die-Hard Romantic
by Christopher Phillips
W. W. Norton, 2008
Review by Eccy de Jonge
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4329&cn=

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Review - The Uncertain Sciences

Review - The Uncertain Sciences
by Bruce Mazlish
Transaction, 2007
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4326&cn=

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Review - The Altruism Equation:

Review - The Altruism Equation
Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness
by Lee Alan Dugatkin
Princeton University Press, 2006
Review by Marc Baer, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4325&cn=

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Review - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Review - Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Review by Nancy Fontaine
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4324&cn=

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Review - ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says

Review - ADHD in Adults
What the Science Says
by Russell A. Barkley, Kevin R. Murphy and Mariellen Fischer
Guilford, 2008
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4323&cn=

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Review - The New Rational Therapy

Review - The New Rational Therapy
Thinking Your Way to Serenity, Success, and Profound Happiness
by Elliot D. Cohen
Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4322&cn=

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Review - Deconstruction and Democracy

Review - Deconstruction and Democracy
Derrida's Politics of Friendship
by A. J. P. Thomson
Continuum, 2007
Review by Alex Cistelecan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4321&cn=

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Review - Only a Promise of Happiness

Review - Only a Promise of Happiness
The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
by Alexander Nehamas
Princeton University Press, 2007
Review by Ben Mulvey, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4320&cn=

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Review - Making Babies the Hard Way

Review - Making Babies the Hard Way
Living with Infertility and Treatment
by Caroline Gallup
Jessica Kingsley, 2007
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4319&cn=

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Review - Psychotherapy without the Self

Review - Psychotherapy without the Self
A Buddhist Perspective
by Mark Epstein
Yale University Press, 2007
Review by Laura Cook
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4318&cn=

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Review - The Light of Discovery

Review - The Light of Discovery
by Toni Packer
Shambhala, 2007
Review by Marko Zlomislic
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4317&cn=

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Review - Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process

Review - Poets on Prozac
Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
by Richard M. Berlin (Editor)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4312

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Review - Therapeutic Landscapes

Review - Therapeutic Landscapes
by Allison Williams (Editor)
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4311

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Review - Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family

Review - Planning for Uncertainty
Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family
by David John Doukas and William Reichel
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4310

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Review - Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

Review - Trauma and Human Existence
Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections
by Robert D. Stolorow
Analytic Press, 2007
Review by Laura Cook
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4309

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Review - Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine

Review - Beyond AI
Creating the Conscience of the Machine
by J. Storrs Hall
Prometheus Books, 2007
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4307

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Review - Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self

Review - Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self
by Joan Mccarthy
Humanity Books, 2007
Review by Mary Jean Walker
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4306

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Review - The Identity Trap: Saving Our Teens from Themselves

Review - The Identity Trap
Saving Our Teens from Themselves
by Joseph Nowinski
American Management Association, 2007
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4304

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Review - Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry

Review - Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry
by Guy Widdershoven, John McMillan, Tony Hope, and Lieke Van Der Scheer (Editors)
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by George Graham, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4299

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Review - Ethics in Mental Health Research

Review - Ethics in Mental Health Research
Principles, Guidance, and Cases
by James M. DuBois
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Rebekah Humphreys, M.A.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4298

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Review - The Ethics of Bioethics

Review - The Ethics of Bioethics
Mapping the Moral Landscape
by Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia G. Cohn (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Review by Mark Dietrich Tschaepe
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4297

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Review - Moral Stealth: How "Correct Behavior" Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice

Review - Moral Stealth
How "Correct Behavior" Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice
by Arnold Goldberg
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Elizabeth A. Throop, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4296

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Review - What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

Review - What Works for Whom?
A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents
by Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, David Cottrell, Jeannette Phillips, Zarrina Kurtz
Guilford, 2002
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4295

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Review - The Meaning of the Body by Mark Johnson

Review - The Meaning of the Body
Aesthetics of Human Understanding
by Mark Johnson
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Tom Sparrow
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4286

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Review - The Philosophy of Philosophy by Timothy Williamson

Review - The Philosophy of Philosophy
by Timothy Williamson
Blackwell, 2008
Review by Manuel Bremer, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4285

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Review - Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge

Review - Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge
by John H. Sceski
Continuum, 2007
Review by Luke Jerzykiewicz, M.A.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4284

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Review - The Situated Self by J. T. Ismael

Review - The Situated Self
by J. T. Ismael
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by James Dow
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4283

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Review - The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture

Review - The Overman in the Marketplace
Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture
by Ishay Landa
Lexington, 2007
Review by Carsten Fogh Nielsen, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4282

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Review - Pluralistic Casuistry: Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory

Review - Pluralistic Casuistry
Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory
by Mark J. Cherry and Ana Smith Iltis (Editors)
Springer, 2007
Review by Stefan Riegelnik
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4281

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Review - Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Rethinking Emancipation

Review - Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Rethinking Emancipation
by Nick Hewlett
Continuum, 2007
Review by Edward Willatt
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4280

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Review - Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology

Review - Biomedical Ethics
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology
by David Steinberg (Editor)
University Press of New England, 2007
Review by Imre Szebik, Ph.D., M.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4279

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Review - Mirrors in the Brain: How our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience

Review - Mirrors in the Brain
How our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience
by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4273

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Review - Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics

Review - Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics
by Neil C. Manson and Onora O'Neill
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Daniele Procida
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4272

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Review - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility by Anthony Kenny & Charles Kenny

Review - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility
Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought
by Anthony Kenny & Charles Kenny
Imprint Academic, 2007
Review by Sjoerd van Hoorn, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4270

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Review - Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's "Meditations"

Review - Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen
The Defense of Reason in Descartes's "Meditations"
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton University Press, 2007
Review by Miles Kennedy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4269

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Review - Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Review - Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4267

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Review - Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs: Epistemological Studies across Diverse Cultures

Review - Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs
Epistemological Studies across Diverse Cultures
by Myint Swe Khine (Editor)
Springer, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4265

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Review - An Anthology of Psychiatric Ethics

Review - An Anthology of Psychiatric Ethics
by Stephen Green and Sidney Bloch (Editors)
Oxford University Press, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4260

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Review - Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Review - Experiments in Ethics
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4259

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Review - The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior

Review - The Paranoia Switch
How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage
by Martha Stout
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4258

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Review - Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession

Review - Compulsive Acts
A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
by Elias Aboujaoude
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4257

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Review - The Metaphysics of Science: An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories

Review - The Metaphysics of Science
An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories
by Craig Dilworth
Springer, 2007
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel, Ph. D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4256

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Review - Physical Realization by Sydney Shoemaker

Review - Physical Realization
by Sydney Shoemaker
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4254

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Review - Skepticism: An Anthology edited by Richard H. Popkin and Jose R. Maia Neto

Review - Skepticism
An Anthology
by Richard H. Popkin and Jose R. Maia Neto (Editors)
Prometheus, 2007
Review by Anthony P. Bober
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4250

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Review - Bipolar Children: Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights, and Research

Review - Bipolar Children
Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights, and Research
by Sharna Olfman (Editor)
Praeger, 2007
Review by Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4248

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Review - Things and Places by Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Review - Things and Places
How the Mind Connects with the World
by Zenon W. Pylyshyn
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Natalie A. Emmons, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4247

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Review - Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

Review - Mind in Life
Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
by Evan Thompson
Belknap, 2007
Review by Taede A. Smedes, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4246

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Review - Consciousness and Mental Life

Review - Consciousness and Mental Life
by Daniel N. Robinson
Columbia University Press, 2007
Review by Lars Marstaller
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4244

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Review - Madness: A Bipolar Life

Review - Madness
A Bipolar Life
by Marya Hornbacher
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4243

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Review - A Practical Guide to Clinical Ethics Consulting

Review - A Practical Guide to Clinical Ethics Consulting
Expertise, Ethos and Power
by Christopher Meyers
Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Review by Erich von Dietze, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4236

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Review - A Virtue Epistemology by Ernest Sosa

Review - A Virtue Epistemology
Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge
by Ernest Sosa
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Paul A. Wagner, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4235

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Review - Why Truth Matters

Review - Why Truth Matters
by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom
Continuum, 2007
Review by Ed Brandon
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4234

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Review - Heal & Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse

Review - Heal & Forgive
Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse
by Nancy Richards
Blue Dolphin, 2005
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4233

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Review - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

Review - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
by Bruce Perry with Maia Szalavitz
Basic, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4232

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Review - Creative Anger: Putting That Powerful Emotion to Good Use

Review - Creative Anger
Putting That Powerful Emotion to Good Use
by Rhoda Baruch, Edith H. Grotberg and Suzanne Stutman
Praeger, 2007
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4231

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Review - Beyond Hatred, directed by Olivier Meyrou

Review - Beyond Hatred
DVD
by Olivier Meyrou (Director)
First Run, 2005
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4230

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Review - Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

Review - Odd Hours
by Dean Koontz
Bantam, 2008
Review by Robert Cheeks
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4228

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Review - Broken by William Cope Moyers

Review - Broken
My Story of Addiction and Redemption
by William Cope Moyers
Penguin, 2006
Review by Bruce MacDonald
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4224

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Review - Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Review - Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger
Holt, 2007
Review by Joshua Finnell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4223

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Review - Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Science of Being Human

Review - Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Science of Being Human
by Simeon Locke
Praeger, 2007
Review by Brian J. McVeigh
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4222

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Review - The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society

Review - The Woman Racket
The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society
by Steve Moxon
Imprint Academic, 2008
Review by George Williamson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4221

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Review - Educating People to Be Emotionally Intelligent

Review - Educating People to Be Emotionally Intelligent
by Reuven Bar-On, J.G. Maree, and Maurice Jesse Elias (Editors)
Praeger, 2007
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4220

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Review - Architecture of Authority by Richard Ross

Review - Architecture of Authority
by Richard Ross
Aperture, 2007
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4219

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Review - Cyber Bullying

Review - Cyber Bullying
by R. M. Kowalksi, S. P. Limber, and P.W Agatston
Blackwell, 2007
Review by Barry McNamara, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4213

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Review - Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy

Review - Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy
Fourth Edition
by Sandra R. Leiblum (Editor)
Guilford, 2006
Review by Sandra Levy Ceren, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4212

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Review - The Mind, the Body and the World: Psychology After Cognitivism?

Review - The Mind, the Body and the World
Psychology After Cognitivism?
by Brendan Wallace
Imprint Academic, 2007
Review by Richard G T Gipps, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4211

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Review - Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues

Review - Emotion Regulation
Conceptual and Clinical Issues
by Ad Vingerhoets, Ivan Nyklíček and Johan Denollet (Editors)
Springer, 2008
Review by Marion Ledwig, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4210

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Review - First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics, And Healthcare

Review - First Do No Harm
Law, Ethics, And Healthcare
by Sheila A. M. Mclean (Editor)
Ashgate, 2006
Review by Bob Lane, M.A.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4209

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Review - Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome

Review - Count Us In
Growing Up with Down Syndrome
by Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz
Harvest, 2007
Review by Andrew Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4208

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Review - The Philosophy of Motion Pictures

Review - The Philosophy of Motion Pictures
by Noël Carroll
Blackwell, 2008
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4207

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Review - Good Sex Illustrated

Review - Good Sex Illustrated
by Tony Duvert
Semiotext(e), 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4206

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Review - Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?

Review - Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?
Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will
by Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4201

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Review - Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives

Review - Property in the Body
Feminist Perspectives
by Donna Dickenson
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4200

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Review - Brain, Mind, and Human Behavior in Contemporary Cognitive Science

Review - Brain, Mind, and Human Behavior in Contemporary Cognitive Science
Critical Assessments of the Philosophy of Psychology
by Jeff Coulter and Wes Sharrock
Edwin Mellen Press, 2007
Review by Keith Harris, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4199

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Review - Folk Psychological Narratives by Daniel D. Hutto

Review - Folk Psychological Narratives
The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons
by Daniel D. Hutto
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Phil Jenkins, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4198

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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Review - What Is Emotion? by Jerome Kagan

Review - What Is Emotion?
History, Measures, and Meanings
by Jerome Kagan
Yale University Press, 2007
Review by Jelle De Schrijver
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4189

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Review - Beauty Junkies: In search of the thinnest thighs, perkiest breasts, smoothest faces, whitest teeth, and skinniest, most perfect toes in Ameri

Review - Beauty Junkies
In search of the thinnest thighs, perkiest breasts, smoothest faces, whitest teeth, and skinniest, most perfect toes in America
by Alex Kuczynski
Broadway, 2006
Review by Lisa Bellantoni, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4189

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Review - The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology

Review - The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology
Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care
by JoEllen Patterson, A Ari Albala, Margaret E McCahill and Todd M Edwards
Guilford, 2006
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4189

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Review - Rewind, Replay, Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Review - Rewind, Replay, Repeat
A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Jeff Bell
Hazelden, 2007
Review by Beth T. Cholette, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4188

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Review - Warrior's Dishonour: Barbarity, Morality and Torture in Modern Warfare

Review - Warrior's Dishonour
Barbarity, Morality and Torture in Modern Warfare
by George Kassimeris (Editor)
Ashgate, 2006
Review by David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4187

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Review - On Desire: Why We Want What We Want

Review - On Desire
Why We Want What We Want
by William B. Irvine
Oxford University Press, 2005
Review by Will Buckingham
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4186

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Review - God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

Review - God: The Failed Hypothesis
How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
by Victor J Stenger
Prometheus, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4185

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Review - Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Review - Proust and the Squid
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by Maryanne Wolf
Harper, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4178

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Review - Mental Illness

Review - Mental Illness
by Marie L. Thompson
Greenwood, 2006
Review by Lucy Russell and Dan O'Brien
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4177

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Review - Bipolar Kids: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm

Review - Bipolar Kids
Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm
by Rosalie Greenberg
Da Capo, 2007
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, NCC, LMHC
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4176

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Review - The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality

Review - The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality
Changing Gender to Match Mindset
by Rachel Ann Heath
0275991768, 2006
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4175

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Review - Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism

Review - Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism
Neither Liberal Nor Free
by Edward Grippe
Continuum International, 2007
Review by Brad Frazier, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4174

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Review - The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Their Attribution

Review - The Measure of Mind
Propositional Attitudes and Their Attribution
by Robert J. Matthews
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Brad Majors
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4173

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Review - Moral Value and Human Diversity by Robert Audi

Review - Moral Value and Human Diversity
by Robert Audi
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4172

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Review - On the Philosophy of Law by David Reidy

Review - On the Philosophy of Law
by David Reidy
Wadsworth, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4171

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Review - Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis

Review - Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis
by Gabriele Schwab (Editor)
Columbia University Press, 2007
Review by Jeffrey M. Jackson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4170

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Review - Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Review - Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4166

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Review - Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion

Review - Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion
by Kevin S. Seybold
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Paul A. Wagner, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4165

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Review - Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science

Review - Beyond Reduction
Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science
by Steven Horst
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Ed Brandon
Apr 1st 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 14)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4164

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Review - The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra Blakeslee & Matthew Blakeslee

Review - The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
by Sandra Blakeslee & Matthew Blakeslee
Random House, 2007
Review by A. Singh, Ph.D. & P. Worah
Apr 1st 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 14)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4163

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Review - Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good

Review - Girls Gone Mild
Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
by Wendy Shalit
Random House, 2007
Review by Ryan Pflum
Apr 1st 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 14)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4160

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Review - Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

Review - Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
by Paula Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove (Editors)
Jason Aronson, 2004
Review by Christian Perring
Apr 1st 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 14)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4159

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Review - The Meaning of Others: Narrative Studies of Relationships

Review - The Meaning of Others
Narrative Studies of Relationships
by Ruthellen Josselson, Amia Lieblich, and Dan P. McAdams (Editors)
American Psychological Association, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
Mar 25th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4147&cn=396

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Review - Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill

Review - Crazy in America
The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Carroll & Graf, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil.
Mar 25th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4149&cn=135

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Review - Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

Review - Enhancing Evolution
The Ethical Case for Making Better People
by John Harris
Princeton University Press, 2007
Review by Constance K. Perry, Ph.D.
Mar 25th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4151&cn=167

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Review - Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture

Review - Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture
by William Irwin and Jorge Gracia (Editors)
Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
Review by Rob Loftis, Ph.D.
Mar 25th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4150&cn=394

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Review - Psychiatry in the Scientific Image by Dominic Murphy

Review - Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
by Dominic Murphy
MIT Press, 2006
Review by Luc Faucher, Ph.D.
Mar 25th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4153&cn=394

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